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The Animo MEDITERRANEATTITUDINE products, accompany you even outside the hotel, with a specific line for body, in size 100 ml / 250 ml.

Lines that we offer are inspired by themes that belong to our culture in its various expressions. Our creative process is a continuous search through the stories, traditions, colors, art contrasts and humanity of the Mediterranean, to spread the essence of mediterraneattitudine.

We involve every sense, creating visual sensory and olfactory experiences, to tell a special mood, that of Sicily and the Mediterranean.

Will be possible to find the Animo products, inside hotels that use our courtesy line, SPA boutiques and in some concept stores. It is also possibile to buy our products directly by filling out the form.

Glass painting dates back to the end of 17th century and the first decades of 19th century. As a popular art form, it developed all over Europe almost at the same time. The paintings that largely depict religious iconography are tempera made and acquire a particular transparency and brightness.

In Sicily the traditional, stereotyped iconography is given a new dimension by glass painting by means of realistic elements of everyday life. Our Ladies and virgins pick up spikes and cook bean soups; thanks to miracle events, saints defend from plague, diseases and famines and protect the field and craft working.

Very bright colors and detailed decorations make the Sicilian glass painting more genuine and direct as compared to other countries.

The Sicilian puppet theatre was born in the 19th century and tells about the knights’ deeds played by puppets from the French Royal family to Orlando Innamorato (Roland in Love) and Orlando Furioso (Furious Roland), from the wars against Spanish Moors to the Roncisvalle route.

The theatre equipment was and still is made up of puppets and placards of course but also of canvas paintings illustrating the deeds: every single placard was disassembled into several squares where the story ran; the placards were hung either in the theatre hall or in the nearby square like advertising posters. The public became very fond of the long deed cycle which, in the old drafts, was performed 371 times in a row.

Today the Puppet Theatre is best performed by the Associazione Figli d’Arte Cuticchio, founded by Giacomo Cuticchio, the pupil to the famous Achille Greco. He opened his first theatre in 1933, a travelling theatre from 1943 to 1969 when he settled in Palermo and opened the Super Teatro “Ippogrifo” situated in the city Quattro Canti. Today Mimmo Cuticchio is acknowledged as the one who continued, affirmed and relaunched the family tradition. In 1997 he started the first puppeteers and storytellers’ school. In 2001 the UNESCO conferred the “Verbal and Immaterial Patrimony of Mankind” recognition to the Puppet Theatre.