Category Archives: Architectural buildings
(Italiano) Torre Cerrano, da 100 anni landmark della costa abruzzese
Church of Sant’Agnese in Pineto
In January 1925 Luigi Corrado Filiani writes a passionate and intense letter to his fellow citizens inviting them to offer money for the construction of the church of Sant’Agnese, future patron saint of the coastal town.
90 years later it is interesting to read that letter again in order to understand the love of Luigi Corrado Filiani for his hometown. Continue reading
The public theatre of Atri
The public theatre is one of the outstanding architectural buildings which characterize the cathedral square of Atri. In fact, its façade is opposite the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta’s. It is a neoclassical theatre, with overlapping stages and horseshoe-shaped plan, a typology spread over the 19th century on the model of the “Theatre alla Scala” in Milan (18th century). In … Continue reading
Cerrano Tower, like a lighthouse in the night
On the evening of Sunday, June 23, the full moon was in the closest point to the Earth showing all its brightness in the sky.
The Cerrano Tower was no less so: today, in fact, thanks to the rearrangement of night lighting, we can admire it again, in all its monumental nature, also by night. Continue reading