An open-air museum village: Castagno di Piteccio (Pistoia)

Hello hivers, an happy Sunday to you all!

Today I'm here to show you a wonderful tiny village close to the village where I was born. Me and my hubby @paolobeneforti went there yesterday to breath cooler air for a couple of hours in the late afternoon.
I know this place very well, because I love to go there during the summer and it reminds me my childhood too.
The name of the village is Castagno di Piteccio (just to know, "castagno" in italian language means "chestnut tree" and the name came from the many chestnut trees around the houses) and is known in our area because is a tiny open-air museum with around 60 contemporary artworks place on the walls and in almost every corner!
It's a very ancient village founded around in the 1600,located 500 meters above the sea level and at just 12 km from the city where I live (Pistoia, Italy).
Even if in the winter just few people lives there, during the Summer families spent there weeks in the houses of their grand parents to spend their holidays. In the 1975 an art critic (Tommaso Paloscia" who uses to spend their the hoildays, thought it could be a nice place for art exhibitions and, along the time, the village became an open air musem with frescoes, sculptures, street art and others that are still an integral part of the alleys and the houses. A very interesting collection of art by local and international artists thanks some Artist residency programs from time to time.
To go there is always a surprise, because this open air museum village is a continuous work in progress!

Years ago I shared with you some pics of this village, but now it's time to do it again thanks the new pics I took yesterday, starting from a murales I love, painted just few years ago:

Another corner I love so much it's one of the older one. On the wall of an house there are 2 false windows where the sculptor Giuseppe Gavazzi placed some of his human figures, When I was a child it was funny for me to raise my head and to see that figures that seems to observe who are walking along that alley.

When you visit this place, you have to watch all around at the best, because there are artwork everywhere. For example, under this stone arch there are a couple of painting (protected by a glass):

One of the painting is a piece by the italian artist Antonio Bueno:

Walking to go to the train station (a little, beautiful train station) you can see a littl church and, in a corner in front of it there is another bronze sculpture:

A detail:

Between the church and the train station there are some chestnut trees (very old trees) and artists thought to add some installations there:

Well, now I have to come back to my brushes and colors.

See ya soon and stay safe,
Silvia

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