facebook
instagram

Subscribe to the newsletter!

tavoladisegno1
loghitavoladisegno1

The Palio marinaro dell'Assunta

13/03/2021 21:45

AmontediProcida

Typical festivals , monte di procida , palio ,

The Palio marinaro dell'Assunta

Palio marinaro dell'Assunta

 

Palio marinaro dell'Assunta

 

 

A traditional rowing competition in two rounds, one for women and the other for men, using the ancient style of rowing on the traditional Flegreo-Neapolitan gozzo which, thanks to the commitment of the Municipal Administration and the Vela Latina Monte di Procida Association, has been declared a Heritage Cultural Intangible according to the UNESCO guidelines of 2003. Here it is described below in the words of Arch. Francesca Escalona, ​​a great lover of the Phlegraean Fields. Palio marinaro dell'Assunta: The Culture of the Sea that finally returns. (author: Francesco Escalona). The Bay of Naples was from the eighth to the fifth century the bay of Cuma. Maybe even much earlier. The peoples who controlled it had the keys to the Tyrrhenian gate. And control of the Oracle of the dead. Surely the Eubei of Cuma who controlled the passage of Vivara from the ports obtained in the twin volcanic craters of Vivara and Castiglione d'Ischia. The Eubei, a people of great seafaring culture, capable of traveling thousands of miles in a largely unknown sea. This millenary culture of the sea, handed down through the millennia, thanks to the most careful Tradition, this ancient smell, these memories and these tales, are preserved by small non-provisional communities in a few towns set on the coast of the two shores of the gulf. Among these certainly Procida and Monte di Procida. In the canal you can still find the ancient knowledge and the old seafaring crafts, the goiters with the Latin sail, the Eubei dances, preserved in the deep countryside of Giugliano by the paranza chiefs, in the mastieri, in the songs, in the archaic dances. Its presence is felt in Vincenzo Moretti's #nightsidellavoronarrato lived in Monte di Procida with the sailors and captains, with our boatswomen and engine managers, with the experimental researchers of the Monte di Procida Latin Sail Association including Antonio Gerardo Mancino, Antonio Pugliese and Lorenzo Looz. For some years now the people of Monte di Procida have been digging back into their millenary roots that they finally recognize with joy.

The Palio marinaro dell'Assunta is returning to echo archaic sounds and memories that wandered and echoed among the people of Montese waiting to return to be shouted, lived and told with joy. Finally the taste of the sea returns.