VIPs even in small museums! Sting and Sugar at the Museum of the Stele Statues in Pontremoli

Has it become the summer of VIPs in museums? There has been a lot of talk in recent days about Chiara Ferragni’s photos at the Uffizi and the National Archaeological Museum in Taranto, and Brunori sas photos at the Castle of Miramare: all great museums, however, among the most visited in the country. Now small museums have finally come into the limelight as well: yesterday, in fact, the Museum of the Stele Statues in Pontremoli, Lunigiana (province of Massa and Carrara) received a visit from Zucchero and Sting.

In fact, the popular bluesman from Reggio Emilia has an estate right in the town of Lunigiana (“Lunisiana Soul,” he called it) and it seems that these days he is hosting the former Police frontman (the two are good friends), since the singers have already been “spotted” together in an ice cream shop in Pontremoli, and in the audience of the concert of flautist Andrea Griminelli in Pietrasanta. Sting has an estate with vineyard in Chianti, and he usually spends long vacation periods in Tuscany, reasoning that he must have thought of visiting his friend Adelmo Fornaciari for a weekend that ... did not neglect local history.

In fact, the Museum of Stele Statues is one of the most important museums in Lunigiana, and it is a unique institution, since it is the only one entirely dedicated to stele statues, the unique prehistoric statues found in large numbers in the Lunigiana territory, in an area stretching from Pontremoli to Lerici and the mountains of Carrara. Housed in the halls of the Piagnaro Castle, the Museum of Stele Statues (we also talked about it in this article) houses the most complete collection of stele statues (dating from between the 4th and 1st millennia BC): the statues are carved in sandstone, are divided into three types, and represent the most vivid historical evidence of the Ligurian Apuan tribes that formerly inhabited these lands. The Museum was opened in 1975 and has about twenty thousand visitors a year: will it now become more thanks to the two VIP testimonials?

In the photo, Sting and Zucchero together with Francesco, one of the museum’s guides, in one of the courtyards of the Piagnaro Castle, home of the museum. Ph. Credit Sigeric - Services for Tourism

VIPs even in small museums! Sting and Sugar at the Museum of the Stele Statues in Pontremoli

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