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WITH THE FREE PATRONAGE OF
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CARNEVALE DI PUTIGNANO
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CHURCH OF SAN PIETRO APOSTOLO

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Putignano a history you don't expect

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Associazione Putignanese Turistica

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The widespread museum of the Putignano Carnival: "the lost masks"

The International Center for Research and Studies on Carnival, Mask and Satire, in collaboration with the Coworking Porta Barsento, other associations of Putignano and private citizens and with the free patronage of the Carnival Foundation, organizes an exhibition of documents, papier-mâché artefacts, photos and videos period on the Putignano Carnival in some rooms of the historic center, mostly overlooking Corso Garibaldi, Corso Vittorio Emanuele and via Porta Barsento. The purpose of the initiative is not only to discover the origins, symbols and meanings of the festival and the most characteristic corners of the historic center, but above all to create, through a concrete example of seasonal adjustment of the event, the foundations of a widespread and Permanent Carnival of Putignano.
 
The payment of an entrance ticket will allow visitors to walk through all the "stages" of an unprecedented, fascinating journey through memory and time, to discover the most important protagonists and the most ancient and traditional aspects of an event that represents a great intangible cultural asset and an important tourist resource not only for Putignano, but for the entire region. There will also be the setting up of a papier-mâché laboratory and the organization of guided tours for schools of all levels.

 

During this period the activities are suspended

the steps of the route:

Tappa 1 | Via Porta Barsento
Carnevale d’antan
pictures collection of the editions of the allegorical floats in competition from the years 1960 to 1980)

Tappa 2 | Via Bruni
Coriandoli Shop

Tappa 3 | Via San Giacomo
Alle radici della festa
the cellar of Propagginanti;

Tappa 4 | Corso Garibaldi
from Fascism to the fifties, and traditions
Carnival in the fascist period. The manipulation of traditions to achieve hegemony of thought

The last small shop that produces confetti in an artisanal way

The confetti, the emblem of the celebrations during the Carnival period, were and are thrown in the air or on people to animate the parades of allegorical floats.
 
 
The History of Confetti
The history of confetti has ancient roots, these have been over the centuries, the natural substitute for throwing confetti in some events; Among other things, in some languages, including English, French and Spanish, the word "confetti" refers to confetti. This small linguistic confusion began in the fourteenth century when the confetti themselves were also called confetti "cuopronsi sugar confetti for confetti", because they used the seeds of the coriander plant instead of almonds in small sweets covered with sugar.
Later, for the animation of weddings, carnivals or New Year's events, colored paper "balls" were used as substitutes for sugared almonds. Only in 1875 were paper circles adopted, thanks to the creativity of the engineer Enrico Mangili of Crescenzago (Mi), who began to market paper circles resulting from sericulture or the breeding of silkworms as confetti. In contrast to the paternity of the invention of confetti was the engineer Ettore Fenderl who asserted that to celebrate the Carnival of 1876 in Trieste he cut out triangles of colored paper, throwing them during the celebrations from his home in Piazza della Borsa. As evidence of this, there is an interview with him in 1957 on the radio on the RAI channel.
 
 
The Confetti in Putignano
The first confetti manufacturer on Putignano was Giuseppe called Peppin Recchtidd with his small factory in a low part of the ancient village near the fountain in the square of the Church of Santa Maria La Greca. He produced colored confetti which he then resold, packed in paper bags, on the stalls he set up during the fashion shows. We are in the period from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. His production, among the few in southern Italy, also served extra-regional markets.
 
 
The last of the producers
From the years following 1990 the production and the mechanical machines themselves passed into the hands of Vincenzo Lombardi, today the last manufacturer of confetti. In his Juso (low) in via Bruni, he continues to fill bags of "Gioia Carnascialesca" which, children and not, throw allegorical floats during the parades and why not during any event for which it is necessary to party. A room of 20 square meters or so, covered with colored newspapers and photos of procacious women to envy the latest Pirelli calendar, which hides in the back, a machine with alternating movements ready to gobble up pages and pages of magazines, flyers, stories of love, news, special offers and promotions to then return, once digested, the small discs.
 
Vincenzo called Cenzino, born in 1948, in his youth worked in the footwear sector in one of the most important companies in Putignano. Following the handicraft crisis, this company closed its doors and Vincenzo started his own cobbler business. As time went by, requests for repairs dwindled and he was forced to compensate for that loss by reinventing himself as a confetti maker. He bought the machine from Recchtidd that he still uses today and began production, becoming a point of reference also for the neighboring Carnivals, namely Rutigliano, Monopoli, Massafra.

lavoro di gruppoThis website project born from the idea of Gianni Musaio is enclosed in a team spirit and is the result of the collaboration of people, ordinary citizens, who care about the historical, cultural, artistic, geographical, food and wine heritage of the historic center of Putignano, a town in to live.

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The historic center of a town is the fulcrum of the territory, where ancient stories, traditions and culture of those who preceded us are preserved. You too can contribute to leaving the testimonies of the past to the generations to come, taking care of them.

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