Passion & Places

If there’s a small rule for keeping life at its daily pace and for avoiding it becoming a repetition of juxtaposed actions, it’s to always think about one’s actions: to never do anything automatically. If, then, there’s an important rule for how life could be transformed into the spark for a virtuous circle made up of other lives linked together, it’s to never stop recognising beauty. Responsibility and awareness make us human, and they make us better for it.

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The greatest damage that the crisis can do is to leave us believing that a plan is impossible.

Before diagnosing yourself with depression or low self-esteem, make sure you’re not simply surrounded by idiots.

The mechanism mutatis mutandis is what’s really being described by this popular Facebook phrase. If things around us are going badly, we are led to believe that those within us must also following a similar pattern. And, essentially, it’s true that negativity is contagious. The point, though, is that so is positivity, and in order to reverse the course of things we must remember that. A few months ago I had a stand at the Art & Tourism fair, which took place for the first time in Florence during May. An atmosphere that I know well pulsated throughout the exhibition. I know it well because it’s the golden rule that has inspired Paradise Possible’s business for nearly fifteen...

Wikipedia says that Panismo consists of “a very profound idea about the outside world (especially relating to natural landscapes) that creates a fusion between the natural elements and those which are more specifically human. It derives from the name Pan, Greek god of nature, but from the moment one presupposes a pantheist conception of the divine, it can also be derived from the Ancient Greek word πάν (pàn), which means “everything,” from which the same terminology for god originates.”...

Abbiamo bisogno di una lama di luce Josef Svoboda

 

The “arena” is still a unique reality in art where we can listen to the free singing of Carmen, Violetta and Mimi, and magically succumb to our every hope for the future. "Carmen will never give way. Free she was born and free she will die!" (Carmen, Carmen - G. Bizet, Act IV) Macerata's Sferisterio Arena is Italy's best open-air theatre in terms of acoustics. And participating in the revolutionary 2012 season will be an exciting adventure that leads us to understand the soul and the passion that these places give off to all those that experience them. "Smile on the yearning of the fallen woman, do; forgive her, and receive her, 0 God, with you!" (Violetta, La Traviata - G.Verdi,  Act III, Scene IV) Today's drama has nothing of the intimacy but rather the need to express the ideas, the talents and the art of a new generation that can save...

PARADISE POSSIBLE

Le Marche, paradiso possibile

www.paradisepossible.com

Art & Tourism 18 – 20 maggio 2012

http://www.artandtourism.it/

The Winner of the Quadrikend Prize Le Marche, Paradise Possible

Antonietta Montagnoli – Marsciano (PG) Italy



The “Le Marche, Paradise Possible” Quadrikend Prize 2012 is a holiday that we will seek to make unforgettable in the most welcoming and elegant accommodation, Hotel Il Giglio, which is located in Corinaldo, one of the most beautiful villages in Italy.

For those who visited our stand and participated in our competition to win a holiday in Le Marche, the Paradise Possible magazine will offer a 10% discount on...

lllustrations by Francesca Ballarini

The only paradises not forbidden to man are those that are lost.

Jorge Luis Borges

A man sets the task of reshaping the world. Spending years populates a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, on islands, fish, houses, tools, of stars, horses and people. It turns out, that this patient labyrinth of lines, the track and profile picture of a paradise as possible. We love the philosophical conjecture where the world is an 'activity of the mind, a dream of the soul in the concreteness of human actions, out of everything that happens, ineffectively and without the respect of a social project as possible, by some actually in charge, as we see in history that we are experiencing now. The solution is declared the action of love, of joy and thanksgiving had received, is the work of gratitude and valedizioni, of amazement...

I assured myself that I would be professional. No, hold on, I am professional: I had the intention of simply being a chronicle. But with familiar things, which you care about, which you value, and which you strongly believe in, the chronicle really has little to do but observe. Let me be clear: I am not talking about a chronicle in terms of truth. Mainly because it is actually the truth that makes the professional. The point is that, some time ago the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata published an announcement inviting young people to put themselves forward for the position of graphic designer responsible for the 2012 opera season.



