What to do in Puglia on the last Sunday before Christmas: markets, music, songs, solidarity
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NoonDecember 18, 2022 – 12:02
The Christmas holidays of the thirteenth century in Taranto, the Lego exhibition in Bari, the memories of the seaside district in Brindisi, the theater in Bisceglie, music in Foggia
Of Enrico Filotico, Giuseppe Di Bisceglie, Cesare Bechis, Claudio Tadicini, Luca Pernice
Santa Claus village in Bari
The range of activities planned for the last Sunday before Christmas is very rich. Here is a small (and not exhaustive) list. There is only the embarrassment of choice
In Bari
Many red caps on two wheels. Is called Santa on a motorbike the 30 km parade — held in Bari — is open to all motorcycle, Vespa, scooter, quad, Harley and much more enthusiasts. The event started from the park on June 2 at nine on Sunday morning and ended in Piazza Gramsci. During the journey, stops with events and the participation of the numerous Santa Clauses. The streets of the center of Bari always offer a lot, at any time. In Umberto square the Santa Claus village project now started, great success among the little ones since its inception. There is also there show Legos: one of the great novelties of the 2022 Christmas offer. In the spaces of the Margherita theater it can still be visited Real Bodies Experience, considered the most complete exhibition of human anatomy ever made. In the Province, there are the delightful decorated alleys in Locorotondo and candlelit Christmas in Polignano.
In the Bat
The city of Barletta awaits the peaceful invasion of Santa Clauses in Harley Davidson to the delight of children. After delivering the gifts to the children, the men with white beards and red suits, on motorbikes, will deliver a bilirubinometer to the pediatric ward of the Dimiccoli hospital. TO Bisceglie it will be a Sunday dedicated to theater and music: at 6 and 9 pm the Compagnia dei Teatranti will stage The Story of Christmas and The Revolt of the Toys in the Don Sturzo theater, while in Piazza Duomo, at 8.15 pm, the New Corus will perform the Christmas Carols concert. TO Trani Palazzo Beltrani opens its doors: here, in addition to the Ivo Scaringi Art Gallery and the permanent collections, the exhibition Art Prints and Impressionism can also be visited. The municipal programming of events comes to life: in the afternoon, starting at 6pm, the second edition of Impiazza il Natale will kick off, with stands, tastings, Christmas markets in the squares of the historic center of Trani. Andria instead he will live a Sunday dedicated to music with the notes of the violinist Gaia Di Niccolo and performances by dancers and dance shows in the streets of the center throughout the evening.
In Lecce
Continues the review Christmas in Lecce between markets, events for children, parades of characters cartoons, street bands and gospel music concerts. At the Officine Cantelmo, from 10 to 21, the last day of the Cantelmo marketswhile at the Villa Comunale (edited by Principio Attivo Teatro) there will be Santa’s mail and the Barbel-Christmasready not to bring gifts to the children but to have them bring them – used but in good condition – to give them to other children in difficult situations that anxiously await them (from 10.30 to 12.30 and from 16.30 to 18.30). In the afternoon, the Christmas Cartoons mascots, organized by the Fantasia Association, will be on the move between Piazza Sant’Oronzo and Piazza Mazzini from 16 to 21, with fifteen of the most beloved cartoon characters, while walking around the streets of the centre, from 18 to 21, you can meet the Zagor Street Band with its load of music and entertainment. At 18, at the Apollo Theater (entrance fee), the traditional arrives gospel choir stars and stripes, Deborah Moncrief & New Millennium Gospel Singers, the formation that brings together some of the best talents of international gospel music. The typical Christmas market in Piazza Sant’Oronzo, the Santa Lucia ai Teatini fair, the gift market in Piazza Mazzini, the creativity market in Via Trinchese, the artistic nativity scene in Piazza Duomo will be open throughout the day.
In Tarentum
Christmas is staged in Taranto in the alleys of the Middle Ages, with over one hundred professionals who will animate the old city to recall glimpses of the Christmas period, as was done in these places in the thirteenth century. Theatre, duels, investitures, leper hospital and military camps: all with free admission in Piazza Sant’Egidio, cloister of San Francesco, widening vico Cane and hypogeum of Palazzo Stola: from 10.30 to 13.30 and from 17 to 21, an idea of the I Cavalieri de li Terre Tarentine association. Between musical events there is a performance by the great wind orchestra Santa Cecilia-City of Taranto which will play at the Borgo. At 6.00 pm the tour of Via D’Aquino and Via Di Palma and at 7.30 pm the concert of Christmas music in Piazza Giovanni XXIII directed by maestro Giuseppe Gregucci. The tenor Ricardo Tamura, at 20, will sing in the Great Mother of God Co-Cathedral for the Great Christmas Concertcharity event organized by the Arturo Toscanini association, in collaboration with Anffas Dante Torraco.
In Brindisi
He returns to Brindisi Sportsman’s Christmas, in its second edition scheduled between Corso Umberto I and Corso Garibaldi. a morning of sport, a review of demonstration trials of disciplines included in Brindisi Porto Natale, the program of cultural and entertainment initiatives of the Municipality and the Fondazione Nuovo Teatro Verdi. But there is too Christmas in the ancient village, at the Charles V Bastion, an event that evokes the magic of the sea, the certainty of tradition, the charm of art, the desire to fill a symbolic place in the city of Brindisi with content. The initiative includes an exhibition and narrative path focused on Memories of the ancient seaside district of Brindisi with music and tastings. The day is an anticipation of what will be the Museum of fished memories, a new cultural pole under construction thanks to the work of the Circolo Remiero Brindisi in collaboration with the WWF Brindisi.
In Foggia
At the Pinacoteca Il 9cento the Avl company puts on the stage in the late morning A new Scrooge – A Christmas Carol by Marcello Strinati and with choreography by Francesca Ginepro: a modern reinterpretation of A Christmas Carol, the short novel by Charles Dickens with criticisms of the society of his time. The multimedia performance (a mix of graphic arts, video, theater and dance) is set in the present day and sees Ebenezer Scrooge as the protagonist again, this time not in the role of a rich and stingy old banker, but a current businessman. The show is repeated this afternoon at 6 and 7.30 pm. There Om Big Band and Ottavio de Stefano are, however, the guests who starting from 20, will perform at the Teatro San Paolo for the “Magic Christmas” concert, produced by Tempus, in the program of Christmas events organized by the Municipality of Foggia. There Om Big Band by Antonio Piacentino and Leo Marcantonio, after the forced stop caused by the pandemic, is back in vogue with Marco Contardi on piano, Antonio Tosques on guitar, Luciano Pannese on bass and Leo Marcantonio on drums; on saxes Michele Tempesta, Luigi Acquaro, Franco Cirillo and Nicola Simone; on the trumpets Antonio Piacentino and Potito Moscato and on the trombones Aurelio Santoro and Enzo Pastore.
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December 18, 2022 | 12:02
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