From Italy... Milan to Read - Milan City of Literature
From Italy... Milan to Read
Starting from April 4th, one release every three weeks
“Milano da Leggere” starts again today for its seventh edition, the initiative to promote reading which offers a selection of digital books downloadable for free from the site www.comune.milano.it/milanodaleggere.
This year the exhibition finds its focus in History and will offer a novel a month to travel back and forth in time, among events that have passed through our city over the centuries.
Once again the ten titles will be available thanks to the participation of authors and publishers who have given their works free of charge. The download will also be possible from posters and screens around the city and, thanks to ATM SpA, which confirms itself as the technical partner of the initiative, "Milan to read" will also be distributed on the metro and surface transport networks.
But, in substantial continuity with the past, the 2022 edition marks an important innovation: the works will be released approximately three weeks apart from each other, so as to give greater scope to the campaign and the time to dedicate to reading.
After the first release on Monday 4 April, each ebook will remain available for 30 days, "passing the baton" to the next, in a reading relay that will make us travel through time until December.
Hangzhou Feel exhibition
An invitation to discover one of the Creative Cities of the UNESCO network linked to Milan, through its libraries, by a long relationship of collaboration and exchange.
City of great cultural and artisan tradition, Hangzhou, capital of the Chinese province of Zhejiang, is home to three sites recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: the West Lake which, with its beauty, has over time given life to popular legends and myths and inspired artists and poets; the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu, defined as the "first city of China"; the Grand Canal, the oldest and longest artificial river in the world that connects Hangzhou to Beijing, the Yellow River with the Yangtze.
Since 2012, the city has entered the UNESCO network of Creative Cities, in the Crafts and Popular Art cluster, in recognition of its productive excellence, silk and tea first and foremost. But Hangzhou also has a literary tradition of great importance and has a public library and a city library system which contribute to the promotion of reading and the valorisation of local literary production, which includes legends and folklore stories which give us evocative images of the area and of its traditions.
Our Milan Library System has created, in collaboration with the Hangzhou public library, the exhibition "Hangzhou Feel”: you can find it on our website virtual section, while the Dergano-Bovisa library displays a selection of books, in the original language, on the traditions and folklore of the city.
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