On October 25th at 10.30 am, at the Santa Maria del Purgatorio ad Arco Complex in Naples (via dei Tribunali 39), the Memorandum of Understanding Il Miglio della Memoria will be signed, proposed by the Superintendency of Archives and Bibliography of Campania which involves eighteen prestigious public and private cultural institutions in the ancient centre of Naples.
Taking into account the purposes and objectives, the Municipality of Naples has communicated its intention to adhere to the Protocol by signing it in the person of the mayor Gaetano Manfredi.
The Miglio della Memoria is a new cultural system aimed at valorizing the immense heritage of archives and libraries – over two million volumes and 120 linear km of archive documents – preserved in the area delimited by the three decumani of the Ancient Center of Naples.
The agreement is called The Mile of Memory precisely to underline the smallness of the territorial extension in which, however, a unique heritage is preserved.
The Memorandum of Understanding was created with the following aims: to create an archive and a widespread library, promoting public use and implementing "memory tourism"; to consolidate and enrich the system of cultural institutes present in the ancient center of Naples, opening up to a further narration of the city, capable of offering the "cultured traveler" innovative and new paths;
use shared technologies to enhance the value of archive and bibliographic heritage; open the spaces of conservation of archives and libraries to a wider public, not only researchers and specialists;
to give life to common initiatives – events, seminars and conferences, concerts, theatrical performances, dance – that support the promotion, dissemination and communication of the cultural heritage present within Il Miglio della Memoria.
“The Memorandum of Understanding Il Miglio della Memoria represents the metaphor of what needs to be done in Italian archives: overcome institutional distinctions, systematize, arrive at unitary databases that collect digitized documents in a single body”, declares the General Director of Archives Antonio Tarasco.
“With the involvement of the Municipality of Naples and numerous public and private cultural institutions, to whom I extend my thanks, this initiative promotes the diffusion of the culture of memory, opening new horizons for research and for the public, bringing more and more people closer to the historical wealth preserved by the archives”.
“With the protocol – adds Gabriele Capone, superintendent of archives and bibliography of Campania – we intend to promote a cultural itinerary that has as its stops the archives and libraries of the Old Center of Naples, notable buildings for their history and architecture, which preserve a documentary heritage unique in the world.
It is therefore a question of opening up to other audiences – not only scholars, researchers and specialists – often unknown spaces of the city, and at the same time, offering alternative – but no less significant – routes to the more attentive and demanding tourist, who travels along the decumani of the city.
The strong support of so many prestigious Neapolitan institutions is significant: it is a beautiful page of a new cultural vision, but also a beautiful example of civic commitment of the bond that we all have for the city of Naples".
Representatives of all the institutions involved will be present at the signing ceremony.
Speakers: Giuseppe d'Acunto – President of the Opera Pia Purgatorio ad Arco; Gabriele Capone – Superintendent of Archives and Bibliography of Campania; Rosanna Romano – General Director for Cultural Policies and Tourism of the Campania Region; Antonio Tarasco – General Director of Archives of the Ministry of Culture; Gaetano Manfredi – Mayor of Naples.
These are the participating institutions: Superintendence of Archives and Bibliography of Campania (via San Biagio dei Librai, 121 – 4 linear km of archive and 20 thousand volumes); District Notarial Archive of Naples (via San Paolo, 14 – 9 linear km of archive); Archive of the Neapolitan Province of the Friars Minor Conventual (piazza San Gaetano – 400 linear meters of archive);
Diocesan Historical Archive of Naples (Largo Donnaregina, 22 – 6 linear Km of archive); Association of Friends of the Archives onlus (vico Storto Purgatorio ad Arco, 15 – 650 linear meters of archive and 30 thousand volumes); Library of Castel Capuano “Alfredo de Marsico” (Piazza Enrico De Nicola, 2 – 60 linear meters of archive and 90 thousand volumes);
Girolamini Library and Monumental Complex (via Duomo, 114 – 400 linear meters of archive and 160 thousand volumes); Fra Landolfo Caracciolo Library (piazza San Gaetano – 40 thousand volumes); University Library of Naples (via Giovanni Paladino, 39 – 1 million volumes); Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella (via San Pietro a Majella, 35 – 600 linear meters of archive and 370 thousand volumes);
Banco di Napoli Foundation (via dei Tribunali, 213 – 90 linear km of archive – 80 thousand volumes); Benedetto Croce Library Foundation (via Benedetto Croce, 12 – 300 linear meters of archive and 70 thousand volumes); Castel Capuano Foundation (Piazza Enrico De Nicola, 2);
Foundation of the Neapolitan legal profession for higher legal education (Piazza Enrico De Nicola, 2); Italian Institute for Historical Studies (Via Benedetto Croce, 12 – 150 thousand volumes); Opera Pia Purgatorio ad Arco (Vico Storto Purgatorio ad Arco, 15 – 110 linear meters of archive); Museum of Health Arts (Via Maria Longo, 50; Via dei Tribunali, 226 – 8 thousand volumes);
Pio Monte della Misericordia (via dei Tribunali, 253 – 400 linear meters of archive and 17 thousand volumes). With the support of the Municipality of Naples. To celebrate the signing of the Protocol, on Saturday 26 October at 12.00:XNUMX, in the Salone dei Busti of Castel Capuano, Violoncelliade! will be presented, proposed by the Castel Capuano Foundation and created with the contribution of the Banco di Napoli Foundation and the Pietà dei Turchini Foundation.
The concert is a special event within the musical festival Note d'Archivio per il Miglio della Memoria, which began in June at the proposal of the Superintendence of Archives and Bibliography of Campania with the support of the Directorate-General for Entertainment and the Directorate-General for Archives, the first joint initiative between the institutions that signed the protocol.
The Violoncelliade! concert will feature Luca Signorini on the cello and the cellos of the “San Pietro a Majella” Conservatory of Naples.
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