Museum of the reed marsh - Acquarica del Capo
Address: Piazza dell'Amicizia | 73040 - Acquarica del Capo | Map
Telephone: +39 0833 721106
Fax: +39 0833 730257
: www.museidelsalento.it/museo-del-giunco-palustre
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Description
The Museum of Acquarica del Capo is located in the nineteenth century Palazzo Villani, in Piazza dell' Amicizia.
Inaugurated in 2008, was founded with the aim of highlighting a peculiar art of the social and economic history of the country: the processing of the reed marsh.
A centuries-old practice, the harvest and the twisting of canes, which was taken from the swamps of Lecce and Taranto to be turned into bags, shoes, baskets and many more things by the patient hands of the women in Acquarica, who used to work as buskets makers.
In the Museum of Acquarica del Capo, the various stages of manufacturing of rush marsh are being illustrated, thanks to environmental reconstructions and crafts which are very old.
From the collection of the canes, made exclusively by men, you passes to the boiling phase, during which the women separated the green wire from the dried ones. After that, it follows the drying phase and that of "sulfuring", during which, bunches of reed marsh were placed in a small room with a stove where coals and a pinch of sulfur was used to be burned.
Finally, the meticulous twisting of the reed marsh wires used to take place on the ground, where the women used to sit down for hours, using bowls of water in which to moisten the wire used.
Not to be missed the extraordinary "Nativity made out of Reed marsh" realized almost half a century ago by a lady called Addolorata Olimpio, preserved in glass cases.
Visits by appointment only.
Open: on appointment
Entrance: Free
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