{"id":231264,"date":"2023-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/the-history-of-the-orsanti-the-first-street-artists-were-born-in-vigoleno\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:02:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T11:02:02","slug":"the-history-of-the-orsanti-the-first-street-artists-were-born-in-vigoleno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/villages-tales\/the-history-of-the-orsanti-the-first-street-artists-were-born-in-vigoleno\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of the Orsanti: the first street artists were born in Vigoleno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there is Mickey Mouse in Disneyland and Prezzemolo is in Gardaland, in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/vigoleno\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vigoleno<\/a><\/strong> there is a bear to act as your host. A <strong>wooden bear<\/strong>, don&#8217;t be alarmed. Crossing the defensive walls and following a short cobbled section that leads from the main entrance to the heart of the village, you will come across a reproduction of an imposing mammal that, placed on a pedestal, will officially welcome you in this small medieval village nestled on the <strong>hills of Piacenza<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Those who choose to spend an afternoon in Vigoleno, in addition to the <strong>keep<\/strong> (the castle that dominates the valleys of the Ongina and Stirone) and the <strong>Pieve di San Giorgio<\/strong> (the oldest church in the village), cannot miss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/vigoleno-museum-of-the-orsanti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Orsanti Museum<\/strong><\/a>. Created by the actress and puppeteer <strong>Maria Teresa Alpi<\/strong>, the museum is a very folkloristic reminiscent path that, through the re-enactment of life-size papier-mache bears and the display of ancient means of transport, musical instruments, masks, stage costumes, paintings and vintage prints, tells the itinerant life of the Orsanti, bear and street artist trainers who, during the <strong>1700s<\/strong>, left their lands (Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Liguria) to reach the squares of <strong>London<\/strong>, <strong>Paris<\/strong> and <strong>Prague<\/strong>, where they performed together with these gigantic mammals, <strong>staging acrobatic<\/strong> and surprising shows.<\/p>\n<p>Once identified a point of the city sufficiently exposed to the bustle of people, the orsanti set up the stage for their performances. Of all the trained animals (<strong>monkeys<\/strong>, <strong>parrots<\/strong> and <strong>camels<\/strong>), the &#8220;workhorse&#8221; was undoubtedly the bear, whose weight was around <strong>350 kilos<\/strong> and, when it rose on the two hind legs, it reached <strong>two meters of height<\/strong>: a truly impressive sight. The Museo degli Orsanti is <strong>the only European witness to street art<\/strong>. And the inhabitants of Vigoleno jealously guard its memory, telling it to adults and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover Vigoleno, a medieval village in the hills of Piacenza, where a wooden bear greets you. Visit the Museum of the Orsanti and immerse yourself in folkloric history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":333549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-blog-pro.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1566],"tags":[],"village-conntection":[55200],"class_list":["post-231264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-villages-tales","village-conntection-vigoleno-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231264"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=231264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}