Brindisi

Culture

Significant in Brindisi is the cult of Tarantismo that combines pagan and Christian tradition. In the past it was believed that women who showed forms of hysteria were infected by the bite of a Lycosa tarantula. The only so-called remedy was to dance continuously for days, so that the poison did not clear greater effect. Through music and dance was created a real exorcism in musical character. regarded and sent separately. time a tarantato exhibited symptoms associated with Taranto, the tambourine, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and accordion players went in the house of the tarantato and began to earn to play the pinch music with frenetic rhythms. The Brindisi pinch, as opposed to Lecce, is devoid of Christian references and a therapeutic repertoire and musical detail.

The Provincial the treasure of knowledge is a public the treasure of cognition located in Commenda avenue. It has over 100,000 books and an extensive newspaper archive and participates in the National libraries Service. Inside a modern auditorium, a media office and the secretariats of the university offices of Bari and Lecce operate. The Archbishop Annibale De Leo Library is a prestigious public library housed in the Seminary of Brindisi, in Piazza Duomo. Founded in 1798 by archbishop of Brindisi Annibale De Leo, with an endowment of approximately 6,000 volumes, today it has over 20,000 volumes, 17 incunable, over 200 16th-century manuscripts. These put some rare works, and various manuscript collections.

The University of Salento Brindisi has social sciences, politics and geography faculty with courses in Sociology, Social Services and Political Science. The University of Bari has courses in Business Administration, administration and Consulting, Economics, Maritime and Logistics, Information Technology, Design, Nursing and Physiotherapy.

The "F. Ribezzo" Provincial Archaeological Museum is located in Piazza Duomo and has numerous large rooms, providing visitors with six sections: epigraphy, sculpture, the antiquarium, prehistoric, coins, medieval, modern and bronzes of Punta del Serrone. The Giovanni Tarantini Diocesan Museum is newly setting and is housed in the Palazzo del Seminario. It has a collection of paintings, statues, ornaments and vestments from the churches of the diocese. particularly important is the silver embossed Ark that has the submits of St Theodore of Amasea and a 7th-century pitcher, in which one can recognize the wedding at Cana. The Ethnic Salento Agrilandia Museum of Civilization authorises tourists the chance to see numerous statues in wood and stone. It also attribute agriculture and interesting tools with the rural culture.

Music and theater in Brindisi have never exposed significantly in the cultural life of the city. Having never hosted theatrical and musical training institutes, the city supports amateur companies. Over the past decade the city has developed and consolidated non-amateur theater companies, some dealing with theater for research and actor training. These companies have developed several socio-cultural projects for the promotion of the theater for people with disabilities. The same group of companies has proposed six shows.

The most important musician from Brindisi is Stefano Miceli, an Italian classical pianist and conductor, globally requested for his concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City, Berlin Philharmonie, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing and at the Great Hall in Melbourne. Also a Steinway Artist, he was given a silver medal by the President of Italy Napolitano and has been a visiting and distinguished professor at Boston University, Tanglewood Institute, the University of New Mexico and at many other academical music schools around the world.