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5 LA RUSSIA È PIù VICINA diMicheleFortunato

11 GERmANwINGS INVESTE SULLA PUGLIA diMicheleFortunato

12 AUbE EN ChAmPAGNE A DUE PASSI DA PARIGI L’ANGOLO PIù fRIzzANTE D’EUROPA diRosangelaPappalepore

16 PETRUzzELLI, IL TEATRO DELLE STELLE diFrancescoMonteleone

21 PUGLIA, ADRIATICO E bALCANI, INCONTRI RAVVICINATI diNinoLavermicocca

25 NIS OSPITA IL COmITATO ESECUTIVO DEL PROGETTO AIR.NET

27 TARANTO, LA SUA STORIA E IL mARE, UN RAPPORTO SPECIALE diAngelaAltomare 31 APULIA SLOw COAST 784 km DI RACCONTI DI COSTA. IN PEDALò diAlessandraNenna

34 TRANSILVANIA: NON SOLO DRACULA diGiusyPetruzzelli

38 PUGLIA: “mERCATO” DI UN fUTURO SUCCESSO diAlessandraNenna

40 hOmE, my PLACE IN ThE wORLD diStefaniaDiMitrio

42 L’OASI LAGO SALSO, UN LUOGO UNICO diEspeditoAlfaranoeVincenzoRizzi 43 mARIONETTE DAGLI OCChI DI CRISTALLO diPaoloComentale

47 PATRONI DI PUGLIA: LA PUGLIA COmE NON L’hAI mAI VISTA diGaetanoArmenio

51 ITINERARI DI fEDE, ARTE E CULTURA IN AEREO DA bARI E bRINDISI diPinoRibezzi

52 ANDy wARhOL E LA SUA “POLVERE DI STELLE” diStefaniaDiMitrio 56 CRESCE E mIGLIORA L’ACCOGLIENzA TURISTICA IN PUGLIA 58 IL LIbRO È UN TAPPETO VOLANTE diRosangelaPappalepore

61 ENGLISh SUmmARy byGinoLorenzelli

Periodico di attualità, economia, opinione e cultura edito da Aeroporti di Puglia SpAAnno X / n.57 / giugno 2013

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Germanwings investing in PugliaGermanwings strongly believes in the “Apulian system” and launches the new direct connection brindisi-Stuttgart in addition to the already successful bari-Cologne/bonn and bari-Stuttgart. The brand new Salento Airport flight to the capital of baden-württemberg will be operated weekly with a modern Airbus A319, which confirms the air carrier policy of an all-new fleet, making Puglia one of the most important hubs in Italy.According the Giuseppe Acierno, Aeroporti di Puglia Ceo, “this new connection from the heart of Salen-to makes brindisi a major European player in the fierce competition that is ahead of all of us here in Puglia. Tou-rism is a vocation - Acierno declared - we cannot do without, it brings visi-bility and confirms the lively economy of our Region”.

Russia is closer than evermistral Air, the Italian Poste Italiane owned air carrier, is serving bari with a new flight to moscow. from last may to next October, every monday a direct connection to the moscow-Domodedovo airport will bring new opportunities to Apulians and Rus-sians to increase already existing part-nerships, while improving tourism on both sides, log on to www.mistralair.it for more information and detailed schedules.

ApulianWings HeadOver HeelsAn English Summaryof this issue’s main articlesby Gino Lorenzelli

