Museo Internazionale del Presepio "Vanni Scheiwiller"

Sunday, December 7, 2014, at 18.00, in Castronuovo Sant'Andrea, to the City initiative, the Pro Loco organization and the sponsorship of the Pollino National Park, is inaugurated INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE CRIB "Vanni Scheiwiller" which houses 150 cribs around the world, from the collection of the Milanese publisher Vanni Scheiwiller, and from that of the art historian Giuseppe Apella, a native of Lucania country that, after the MIG. International Museum of Graphic - Public Library "Alessandro Appella" - Atelier "Guido Strazza" (born in 2011 and already on the national scene) and awaiting the arrangement of the "Museum of Life and works of St. Andrew Avellino", is being equipped a real center of cultural services which will make less difficult the isolation of 24 countries Basilicata in the Pollino National Park (which is part Castronuovo) and surrounding municipalities, for a total population of 70 696 inhabitants. The Schewiller collection was destined to Castronuovo Sant'Andrea, where Vanni was repeatedly since 1978, during the summer meetings, along with Leonardo Sinisgalli, Carlo Belli, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Rocco Mazzarone, Enzio Cetrangolo, Mino Maccari, Pietro Consagra, Guido Strazza, Giulia Napoleone, Assadour and Dinu Adamesteanu, his wife Alina Kalczynska that, with this decision, has united the country Lucan in Krakow in the interest for the artifacts that recall, for centuries, the tradition of a great mystery and inseparable the relationship between art and craft. Moreover, it is established a kind of ideal relationship with Lombardy and Milan in particular, he saw, from 1570 to 1582, the constant presence of St. Andrew next to Saint Charles Borromeo. The collection includes artifacts Italians (from Liguria to Sicily) and foreign (from France to England, to the North and South America, Africa, Australia, China, Lapland, etc.), With a focus area of ​​Lucania, Apulia, Calabria, Sicily, Naples and Sardinia that welcomes wonderful cribs M. and R. Pentasuglia (senior and junior), L. Morano, D. Alighieri Colucci, G. Niglio, G. Mitarotonda, P. Gurrado, R. Padula, I. Gardini, P. Of Nuts, NA Barzani, B. and C. Piemontese, L. Gallucci, A. Tripi, G. Serra, F. Monti, R. Esposito, G. Sales, P . Monni V. Forgia, G. Criscione, A. Capoccia, L. Lazzari, G. Falcone, A. Lentini, G. Totaro, L. De Matteis, I. Scarlatella, C, Perifano, A. Maddaloni, A. Manco, M. Conti, brothers Colì, A, Mango, F. Delle Site, P. Micciche, G. Raneri, Martina P., L. De Filippi, G. Iudici, V. Luciano, M. Lucerne, V. De Donatis, E. Serra, A. Tripi, G. Ferrigno, B. Di Napoli, P. Cascione. To these craftsmen will accompany the cribs of artists like Alina Kalczynska, Carlo Lorenzetti, Giacinto Cerone, Roberto Almagno, Salvatore Sava, Ernesto Porcari, Giuliano Giuliani, Ettore Consolation, Antonio Masini, Tito Amodei, Ghitti, Angelo Palumbo, Pinuccio Scioli. With a new and original formula, which aims to draw attention to a historical center of ancient origins, the International Museum of the Crib "Vanni Scheiwiller" is set up in the District is missing, in 50 caves-cellars that still rich array of farming objects , allow an anthropological reading of the town.

MISSING THE DISTRICT, SEAT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE CRIB Passing through the old districts of Castronuovo Sant'Andrea, with their winding streets and narrow, the abseils, climbs and numerous arches that encircle and reveal its medieval urban layout still, it's easy to come across in the signs of a past that It never seems to be spent and who silently narrate a still alive in the collective world. From the narrow, cobbled straight leading into Piazza Camillo Zaccara, better known as Piazza Castello to the presence of the Marquis Palace, once the home of the gentlemen who since the time Norman held power on Castonuovo feud (the Chiaromonte, Sanseverino and Villano), it leads directly to what was the true heart of the village button: the district is missing. Lower down Via Certosa reminiscent of the period of feudal ecclesiastical subjection to the Certosa di San Nicola Chiaromonte, who wielded the title from 1684 to 1807, the year of the suppression of religious orders. Continuing to descend, we come across in the signs of strong popular religiosity (Chapel of St. Andrew Avellino, the Mother Church and the Chapel of St. Philip), and in those places that once were the vital center of the country, still intact and untouched by modernity . Workshops of blacksmiths, shoemakers, carpenters, mill, cellars and many mills occupying the many local, now abandoned, which meet today walking through the quiet lanes. Objects left in front of what once was a barn, in the stones worn by time, in the half-open door of a now empty cellar, still echoes the story of those who lived in these places. The ruins of the "gate of the Missing", leaving freely manipulate imaginary of those who met, well make the idea of ​​the majestic city walls which, in the Middle Ages, protected the urban area from the attacks of the Romans, Goths and Saracens. A place where everything is concrete evidence of the cultural complexity of the settlement and social change layers that have been produced here and settled.