A short hand delivery.
The mayor of Scicli Mario Marino received from Antonio Neri two monographs that the Neri di Lonigiano Foundation has edited on public and historical lighting in Italian cities of art.
In fact, lighting artifacts represent a heritage in Italian and Sicilian urban landscapes.
From this awareness, in Lonigiano, near Cesena, the Italian Museum of Cast Iron “Neri Foundation”, which has published books in which, thanks to an important photographic research, the urban landscape of many cities, including Scicli, has been reconstructed.
Antonio Neri, owner of the Neri Spa company, which has been producing street lamps for public lighting since the 1960s and exports them all over the world, has donated to the mayor Marino the books in which there is also the story of the urban landscape of Scicli. With him his wife Raffaella, director of the Museum.
The repertoire of public lighting artifacts produced in Sicily, for the benefit of the cities and small towns that make up the urban fabric of the entire island, is very rich and articulated. In addition to the quantity, it is surprising that an industry at the beginning, such as the foundry one in the mid-19th century, has expressed itself with a production designed for the local market, such that it can be defined as unique. This does not mean that a substantial number of elements were nevertheless imported from other regions of Italy.
The rich iconographic material, the core of the research, was collected directly in the field, scanning the historical centers to identify the artifacts that bear the signs of history, also effectively reflected on the historical postcards that take us back, in a different atmosphere, to the same places and to the artifacts themselves.
