Le Vie dei Tesori 2020 opens hidden Palermo sites to the public

The 14th edition of Le Vie dei Tesori is underway in Palermo, running every weekend until November 8, 2020. The festival opens over 70 normally inaccessible sites including churches, oratories, palaces, museums, gardens, and former factories. This year's theme is 'Rinascere nella bellezza' (Rebirth in Beauty), with safety measures such as limited groups, online bookings, audio guides, mask mandates, distancing, and visitor tracing due to the pandemic. The festival has already taken place in Bagheria, Trapani, Marsala, Mazara, Messina, Caltanissetta, Sambuca, and Naro, and is concurrently running in Monreale, Catania, Ragusa, Scicli, Noto, and Sciacca. Highlights in Palermo include oratories and churches decorated by Giacomo Serpotta (San Lorenzo, Santa Cita, SS. Rosario in San Domenico, Sant'Orsola dei Negri), museums Abatellis, Salinas, Antonio Pasqualino, and Villa Zito gallery, as well as Teatro Massimo, Politeama Garibaldi, and villas Airoldi, Niscemi, Boscogrande, and Florio. A contemporary itinerary curated by Paola Nicita features installations by Emanuele Lo Cascio, Luca Bullaro, and Francesco Santoro at Palazzo Oneto di Sperlinga, a 18th-century building currently under restoration, owned by Roberto Bilotti Ruggi d'Aragona and Cesira Palmeri di Villalba. The Galleria L'Altro Contemporanea at Palazzo Petrulla in the Kalsa district, directed by Nicola Bravo for forty years, will periodically present different exhibitions of artists from its history.