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Someone advised me once: “When you don’t know what to say, tell the truth.” The truth in this case, is that over the past few days I’ve had no desire to write. It’s not that I’ve been too busy celebrating Christmas or the New Year – when I celebrate, I always get the urge to write. No,in fact, my 14 year old dog suddenly began to age, and his elderliness stole not only my time and but also took the energy out of both of us. It might seem a...

Have you seen the Coca Cola advert which was broadcast recently? The one in black and white which fastidiously recounts the history of the drink? It begins with the pharmacist who invented it in 1886 and kept its recipe a secret, and ends with a 1950s Roman mother (followed by a Parisian mother and then others from all around the world) who decides to serve it with lunch. The underlying message of the campaign...

My first contact with Ireland came through the third person. When I was young, I would have been eight or nine, my mother travelled there with work and stayed for a whole month: I remember if felt like a never ending wait to me and that before she left, my older brother and I slipped a card into her suitcase in which we told her to be careful and to think of us. I also remember that I cried whilst we wrote it and a single tear...

In human language there is no proposition that doesn’t imply the entire universe.

J. L. Borges – The Aleph

You may have noticed that the first itineraries that we presented at the Paradise Party take their name from two words that begin with the letter A: Amore (Love) and Armonia (Harmony). Obviously,...

‘He who plants a garden will sow happiness’

Gardeners of the world must unite to change the appearance of our horizons of green and of the future.

The ‘green’ is our vital, green space, a part of our future and potential happiness.

We’ve met ‘guerrilla gardeners’; green activists who want to change the appearance of the city to contrast the urban decay, who shower seeds upon the flowerbeds and spaces spoilt by cans and flowerings of plastic. We know  ‘social gardeners’;...

There is a phrase of Emily Dickinson’s that I try to live by:

We used to think, Joseph, when I was an unsifted girl and you so scholarly that words were cheap & weak. Now I don’t know of anything so mighty. There are [those] to which I lift my hat when I see them sitting princelike among their peers on the page. Sometimes I write one, and look at his outlines till he glows as no sapphire.

‘Words matter’ (‘Le parole sono importanti’),...

I was thinking about a couple of things this morning which I wanted to explain to you. Below is my attempt to put them “in black in white” as clearly as possible.

Primary hypothesis. There is always a close correlation between human activity and the kind of test entitled "draw me a tree and I'll tell you who you are." These tests display a grain of logical reasoning. You probably wouldn’t expect the person who fails to wave in thanks after you let them pass at at a junction to let their fellow occupants...

For a while now, circling around in my head has been the most famous phrase from The Diary of a young girl, by Anne Frank, which bit by bit, our teacher read to us at primary school; the size of each day’s piece depending on the irregular flow of the author, so typical of a diary. During those days in May, silence surrounded her voice like a light mist, as we sprawled across our desks to listen:

È un gran miracolo che io non abbia rinunciato...

“How did you know you wanted to act?” Every time that I come across this predictable question, whilst browsing through an interview with such and such, I prepare myself to have a laugh about it. Having seen it so often I have created a sort of survey, divided into two large groups of clichés. There is the ‘despite themselves’ group of actors who were sought after personally by fortune, at the audition of a friend, whilst walking down the street, eating a hamburger, paying a bill, absent minded and beautiful, unaware of their enormous talent. And there is the ‘destined from birth’ group who as children were already reciting the bard with the skull in their hand or repeating the Christmas poem whilst stood on a chair, filling it with minute pauses just as Eleonora Duse would have done. There would be one of them whose passion developed gradually, in a logical manner, maybe following a process of elimination or perhaps because they had simply wanted to try something new, which then they discovered they really enjoyed....

There is a joke that every so often people tease me with, “You're so far ahead at Paradise Possible, that if you turn back you see the future! "

When I look back I see that 12 wonderful years have passed, travelling across a land of people so real, so 'indigenous' and it is this that has attracted every tourist and every visitor that Paradise Possible has accompanied throughout this time. With an average of 10 visitors a week (5 couples with families), 50 per month, 700 per year, 7000 in 10 years we have promoted a region previously unknown, encouraging people to visit Le Marche by advertising the region with promotions such as “paradise can be attained” and advertising initiatives in Europe and the USA, not only via the website www.paradisepossible.com, but also in the press and at international exhibitions.

