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Itineraries in Modica
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Popular limbs and Traditions
Near the Museum of the Limbs and popular Traditions limbs and trades of the passed time live again, some of which still introduce contacts with the present.
The characteristic aspect of the museum consists in the fact that the objects are available in their natural atmosphere, cioe' inserted in the faithful reconstructions of botteghe craftsmen who testify theirs directly use.
They can be admired, as an example, a characteristic copy of carretto sicialian, the ancient one half of transport that changes of dimension and elegance based on the importance of the belongings family, botteghedegli the typical craftsmen of the zone like the mielaio, the cabinetmaker, the saddler, the fabbro-horseshoer, the shoemaker, the tinsmith that knit pots and water jugs, the lavatore of the cane, the carpenter, they chisel it that it worked the stone, the taylor, the repairer of carts, the barber and dolciere.
True attraction of this museum, that it occupies Association of Bologna of the former settecentesco the convent of the Mercenari Friars, is sure the reproduction of the typical modicana masseria, center of the familiar nucleus resident stablily in campaign and economic center of the rural life.
Here they have been reconstructed the courtyard with its singular paving and atmosphere like the kitchen, rich of numerous useful tools for the preparation and the conservation of the bread and local cheeses, the bedroom and the room of the webbing.
Literary parks
The literary Park Salvatore Quasimodo (the 1901-1968) “unparalleled earth” is born from the idea of Alexander Quasimodo, only living heir of the writer, that it has thus meant to re-unite those who have contributed to divulgarele works of celebre the prize Nobel in Sicily.
The purpose, in particular, is that one to make to live again the poetry in the places where nacque the inspiration: Modica, city born them of Quasimodo.
The atmosphere that breathes in the area of the Park filler to the roots of the writer, those of one Sicily defined “unparalleled earth” according to the title it of one its celebre collection.
The Park has center to Modica, in the house museum entitled to Quasimodo enriched from the “situated Quasimodoteca” on the main public square of the city: a distance scenograficamente articulated through panels that concur one virtual immersion in the poetry.
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They thank all those people who contribute to the development and the growth of the site "Costierabarocca"
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