Night of the Giants

"Night of the Giants" - Eco Run

Come and run in the most beautiful village in Italy

The sixth edition of the “Night of the Giants” takes place on Saturday 15 June, an “Eco Run” foot race with a route entirely on dirt roads that cross the uncontaminated countryside of Peccioli among woods, olive groves and vineyards.
The start of the race is set at 8.15pm, so we will start at sunset and run under the stars. All participants are required to wear a front light.

Two routes are planned: 13 km and 7 km. Both races will have a single start: the Fonte Mazzola amphitheater with the “presence” of a Peccioli Giant giving the “start”. The arrival will be on the cantilevered terrace of the Palazzo Senza Tempo in the historic center of Peccioli. The 13 km race is both competitive and recreational.

Info and registration on the La Notte dei Giganti website

At the end of the race there will be a dinner organized by Proloco Peccioli in the streets of the historic centre, the dinner is at a fixed price and is open to all.

Photo by Andrea Testi

Pier Marco De Santi’s collection

Pier Marco De Santi's collection

Original Walt Disney film posters

On the upper floor of the Palazzo Senza Tempo, part of the collection of Prof. Pier Marco De Santi, historian and film critic, is exhibited.

The production of the posters and posters linked to the advertising promotion of the film contributed to attracting the spectator to watch the film and are the result of intense work.

The original Walt Disney film posters are true masterpieces of their kind.

Lanciotto Baldanzi “Lanciotto wanted to be a painter”

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Lanciotto Baldanzi

"Lanciotto wanted to be a painter"

 

At Palazzo Senza Tempo an exhibition dedicated to the artist from Terricciola

In the rooms of Palazzo Senza Tempo there is the exhibition “Lanciotto wanted to be a painter” dedicated to the artist Lanciotto Baldanzi.

The exhibition, curated by Alberto Mugnaini, is promoted and produced by the Peccioliper Foundation and the Municipality of Peccioli, with the contribution of the Lanciotto Baldanzi Archive.

After the exhibition dedicated to Alessandro Ciulli, the process of valorising the artistic richness of Valdera continues with an exhibition on Lanciotto Baldanzi.

Lanciotto Baldanzi, born on 14 February 1949, lived until his death on 2 October 2022 at the age of seventy-three, in Terricciola.

In his hometown Lanciotto worked incessantly and obsessively for over fifty years, leaving more than a thousand densely worked cartoons and canvases, as well as several hundred drawings and assemblies.


A complex artistic and human heritage, investigated analytically for the first time and which required long months of cataloguing, sorting and selection.


(Photographs by Andrea Testi)

Aèrio by Marcella Del Signore

Marcella Del Signore - Aèrio 2021

Aério is a prototype of urban surfaces and a soft machine conceived as a respiratory macro-organ that explores the forms of coexistence of species through the ecology of breath and investigates health as a public value.

The macro-respiratory organ acts as a cleaning/filtering/treatment device of the air through the performance textile material embedded and woven into the surface. The technology of the incorporated material is developed through an advanced polymer that integrates Wearpure.Tech, a 100% natural mineral compound that has the property of mineralising the primary greenhouse gases that pollute the air we breathe. It can absorb and neutralize CO2, NOx and VOCs, converting them into active minerals.

Aério is a prototype for public space that acts as a device capable of covering urban surfaces to provide scenarios of co-dependence of living systems.
By mapping prototypical public spaces, the project aims to predict scenarios for dynamic CO2 uptake in the public sphere by interpolating data on materials technology, human occupancy, density and surrounding air ecologies.

CRISPR LOCUS

CRISPR-LOCUS by Maria Perbellini, Christian Pongratz and Dustin White

Bringing together stone and nature in a lively and dynamic narrative to inscribe an open public space, the CRISPR installation transforms spatial resonances into a stage for social encounters, an emotional observation point of the beauty and power of water, still hidden by the walls and went up the vast complex of buildings.
The traits of CRISPR are revealed by its sometimes latent rules and principles which, if written in computational form, generate non-linear geometries, interchangeable and non-adaptable functions and relationships.

Engravings and Lithographs Collection – Vito Merlini Donation

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Vito Merlini Collection

Engravings and Lithographs

The Engravings and Lithographs Collection – Vito Merlini Donation was born in 2006 thanks to the philanthropic gesture of Vito Merlini and by the will of the Municipal Administration and Belvedere S.p.A. in the belief that the poetics of the Work of Art resides precisely in the etymological meaning of the word “handwriting” understood as “sign, drawing, engraving” which takes the form of the immediacy of the graphic gesture, which does not allow hesitation, repentance and which will always the character of simplicity and freshness.

