Connected Open Heritage/Galleries/Mirandola

Mirandola[edit]

16^th century
18^th century
20^th century

Church of St. Francis
beginning of 20^th century
Towerbell viewed from Volturno street
The towerbell has crashed on church's roof
after the 2012 earthquake

Short description

Miràndola is a small city in the northern Italy.

The city was a Renaissance city-fortress and for four centuries was a small independent state owned by the Pico family, whose most outstanding member was the polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), famous for writing the Oration on the Dignity of Man (also knows as as the "Manifesto of the Renaissance") and the 900 thesis about religion and philosophy, in which he tried also to find an universal religion based on Hebraism, Cristianity and Islam for the universal peace of humankind.

In May 2012, two big earthquakes stucked all the Mirandola area, leaving thousand of people homeless and destroying or heavy damaging all the historical center of the city, including all the cultural heritage (all the historical buildings, all the churches, all the schools, the museum, the public library and all the public offices).

After 4 years, basic life of the people (houses, schools, hospital, industries, jobs) has beginning to back to “normality”, but all the big and unvaluable historical and cultural heritage of Mirandola is still in danger: I think that we must start talking about how to get back also the artistic and cultural history, rebuilding and renovating all the historical buildings damaged or destroyed in 2012. Wikimedia can help to save the memory of this historical place: in last weeks I started to write some articles on the italian Wikipedia about the Old Castle of Pico family (built from year 1100), the Church of St. Francis (built in 1286) and the Theatre (1905).

Gallery creator: Holapaco77 (talk)