Among the “new” cultural proposals fielded to increase the tourism offerings of historical and environmental hubs are the theatrical visits have become the most popular experience in recent years, and we have also experienced them with great interest. This kind of visit also lends itself very well to the school visits.
Theatricalized tours are not simply a fad, but a true complete tourist package: it is an event in which the visitor experiences the place of interest with the animation of dedicated actors and historians. This is an approach that has achieved truly unexpected results: in fact, if the tours are accompanied by period characters and settings, bookings visibly increase. Moreover, if the actors interact with the audience, then the guided tour turns into a real experience of great success.
Throughout Italy, this cultural offering has become a plus of undeniable interest: a widespread format that has given new tourism impetus to countless sites of even minor interest, greatly increasing their share of the public. Abroad had already discovered its value decades ago, and many historical documentaries were broadcast interspersed with period costume scenes.
Dramatized visits are part of the more general phenomenon that is edutainment, “a neologism coined in the 1990s by Bob Heyman, a documentary filmmaker for the National Geographic, to indicate the possibility and necessity of teaching and learning while having fun in groups.”.
We, too, have been experimenting with this visit format with great success in recent years thanks to our collaboration with the very talented Maria Rosa Marsilio: writer and historian, who comes from the Piedmont experience of ArteLab Novara and has perfected with Emanuela Fortuna the study of storytelling in the past, bringing countless characters from different eras to the stage. Maria Rosa Marsilio is present in our visits as the Marchioness of Finale Beatrice of Monferrato, where in the castle of Monte Ursino a Noli stars with Paolo Moretto as Marquis Enrico del Carretto, a medieval noblewoman struggling with the management of a fiefdom. A Bergeggi the role of women between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is interpreted by Maria Rosa bringing to the stage the Marquise Guendalina Millelire During our guided tour: Bergeggi, tales Belle Epoque. Not forgetting her latest acting effort set in the 1820s: impersonating the wife of English writer David Herbert Lawrence (Frieda Von Richthofen) that right at Spotorno spent some intense months, a prelude to the writing of the novel “The’Lady Chatterley's lover”.
“Learning,” Maria Rosa Marsilio reminds us, "takes place through active exploration not only of the surroundings (Montessori method), but through verbal, visual and emotional immersion in the moment, which is experienced by the viewer as if he or she were actually in the historical period being addressed."
We have realized how the public increasingly appreciates and seeks out this particular kind of cultural offering, and during our visits we do not use no andSpecial ffect or set design. The real difference is made by the relationship created between the tour guide, the actor and the audience, in a continuous dialogue made up of twists, theatrical jokes and unimpeachable historical/geographical/cultural explanations.
In addition, in our reality as a tourist destination still tied to seasonality, the theatrical visits allow us to plan events even out of season, thus expanding our tourism offerings.
Consult our page EVENTS To check when they are on the calendar.
pre-established groups, schools and travel agencies can write to us at. info@guidedelgolfo.com To organize them on an ad hoc basis.
