Culture.

Italian culture lives in very different places: in the cities that become capitals of culture each year, in the lecture halls and laboratories of a university, in the three million negatives of a Roman photographic archive.

Cagliari · Lecce · Perugia · Ravenna · Siena · Rome Capitals of culture · university · photographic archive

The Italian capitals of culture 2015.

In 2015 the title of Italian Capital of Culture went to five cities at once: Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena, the finalists in the race to be European Capital of Culture 2019, won by Matera. Five cities in just over a minute: Cagliari from above, the baroque of Lecce, Perugia's Fontana Maggiore, the mosaics of Ravenna, Siena's cathedral and Piazza del Campo.

01:06 The five capitals

Video salentoweb.tv

What you will see
  1. 01Cagliari from above and its churches
  2. 02Lecce and its baroque, by day and by night
  3. 03Perugia: the Fontana Maggiore and the Palazzo dei Priori
  4. 04Ravenna: the basilicas and the mosaics
  5. 05Siena: the cathedral, the frescoes, Piazza del Campo

Ravenna, the Darsena celebrates.

Summer 2015 on the Darsena canal, Ravenna's old harbour: musicians and acrobats, food stalls, families along the quays, dives from the pier. Then night falls, with the crowd under the stage, the lights reflected in the water and the closing show on the canal. Ravenna in the year it was Italian Capital of Culture.

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03:12 Ravenna, Italian Capital of Culture 2015

Video NEO Visual Project Ravenna

What you will see
  1. 01The Darsena at sunset, people on the quays
  2. 02Musicians, acrobats and food stalls
  3. 03Diving from the pier
  4. 04The concert, under the stage
  5. 05Night: lights on the water and the closing show

Guglielmo Marconi University.

Italy's first digital university, private and non-profit, recognised by the Ministry of University and Research since 2004. Based in Rome, with a network of teaching centres in Italy and abroad, it combines distance learning with in-person activities and awards legally valid degrees: bachelor's and master's programmes, postgraduate courses and lifelong learning. In the film, the university as told by those who attend it: testimonies to camera, lessons followed from home, the headquarters and its laboratories, the scholarships.

02:25 Rome in Italian

Video Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi

What you will see
  1. 01Graduates and students speak to camera
  2. 02Lessons followed from home
  3. 03The Rome headquarters, lecture rooms and laboratories
  4. 04Conferences, scholarships and graduation

The Riccardi Archive.

More than three million negatives and eighty years of Italian life, kept in the heart of Rome: from Carlo Riccardi's 1944 identity card to the photographs his son Maurizio takes today. Processions and piazzas, snow in the city, summer dives into the fountains, along a single timeline.

Enter the Riccardi Archive
Boys diving into the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona

Photographs © Archivio Riccardi

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