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Schignano, Italy

cover photo by Andros51

Location added by FrancoSala

The information about this location have been automatically translated with Microsoft Translator.

Rank : 8.0 (average on 1 votes)

Coordinates : 45.926780, 9.100131 (Open in Google Maps)

Subjects : During the carnival period, the best subjects are the local characters: the Bei, the Britts, the Ciocia, the Sapeur, the Sigurtà, and the Carlisepp covered with hand-carved masks in the wood. fractions"the wooden statues of the "bosculture" and the works of art of the event "the alley poldo"

Recommended equipment : Street and landscape equipment: medium canvases, wide angle, tripod, flash

Best months : CarnivalSummer

How to get there : Como-Chiasso HighwayGet out to Lake Como continue on highway SS340 then take SP15 via Schignano

Visits : BOSCULTURAWhat concerns the event itself in the title, or "sculptures in the woods" that are made along the paths of the forested territory within the country. In fact it is a recent invention event, the first edition is 2014, it takes place since then every year in the period between the end of May and the beginning of June, it lasts a week and throughout the period the different sculptors as well as the masks of the royal carnival in fact, in 2015 the theme was the same theme of the universal exhibition, Expo Milano 2015 while in 2016 it was the smuggling of cigarettes ( phenomenon present in the area after the Second World War), in 2017 the theme concerned the myths and legends of the mountain. In 2018 the added woodlandsculture followed the theme of the Great War because during the year it was a hundred years since its conclusion, with these sculptures it was reached the end of the route near the trenches of the Cadorna Line under the Sasso Gordona. In 2019 to keep this event alive it was decided to create sculptures and installations in the historic center to re-evaluate the hamlet Occagno. At the end of the week, according to the free votes of the visitors, a winner is announced. The sculptures are a real open-air museum and can be admired all year round. To date there are more than fifty sculptures.

Notes : https://www.lamascheraschignano.it/

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