Aube en Champagneby Rosangela PappaleporeA magical tour to one of the best french destinations and, why not, a sip of champagne… Starting at Troyes, the capital of Aube en Champagne, visitors have an irresi-stible aura thanks mainly to its beau-tiful town houses. Restored wells, win-ding cobbled streets lined with timber frame dwellings, finely decorated wooden doors, museums with their rich local and original heritage, restau-rants that celebrate unrivalled local gastronomy, just about everything is charming here. Lovers of authenticity and fine bubbles will appreciate Aube and its Champagne Route with its land devoted to wine-growing and its picturesque villages and remarkable vineyards, vaulted cellars and typical ‘cadoles’, or vineyard huts. Cham-pagne lovers will be initiated to the secrets of the wine of kings and taste a remarkable vintage. Situated on the borders of Champa-gne and burgundy, Cote des bar is the main region in Aube that pro-duces the king of wines. with “Cote des blancs”, “montagne de Reims” and “Vallée de la marne”, “Cote des bar” is one of the large blocks of land that structure the Champagne vineyards. Classified with a controlled label of origin since 1927, Aube has more than 7,650 hectares of vineyard. (The Champagne label covers 34,000 hectares in all). Covering 22% of the Champagne vineyards, the Depart-ment of Aube produced almost a quarter of the 321 million bottles sold throughout the world in 2006. The 63 communes included in the label are concentrated along the Cote des bar between bar sur Seine and bar sur Aube. while there, the montgueux vineyards overlooking Troyes should not be forgotten, neither should those of Villenauxe in the north-west of the Department. The original feature of these two communes lies in the va-

riety of grapes grown, with a majority of Chardonnay, meaning they are the equivalent of Cote des blancs.

The Petruzzelli Theatreby Francesco MonteleoneThe Petruzzelli іs the largest thea-tre оf the city оf Bari аnd the fourth Italian theatre by size. The history оf the Petruzzelli begins when Onofrio аnd Antonio Petruzzelli, traders аnd ship builders presented the design оf the theatre in 1896 and finished their work in 1903 with a beautiful building. The theatre was inaugurated in 1903 wіth the masterpiece оf Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots. Next tо the opera sce-ne, musical ballet, big concerts were hosted through the last century. Great international artists hаve walked the stage оf the Petruzzelli: Tito Schipa, herbert von karajan, Rudolf Nureyev, frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Liza min-nelli, Juliette Gréco, and the great Italian playwright, actor and director Eduardo De filippo, not to forget Riccardo muti, Carla fracci, Luciano Pavarotti, and countless others.The Petruzzelli is a key part of the artistic, social and cultural history of the city of bari, and will always be despite its ups and downs. In October 1991, after the last performance of Vincenzo bellini’s “Norma”, the buil-ding was destroyed by a horrendous arson. wholesale reconstruction, in compliance with government principle of “where it was, how it was”, only began in 2006 and was completed in 2008. Recreating the original character of the theatre, in line with the clear brief established by the ministry for Cultural heritage, involved both the redevelopment of what survived and the reproduction, with the addition of the necessary technological inno-vations, of what had been destroyed. Nowadays the Petruzzelli is still a mar-vel, with its architectural mix of Italian and french-style, the latter being the inspiration for its galleries, its semi-

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Puglia, the Adriatic Seaand the Balkansby Nino LavermicoccaThe Adriatic Sea, internationally known as the “Sea of Europe”, has thousands of years of history to tell, and Puglia has always been one major player in its glory path.Settlements along the Adriatic dating to between 6100 and 5900 bC ap-pear in Albania and Dalmatia on the eastern coast, while during the classi-cal age, Illyrians inhabited the eastern Adriatic coast, and the western coast was inhabited by the peoples of Ancient Italy, mainly Etruscans, before the Roman Republic’s rise. Greek colo-nization of the Adriatic dates back to the 7th and 6th centuries bC, and the Greeks soon expanded further north establishing several cities, including Epidaurus, black Corcyra and Ancona, with trade established as far north as the Po River delta, where the empo-rion (trading station) of Adria was founded.The middle Ages in the Adriatic Sea basin saw further territorial changes, including the Norman conquest of southern Italy ending the byzantine presence on the Apennine peninsula in the 11th and 12th centuries (the territory would become the kingdom of Naples in 1282) and the control of the eastern Adriatic coast by the kingdom of hungary in 1102. In this period, the Republic of Venice began to expand its territory and influence, which would bring its dominion for hundreds of years. In the 13th cen-tury, Venice established itself as a leading maritime nation, while during much of the 12th and 13th centuries Venice and the Republic of Genoa engaged in a warfare culminating in the ousting of the Genoese from the Adriatic and making the Venetians the real dominators of this fundamental commercial highway. Still today, the

Adriatic is considered one of the best trading corridors in Europe, with the lively economies of the balkan Coun-tries making it most appealing for their integration with to the European Union.

