After the great success of the "walking cinema" MURA NIGHT EXPERIENCE tours, on the Mura di Pisa, in collaboration with Mura di Pisa, which sold out in just a few days, Acquario della Memoria offers its public and the city a new walking cinema tour, specifically dedicated to Roman Pisa.
Three special evenings realised with the support of the Fondazione Pisa and the Municipality of Pisa, and in collaboration with Mappa Lab, a team of archaeologists from the Department of Civilisation and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa.
Among the contributors to this initiative is the writer Sergio Costanzo.
The route will start with images and stories from the Etruscan Pisa, to arrive at the Roman period, through historical sources, aerial footage integrated with 3D reconstructions, animated shadows, and historical iconography. In the various stages the mysteries of the Roman city and the lost amphitheatre; the stories about the city by ancient travellers and scholars (from Rutilio Namaziano to Strabone); the ancient relationship with water (the river Auser, the ports, the aqueduct, the thermal baths); the life and workings of the baths (with the underworld of the wood-burning furnaces fed by the slaves; the 'sudatio', the only remaining room, (probably the smallest space in the complex); the legend of St. Torpé, which links Nero, St. Peter, the Villa of Corliano and the ancient and powerful family of the Venulei.
The tour will give the opportunity to discover previously undiscovered corners of Pisa, such as the green path connecting Via San Zeno and Via del Brennero through a small door in the Walls (skirting the site of the lost amphitheatre) and the extraordinary garden of the Carmelite friars, hidden next to Nero's Baths.
The initiative is also aimed at enhancing the archaeological excavations, the thermal baths and rediscovering a precious and often neglected corner of Pisa. It is the beginning of a path that aims to revitalise this corner of the city, and is linked to the restoration and revitalisation projects, also in terms of a museum, of the neighbouring Bastione del Parlascio, undertaken by the Administration with the support of the Fondazione Pisa.
Next events:
- 20 APRIL at 9 p.m. - EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE
- 10 MAY at 9.30 p.m.
- 28 JUNE at 9.30 p.m.
Departure from Porta San Zeno (meadow outside the Walls).
For reservations and information https://www.acquariodellamemoria.it/nerone-night-experience/
