Living Nativity on places Chia Pasolini (SORIANO NEL CIMINO) - from December 26 to January 6 NATIVITY 26, December 27, 2009 1, 3, 6 January 2010 - Starting from 17.00 up to 20.00 (Approximately). During the Christmas holidays the small medieval village of Chia is engaged in a deeply evocative representation of the Nativity. In the San Juvenal, an area of \u200b\u200bgreat archaeological interest, including the ruins of the medieval church of the same name, among the caves and tombs, along a country setting, almost all the inhabitants of the country to create a surreal play, recreating the ancient craft shops , taverns and many stages in which the visitor can enjoy the atmosphere at that time lived. Edited by the Committee celebrations S. Juvenal.
The foundation of the nativity scene dates back to 1996 when he was parish priest, Father Giuseppe Serrone, one of the designers of the initiative, committed to the promotion of the territory through the publication of two books on the historical parish of Chia published by Libreria Editrice Vaticana.
1) Juvenal and the castle of San Chia, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City, 1997, € 15,49 (+ € 6 postage and handling priority mail) book card
2) The Santarello the Fornacchia and Saint Lucia, fractions of Mary. Route religious art history, including Soriano and Vitorchiano Orte Bagnoreggio , Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City, 1999, p. 190, € 7.75 (+ € 6 postage and handling priority mail) . book card
Don Giuseppe Serrone and 'was also one of the promoters of the enhancement of the presence Pier Paolo Pasolini in Chia.
The refuge is the tower where the director, in the peace of the countryside around Viterbo, took refuge in the last years of his life to write and reflect. Not far from here in 1964 also turned a few scenes of the Gospel according to Matthew, one of his most complex and controversial film in which he managed to fully grasp the mystery of the sacred. There are many curiosities, natural and cultural itineraries in a land where the Etruscan civilization.
Scataglini Marco writes about "the Republic trip" 'On several doors off their hinges, on the bricks, wood shaped by time, the gentle hand of an inhabitant of the village has written, with spelling and regular leave without signing, poetry, lyrics, phrases in freedom. Wandering in this quiet Parnassus, where even the walls can be immediately read, you'll end up necessarily at the top of the hill, the ruins of the Castle in the face with a wide view, and you will realize that Chia is built right into the classic "location etruscan, on top of a plateau surrounded by deep and wild gorges, from which rises the sound of the streams in the Middle Ages moved the millstones, evidence of which still remain. It is a world wet and foggy, romantic, where reality gives way easily to the imagination. So the stream that passes under Chia to scroll what remains of the Castle Hill Cottage - only high tower - can be transformed in the Jordan River where Jesus was baptized. How? With the film version that made Pasolini's Gospel according to Matthew, from which he obtained while one of his greatest masterpieces, but also the most controversial film of his career and challenged. "The film I shot, and with Christ! / I found Christ, I represented!" he later wrote, but in reality it was not easy finding funding, and the actors, especially the location. "In early spring 1964 The Gospel came into production. The first shots turn were those of Jesus' baptism - and the Jordan was' found 'between Orte and Viterbo in a slot cut by a stream in the midst of rugged cliffs and wild, "says the writer Enzo Siciliano, a close friend of Pasolini, who plays the role of Simon, in his Life of Pasolini (Giunti, Florence 1995). It continues: "At that Pier Paolo discovered in the Tower of Chia literally fell in love and decided to buy it, but after he managed to buy some years. It was then, and still is, a place so rich in history and charm that the director could not be attracted, perhaps driven by the desire for a different, more relaxed, "Well I will trust you, before I let you, / I would like to be a writer of music / live instruments / Viterbo in the tower that I can not buy / most beautiful scenery in the world, where Ariosto / would go mad with joy at being recreated so / Innocence oak , hills, ditches and water, / and there compose music / the only action expressive / maybe high, and indefinable as the actions of the reality, "he wrote in 1966. Only in November 1970, the dream could come true: Pasolini built then, the foot of the tower, a small house with big windows, a bright studio and a kitchen. Over the past three years of his life lived full time in Chia, working on a novel, Oil (Einaudi), remained unfinished. In the midst of a gloomy autumn and sad, in fact, after returning from a trip to Paris, he sat down again at the helm of the beloved Alfa Romeo GT, to dart towards Rome, the city that more than anything else has been able to tell with raw depth (think Ragazzi di vita, his first novel, published in 1955). The friends who met him said he was very melancholy and pensive mood. Corriere della Sera on November 2, 1975, what had been a life of creativity, passion, love of literature and film, became a hit in a dramatic news story: "Pier Paolo Pasolini was killed. E ' happened last night in Ostia, two hundred meters from the sea. The crime scene is a desert dirt is on these terms of squalid shacks, most of the barracks ...". Thirty years have passed since that day: this is the best opportunity to return to "places of Pasolini" in search of beauty that both hit and where you can still feel his presence, if not, at least the echo of his extraordinary personality. "
In the life of every artist there is a place for the soul, a tangible geographic center where inspiration flows freely, opening the road to creativity. For Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, director, poet - this place has been called, a small cluster of houses so that to find him on a road map requires a magnifying glass, if then you really able to find it, because it is not easy: you have to look in the province of Viterbo, where they already accept this to Umbria, and follow State Road 675, which ideally should be from Orte to Vitorchiano.
"Chia, Pasolini has left a great memory. Often went into people's homes, they had with them was friendly and helpful. He did much for the country, created a football team for young people, he instituted a prize for those who graced ...». To tell the writer-director in his daily aspects, sometimes very small, but for this more true is Giuseppe Serrone.
He has never met Pasolini in person, but his passion for this place, which seems to attract people outside the box, unites them beyond time and space: "When I came to know very little Chia Pier Paolo ... In fact I discovered it thanks to the stories of the people, who portrays a gentle and affable personality, which immediately intrigued me. "
Joseph was pastor of Chia from 1991 to 2001 and is a priest with clear ideas, able to make tough choices like that, three years ago to start a family, to marry and change their lives. "It was not easy, and just to help the priests like me who have decided to break the imposition of celibacy, I founded the Association of Priests Workers Married ...", he says. The national headquarters? Obviously, it's a Chia. Serrone Joseph wrote among other things (on the Viale della Torre Chia ...) a text of homage on the anniversary of the death of Pasolini
Another memory of Giuseppe Pasolini Serrone
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The anniversary of Pasolini's passed almost unnoticed.
I was for years pastor of Chia, a place where she resided the last period Pasolini of his life in the Castle Hill Country House in Chia.
wanted to mark the anniversary and a tribute to my text which I transcribe Pasolini:
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A road: the roots that had no trees are the real streets of the woods. The moon gave way to a star and the wind, breathing in the leaves caressed her and formed a triangle without a base open to the infinite and the moon accompanies you. Rocks and stones: the time ruin things and the sound of water brings the melody of things and the passage of one man, almost the way of roots.
Pier Paolo as the whiteness of a leaf your pen and write your eye imagines scenes of past stories, including branches and dead branches, including ferns and oak trees, the cracks in the walls, the holes of a rock drill restless hours prohibited!
What is good or bad? Perhaps the way a poet or a artist or a director is lost between dreams and prophets of a touch of blue!
t'accompagna the moon, Pier Paolo, and how to get the light from the star stories ever written or unspoken phrases enclosed in a needle and the arrow speed, the hand of a king, betrayed and reborn. "
(written on the Avenue of the Tower of Chia, the last residence of Pasolini).
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Giuseppe Serrone
