Pepoli County, AC 1340
Ladies and knights, a magical journey through time awaits you! July 23, the streets of Castiglione dei Pepoli, illuminated by torches and candles, will go back centuries and centuries for the celebration of the transfer of ownership of the County of Castiglione from the Alberti di Mangona counts to the Pepoli counts ...
Saturday 23 July, the program:
Events:
- 18.15 Historical parade starting from the Tower with arrival in Piazza Libertà
- 18.30 Re-enactment of the change of ownership of the County between the Counts Alberti and the Counts Pepoli. Following the inauguration of the historical itinerary e
architecture of the Palazzo Comitale
- 6.45pm Historical conferences at Palazzo Comitale: “History of the Castiglione fiefdom between Alberti and Pepoli” by Michelangelo Abatantuono; "From the county to the marquisate and the donation of Gioacchino Pepoli" by Paolo Cesari
Entertainment in the village starting at 17.00
- Traveling show of the musicians and flag-wavers of the “Historical Group of Montemurlo
- Falconer Fernando Ferrini and the “Berenice” eagle in Piazza della Libertà
- For children: the first time in the saddle with the Valmezzana Ranch ponies in Piazza Marconi
- The Witch of Baragazza in the Remembrance Park
- Arts and crafts: master stonemasons "Associazione Fulvio Ciancabilla", spinners and dyers "Atelier Trame Tinte d'Arte" in the theater area
- Storyteller: Luca Deplano tells the story of Castiglione in verse in via San Lorenzo
Exhibitions open from 5.00 pm with guided tours
- White weapons and mortars from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century, Great Hall of the Palazzo Comitale. Guided tours: 5.00 pm, 7.30 pm, 9.30 pm.Sign up here
- Guided tours of the Palazzo Comitale (duration half an hour) 17.30, 19.15, 22.00.Sign up here
- Religious worship over the centuries: ancient relics, planet Pepoli, Agnus Dei in consecrated wax. In the Parish Church of San Lorenzo. Guided tours: 5.00 pm, 7.30 pm, 9.00 pm.Sign up here
- Ancient Castiglionese postcards by Mattia Beccaglia. Guided tour at 5.30 pm at the Il Ponte restaurant in via Pepoli
- Images and tools of photography of the past (Photo Ottica Montiglioni, via Pepoli 43)
- Extraordinary opening of the “Paolo Guidotti” museum (via Aldo Moro) until 11pm
- Visit to the ancient prisons of the Palazzo Comitale, guided tours: 17.30, 19.30, 21.00, 22.00.Sign up here
Given the expected turnout, we advise you to book visits on 379 113 5432 or by email visitcastiglionedeipepoli@gmail.com
And then...
- Themed menus and tastings in local bars, restaurants and exhibitors.READ THE THEMED MENUS HERE
- Genuino, the Apennine market: small local producers offer products from the Apennines at zero km in the parking lot via G. Pepoli from 5.00 pm
- Themed costumes for the day of the re-enactment: from Monday 11 July, on weekdays from 17.00 to 19.00 at the town hall it will be possible to rent medieval style clothes at a variable cost between 25 and 10 € each (courtesans, nobles, commoners, even for boys and girls).
The Tower and its Memory
In 1985 some British graduates met in Montorio to affix a plaque to the Tower that will remember, as the current owner Berti defines it, the last war service of the ancient Tower.
Peace has finally regained its rights to the tower, and it is to be hoped that it will never lose them again". “In a territory like that of the Municipality of Monzuno, which overflows with history and in which the stones speak, the Tower is listed as the most conspicuous monument; and it truly speaks still today, helping us to understand our history, both distant and recent ”.
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