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This initiative
aims to interest
Messina citizens and especially
students about the events regarding
Messina’s sickle – shaped area and
the natural disposition of its port.
Through and
texts of many and various authors
who have reported nrws about the
“sikle” from ancient times to the
present, people will have the
possibility to think about toponym
and sources, pre-Christian and
Christian worships and about
physical presences which have
characterized this area’s outline.
This was the
original place for burial,
hermitage study and prayer – as
represented in its highest
expression by the greek St.
Salvatore “de lingua phari”
monastery – logistic base of the
Royal Navy, soldiers accommodation
and space for military manoeuvres,
fortified peninsula in defense of
the Strait.
From nineteenth
century the “sikle area” has
expanded its maritime commercial
functions and during the years it
has been interested by port,
industrial and productive
activities.
In
Archbishopric church the
exposition offers a special
a section dedicated
to Raineri, patron saint of
the city of Pisa, to whom the
curve arm of the port is
dedicated. Here are exposed Carlo
and Gian Paolo Lasinio’s etching
suggestive reproductions of
saint’s life and the reproduction
of the cast of his face,
made by prof. Francesco Mallegni
in 2000 as a result pf the
biological investigations on the
remains of the Pisan
saint. |
