The itinerary starts in Ripatransone, home to an interesting collection of pottery on the first floor of the Museo Civico di Palazzo Bonomi Gera, as well as an original and unusual museum devoted to terracotta and its production.
This is the Museo del Fischietto e del Vasaio, founded by the potter Vincenzo Peci with the intention of illustrating the production of terracotta objects. The museum displays six hundred terracotta whistles made during different periods.
Adjacent to the Museo del Fischietto is the pottery workshop, created by the artisan Vincenzo Peci in his own home. The workshop exhibits work tools and around four hundred terracotta pieces.
Also in Ripatransone, in the 15th-century crypt of the church of San Filippo, is the Museo della Civiltà Contadina e Artigiana, which exhibits around one thousand five hundred work tools used in the countryside and in the artisanal workshops of the Ripatransone area up until the 1950s.
The exhibition provides a detailed picture of how life unfolded in the fields and workshops and, above all, the tools used before industrialization and the mechanization of work made them obsolete. The museum houses the work tools used by blacksmiths and carpenters, tools used for weaving, viticulture, and weighing cereals and legumes, and some means of transport, including three decorated carts, a sterza (four-wheeled cart), a trap and various yokes for oxen.
Travel tips
Accommodation
Azienda agraria agrituristica Il podere del Nonno
Via Sant’Imero; 3332180559; info@ilpoderedelnonno.it; www.ilpoderedelnonno.it
Eating out
Agriturismo “La Contrada”
Contrada Magazzini, 9, 0735 90522; info@lacontrada.com, www.lacontrada.com
What to see
Museo Sistino Vescovile, Via Vittorio Emanuele
Christmas – Easter – Summer Scheduled opening
Entrance fee €1.00
Museo civico Bonomi Gera, Via Vittorio Emanuele
January – June 10.30 am–6.30 pm (Sat–Sun)
July – August 6 pm–7 pm(Tues–Fri)
September – December 3.30 pm–6.30 pm (Sat–Sun)
Entrance fee € 3.50 (full price); € 2.50 (reduced); € 5.00 (municipal museum network); € 10.00 (network ticket)
Museo civico Archeologico “C. Cellini”, Via Vittorio Emanuele
All year 10 am–12 pm;6 pm–7 pm (Tues-Sun)
Entrance fee Free of charge
Museo del fischietto e del vasaio, Via Garibaldi
All year Reservations required
Entrance fee Free of charge
Museo della civiltà contadina e artigiana, Church of San Filippo
All year Reservations required
Entrance fee Free of charge
What to buy
Azienda Agricola Frattini Laura – oil
Via Canali, 33 – Tel 0735.97104
Il forno di Ripa – typical confectionery and pastries
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 71; 0735.99203
Art Studio di Giovanni Tonelli – objets d’art
Contrada Magazzini, 1/bis; 073590529; giotonelliart@libero.it; www.giotonelli.eu
Events
18-19 October 2014
