ItalianoDISCOVERING FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA’S ARTISTIC TREASURES
WITH THE PORDENONE SILENT FILM FESTIVAL
Not only cinema is on the menu for the Giornate’s guests who, for the third consecutive year, have the opportunity to join two excursions dedicated to the artistic and architectural treasures of Friuli Venezia Giulia:
1. Discovering San Daniele
Wednesday 10th October 2018, from 2.15pm to 7.15pm
Departure from Piazzale Ellero (next to Hotel Minerva) at 2.15pm
Fee: € 20
2. Tiepolo's treasures
Saturday 13th October 2018, from 9am to 3.45pm
Departure from Piazzale Ellero (next to Hotel Minerva) at 9.00am
Fee: € 20
Book now! Please note that you will be able to pay at the Giornate’s Infodesk in cash only.
1. Discovering San Daniele
This tour will take our guests to San Daniele del Friuli and its famed Guarneriana Library. The tour will then move to the old town and the church of St. Antonio Abate, housing one of the most beautiful fresco cycles in the region, by the Renaissance master Martino da Udine, known as Pellegrino da San Daniele.
At the end of the tour there will be the unmissable opportunity to sample San Daniele’s world-renowned crudo ham at the historic Dok Dall’Ava prosciutteria.
Wednesday 10th October 2018, from 2.15pm to 7.15pm
This tour will take our guests to San Daniele del Friuli and its famed Guarneriana Library. Here, guided by professor Angelo Floramo, visitors can admire rare illuminated manuscripts.
The Guarneriana Library, built in 1466, is the oldest public library in Friuli and among one of the oldest in Italy. This storied institution was initially created to house the donation of 173 handwritten codices bequeathed by its founder, the fifteenth-century humanist Guarniero d’Artegna, vicar of the Patriarch of Aquileia for a decade from 1445.
The other main collection housed in the oldest part of the Library is linked to a later bequest made by Msgr. Giusto Fontanini. The Guarneriana now holds over 600 manuscripts, many richly illuminated, including a precious Byzantine Bible of the late twelfth century and a handwritten copy of the Divine Comedy from the late fourteenth century.
The tour will then move to the old town and the church of St. Antonio Abate, an authentic treasure chest of Friulian art from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, housing one of the most beautiful fresco cycles in the region, by the Renaissance master Martino da Udine, known as Pellegrino da San Daniele.
At the end of the tour there will be the unmissable opportunity to sample San Daniele’s world-renowned crudo ham at the historic Dok Dall’Ava prosciutteria.
Book now! Please note that you will be able to pay at the Giornate’s Infodesk in cash only.
2. Tiepolo's treasures
The visit begins in the streets of the city centre of Udine, stopping at those locations most important for Tiepolo’s art: from the suites of rooms of the Archiepiscopal Palace to the Dolfin Library, from the Cathedral of the Assumption to the Oratorio della Purità.
At the end of the tour there will be a lunch at restaurant Santa Chiara, via Grazzano - Udine.
Saturday 13th October 2018, from 9am to 3.45pm
We head to Udine to discover the glorious fresco cycles painted by Giambattista Tiepolo (Venice 1696 – Madrid 1770) beginning in the 1720s, allowing the visitor to witness the evolution of his art, from early works to those of his maturity.
The visit begins in the streets of the city centre, stopping at those locations most important for Tiepolo’s art: from the suites of rooms of the Archiepiscopal Palace to the Dolfin Library, from the Cathedral of the Assumption to the Oratorio della Purità.
Since 1995 the “Museo Diocesano e Gallerie del Tiepolo" has been housed in the Archiepiscopal or Patriarchal Palace (residence of the Patriarchs of Aquileia from 1593 to 1751 and now the residence of the Archbishop). The museum's collection includes approximately 700 works, many of which are on public display.
On the main floor, guests can admire the evocative grotesques by Giovanni da Udine in the Blue Room, and the stuccoes in the Yellow Room and the Patriarchal Library, housing a rich book heritage.
Additional masterpieces by Tiepolo will be seen in the Cathedral, which also houses works by other important artists such as Pomponio Amalteo, and in the nearby Oratorio della Purità, containing Tiepolo’s breathtaking frescoed ceiling of the Assumption, signed and dated 1759.
At the end of the tour our guests will have lunch at restaurant Santa Chiara, via Grazzano - Udine.
Book now! Please note that you will be able to pay at the Giornate’s Infodesk in cash only.
