MAY OF MONUMENTS

The "May of Monuments" event, promoted and organized every year by the municipality of Naples in collaboration with numerous public and private bodies, and it is the most important touristy an cultural event in the South.

His purpose is to exploit and made enjoyable the great artistic, architectonic and monumental patrimony of the town, whose millenary history has been marked by many dominations that helped the creation of a variety of stratification of style unique in the world, and very appreciated by thousand of foreign and Italian visitors.

The Kermesse calendar is rich in initiatives, most of them are free. The six week-ends of 2005 edition have registered, anyway, the development of 656 guided sight seeing, 233 rendezvous of art and culture in the Neapolitan province municipalities, 140 theatre shows, 135 dates for the 2the school adopt a monument" project, 119 musical plays, 91 artistic exhibitions, 27 dance shows, 24 expositions of wine and gastronomical products, 46 cultural meeting, 41 sport initiatives and 24 literary meetings.

The pulsing heart of the happening his the Historical Centre of Naples, that for his many churches, monumental sites, the ancient and characteristics handicraft shop and wonderful buildings of every time, has been inserted by Unesco in the World Patrimony of Mankind.

The XII edition of "May of Monuments", previewed from the 28th April 2006, has a main theme: "The signs of dreams". The main purpose is to underline the "signs2 which have been impressed in the Town and during the course of his History: the reopening and the exploitation of a great number of historical, archaeological and monumental sites, has helped to fill the distance from that Naples has imaged and the "signs" realized by a possible Utopia. Therefore, all that many times ago was only a dream, has begun real through strong signals.

The theme has also other purposes: to continue to image project, to give the Town new cultural opportunities; to work in fairies, with the aim to recover concretely other historic, archaeological sites, monuments and churches destined to our times.