Bettona (PG) - With this visit, scheduled for Sunday, October 6, the local tourist with the "library of books saved" (dedicated to Languages ​​and Literatures of the World) of Bettona and the Italian Touring Club, Consulate of Umbria, aim to raise awareness of the history and the curiosities of this ancient country, rich in traditions and cultural relics, art and history. Some guys and volunteers talk about their small walled city through its churches, its walls, its four doors, the many sieges that have changed the configuration, the lookout, all interspersed with curiosity and peculiarities belonging to the folklore of the place.
THE PROGRAM OF THE VISIT, scheduled for Sunday, October 6, 2013, is as follows:
You can park outside the walls between Porta Romana and Porta Vittorio Emanuele
9.45 - meeting the Acropolis, at the Last Supper, the greeting of the Mayor, the President of the Pro Loco Bettona and meeting with the young volunteers;
10.15 - tour of the Old Town;
12.15 - apertive "Preziotti gardens" with a visit to the "library of books INTRA saved" dedicated to the Languages ​​and Literatures of the World. Among the texts one in the Frisian language, perhaps unique case in Italy.
13.00 - Lunch at the sports complex owned by the Pro Loco in Via S. Antonio (100 meters from the historical center) with typical related to the local "festival Goose" with: appetizer, noodles with duck sauce, goose roast goose or roast beef, homemade tart, wines of the "Cantina di Bettona";
15.30 - Visit to the Museum of the City, FREE;
16.30 - farewell.
The price of lunch (optional) is of € 14,00
Objects of the visit will be:
- The castle walls that completely encloses the old town with a door, door St. Catherine which still retains the old wooden door, and an output, the Roman gate, the walls are of Etruscan origin;
- The Oratory of St. Andrew, the thirteenth century. with wooden ceiling of the fourteenth century., with an important series of paintings representing the Passion of Christ, frescoes dated 1394. In the church are still located the "Venerable Brotherhood of St. Andrew the Apostle, known as the Brotherhood of the Nobles, founded in the thirteenth century.;
- The Town Hall built in the second half of the fourteenth century .. In the council chamber is placed a "chorus" from the XVI century wooden Church of St. Anthony;
- The Fountain, erected in the center of the square in 1890;
- The Church of S.Crispolto (patron saint of the city, the first Bishop and Martyr of Umbria), built by Benedictine monks in the early thirteenth century. to preserve the body of the patron saint. The church has a Latin cross, the current facade is of 1795-97ed is the work of the architect. Stefanucci, a student of Vanvitelli. Of the original Romanesque building is the bell tower spire. The organ of 1564 by Cianciulla Romans;
- The Palazzo Baglioni, reflecting the domination of the household in the city from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century., Where he died on 12.24.1531, Malatesta Baglioni;
- The Town Biancalana, currently home, on the first floor of the Municipal Art Gallery, built in the first half of the nineteenth century. On the ground floor and first sottostrada of the building, was built adjacent to the current Archeological Museum Art Gallery. The entire complex of the Archaeological Museum and Art Gallery forms the MUSEUM OF THE CITY 'of BETTONA with entrance from Piazza Cavour;
- The Palace of the Podesta built in 1371, the residence of the mayor, now the seat of the Municipal Art Gallery;
- The Church of Death Company with frescoed by the painter Giuseppe Barbaclori in 1806;
- The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the most important church in the territory.
It was built at the beginning of Christianity and, in 1225, was enlarged and reconsecrated. In the years 1803-1816 it was restored neo-classical in its present form. Ancient Roman-Gothic remains a chapel. The apse was frescoed in 1939 by the futurist Gerard Doctors. (Bettona is still a bishopric, and still is appointed Bishop of Bettona);
- Well the medieval during the excavation work for the repaving of Piazza Cavour has come to light an ancient medieval well built in 1497, outside diameter ml. 6.40 ml of a current depth. 22.50. Upcoming measures will allow access to the well and the ancient remains of roads creating exhibition spaces underneath the square, with access from the new Archaeological Museum, the first floor below the palace Biancalana;
- Complex former Convent of St. Catherine built in the early 1500s headquarters of the Third Order Franciscan Nuns, from the old settlement outside the walls, clearly visible to the recent excavations, already inhabited by Benedictine nuns;
- The Church of St. James and former home of the Benedictine Monastery dating back to 1470/1480, currently housed since 1901 by the Franciscan Sisters of the Child Jesus "that occupy a contiguous portion of the old monastery.
Book from now at the Vice Consul Michael Cleric <chierico2013@gmail.com> 339 8739562
