With the appointments related to the Vara and the Giants, the program of the Messina 2025 Agosto 2025, coordinated by the Department of Cultural Policies and Tourism, continues with the mayor Federico Basile, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and supported by the contribution of the Regional Tourism Department, led by the Hon. Elvira Amata and in connection with the Ministry of Tourism, also includes a calendar full of appointments today.
From 10 to 12 today, Monday 11 August, guided tours of the Vara and Giants Museum, by the Volunteers of the Scar of the Municipal Library. At 5 pm, from the Oratory of Peace the exit of the three votive candles and transfer to Palazzo Zanca in Palazzo, by the “Ceri Messina” Cultural Association. At 6 pm, in the cathedral, the jubilee of the tiators of the Vara and blessing of the new clothes of the Assumption, of Jesus and the Angels, made by Rosa Randazzo, Santina Italiano and the seamstresses of the “Solidale Zancle – Time Bank” APS. Always today, at 9.30 pm, in the staircase of Palazzo Zanca, “One, none, one hundred thousand”, with Enrico Lo Verso, directed and adaptation of Alessandra Pizzi, by the Ergo Sum association. The show brings on stage the famous monologue taken from Pirandello’s novel, defined by the author himself as his “most bitter, profoundly humorous, of managing life”.
The plot revolves around the story of Vitangelo Moscarda, a man who, following an apparently trivial observation of his wife on his nose, finds himself questioning his entire existence. This small detail triggers a vortex of reflections that will lead him to confront the “hundred masks” that the others see in him, up to the search for the authentic and profound self, overcoming the dichotomy between “one, none, one hundred thousand”.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 12 August, at 7 am, transfer of the giants from Camaro Superiore to Camaro Inferiore. At 9, at Palazzo Zanca, the philatelic-documentary inauguration on the Messinese August, by the Peloritano Filatelic Circle, and the special cancellation of Poste Italiane, with a postcard numbered in “tribute to the Vara shooters in the centuries”. The exhibition will be visited until August 31, from 9 to 14. From 10 to 12 guided tours of the Vara and Giants Museum, by the Volunteers of the Scar of the Municipal Library. At 7pm, at the Church of the Catalans, conference from the theme “From Dormitice Virginis to the hiring, iconography and iconology of the Vara. The new colors of the angelic hierarchies”, edited by prof. Giacomo Sorrenti and Msgr. Roberto Romeo. Also tomorrow, Tuesday 12 August, at 9.30 pm, in the staircase of Palazzo Zanca, “young people in the limelight”. Cabaret and fashion, with Giuseppe Castiglia, edited by Karamella.