SPICI participates in the MANN Digital Day: the presentation of the project “GREENBike MANN EAST-WEST from art to the sea”

On Monday, 19 June, from 10:00 to 17:30, the Auditorium of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples hosted the first MANN digital day, dedicated to the presentation of the 26 digital projects carried out within the framework of the PON Culture and Development.

On this occasion, the General Director of SPICI, Mariangela Contursi, presented the project “GREENBike MANN EAST-WEST from art to the sea”, an app developed by SPICI in collaboration with Huck The Duck, designed to guide users to discover the metropolitan city of Naples and its territorial beauties through cycling tourism.

A sustainable project that combines landscape, history, art, archaeology, anthropology, curated by Paolo Giulierini, Daniela Savy, Riccardo Motti, Marialucia Giacco, Francesca Scamardella, Luca Simeone, Ludovica Lanzuise (Procida).

The GREENBike MANN app itineraries

All itineraries start from the MANN (which has just inaugurated the external bike area with racks, electric bike charging stations, and a drinking fountain) and the Bicycle house in the Galleria Principe (part of the ExtraMann network, designed by the University of Naples Federico II under the OBVIA framework for MANN).

The app is designed to guide the user to discover the metropolitan city of Naples and its territorial beauties through cycling tourism, along four trajectories, each corresponding to a visit itinerary that starts from MANN and develops:

• in a westerly direction, towards the Phlegraean Fields, up to Miseno;

• in an easterly direction, towards the Golden Mile, up to Pompeii;

• in the sea direction;

• in the Procida direction.

NAPLES WEST/Bellini Theatre, CSI Gaiola Pausyllipon, Church of San Gennaro Pozzuoli, Flavian Amphitheatre, Serapeum, Temple of Apollo Lake Averno, Baia Baths, Vanvitellian House, Lake Miseno, Piscina Mirabile, Aragonese Castle, Baia Archaeological Museum.

This itinerary is connected to that of Procida, which can be reached by sea from Pozzuoli NAPLES PROCIDA/Marina Grande, Palazzo Merlato, the lemon groves, the lighthouse, the cotto kiln, Aragonese Tower in the Pozzovecchio district, postman's beach, the Parula, Vivara islet, Centane viewpoint, Graziella's house, Marina di Corricella, Piazza dei Martiri, Santa Margherita Nuova, Palazzo d’Avalos, Abbey of San Michele.

NAPLES EAST/Circumvesuviana, San Giovanni a Teduccio UNINA Campus, Pietrarsa, MAAV Wine Museum, Portici Royal Palace MUSA and Botanical Garden, Villa Campolieto, Herculaneum.

MANN AND THE SEA/Serino Aqueduct, Hellenistic Necropolis, Pietrasanta, Church of the Art of Silk, Church of San Pietro Martire, Immacolatella Port, Piazza Municipio archaeological site, art metro, Royal Palace, San Vincenzo Pier.

The app and its features

The application, soon to be available on both iOS and Android, has been developed with the aim of enabling MANN to offer its users a new visiting dimension, guiding them to discover the important connections between the Museum and the cultural and scientific beauties and riches of the territory, through ecologically mobile bicycle routes.

The app includes various features, available in both Italian and English, including:

• sections dedicated to the description of the itineraries, divided into individual points of interest with links to images of MANN's artworks;

• geolocation of the user and sites;

• possibility to filter the type of route (e.g. sea route, east route, etc.);

• indication of the itinerary difficulty levels;

• dedicated Kids graphic line.