Spoleto Jazz Season is coming – La Stampa

There is not only Umbria Jazz: this region organizes important musical events also between October and November with Spoleto Jazz Season. On Friday 8 October, at the Teatro Nuovo, Enrico Pieranunzi will present Unlimited, a concert that is a compendium of his multifaceted career. On Friday 22 October, at the Caio Melisso Theater, Michel Reis (on the piano), Marc Demuth (on the bass) and Paul Wiltgen (on the drums) will perform, demonstrating that even Luxembourgers know how to play jazz. And on Friday 12 November, again at the Caio Melisso Theater, the duo BartolomeyBittmann will be staged, with a jazz hybridized with rock, folk and classical music.

Of course Spoleto Jazz Season, although important, is not the key cultural event that this city offers: the apex is represented by the Festival dei Due Mondi, which takes place in the square in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, but also in other places. , like the Roman Amphitheater.

Walking one of these evenings through the streets of Spoleto we noticed some architectural bizarre. The splendid Fountain in Piazza del Mercato is leaning against a house, and what you see on the sides of the photo, below, are the windows of two apartments; to live there you must truly love the sound of water, since you listen to it continuously, for 24 hours a day, and for every year that God sends to earth.

Another oddity: a street that branches off from Piazza del Mercato occupies the space of the central nave of an ancient church demolished centuries ago; and on the sides of this street you can still see the old arches, as you can see in the photograph. The shops that overlook the street are still active but have a truly medieval aspect: they could host some merchants or craftsmen from Dante’s time.

Finally, the Arch of Drusus and Germanicus, built in the first century after Christ at the entrance to the small Spoleto of the time, seemed simple but beautiful: it seems rather low, but the appearance is deceiving: the misunderstanding depends on the fact that the road is it has been raised a lot, and if you look down from the right side you can see a kind of gully that separates it from the nearby church of Sant’Ansano.

In Umbria we stayed in Scheggino, in the Torre del Nera widespread hotel, and only at the end, out of time, did we come up with an intriguing initiative: from Scheggino to Spoleto it is only 22 kilometers, which could be covered instead of by car. by bike; certainly the route is challenging, like the Umbrian orography (in other words: one climb after another) but with a nice pedal assisted bike you can do it… Have you ever tried one? It’s not like riding a moped, it takes a bit of effort, but when you really need help, help arrives. Here, the Torre del Nera hotel has (in fact) a range of bicycles of this type. Temptation for the next time.