The first presentation privilege to Seven Common, Museum of Foza December 21

Presentation of the first privilege to seven municipalities the original parchment, Museo di Foza the December 21, 2013

Saturday 21 December at 18.00 hours at the Museum of Foza, will be presented the first paper on seven Common privileges, an original parchment of 1339, on loan from Vicenza Bertoliana. Library, for the exhibition "on the edge of wool-the shepherds, sheep, people of Foza", open from December 21 until March 2, 2014.

This is a very important record in the history of the Cimbrian autonomy of Dear Regency of the seven Communes, for the first time exposed on theAsiago plateau.

Dr. Giancarlo Bortoli a relationship early privileges of seven municipalities (1339-1405) and Michela Rodeghiero will read the text in original Latin.
Also will the Dr. Giorgio Lotto, Director of Vicenza Bertoliana. Library and Dr. Alberto Alberti, President of theHistorical Institute of the seven Municipalities.

Followed by a guided visit to the exhibition by the curators (a. Alberti, f., Rodeghiero f. Menegatti).
After the event, starting at 20.00, at the restaurant in the Alps of Foza (Alte Kirche), there will be a special dinner based on sheep, lamb, beef jerky and cheese (reservation recommended)

OPENING HOURS EXHIBITION ON WOOL THREAD-THE SHEPHERDS, SHEEP, PEOPLE OF FOZA

• From December 21, 2013 to January 6, 2014 - Tue-Sun -every afternoon from 15.00 to 20.00
• FromJanuary 11 to March 2 - Saturday and Sunday from 15.00 to 18.00

PRESS RELEASE

Saturday, December 21 at 18, at the multimedia room of the Museo di Foza Asiago, an event will be dedicated to an ancient important testimony in the history of the autonomy of the Cimbrian Dear Regency of the seven municipalities. This is the presentation of the first document on "the Seven Common Privileges", an original parchment of 1339 which is granted on loan from Vicenza Bertoliana. Library for the exhibition in the halls of the Museum of Foza "On wool thread-the shepherds, sheep, people of Foza.

This is the first time that this document is exhibited on this occasion and there are various actions devoted to reading the exhibit by local historians and experts:

Dr. Giancarlo Bortoli held a report on first privileges of seven municipalities (1339-1405) and Michela Rodeghiero will present a reading of the original text in Latin.

In addition, interventions are planned. Giorgio Lotto, Director of Vicenza Bertoliana. Library and Dr. Alberto Alberti, President of the Historical Institute of the seven Municipalities.

After the Conference will be followed by a guided tour of the exhibition "on the edge of wool-the shepherds, sheep, people of Foza" by curators: Alberto Alberti, Filippo Menegatti and Francesca Rodeghiero.

The above view is an integral part of the installation of the Museo di Foza and runs one of the main themes on the country, both from a historical point of view that economic and social development: shepherding. After the skidding of the medieval forest primeval, shepherding allowed a good portion of the inhabitants of Foza and other villages cimbri (later merged into Dear Regency of the seven municipalities) to sustain and achieve also good economic levels, thanks to its particular and privileged pensionatico legislation. The exhibition is based on three main themes: thehistory of the Cimbrian pastoralism (documents, books, subscriptions) between pensionatico and transhumance; the sheep Foza, an ancient race in danger of extinction; the processing of wool. The exhibition runs between objects, original artifacts, photographs, through a modern and captivating design. Across the thin thread that unites not only the various sections of the exhibition but also intimate and ancestral ties of Foza.

With the event of Saturday 21 December winter inaugurates reopening of an exhibition waiting to be discovered, which now is enriched of an original parchment Bertoliana. library of Vicenza. This first of the privileges granted to seven municipalities not only a significant historical importance, but also current reflexes that are rediscovered in the important area of local autonomies.

After the event, starting at 20, in the restaurant the Alps of Foza (Alte Kirche), there will be a special dinner based on sheep, lamb, beef jerky and cheese (reservation recommended).

You can visit the exhibition "on the edge of wool-the shepherds, sheep, people of Foza" and see the parchment of 1339 until Sunday 2 March.

Days and opening hours of the Museum of Foza: from December 21, 2013 to January 6, 2014-from Tuesday to Sunday-every afternoon from 15 to 20

from 11 January to 2 March-Saturday and Sunday from 15 to 18.

Museum of Foza, Via Roma, 1-FOZA-Asiago plateau seven municipalities.