Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
16 Comments CherryPie on Oct 25th 2015
Tartini House is one of the oldest houses that encircle Tartini Square.
Municipal documents from 1384 mention it as the Gothic building “Casa Pizagura”; later its exterior was renovated in the Neoclassical style. Here it was the Giuseppe Tartini was born.
On the 1st floor there is the Tartini Memorial Room, containing the objects the artist left to his family. The most interesting exhibits are; a post mortem mask, the master’s violin, the music score pages, the copper engraving which portrays Tartini’s dreams, and an oil painting – portrait of Tartini*
*From The Tourist Guide to Piran
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 24th 2015
Tartini Square is named after Giuseppe Tartini, a violin virtuoso and composer of music. He was born in Piran on 8th April 1692.
Tartini’s achievements in the sphere of violin virtuosity became a basis and stimulation for the later Paganini’s virtuosity and his unique violin technique.
Tartini created mostly instrumental music. He adored violin, and this is the reason why the majority of his concertos and sonatas were written for this particular instrument.*
For the 200th anniversary of the birth of their great artist (in 1892), the people of Piran wished to erect a monument. However the works took a lengthy time; and in 1896 they set up a larger than life-size bronze statue of the “master” on a high pedestal. The monument is the work of the Venetian sculptor Antonio dal Zotto. With its well considered positioning as it dominates the square and forms a unified whole with the Church of St. George, which dominates the town.**
*From Tartini House leaflet
** From The Tourist Guide to Piran
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 23rd 2015
Tartini Square became the central square of Piran at the end of the 13th century, but it acquired its present appearance only in the 19th century. When the harbour (mandrač) was filled, the inhabitants of Piran made a large square around which they built all the major municipal institutions (Town Hall, Court House, etc.) and apartment houses. One of the is the Gothic house called “Benecanka” (Venetian House), the only one which has kept its original style.
The square was named after the well-known Piran local violinist and composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770), who made the name of his birthplace known throughout Europe.
The place where Tartini Square is located today was once a harbour for the fishing boats of Piran. the harbour used to be outside the town walls, because the oldest, partly preserved walls stretched behind the present Town Hall.
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When the Venetians came to Piran at the end of the 13th Century, they built the Town Hall building near the harbour and outside the town walls present at that time. It was constructed in the Roman-Gothic style; its façade was full of immured coats of arms and inscriptions. It was demolished in the year 1877. Apart from the old Town Hall, they also demolished the overpass that was connecting the building with the ancient Loggia. The new Town Hall was finished two years later.
In the central axis on the second floor you can see an immured stone statue of a lion holding an open book as a memento of the Venetian Serenissima Republic and the old Town Hall building. The Venetian lion with the book was immured in the majority of the important town buildings: an open book meant peace, and a closed one war.
The stone statue of a lion with an open book is a common feature in this region of Slovenia. Above is a picture another stone carving tucked away just off the square in Piran.
And this picture features a stone lion with an open book in the nearby town of Koper.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 19th 2015
Love is where the journey begins.
Cherie
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 18th 2015
