Sorrento pays homage to Dante with an exhibition in open air

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To quote Dante, never like this time it’s appropriate to say: “Abandon all hope (bored) ye who enter here… in the Villa Comunale of Sorrento”. The beautiful location in the open air, two steps from the charming cloister of San Francesco, in fact, from 25 April to 31 August 2015, will host the first major Italian event dedicated to 750th anniversary of the birth of the Supreme Alighieri, came to light on 1265 in Florence.

For the occasion, eighteen exclusive marble panels in high relief, made by master Benedetto Robazza, make it even more special one of the most beautiful corners of the Earth of the Sirens. An extraordinary meeting with the art, strongly backed by the Sorrento Foundation, in collaboration with the Municipality, whose inauguration is scheduled at 6:30 pm on Friday 24th April.

The panels, each 2×2,50 meters, will be positioned ad hoc in order to offer guests the city’s extraordinary interpretation of scenes of Dante’s Inferno in front of the paradisiacal vision of the Gulf of Naples, which is admired by the incomparable stage that is the Villa Comunale of Sorrento.

Not a random choice that the master Robazza whose expressive power has already scored the globe with countless works placed in public spaces of great interest: from the monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi on 18th Avenue in New York, that of Rudolph Valentino in Los Angeles, from bust of Ronald Reagan in the White House, the monument in memory of the genocide cambodian exposed to the palace of glass the UN, from the war memorial overseas shrine of Bari to the bust of General Della Chiesa exposed to the prefecture of Palermo.

Admission in Villa is free and the exhibition is open every day from 10 am to 22.