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In 2010, Gandia celebrates the 500th centenary of the birth
of Francisco de Borja y Aragón (Gandia 1510) the first saint
of the most important of the Valencian families of history for
many years ruled half the world from Rome, patron of the city,
Viceroy of Catalonia, III General of the Society of Jesus,
Great Private Emperor Charles V and patron of the Spanish
nobility.
This event has assumed the starting point for cultural
revival, social and economic development of this city.
Gandia has made progress in the cultural program planned
for the celebration of the V Centenary of birth of Francesc de
Borja, which includes cultural activities and scientific
national and international leisure and tourist promotion of
the city.
The program includes concerts by Carlos Santos,
Raimón and Llorenç Barber, among others. Those responsible for
organizing the celebrations, the coordinator of the Consell of
the V Centenario, Cebrià Miller, and Policy director
Prosperity Gandia Nestor Novell, Raimon stressed that
participation, although no definite date, they said, will give
a recital on the works related to the pattern and the music of
the era. They also highlighted the performance of Carles
Santos, who will host a musical event with 500 musicians from
the region of Safor, three bands of Gandia and the rest of the
region, in addition to coral bands.
Possible visit of the
Royal House
This act, said Novell, hope to schedule them a
day to match the "visit of a member of the Royal Family," as
it is expected the presence of a "personality of the Royal
Family as well as political representatives and church they
said. Among the events that are planned also highlighted "four
rides on the Borgia, a year earlier, the other end and two in
summer on the beach," said Novell.
He also spoke of the
first great act of 2010, he said, "a big concert-party at the
Prado, with fireworks, bells and the participation of
musicians of Safor and 100 guys in the Baton." This event will
be led by musician Llorenç Barber and he will join an
International Symposium on Francesc de Borja, with the
participation of experts from around the country, he said.
Are also organizing exhibitions, said Novell, one of them
would be "contemporary work related Borja family. He said they
are looking for work of Antoni Tàpies, Carmen Calvo and other
artists in this exhibition. Gandia is also considering
organizing an art show with new material by local artists on
the saint and the universal family.
Also be scheduled for
a summer festival, "Les veus to the Mediterranean" which will
host great voices of the song and that comes with a durable
quality. Novell said there would be "about six or seven major
events each month," and a "statement on women, children and
many more theaters.
Miller said he has asked the
Foundation "The Llum de les Imatges' work with the restoration
of the Gallery Daurada and support the organization of an
exhibition in Gandia," as it has in other cities like Xativa.
Major exhibitions
In this sense locks to schedule
various art exhibits related to the pattern of the city and
his family as, at international level, entitled "Sant Francesc
de Borja: Grande d'Espanya. Espiritualitat Art i dels Hispanic
culture in eighteenth segles XVII "with poor to painters of
the first magnitude. In addition to the exhibition" Jesuit
il'arquitectura Francesc de Borja, "which has the support of
the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, who will travel to
Valencia, Madrid and Rome, where he could rest in the church
of the Gesu.
Gandia has provided 1.5 million euros to
start managing this conclusion and provides that the total
cost may reach 6 million, "provided that other administrations
involved and the State and the Consell, all at 33 percent"
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The
University of Lleida will design, manage and present an
exhibition to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth
of Sant Francesc de Borja that will take place in 2010 in
Gandia, thanks to an agreement signed with its Town Council.
The exhibition will display around fifty works by artists like
Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, El Greco, Francisco de
Zurbarán, Bartolomé Murillo and Joan de Joanes, among others.
The Research Group on Art and Culture of the Modern Period,
leaded by the Chair in Art History Ximo Company is in charge
of the organisation.
According to its organisers,
the aim of the exhibition "Sant Francesc de Borja, Grandee of
Spain: Art and Spirituality in the Hispanic Culture of the
16th and 17th Centuries " is "to exhibit the extraordinary
creative wealth of Spanish plastic arts in that period, while
keeping the figure of Sant Francesc de Borja and the scope of
his political, social, cultural and spiritual action as a
conducting thread".
The exhibition will be open
between October and December 2010 in Gandia and will occupy
two different spaces. The "La Marquesa" Gallery will
accommodate the most important works coming from big museums,
galleries or world-famous private collections. It is conceived
as an anthological selection of paintings and sculptures that
might also include literary works or decorative arts. The
other venue will be Francesc de Borja's Ducal Palace itself,
one of the most outstanding palace houses in mediaeval and
modern Spain. The building displays furniture of the period
and other elements like original manuscripts by Francesc de
Borja. Apart from these, other works will be added in order to
draw a better portrait of his dimension as a politician and a
Jesuit, as well as an insight into his private life and his
family.
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