{"id":26,"date":"2019-08-18T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festedelgrano.net\/en\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:00:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:00:25","slug":"mirabella-eclano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festedelgrano.net\/en\/mirabella-eclano\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirabella Eclano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tirata<\/em> or \u201cpull\u201d, which is repeated\nevery year on the Saturday preceding the third Sunday of September, represents\nthe culminating moment of a ritual path started by the Eclanese community in\nthe previous months, with the wheat harvest and the creation of decorative\nbraids that cover the surface of the \u201cbig carriage\u201d. This is the supporting\nbase of the devotional machine which also consists of a wooden obelisk more\nthan 25 meters high, covered with decorative straw panels and surmounted by the\nstatue of Our Lady of Sorrows. The celebrations officially open on September\n8th with the transport of the “carriage” and will close with the\n“pull” of the entire obelisk called carro<\/em>, hauled by about 300 rope pullers and 6 oxen pairs that will\ntake it from the Santa Caterina hill to the center of the village. The wooden\nstructure of the obelisk consists of 7 layers covered with artistically worked\nstraw panels. The first four layers, from bottom to top, are renewed every year\nby the artistic workshop of Giotto Faugno, while the last three are historical\nand are kept in the museum of Mirabella Eclano. The assembly of the machine\nends on Friday before the feast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nassemblage of the festive car and its decoration are to be executed exclusively\nby the workshop of Giotto Faugno, who inherited the technique and artistic\nsecrets from his grandfather Luigi; on the other hand, the ritual of the\n“pull of the carriage” is in fact extremely democratic and all\nEclanese people, regardless of age, gender and social origin participate.\nEveryone can pull the ropes but the more experienced workers, called\n“funaioli”, are entrusted with the ends of the main ropes and ensure\nthe balance of the machine. No movement escapes the watchful eye of the\n\u201ctimonieri\u201d, or men at the helm, who carefully guide the pull from the height\nof the first level of the float, where they are situated during the journey, in\norder to be able to simultaneously monitor the progress of the oxen and the\ntension of the ropes. There are also specific figures assigned to care for and\nhydrate the oxen during the procession.\n\nIt is not possible to establish a secure date for the\norigin of the ritual of Mirabella’s “pull of the carriage” but\npopular tradition identifies the carriage with an ex voto made by the farmers\n(probably by the Tammaro family) in honor of Our Lady of Sorrows to ensure a\nfruitful harvest of wheat. The origins of the artistic machine in the form of\nan obelisk are attributed to the work of the artist Stanislao Martini and\npossibly go back to 1869, a date found on some pencil drawings that represent\nthe project of an obelisk very similar to the baroque spiers characteristic of\nNeapolitan architecture of that period. In 1887 the Eclanese designer builder\nPrisco Alfonso Capodanno worked on a new project based on Renaissance models\nand in the 1920s Luigi Faugno, a pupil of Capodanno, devised the model of the\nobelisk most similar to the one in use today. In 1922 Luigi Faugno elaborated a\nhandbook for the assembly of the Mirabella carriage titled\n“Mentario,” which indicates exactly the materials and the assembly\ntechnique of the wooden structure, and this makes it an essential document for\nthe continuity of tradition. The aforementioned “Mentario” is a\nfundamental tool for the transmission of the construction and decorative\ntechnique of Mirabella Eclano’s carriage, but the most expert interpreter of\nthis tradition is Giotto Faugno who is responsible for ensuring the passage of\nskills as well as technical and artistic abilities to the younger generations.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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