Italian games from history to modernity

Arrival in Recanati and guided tour of CLEMENTONI, a famous company that was founded with the aim of helping children learn while having fun, supporting them in their growth process through a playful language. A history that has seen the birth of innovative products such as the revolutionary "Sapientino" in 1967, the first electronic educational game. We will then visit Recanati, the splendid city in Marche region where Giacomo Leopardi, one of the most illustrious exponents of Italian literature, was born. Overnight in hotel in Recanati.

Breakfast in hotel, departure for Montecassiano and visit to CAMPETELLA ROBOTIC CENTRE. The company deals with the design, production, sale and assistance of robotic systems and advanced industrial automation systems. Among its most important customers are industrial groups throughout Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Greece and Latin America. Campetella is able to examine, together with its customers, every problem of industrial automation, providing advice and feasibility studies, oriented to the optimization of production processes and creating a customized product. Afterwards, we will go to Loreto, where we will visit the Marian Sanctuary located in Piazza della Madonna, at the end of the famous Via Lauretana, frequented by pilgrims from all over the world. A visit to the cellars of the Holy House will also be included. Return to hotel in Recanati, overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Macerata, where you will visit the historic center accompanied by a guide. Of particular artistic interest are the Piazza della Libertà with the Loggia dei Mercanti, seat of the ancient University of Macerata, and the Lauro Rossi Theater. Palazzo Buonaccorsi will also be visited, which houses the Pinacoteca and the Museo della Carrozza, established by the Municipality of Macerata in 1962 following the conspicuous donation, supported by the local Lions Club, made by Count Pier Alberto Conti of Civitanova Marche (1884-1968). Included in the donation is a rich series of saddles, bits, whips, bridles, horseshoes, as well as books, horse riding manuals, prints and period photographs. In the afternoon, transfer to Treia, where we will visit the Civic Archeological Museum which includes a section with artifacts and documents of the "Gioco del Bracciale". The game of the ball with the bracelet is part of the large family of ball sports which were practiced in special arenas, called "sferisteri". Its greatest development took place in the Renaissance period when, favored by princes and lords, it reached such high levels of spectacle and fame as to arouse great popular enthusiasm and be the subject of compositions by writers and poets. In the evening return to the hotel in Recanati, overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Fano where the visit to the Museo del Balì will take place. Here, interactivity and first-person experimentation guarantee the emotional involvement and active participation of visitors who are invited to rediscover science as a natural method of investigating the surrounding world. Thanks to the presence of a planetarium and an observatory, the museum has a strong astronomical imprint that completes the panorama of the subjects touched and that makes the structure even more peculiar on the national territory. Nine rooms for as many themes divided between perception, physics, mathematics, earth sciences, life sciences and temporary exhibitions.
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