What to do in Pisa and its province on the weekend of 19 and 20 February 2022
Carnival is approaching and seems to bring with it a kaleidoscopic variety of events. Excursions, trips to discover plants and flowers from all over the world, theatrical performances. And more masked parties, Egyptian art and Dante’s timeless poetry. Not forgetting the activities for children.
On the one hand, a great expressive capacity. On the other hand, the timeless power of Dante’s poetry, which reaches its peak at the very end of Paradise. The actor Elio Germano meets Dante Alighieri and from here comes’Paradise XXXIII ‘, Saturday 19 February on the stage of the Era Theater Of Pontedera. On stage the untold is told ‘and the viewer is placed in front of the immensity. The beauty of Dante’s triplets is captured by Elio Germano together with the musician-explorer Teho Teardo, composer of an avant-garde without labels. At 12 noon there will also be a meeting open to the public with the two protagonists of the show.
A party that will drag the participants into the vortex of the most characteristic masked ball of Italy. To come? Thanks to Montemaranese sounds, music, dances and costumes. Saturday 19th February in fact lands on the stage of the New Theater – Live Binary, directly from Irpinia, the most extraordinary and ancient of its carnivals. The protagonist is the Montemaranese Tarantella School, a true ambassador of this tradition with ancient roots. And if there will be a party and concert in the evening, there will also be an afternoon workshop for this traditional dance.
From Pisa to Egypt, from Egypt to Pisa. The new exhibition is a journey through time set up in the Egyptological Collections’Edda Bresciani. The protagonists are the masterpieces recovered (and donated to the Opera Primaziale Pisana) by Gaetano Rossellini, who between 1828 and 1829 had participated as an engineer and architect in the famous Franco-Tuscan expedition in Egypt and Nubia. Real jewels, those brought back and now enhanced thanks to the new set-up created for the exhibition. Saturday 19 February, exhibition inauguration data are also planned two guided tours.
Many will have happened to pass in front of theBotanical Garden Of Pisa. Starting from Saturday 19 Februaryon a monthly basis, it will be possible to participate in guided tours to get to know and discover a unique botanical heritage, which changes over the seasons. And to enjoy the beauty of nature without leaving the city center.
The Monte Pisano it is also called Mons Eremiticus for the religious and hermit fervor that passed through it in the past. Today some traces of all this remain, immersed in the nature of the landscape. Sunday 20 February an excursion is planned which, after passing through olive groves, Mediterranean vegetation and wooded stretches, will arrive at the suggestive Hermitage of the Spelonca (dating back to the 12th century), of which a small church and traces of environments dug into the rock remain.
There are many hermitages and remote churches to discover (or rediscover) during this weekend. Curiosities, ancient castles and convents, mills and historical events the excursion to Sunday 20 February departing from the country of Kicks. From here, among olive groves and typical vegetation of the Monte Pisanothe goal is thehermitage of S. Bernardo, halfway up the coast towards Monte Serra. With a breathtaking view along the path.
For those who prefer a means of transport this time on their feet, there is no shortage of choices. In the meantime, there is the possibility of spending an alternative afternoon aboard the tourist trainthat Saturday 19 February it will cross the Pisan riverside and the streets of the historic center, between squares and medieval doors. And, in the meantime, many anecdotes about Pisa. At the end an aperitif. Sunday 20 February instead the Fiab organizes an excursion by bike which from Pisa crosses the Ciclopista del Trammino to reach the sea.
There are also several appointments for the little ones, from jazz fairy tales to Pop Up. Sunday 20 February on the stage of the New Theater – Live Track of Pisa arrives ‘Hansel and Gretel-Fairy Tales Jazz’. A game of images, sounds and words that has already conquered thousands of small and large spectators with a brilliant, comic, surreal, unpredictable original format, in which creativity is the protagonist. Equally engaging between music, colors, video and dance, is the children’s show proposed by City of the Theater of Cascinaalways Sunday 20 February. ‘Pop Up Garden‘is dedicated to Gilles Clement (botanist, poet and gardener) and to those little heroes who from nothing create gardens in the most unexpected places. It is an invitation to observe plants, to their way of dancing moved by the wind, to their being at the same time generous and capricious.
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