Calabria - Finestre sull'Arte

NeSpoon's embroidered mural graces a small Calabrian village

Street artist NeSpoon, originally from Warsaw and famous for her embroidered murals, who has made lace her hallmark, created a few days ago in the small Calabrian village of Santa Sofia d'Epiro a splendid embroidery that occupies the entire wall of a...
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The Riace Bronzes. History of the two masterpieces of Greek sculpture.

The extraordinary story of the Riace Bronzes, the two sculptures of Greek origin, dated to the fifth century B.C. and now housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Reggio Calabria, began on August 16, 1972: on that day, the young Roman amateur ...
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Once upon a time, Zungri, the stone town in Calabria.

Among narrow, slippery streets carved into the rock, clumsy cliffs overlooking a skyless horizon, in southern Italy, there is a "stone town," Zungri, pulled up mostly by natural caves of varying size, which still holds too many secrets. Ma...
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The silk road in Calabria: to San Floro, where worms are bred and silk is spun

"Although his father had imagined for him a brilliant future in the army, Hervé Joncour had ended up earning a living from an unusual trade [...]. For a living, Hervé Joncour bought and sold silkworms" (Alessandro Baricco, Silk)...
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The case of Corazzo Abbey: a theft of the past and the future? With an interview with Salvatore Settis

" Ruins are like sentinels on the border of time, which eludes us because of its fluidity; on the one hand they stand before the time that has invested and shaped them, reducing them to a collapsed wall, ghosts of a once intact building; on...
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