The "Tuna de Totana" travels to Rome and the Tiber Valley area invited as folk music group popular in the activities under the project "The region you do not expect.
A river of Music Tour.
Italo-Spanish cultural exchange. "
(La Regione che non Aspetti you. A fiume di Musica on Tour. Scambio culturale Italo-Spagnolo. ")
The initiative has been organized by the Social Cooperative "The Thousand and One Nights" ("Le mille ed una notte") in collaboration with the Regional Natural Reserve of Tevere Farfa, the Regional Agency of Natural Parks and Communities Sant'Oreste, Nazzano, Tarquinia, Torrita Tiberina, Filacciano and Montopoli in Sabina.
In all components have been 15 who have moved on behalf of the Tuna and 9 days (from 11 to 19 July) have enjoyed their stay in those lands.
Were 8 performances and concerts held in the following locations:
Saturday July 11 (Sant'Oreste)
Sunday 12 July (Nazzano)
Tuesday July 14 (Rome Baths of Caracalla)
Thursday, 16 July (Tarquinia)
Friday 17 July (Torrita Tiberina)
Saturday 18 July (Museo del Fiume di Nazzano)
Sunday 19 July (Filacciano and Montopoli in Sabina)
Normally, the program followed every single day of action was repeated.
It began with an official reception by the municipal mayors.
This meeting was sealed with the delivery of memories and shields among the representatives of both parties.
The tuna was delivering a ceramic dish totanera your shield with the cross of Santiago and his latest CD recorded in 2007 under the title "Twenty Years of tuna."
Subsequently, the tuna was on a parade by the Old City to reach the place where the dinner was held together by the municipal authorities.
Finally, organized the concert took place on the occasion of a fair or festival held that night.
Unscheduled and unofficially, the evening used to be extended in any of the bars in the environment for the enjoyment of visitors and natives.
The musicians have been hosted throughout their stay in the Baronial Palace, a medieval hotel, just 20 minutes from Rome, built in the twelfth century to protect the village of Torrita Tiberina, originally belonging to the family Melchiorri, and later in 1853 became the home of Prince Alessandro Torlonia.
Surrounded by the magnificent valley of the Tiber, the Palace is composed of 5 floors and 44 rooms, including "the meeting room, the mill and caves."
Currently, the Baronial Palace is managed by the social cooperative "The Arabian Nights" in order to create a lodge that is distinguished not only by the quality of service, but especially for the reasons and underlying philosophy as an alternative source of funding projects and social initiatives.
To show its good to make the tuna in Totana has been invited by one of the council of Rome for a concert at the Castle of St. Angelo, situated near the Vatican City by the end of July next year.
In short and as always, the best of the trip was to have what we have experienced, that we have made great friends who have learned new songs, which we discovered the virtues of authentic pasta with thousands of varieties, we have had enough Parmesan and bread "torrao" with tomatoes (bruschetta), we missed the Cuba Libre and the local wine and, as expected, none have found there to the woman of his life, among the possible, of course .
We end with a quote from Don Diego de Villarroel's "Anecdotes in the Round" which pretty much sums up the meaning from yesteryear have had the trip to the tuna:
"I spent in the disorder of many days and travel at night, was the first invited to dances, evening parties and weddings of all castes. Entertained the onlookers with a variety of many antics and nonsense, which is commonly say skills, and excelled in them all those satisfied in those days to claim such frolic and functions. "