After this analysis of numbers it’s essential to recognize that Paradise Possible has triggered a large effect from their communications network, in addition to always having...

If I had to think of a character that best represented the typical frequenter of the BIT (Borsa Internazionale del Turismo - International Tourism Exchange), which took place in Milan on 17th to 20th February, it would be that of a rather determined Pacman. One who frantically goes round all the stands of the various countries of the world gobbling up information, and filling its trolley with ideas of India, Singapore, Mexico, Montenegro and ... Le Marche and its new proposed way of travelling which involves the Five Senses Itineraries whereby the traveller can express himself through his five senses.

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if a road you took every day, for example the route to work or to your girlfriend’s house – could store all those thoughts you’d had during each journey? If it was possible, we would have at our disposition, a limitless reservoir of emotion, undoubtedly moving, a true Memory Lane. How many times do you go over thoughts in your head whilst you’re driving, worries...

 Arts, Literature and Cinema 

Golf, Marine Life and Relax in Le Marche

Il Casale di Giulia 
will be your paradise possible!

Il Casale di Giulia Relais  has an agreement with the Conero Golf Club of Sirolo whereby special reductions on green fees are offered to golf players.

 
Paradise Possible Le Marche & World Travel Market 2010

 

 

 

 

Il Seicento italiano a Caldarola

Paradise Possible, il Network che promuove Le Marche nel mondo, vi invita alla scoperta dell’arte pittorica del Seicento italiano.



Il Caravaggio, Mattia Preti, Guido Reni e il Guercino, i più importanti artisti del Seicento,  con le tele esposte, commissionate dal Cardinale Pallotta, si avvicineranno  a tutti coloro che potranno visitare la Mostra “Le stanze del Cardinale” a Caldarola sino al 12 Novembre 2009.

 “…Il Cardinale Pallotta avvicinò i più qualificati pittori emiliani del Seicento ed in particolare amò le opere di Guercino e di Guido Reni, ma anche quelle dei comprimari della prestigiosa scuola felsinea,  rappresentata dai dipinti di soggetto sacro e mitologico di Annibale Carracci, Cantarini, Elisabetta Sirani, Tiarini.

E’  stato possibile restaurare la grande tela del Guercino raffigurante la Cacciata dei mercanti dal tempio di Palazzo Rosso nella quale il pittore, pone al centro della scena lo scudiscio con cui Cristo si avventa sui profanatori, emblema araldico della casata Pallotta.

Nella collezione del cardinale non mancavano dipinti di soggetto letterario ispirati alla Gerusalemme Liberata i cui protagonisti compaiono in varie tele commissionate dal prelato: è il caso della Liberazione di Olindo e Sofronia  dipinta da Mattia Preti, opera nella quale il sensuale nudo femminile esplicita l¹ apprezzamento per temi che, senza forzature iconografiche, consentissero di soddisfare l¹ edonismo del committente.

Il Caravaggio ammirato dal Pallotta per l’ esecuzione della Madonna dei palafrenieri per la Basilica di San Pietro spiega la presenza di due tele del Merisi raffiguranti la Maddalena e San Francesco, motivando così la scelta di richiedere i dipinti caravaggeschi della collezione Doria Pamphilj e di Cremona per mostrare, sia pure attraverso opere affini a quelle descritte nella sua raccolta, l¹interesse del Pallotta per la pittura naturalista.”



www.lestanzedelcardinale.it
Caldarola
“Le stanze del Cardinale”
Caravaggio, Guido Reni , Guercino, Mattia Preti
Palazzo dei Cardinali Pallotta , 23 maggio – 12 Novembre 2009

 

  

 

