Chiesa di San Giacomo

Welcome to St. James Church, an extraordinary place of art culture and returned to the city after more than two centuries, in all its beauty and monumentality. A work that encompasses historical layers and religious life, signs time, derelict and oblivion and is reborn to expand the cultural offer of the Museums San Domenico. A jewel that there has been inserted in the magnificent Museum Complex, going to become a place in which to resonate the artistic vocation of the whole cultural and civil communities, in Forli, and throughout the Romagna. The historical and cultural roots of the city are reconnected to its present, fully expressing the spirit that has sustained and inspired the intervention restoration and upgrading of the entire complex, with the intention to bring this extraordinary architectural testimony to a life-giving function to the current city. We wish to welcome the newfound church of St. James with an Open Day in the sign of music, the universal language that belongs Community, reference to "common feeling" that runs through it, reinforces the and enhances the story. The musical proposal intersects the contemporary repertoire and the historical, evoking in particular the figure of Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer Forlì active in the second half of the eighteenth century, that nicely is the link to the historical tradition, with cultural roots of its territory and, together, he anticipates the modern figure of the musician the ability to read his time in the potential of experiences and relationships the routes covered, in Italy and in Europe. In the name of tradition and, together, contemporary, we mean therefore emphasize the cultural vocation of Forli, where San Museums Domenico, now with the added bonus of St. James Church, confirmed as a driving force, and constantly moving motor Art, culture and beauty. Davide Drei Mayor of Forlì