FAI Spring Days: In Bagheria protagonist Villa Cattolica and the Guttuso Museum
Saturday 23 and Sunday, March 24, 2024
For lovers of art, culture and beauty, the FAI Spring Days are back. Among the most important public square events dedicated to the cultural heritage and landscape of our country: 750 places in 400 cities will be visited with free contribution, thanks to the volunteers of 350 delegations and FAI Groups active in all regions. Bagheria and its Villa Cattolica home of the Guttuso Museum will be the venue deputed this year to be the protagonist of the FAI days that will take place on March 23 and 24.
During the press conference held on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at Villa Cattolica, which can be followed again on the municipality’s facebook page or on the municipal website, the program of the two FAI days was presented, which is not only a cultural and tourist visit, but is to live an experience between art, culture and tradition, where students of the educational direction of Ficarazzi and Casteldaccia, of the state comprehensive institutes T. Aiello, Bagheria-Aspra, Ciro Scianna, Ignazio Buttitta, of IIS Luigi Sturzo and Liceo Ginnasio Francesco Scaduto will act as ciceroni. The conference, moderated by journalist Marina Mancini, was attended by Tourism Councillor Provvidenza Tripoli, Vice Mayor and Culture Councillor Daniele Vella, Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Palermo Franco Lo Piparo and cart decorator Michele Ducato.
Explaining in detail the entire program of the Bagheria FAI days was the head of the Bagheria section of FAI Professor Giuseppina Greco. Professor Lo Piparo dwelt on the history of Bagheria, its origins connected to Bagheria’s historic villas and the redevelopment of the Guttuso Museum, while Michele Ducato, from the historic family of Sicilian cart decorators, explained the presence of the museum section dedicated to the cart, also citing a letter written by Renato Guttuso, in September 1952, in which the 20th-century master defined the Sicilian cart as a symbol of the imagination, pride, and vitality of the Sicilian people.
On the occasion of the FAI Days visit, the Scirocco Room, little known to most, will be open to the public. Professor Vincenzo Gennaro author of the bronze work in the garden of the Villa will also be present.
Councillor Providence Tripoli, after thanking Professor Greco, for involving the administration in the initiative and the schools that participated in the “Cicerone Project,” with students, principals and professors, stressed, <<The FAI days are for the students who participate an educational experience of great importance. The children learn to know, appreciate and love the artistic and cultural heritage they study… and then they “donate” what they have received, passing on the appreciation to visitors and making an authentic promotion of our sites. In addition, the Cicerone project is of interest to all schools of all ages, and thus to children of different age groups, even the youngest, who learn from an early age to care for and love historical and cultural heritage and landscapes>>.