 Eremo dei Frati Bianchi
Storia dell’Eremo delle Grotte
L’eremo delle Grotte è situato nella “vallata del Corvo”, all’interno di uno splendido bosco secolare dichiarato Area Floristica Protetta. La tradizione agiografica sostiene che l’eremo sia stato fondato da S. Romualdo intorno all’anno 1000, ma la prima testimonianza scritta circa l’esistenza di una grotta scavata in questo sito si ha solo a partire dal 1294, con l’abitazione della stessa da parte dell’eremita Giovanni Maris prima e Matteo Sabbatini fino al 1320.
Le Grotte tornano ad essere occupate dal 1420 al 1466 dai Fraticelli dell’Opinione che quì si rifugiarono poichè perseguitati dalla Chiesa come eretici.
Dal 1509 al 1522 l’eremo è stato abitato dal monaco camaldolese Antonio da Recanati, il quale scavò la prima chiesa nella parete tufacea. Nel 1524 si ha la prima vera e propria fase costruttiva dell’eremo, quando il camaldolese Paolo Giustiniani fonda in questo sito un vero e proprio eremo su modello coronese e realizza 3 corpi di fabbrica in muratura a ridosso della parete tufacea, il muro di cinta e il portale d’ingresso. Questi 3 corpi di fabbrica erano collegati fra loro e formavano un trapezio aperto nel lato sud.
Al 1586 risale, invece, la costruzione di una “corona di 5 laure” (gruppo di celle formate da piccole casette ognuna separata dalle altre, dotate di un orto ciascuna e di recinto ma con una chiesa in comune). In occasione della costruzione delle laure, 2 dei corpi di fabbrica costruiti nel 1524, furono probabilmente ristrutturati. Risalente a questo periodo e allineata alle 5 laure doveva essere presente una foresteria, che sarà poi inglobata nelle strutture della fase successiva. Probabilmente anche il campanile risale a questa fase costruttiva. Nel 1660 viene decretato l’abbattimento delle piante secolari, che crescevano al di sopra della parete tufacea: le celle erano divenute pericolanti a causa dell’escavazione delle grotte.
Nel 1783 il priore delle Grotte, don Apollonio Tucchi, appassionato ed esperto d’architettura, decise la ristrutturazione e l’ampliamento dell’eremo con interventi da lui stesso progettati: 2 delle laure vengono abbattute e viene costruito l’ultimo corpo di fabbrica che chiude il quarto lato del trapezio formato dagli altri 3 corpi di fabbrica, parallelo al “fosso del Corvo”, il quale va ad inglobare la foresteria. In questa fase è stato anche ristretto il cortile interno e ristrutturate e ampliate la cappella di S. Romualdo e la chiesa di S. Giuseppe.

 

Nel maggio 1810 un decreto napoleonico soppresse tutte le collegiate, le abbazie, le confraternite, i monasteri e gli eremi che contenevano meno di ventiquattro religiosi: toccò, quindi, anche all’eremo delle Grotte chiudere i battenti. Nel 1820 i religiosi furono autorizzati a rioccupare gli abbandonati eremi e monasteri; l’eremo delle Grotte fu rioccupato solo a partire dal 1822. Al 1826 risale invece la decorazione degli ambienti: sala capitolare, biblioteca, cappella di S. Romualdo e chiesa di S. Giuseppe. Nel 1861 con l’unità d’Italia l’eremo cambiò nome da eremo delle Grotte del Massaccio ad eremo delle Grotte di Cupramontana; nel 1866 fu prevista la requisizione degli edifici monastici maschili entro il primo gennaio 1867. Nel maggio 1874 gli eremiti tornarono ad abitare l’eremo: il complesso eremitico, infatti, fu acquistato dal principe romano Scipione Borghese Salviati che lo donò alla Congregazione eremitica proprietaria prima che il Governo la espropriasse.
Nel 1925 gli eremiti coronesi chiusero l’eremo delle Grotte che fu affidato in custodia al Parroco di S. Lorenzo di Cupramontana. La Storia dell' Eremo delle Grotte
Il bosco dei Frati Bianchi
La ristrutturazione dell' Eremo dei Frati Bianchi