Futurism in the Gulf of poets.

The "Golfo delle Meraviglie" thus defined by the father of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism has remained since ' 30, a blend of natural beauty and human intervention.

When we walk through the streets of La Spezia and its surroundings, we are unaware of the concealed Futurist heritage around us.

Leave the paper directory, for today we bring you the colors of our Gulf.

As a first step to lose ourselves in the forms of futurism can see the post office building in piazza Verdi, great witness of the important role of the Futurist movement in our city.

In its interior you can find one of the most exemplary mosaics from this period by two masters of Futurist art, Luigi Fillia and Enrico Prampolini: the mosaic depicts the globalized communication in heaven, sea and Earth, celebrating scientific discoveries, the shipyards, the fleet of seaplanes, means used for military service in war.

The military arsenal of the Spice played a unique role during this period, offering such means to the Navy; We can see, therefore, that the mosaic depicts the Gulf with its strengths.

At the same time as the Futurist architecture, we also find the pictorial art encouraged by the challenge that launched in ' 33 Jacks to poets and painters for sang and symbolized the beauties of the Gulf.
Some of the surviving works are exposed in the Gulf like aeropainting by Gerardo Dottori, Fillia and Prampolini to Lerici, Boxwood; a picture of La Spezia, admired by art lovers from all over the world, it is housed in the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, among the best known and most visited in the world.

Often we neglect important aspects of our site: how much history lies behind our city and to our Gulf?

Discover it with us.

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