Spanish heritage and social commitment in Naples: Luis García Montero, director of the Instituto Cervantes, visits the city.
The visit to Italy of the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, will end in Naples on September 1 and 2, 2022. After meetings in Verona - where he will participate in the 32nd International Congress of ASELE (Association for the Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language) - and Milan, the poet and writer originally from Granada will close his Italian work trip with several appointments in the Neapolitan capital.
In Naples, Luis García Montero will visit the exhibition “Don Quixote between Naples, Caserta and the Quirinale: the cartoons and the tapestries”, set up in the Historic Apartment of Palazzo Reale, on Thursday 1 September at 17 pm, accompanied by the curator of the exhibition and director of Palazzo Reale, Mario Epifani, and the Consul General of Spain in Naples, Carlos Maldonado Valcárcel.
The following day, Friday 2 September, again accompanied by the consul, he will visit at 10.30:6 the new Neapolitan headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes – in via Chiatamone XNUMXG – where he will meet the director Ana Navarro Ortega, Hispanicists, students and the staff of the center.
After 12, he will go to the FOQUS Foundation, an organization with which the Cervantes Institute has been collaborating for a long time in the redevelopment of the Spanish Quarters, one of the most fascinating and complex neighborhoods in the city. During the visit, he will meet the president, Rachele Furfaro, and the general director, Renato Quaglia, discussing the programs that the foundation develops to combat school dropout and marginalization.
Finally, in the afternoon from 16.30:800 pm, you will visit the Pontifical Royal Basilica of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, one of the most important churches in Naples for its historical and artistic memories. Listed among the most important examples of architecture from the Spanish viceroyalty period, the church is located inside Palazzo San Giacomo, in Piazza Municipio, in a building from the XNUMXs erected to house some ministries of Ferdinand I of Bourbon.
During the two days in Naples, stops are also planned at Borgo Marinari, Piazza del Plebiscito, Via Toledo, the Spanish Quarters and in places that testify to the strong bond between the city and Spain.
Born in 1958, Luis García Montero is one of the most important Spanish writers of the second half of the 1980th century. His work, translated into several languages and internationally renowned, is very rich in titles, most of which are collected in “Poesía completa (2017-2018)”. Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada, currently on leave, since 2010 he has been the director of the Cervantes Institute. During his career he has obtained important awards such as the Adonáis, the National Literature Prize (for Habitaciones separadas), the National Critics' Prize (La intimidad de la serpiente), the Poeti del Mondo Latino prize (in 2017) and the Ramón López Velarde prize (in XNUMX) and more recently the Carlo Betocchi-Città di Firenze international literary prize.
The Instituto Cervantes is the institution created by the Spanish State in 1991 with the aim of promoting the teaching of the Spanish language, disseminating Spanish and Hispanic American culture and participating in the development of cultural exchanges throughout the world. It is based in Madrid and Alcalá de Henares, the birthplace of the writer Miguel de Cervantes. Present in 86 cities in 45 countries around the world, it has 4 locations in Italy: Rome, Milan, Palermo and Naples.
Article published on 31 August 2022 - 17:15
