Page 9 - Italian American Herald - September 2021

NEWS FROM ITALY
Island of Capri hosts 'Song of Sirens' festival
Remains of Roman road found under Venice
ITALIAN-AMERICAN HERALD
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NAPLES – This month from Sept. 10 to Sept 20, the island of Capri will host an interna- tional festival of theatre, music and the visual arts, titled 'Il Canto delle Sirene' (The Song of the Sirens).
The festival aims to become
one of the most prestigious
events on the Italian cultural
scene thanks to a unique
synergy of natural beauty and artistic talent that will illuminate the summer nights.
Shows will take place at the Certosa Chiostro Grande, on the terrace of the Caesar Augustus Hotel, and at the Centro Caprense Ignazio Cerio.
At the festival, an acoustic concert will take place for the first time inside the Blue Grotto.
The festival will close on the island of Procida with the premiere of "Il Malato
Immaginario" by Moliere, starring Emilio Solfrizzi and directed by Guglielmo Ferro, as a prelude to shows for Procida Capital of Culture 2022.
Geppy Gleijeses, the festival's artistic director and founder, said he imagined a "sophisticated and popular festival to challenge festivals such as Avignon and Edinburgh."
All shows are free and in compliance with COVID restrictions.
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ROME – The remains of a Roman road have been found underneath Venice, according to a new Italian study.
The survey, carried out by researchers at the National Research Centre's Institute of Marine Science (ISMAR-CRN) and Venice's IUAV University, has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The discovery, which includes
the remains of a Roman dock near
the Treporti canal, shows there were human settlements in the area centuries before Venice was founded, as well as a road system between the present-day city of Chioggia and the ancient city of Altinus, the study says.
"We carried out the mapping with sonar because we wanted to study the morphology of the canals in 3-D," CNR geophysicist Fantina Madricardo told ANSA.
"Examining the data gathered, we noted
the presence of 12 structures of an anthropic nature, aligned for over a kilometer in a northeast direction and at a depth of around four meters.
"After talking to the scuba divers who found similar remains in the 1980s, and speaking with archaeologist Maddalena Bassani, we deduced that we were faced with lumps of basalt that paved the Roman road laid along the sandy coastline that is today under the sea," he said.
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