Monthly Archives: January 2021

Long Ago in Spoleto | The Teatro Caio Melisso hosts the “Cinemat...

January 29, 2021 no comments

In December 1897, at the Caio Melisso Theatre in Spoleto, one of the first film screenings in Italy took place. Cinema, as we know it, had just been born two years before. On 28 December 1895, in Par...

Weather#

January 26, 2021 no comments

More than 100 organisers, programmers, artists, musicians, singers from different parts of the world. Saturday 30 January live streaming on https://weather-swados.net and the Weather YouTube channel....

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Reading recommendations from ...

January 26, 2021 no comments

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day of 27 January, the library offers a series of advises on the SHOAH, picking up from recentrly acquired books and works. Works of fiction...

Spoleto Public Libraries’ 2020 Activity

January 25, 2021 no comments

The events, the projects and the figures of a year of reading promotion The enlargement of the library patrimony with new acquisitions and donations, the confirmation of Spoleto’s qualification...

At home with the Langobards: dukes Liutprand, Ildeprand, Aistulf

January 25, 2021 no comments

In tracing the history of the Dukes of Spoleto, we had reached the mid-8th century. Let us take a step backwards and remember how, during the rule of Liutprand (712-744), the Longobard kingdom had be...

Long Ago in Spoleto – The first public phone booth is installed ...

January 22, 2021 no comments

July 1904, the first public phone booth is installed in Spoleto On 11 July, 1904 a public poster announces the onset of the public phone service in Spoleto. Scheduled connections include the city net...

Long Ago in Spoleto | Spoleto to Norcia before the railway

January 22, 2021 no comments

«Between Spoleto and Norcia there is currently a stagecoach service connecting the villages of Piedipaterno, Cerreto, Triponzo and Serravalle along the route […] Since it has been proposed to replace...

At home with the Langobards

January 18, 2021 no comments

Epiphany has just passed, reminding the manifestation of Jesus to all peoples. Among the major solemnities of the Catholic Church, the Adoration of the Magi and the Epiphany runs through the entire h...

The Umbrian Chronicles

January 11, 2021 no comments

Available on Google Play and Apple Store “The Umbrian Chronicles”, the video game created to promote the network of 11 museums and institutions in the Spoleto and Valnerina area. Made possible thanks...

Long Ago in Spoleto – Roman relics in the Spoleto gardens

January 8, 2021 no comments

June, 1929: an article in the Messaggero of the time, kept at the Carducci library, entitled: ‘Roman Relics in the Spoleto Gardens’. While carrying out earthworks, a farmer, owner of some...