Share Album Published September 16, 2022 An ancient Sicily that tries to follow an Italy far ahead Una Sicilia antica che tenta di seguire un'Italia molto più avanti, fatta di tradizioni e antichi lavori artigianali in parte scomparsi. Siamo negli anni 1990 tanto è cambiato ma abbiamo acquisito anche il peggio che caratterizza le grandi città. capo center centro children city daily life di district easter folk folk traditions gestures palermo palermo city popular popular trditions procession reportage sicilia sicilian sicily storico tradiction traditions tradizioni popolari trapani vita quotidiana vucciria See more in bianco e nero, landscape, palermo, popular, popular traditions, sicilian, sicily, traditions, tradizioni popolari
Share Album Published July 16, 2020 Holy Thursday Procession in Marsala, Sicily The Easter procession of Holy Thursday in Marsala dates back to the first half of the seventeenth century, and has its genesis in the sacred representations which, since the Middle Ages, were presented through comedies, poetic compositions or figurative a easter easter procession holy thursday marsala procession sicily trapani See more in popular traditions
Share Album Published July 8, 2020 Feast of S.Agata Patron of the city of Catania. Sicily. Every year Catania offers its patron an extraordinary feast that can be compared to the Holy Week in Seville or to the Corpus Domini in Cuzco, Peru. In those three days the city forgets everything to focus on the festival, a mixture of devotion and folklo agata catania folk folklore popular tradition procession procession of s.agata s.agata
Share Album Published March 23, 2020 Catholic procession in the Sicilian-Albanian country of Mezzojuso. Sicily The town of Mezzojuso in Sicily was colonized by the Albanians around 1400, who fled the Arab invasion of Albania. So Catholicism and orthodoxy coexist. This Procession of the Madonna for Easter belongs to the population of the Catholic Faith. cattolic easter madonna mezzojuso popular traditions procession processioni religiose processions religion religious processions sicilia sicily tradizioni popolari
Share Album Published March 20, 2020 Feast of the S.S. Crucifix, "Maestranze". Calatafimi, Trapani. Sicily Feast of the S.S. Crucified the great Spring Festival for which the town of Calatafimi in Segesta, Trapani, is famous in the world. The party takes place with a three-five-year periodicity. Feast of abundance feast of waste feast of ostentation proud o… calatafimi ceti crucified crucifix feast fucili maestranze procession processione rifles s.s..crucifix s.s.crocifisso trapani
Share Album Published March 7, 2020 Procession of the "Madonna" on December 8, in the church of S. Francesco D'Assisi. Palermo Procession for the day of the "Madonna" on December 8, the statue of the Madonna, kept in the Church of S. Francesco D'Assisi, is carried in procession through the streets of the center of Palermo with a tribute to the same statue that is found in Piaz… church dassisi december8 faithful francesco madonna palermo procession religion san san francesco dassisi sicilia sicilianity sicily
Share Album Published February 3, 2020 Madonna of the GRAZIE of Pirriaturi. District Capo. Palermo, Sicily Procession Madonna of the Grazie of Pirriaturi in the Capo district, in the historic center of Palermo, Sicily antropologic capo documentaryphotography madonna palermo populartraditions procession reportage sicily
Share Album Published October 12, 2017 " Madonna della Mercede " Procession, Capo district. Palermo. Sicily capodistrict madonnadellamercede palermosicily procession
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Share Album Published September 17, 2017 Vucciria Market, Palermo The " VUCCIRIA " between past and present Photographic project for a Vucciria anchored to the past from to project in the future The district of the Vucciria (or of the Loggia) in the historical center in Palermo he has been subject in recent times to an acceleration of the degrade building and of the exodus of big part of the shopkeepers, that has conducted the historical market toward the beginning of the extinction. The district, nearly deprived of resident preserve still the suggestive architectures of the buildings once lived from the foreign merchants and from the aristocracy and the many monuments of which it is rich. Between crumbling buildings and buildings already collapsed in non distant times, it is still developed a discreet social life and the few standing economic activities, they withstand despite the shortage of clientele. Every attempt of raising of the market must be preceded by an organic operation of building recovery and is necessary to experiment new and more modern forms of insertion in the cycle of the distribution of the typical products proper of the culture and of the local tradition. In particular manner is necessary to transmit trust to the merchants because the change, started once the building recovery, it has to depart from them. In this context the photographic investigation it has to take back the gestures and the culture that anchors