The Air Net ProjectThe Aeroporti di Puglia leading role in the Air Net project will bring new bu-siness opportunities to our Region. Air Net is a permanent network among Adriatic regional airports for the deve-lopment of new services of air tran-sport, oriented to support economic relations and tourism improvement. The project will be concentrated to areas with relevant economic poten-tials with the aim of overcoming com-munication barriers and insufficient transport infrastructures. Connecti-vity and mobility between modern countries are the basis for economic growth, social and cultural cohesion. In particular, the Adriatic area, whose territories have relevant economic potentials, still has many transport issues and insufficient physical con-nections, poor transport infrastructu-re between the two sea coasts. This situation concerns also the numerous regional airport infrastructures, widely spread along the two coasts, but often underutilized.The Air Net Project supports the esta-blishment of direct air connections across the east and west Adriatic coa-sts in order to improve accessibility and mobility of the area. After develo-ping new routes schemes, during the project lifetime (march 2011 – August 2013) weekly scheduled flights will connect the airports of Apulia, Trieste, mostar and Nis, contributing at the effective territorial cohesion of the in-volved territories and at strengthening regional economies.

Taranto, its Sea and Historyby Angela AltomareTaranto, always on top of the news for

its painstaking problems with pollu-tion, is one of the most fascinating cities in Puglia. Overlooking the Gulf in the Ionian Sea, it is called the city of two seas, the mar Grande and the mar Piccolo, which both brush again-st its coastline. Due to its position, the city has always been considered of strategic importance from both a commercial and military point of view and its two ports have always hosted navy and merchant ships. Its origins date back to 706 b.C. when colonies from Sparta settled in the area. It then began to be one of the most impor-tant cities of magna Graecia, making it more powerful and rich of many original Greek mainland centers.To get a real understanding of this, one should visit the National Archaeo-logical museum, an amazing collec-tion of Greek art that really leaves visitors astonished. Just around the city center there are numerous ancient necropolises to visit, representing the many types of burials practiced over the centuries: for instance the De beaumont bonelli bellacicco hypo-geum is particularly charming, located in the Old Town 14 metres below sea level with Greek, byzantine and me-dieval influences. Out of town there are fascinating rock villages in Ginosa, mottola, Grottaglie, Crispiano, Laterza, Castellaneta, mas-safra and Palagianello and sometimes they are part of an urban area. Chur-ches, crypts and sanctuaries are often adorned with beautiful byzantine icons depicting the Virgin, saints and martyrs. while in Taranto, do not miss the opportunity to visit the charming masserie in San Crispiano and the sur-rounding area, a true experience not only for art lovers, but also for food and wine connoisseurs.

Apulia Slow Coastby Alessandra NennaItaly is well known as the country of navigators, but the latest “magellan”

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is quite an eccentric one… michele Guarino, an architect with a passiona-te love for the sea and Puglia, has ini-tiated the circumnavigation of Puglia and found quite an amazing name for it: Apulia Slow Coast. born in nearby Campania but adopted by the Apulian land, Guarino is well determined to row along the over 750 kilometers of Apulian coasts on board of a pedalò, a typical Italian icon, namely a small boat with pedal pushed propellers. In her piece Alessandra Nenna tells this incredible story and the way Guarino has involved friends and sea lovers to pursue his courageous goal.

Transylvania is not only… Draculaby Giusy PetruzzelliThanks to the new direct flight from bari to Cluj-Napoca, beautiful and… scary Transylvania is closer than ever. The name Cluj comes from Castrum Clus, first used in the 12-th century as the name of the citadel surrounding the city. Clus means “closed” in Latin and refers to the hills that surround the city. German merchants, who arrived in the 12th century, rebuilt the medieval earthen walls of Clus in stone after the Tartar invasion of 1241. known as klausenburg to the Ger-mans and kolosvar to the hungarians, Cluj became Cluj Napoca in the 1970s, when the communist regime added the name of the old Roman settle-ment to emphasize its Daco-Roman origin. with one of the most vibrant economies in the country and a popu-lation of around 330,000, Cluj, is today a vibrant cultural and educational city. The six state and several private universities located here also make Cluj Napoca the city with the largest percentage of student population in Romania. The various cultural and ma-terial influences, which left their mark on Transylvania’s history, made up an important cultural and historic legacy of monuments, ancient vestiges or medieval churches and cathedrals at

