Santa Maria dei Servi REOPENS TO THE PUBLIC WITH A NEW MUSEO Opening of the first Diocesan Museum of the City-Parish "A point of reference for all of Umbria" - distinguished guests for the ribbon cutting and a dash of color to an unexpected intervention.
Città della Pieve
The unofficial text. Seven seconds. Seven seconds each: this was the time set for each of the distinguished speakers who were numerous and attended the inauguration of the Diocesan Museum at the Church Santa Maria dei Servi. And big names were there on Saturday afternoon in the front row. Someone, for last-minute commitments, there has been no appeal of the guests, but the event was undoubtedly clamor.
The most pleasant perhaps as well as a slick patch of guests, was pleased to see the eyes of many Pieve: for those who had never seen Santa Maria dei Servi was a surprise for those who had seen the last time in 1990 - before work - a welcome return.
Personally, I let myself be enveloped by the mystical light of the Church even before I knew it. Aspect, however, enjoy it fully empty and in silence, one of the next few days.
Finally, in this brilliant atmosphere - that joined in the Lorenzetti Chiaretti, the banners of Pieve Terzieri the technical explanations of the designers - there was the intervention of Bittarelli Valerio, an expert on local history, which has taken everyone by surprise. Do you want because it passed the famous "Seven Seconds" all agreed to speak without boring the audience, or because there was no requirement, either because he has enriched with a touch of color the whole of the previous interventions. The gradient of the nicest Bittarelli report was being closed, When addressing Natali, director of the Uffizi Gallery, said, "because You see, if my friend Alberto enjoys, I enjoy myself. I am a philosophy of pleasure .. "And perhaps, let me tell you, I can only imagine that some of the illustrious guests in the front row had a slight tremor. Valerio Chapeau.
The official text. The Church of Santa Maria dei Servi is again open to the public after nearly twenty years, and does it in grand style for the inauguration of the Diocesan Museum housed in the basement. Yesterday afternoon, the occasion attracted a huge crowd of Città della Pieve and beyond. In addition to the distinguished guests speakers - Chiaretti Archbishop, the Vicar General of the Order of the Servants Maria Lorenzetti Azzalli of the Governor, the Superintendent Vittoria Garibaldi, the Uffizi director Antonio Natali, to name a few - even among the dignitaries present was Stephen Cimicchi, managing director of the Umbria. Moreover it is significant intervention of the mayor Claudio Fallarino, remember that in Citta della Pieve from yesterday has become "even more cities, because it has a museum and is entitled to a further major landmark for the whole of Umbria ". The Diocesan Museum of Santa Maria dei Servi be incorporated in
museum routes of the City of Perugino, but it opened you have to tip it into a vehicle for promoting regional. "The restoration of the Church of the Servants - the mayor said in his address - which since 1860 has become public property, must ensure that this asset becomes a point of reference and recall. The name of the Diocesan Museum is emblematic of the positive engagement of the two institutions, local authority and the Diocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve, which have thus laid down a common path for the conservation and enhancement of our great heritage. " It was also important to the financial commitment (with the participation of the Region) for the restoration of the Church, which began in 1990 and divided into two stretches, which is why in twenty years it remained a treasure "hidden" in the eyes of many Pieve. The Diocesan Museum, located on the premises of the basement, as used in the Renaissance choir lower, and more recently the winery. In a charming environment, where the vaulted ceiling embraces modern lighting, you can see eight oil paintings on canvas, among them a well-known Circignani, from the Cathedral and the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima Parish and the Town of Church of San Leonardo located in the village of Salci. All dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. These will be joined by others, as evidenced by some empty pedestals. In the Church - Connected to the underground with a lift - were performed static and architectural works of consolidation and recovery on stucco, plaster, paint the altar, restored to splendor. Now that "the Church is back in his mind," said the Superintendent of Garibaldi, the countdown begins for the next ribbon-cutting ceremony: first the Nature Museum and then the medieval fortress, site of the Territorial Museum System and Network Reception tourism.