Riccione prepares for Easter 2008.
Among the Easter initiatives, that one of Associazione Pantòs with the collaboration of the City of Riccione is special for originality and charms: the Last Dinner of Sand, is the title which summarized the great sand sculpture, creates meadows of the track of ice-skating, adjacent street D’ Annunzio in Place Aldo Moro, close to the restaurant La Fattoria (beach 122). Pantos Association carries out this sculpture with the will “to pose in the centre of Easter Festivity the figure of Jesus Christ, during the Last Dinner with its apostles, before dying and reappearing for us”.
The team of seven artists of the “Accademia della Sabbia”, known at the public and the tourists for the achievements of the cribs of Christmas on the beach the last years, proposes to carry out, under the artistic direction of Maestro Antonio Molin, a sculpture four times larger than this of 2007, its impressive size 12 X 9 meters.
For the occasion it will be prepared a covered structure of 12 X 18 meters, to receive and protect the sculpture.
Work began on March three and will be completed in March 15. At 17,00 starts the inaugural ceremony with the presence of several institutional representatives and the Bishop Monsignor Francesco Lambiasi.
During the two weeks of preparation, the artists will be honoured to show the techniques of work of the sculpture, at the schools or the private groups, which will request a guided tour.
The Last Dinner of Sand, will be in Riccione until March 30.
Reserve your Easter holidays in Riccione!