{"id":9662,"date":"2017-05-30T09:33:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/?p=9662"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:33:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:33:50","slug":"by-the-ministry-recognition-historic-carnival-carnivaloa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/9662\/news\/dal-ministero-riconoscimento-carnevale-storico-carnevaloa\/","title":{"rendered":"{:en}FROM MINISTRY RECOGNITION OF \u201cHISTORIC CARNIVAL\u201d FOR CARNIVALA{:}"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{:en}<strong>PRESS RELEASE (5\/29\/2017)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Carneval\u00f6a<\/strong> has been recognized by the <strong>Ministry of Heritage and Culture<\/strong> as \u201c<strong>historical carnival<\/strong>\u201d which plays a role in promoting tourism in the area. And for this reason, the Municipality of Loano, by participating in the Ministry of Cultural Heritage's call for proposals, obtained a grant of <strong>20 thousand euros<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the list of \u201chistoric carnivals\u201d compiled by the Ministry, Carnevalo\u00e0 appears alongside such prestigious carnivals as those of Viareggio, Venice, Putigliano, Ivrea, Cento, Fano and Sanremo, the only Ligurian municipality on the list along with Loano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry's recognition,\" say the Mayor. <strong>Luigi Pignocca<\/strong> and Councillor <strong>Remo Zaccaria<\/strong> - crowns the efforts of the Old Loano Association, which has been coordinating, organizing and keeping alive the ancient carnival tradition for 25 years. Throughout the years, the City of Loano has stood by the association, supporting its activities. Unfortunately, in 2010 a fire destroyed part of the floats. This incident, however, did not extinguish the enthusiasm and drive. The City of Loano committed itself to the construction of a new shed, and in 2015 with the inauguration of the structure, work on the construction of the floats by the Old Loano Association resumed. Thanks to the construction of 11 new floats in 2016, Carneval\u00f6a has once again become one of Liguria's signature events. And now this recognition enshrines the historical, cultural and touristic value of this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Loano carnival has more than 100 years of history, and over time several associations have taken turns carrying on this tradition: the \u201cLoano Sports Union,\u201d the \u201cRed Circle,\u201d the \u201cFetaia,\u201d the \u201cEdelweiss,\u201d the \u201cOriental Bluman Carovan\u201d group, the \u201cPu\u00e8 Pepin\u201d Association , the \u2019Azienda Autonoma di Turismo e Soggiorno\u201d and from the <strong>1992<\/strong> touch <strong>to the Association of \u201cOld Loano\u201d <\/strong>with the support of the\u2019<strong>Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the past 25 years, the Loano carnival has come to be recognized by the region as the <strong>\u201cbiggest carnival in Liguria\u201d<\/strong> as the number of floats, and for the past few years has included an Italian commedia dell'arte mask, <strong>Captain Fracassa<\/strong> which together with <strong>Pu\u00e8 Pepin<\/strong>, King of the Loano Carnival since 1950 and <strong>U Beciancin<\/strong>, a goliardic character from the early 1900s and official mask, make up a carnival trio now known throughout Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Loano, along with Parma, Turin, Vercelli, Castelnuovo Don Bosco (Asti), Busca (Cuneo), Verona, Aosta, Acerra (Naples), Catanzaro, Polignano a Mare (Bari), Sciacca (Agrigento) is a co-founder of the <strong>\u201cNational Coordination Center of Italian Masks.\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The long-standing passion of the Old Loano Association for the historical and cultural value of the mask tradition, in agreement with other national associations, helped promote and establish the <strong>first \u201cItalian mask registry\u201d <\/strong>where all the Italian commedia dell'arte masks and folkloric characters from various regional realities are recorded.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the initiative is to enhance the carnival not only as an occasion for fun but also <strong>as a historical, traditional, cultural and tourist resource.<\/strong>{:}<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{:en} PRESS RELEASE (5\/29\/2017) The Carneval\u00f6a has been recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Territory as a \u201chistorical carnival\u201d that plays a role in promoting tourism in the...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitloano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}