During the Christmas season, volunteers from the Lodanum Marinara Association will offer residents and tourists the opportunity to participate in a series of guided tours of the city's historical, architectural and cultural heritage.
Beginning with the Sea Museum in Kursaal Palace, which until January will hold special openings and special “tours” with escorts.
The museum preserves and exhibits objects and documentation on the navy of Loano and the western Savona area. The Association has collected an abundance of cultural-historical material such as books, documents, photographs, and models that testify to the area's seafaring past. It is a historical-documentary retrospective of the maritime and tourist Loano through pictures, drawings, documents, and objects. The exhibition brings together original period photographs, scale reproduced ship models, and maritime paraphernalia and equipment. The exhibition offers images from the early twentieth century depicting fishing activity, shipbuilding activity and the beginnings of seaside activities. Photography then helps to reconstruct the transformations of the economy, landscape, environment and society throughout the twentieth century up to the 1950s. A wealth of documentation testifies to mercantile development, the boost in maritime traffic and shipbuilding in the 1800s. The exhibition also features pictures of Lovran divers who participated in internationally renowned missions such as the salvage of the Scirè off Haifa. In the collection of objects of interest, numerous artifacts made by Lovran sailors while embarking on merchant ships and shipyard equipment, sailmaker's outfits, and a rich collection of telecommunications materials should be noted.
The Maritime Museum will be open Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 4 from 3 to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 5 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. And again on Tuesday, Dec. 7 from 3 to 6 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 8 from 9:30 a.m. to noon; Friday, Dec. 10 and Saturday, Dec. 11 from 3 to 6 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 12 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The Museum Complex will still be open Friday, Dec. 17 and Saturday, Dec. 18 from 3 to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 19 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, volunteers will open the Museum again from 3 to 6 p.m. From Dec. 27 to 30, the Museum will be open daily from 3 to 6 p.m. Finally, from Jan. 2 to Jan. 9, 20222, the Museum will be open daily from 3 to 6 p.m.
In addition to tours inside the Kursaal Palace Museum Complex, Lodanum also organizes guided tours of the Loano monumental and religious monuments in the city. A welcome opportunity to get to know the city from a new and different perspective and, most importantly, discover the many treasures that surround us.
For information you can contact Riccardo Ferrari at 349.1038384 or Teo Chirico at 393.2397910 or the Iat Office run by Pro Loco Loano at 019/7704832 or 328/8960085.