they remain inside the district, because these are his peculiar characteristics that distinguish it from the others and they constitute the base from which to leave again for the relaunch. The same sellers and itinerant that populate her they are of the small worlds inside the biggest world that is the market. Me same I have seen to swarm about ten and about ten tourists between the lanes of the district interested to the way of life and at culture that it countersigns but after few they escaped , here would be necessary to equip in way that the traveller remains, and you become source of wealth for everybody. What succeed in seeing with the photo almost always escapes the look of the common passer-by, and it is this his assignment, to record and to put in evidence what the mind of the people doesn't succeed in stopping, therefore to show the vitality, the peculiarities or the social problems of an inhabited place. After having begun this photographic investigation I am not very convinced anymore that the Vucciria is completely dead but only to sleep. Now is necessary to effect the remedies to wake up again her, but before is really too late. The recovery of the Vucciria I would compare it to the recovery of the theater Massimo, a monument of so great importance from to act from element of tourist call and enormous prestige for the whole city. Here therefore the photographic investigation that acts from catalyst and it makes evident the presuppositions for the change, to pact that the change is wanted by everybody. And then we leave again from the art, from the artists that they have populated and that they populate the district, from the monuments, from the sellers and from the varied characters that have a history from to tell and they are so many. Let's give again vitality to the people because they are them the Vucciria! The function of the photo is to try that he is able! easter fish palermo procession vucciria vucciria district
Share Album Published September 8, 2017 Easter Procession of "Misteri" in Trapani The Easter Procession of the Mysteries of Trapani. Followed and revered as never before, each year it repeats with its cadences and beliefs the rite of the Via Crucis thanks to the various Maestranze and religious Congregations that keep this tradition alive with fervor and sacrifice. easter easterprocession misteri procession trapani
Share Album Published September 4, 2017 Sicilian Gestures Italian gestures are famous in the World and in Sicily it has been enriched by our way of being, by our culture, by being protagonists or better than others. Exaggerating everything even a speech that apparently is simple....... La gestualità italiana è famosa nel Mondo e in Sicilia è stata arricchita dal nostro modo di essere, dalla nostra cultura, dal sentirsi protagonisti o meglio degli altri. Esagerando tutto anche un discorso che apparentemente è semplice....... easter gestures palermo procession siciliangestures
Share Album Published September 2, 2017 Capo district, Palermo The ”Capo”, fraction of a quarter the much largest one, is one of the four historical districts of Palermo and centre of one of the three markets historical ache essay of the city, therefore full of life, history and traditions that characterize all the historical centre. People, the ways, the market, the religiosity, la amanitas; she seems that all it is remained firm in the time. The life is carried out slowly, made of rituals, habits and behaviours eradicate in the time probably inherit to you from the Arabic domination that has left of the chair signs. Moreover the Arabs have transmitted sure also la habitudinal to living all apertures in the narrow lanes of the quarter and to carry out every type of activity helps you from the mild climate obviously that characterizes the Sicily. Therefore I could say to feel itself to Tunis or in the medina of Fez instead they are to Palermo city of Italy and of Europe. The religious faith is here to the base of every behaviour, it knows to you and the Madonna of every chisel they are venerate you and ingrain you with the traditional procession long the alleys of the quarter. For the Saint Friday then it comes scene the dead women of Christ with a lot of soldiers roman and Madonna in tender age. The Head moreover has been place of takeover of the Blessed souls Pauls with the characteristics catacombs still today existing. In spite of the poverty and the unemployment that grip this quarter, people strain themselves of living with dignity and honour and in this the faith plays an important role because it helps to give hope and to watch the future with more confidence. However the rebirth of the quarter is already in action, with the restoration of the historical palaces, the street net and the public squares. This is carrying to a return deli habitants of the quarter and to one new people to the centre of Palermo above all want of living the night with rising of new premises for the young people in particular of the coffee-concert approaching again therefore original nucleus of the city. capomarket easter palermo procession sicily