The collection consists of 279 sheets including etchings, lithographs, woodcuts and serigraphs: a collection of works that comprehensively present and summarize the Italian artistic panorama of the 20th century.

Many pure engravers whose works are part of the donation (Viviani, Piacesi, Bartolini, Zancanaro, Gulino, Mongatti, Greco, Morena, Parigi, etc.), as well as painters and sculptors who have dedicated themselves to the practice of engraving and lithographic techniques with extraordinary results: Baj, Breddo, Carrà, Guerricchio, Guttuso, Possenti, Morlotti, Maffi, Manzù etc. Many other prominent names: Carla Accardi, Annigoni, Cantatore, Dorazio, Fattori, Goya, Marino Marini, Mirò, De Chirico, Dalì, Saetti, Sassu, Scialoja, Soffici, Vangi, Vittorini.

Vito Merlini, former doctor of Peccioli, was a figure with a multifaceted personality who permeated many aspects of community life, actor, president of the Philharmonic Society and of the Pecciolese Cycling Union, president of the Football Sports Society.

Francesco Bigazzi Icons Collection

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Francesco Bigazzi Icons Collection

The Bigazzi Collection is characterized by the presence of predominantly Russian icons dating back to the 17th century. XVIII-early XX, typical of a domestic veneration and painted both in tempera, according to the traditional technique, and in oil, according to an “academic” methodology. These are icons mostly typical of popular devotion, which were handed down from generation to generation.

The Bigazzi Collection constituted the first nucleus of works of the F. Bigazzi Museum of Russian Icons which was born in 2000 following the meeting between the Municipality of Peccioli and Francesco Bigazzi, collector, for many years a journalist and correspondent from Moscow, then in charge of Culture and Press at the Consulate General of Italy in St. Petersburg and currently President of the Friends of the Hermitage Museum Association – Italy.

Belvedere Icons Collection

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Belvedere Icons Collection

The Belvedere Collection, unique in its kind, presents wooden icons with a singular and unusual peculiarity: dating back to the 17th century. XVIII-XX and from many countries and regions (Russia, Armenia, the Balkans, Constantinople, Estonia, Jerusalem, Greece, the Ionian Islands, Latvia, Mount Athos, Romania, Transylvania and the Ukraine), are dated, signed or with a dedication. An entire exhibition section is also dedicated to bronze crosses, icons and polyptychs, mostly typical of the production of the Old Believers.

Belvedere S.p.A., a company that believes in the valorisation and promotion of the local area, creating projects that combine company results with investments in culture, has become an interpreter of the historical-cultural changes underway, contributing to enriching the collections of this museum of icons which in one multi-ethnic society has become a place of encounter and integration between the cultures of Eastern and Western Europe, as well as a place where one would like to build peace.

Bronze Icons Collection

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Bronze Icons Collection - Giuseppe and Paola Berger Donation

The Giuseppe and Paola Berger Donation includes 51 bronze icons and one bone icon, dated between the 17th and 19th centuries. The iconographic typologies represented include crosses, triptychs and four-door polyptychs, icons of Christ, the Mother of God, Saints and Feasts.

All the works are typical of the Russian Old Believers’ production, which began in the north of Russia and from there passed on to other areas, including Moscow. In the past, Giuseppe and Paola Berger had already exhibited bronze icons and precious salt cellars of Imperial Russia in Peccioli.

The Libbiano Astronomical Centre

“Galileo Galilei” Observatory, Conference Centre and Planetarium

The Libbiano Astronomical Centre, a structure designed to meet the needs of astronomers, has become a centre for the promotion of public interest in, and understanding of, astronomy following the creation of a planetarium and associate conference facilities.

Faithfully reproducing the celestial sphere and its movements, the planetarium is a very effective tool to illustrate the fundamental concepts of celestial mechanics and to allow visitors to recognise – directly and immediately – the constellations and to understand the alternation of the seasons and the variation of the length of day and night.

The Centre consists of two distinct structures:

  • An Educational Building which houses the Go-To Ex3 Digital Planetarium with a capacity to hold 25 visitors and a conference room that can seat 50 people. In the entrance area there are the field telescopes used by the local Amateur Astronomers Association and a permanent exhibition of some of the images taken by the group.

  • The Galileo Galilei Observatory which houses the two main telescopes: a Ritchey-Chretien 500mm diameter/aperture reflector f/8 – f/6 and an 180mm diameter/aperture apochromatic refractor f/9. The Observatory was first opened in October 1997 in the presence of the renowned astrophysicist Margherita Hack.

The video also shows the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul which is only a few steps away from the Observatory.

Informazioni e contatti

Fondazione Peccioliper
Piazza del Popolo, 10
56037 Peccioli (PI)
tel. 0587 672158
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Alta Valdera
www.astrofilialtavaldera.it