In addition to the traditional demonstrations of that day, organized by the “Ni una de menos” collective, culture will focus a large part of the 8M commemoration in the country, with exhibitions and special activities that will celebrate the legacy of women in art and the history of Italy.
In Rome, the Museum of the Republic will vindicate the female figures who starred in the defense of Rome in 1849, during the siege that the city experienced after the proclamation of the Roman Republic.
For its part, the Capitoline Art Gallery will offer a tour with paintings that reflect three different ways of understanding the female world throughout history: Caravaggio’s “Buona Ventura”, Guercino’s “Altarpiece of Santa Petronilla” and the “Portrait of Woman” by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo.
In addition, the Imperial Forums will inaugurate a walk that will start from Trajan’s Forum and go to Caesar’s, remembering the lives of some of the women who left their mark in that same place, from their birth, to the Middle Ages and the Baroque era. .
Milan, for its part, will present “Le Vie delle Donne”, a tour that brings together the streets, squares and monuments dedicated to the women who have forged the history of the most important city in northern Italy.
In turn, Naples and the Campania region (south) will vindicate their archaeological legacy with the special opening of the Ercolano, Paestum and Velia parks, with thematic itineraries under the “Women’s Stories” initiative.
For their part, public buildings such as the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy and Finance will be dyed purple at sunset, at which time the demonstrations called in cities such as Rome, Turin, Palermo, Milan and Bologna will take to the streets.