the side of modern masterpieces, as well as museums, memorial houses and architecture monuments. with its variegated landscape and privileged geographical setting in the heart of Transylvania, Cluj displays a wide ran-ge of tourist and leisure activities. Although some people may associate the name with tales of bloodthirsty vampires (it is the setting of bram Stoker’s novel Dracula), Transylvania is one of the most beautiful natural regions in Europe dotted with pictu-resque, medieval fortress towns and monasteries.Lively cities with stunning baroque architecture offer modern tourism services at a price far below that of, say, Germany or france. here you can find some of the most developed cities in Romania, but also old villa-ges where people live as they did a hundred years ago. Transylvania is surrounded by the misty Carpathian mountains and is home to rare fauna (bears, wolves) and flora (orchids and other plants).The history of Transylvania is much di-sputed: once it was an integral part of the kingdom of hungary (950-1526), then an independent Principality (1526-1690) before being reabsorbed by the habsburg Empire. This com-plex history explains the many cultural differences between Transylvania and the rest of Romania. for much of this history the Romanian majority had few rights and was ruled by minorities such as the hungarians and Saxons.

Home, my Place in the World di Stefania Di MitrioGerman photographer menno Aden won the 2013 edition of the Photo-graphy Award organized by Accade-mia Apulia Uk, entitled ”home - my Place in the world”. The exhibition is an array of made-in-Puglia events showcased at various prestigious loca-tions in central London. London thus celebrates Apulian excellence with a

week of exclusive events. The initiative is aimed at introducing the internatio-nal community to the best expressions of culture, art, creativity and cuisine from one of the most beautiful and original regions in Italy.The series of events will take place around mid-July, across a number of exciting venues in central London, including La Galleria Pall mall and the Italian Cultural Institute. Curated by the art critic Lia De Venere, the contemporary art show will display paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and videos focused on the theme of ‘homeland’. Giving tribute to the concepts of identity, nomadism, home and mother country, the exhibition will showcase works of art of some of the most representative Apulian artists.

Lago Salso Oasis, a unique placeby Espedito Alfaranoand Vincenzo RizziThe Lago Salso Oasis near manfredo-nia is an enchanting destination and quite an unusual one in Puglia. It brin-gs visitors closer to nature and the en-vironment through emotion, fun and the experience of doing something “hands on” , thus offering an alternati-ve to traditional tourism activities. Due to its natural value a wetland such as Salso is an ideal place for those who love being outdoors, in direct contact with nature, observing birds in their natural environment.There are different ways of getting to know Lago Salso: excursions on foot or by bicycle along the banks, thema-tic meetings with slide slows and in the near future a boat trip along the canals. birdwatching at Lago Salso Oasis gives the opportunity of experiencing the life of over 240 different species. Visiting the Oasis means spending a day in contact with nature getting to know and observe birds, plants, unu-sual habitats and traces of the past,

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with the help of expert guides such as ornithologists, naturalists, botanists, environmental education officers. In fact, this is the group of experts of the Centro Studi Naturalistici NGO, which manages the scientific and recreatio-nal-educational activities of the Oasis offers in order to support those who want to get to know this area pro-tected by the Capitanata, considered one of the most important for the

migration of birds at the European level, in discovering and experiencing the emotion of nature.

Patron Saints of Pugliaby Gaetano Armeniowith their unique mix of religion and profane feast, the celebrations of the Patron Saints across Puglia are the vivid legacy of ancient traditions and an unmissable appointment for folklo-

re lovers. Christian faith and pagan heritance for one day are experienced in churches, piazzas and cloisters all along the Region. be it the Perdoni procession in Taranto or hundreds other celebrations during the holy week, these are one of Puglia’s attractions for international travelers and Italians as well. Log on to www.patronidipuglia.it to get some detailed information.