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Visit to the Cap Corse conservatory
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Discover the heritage
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Mairie 20217 CANARI 20217 Canari
Cap Corse
04 95 37 80 17
All year round, the Conservatoire du Cap Corse de Canari, a unique example of conservatory throughout Corsica, offers two permanent exhibitions in the cellars of the former Saint François convent (16th century) recently restored:
- Traditional Cap Corse costume
- Old photographs:
- Industrial Memory: Since July 2020, a film "L'enfer blanc" is presented.
Testimony of industrial memory, it traces the history of the asbestos factory of Canari.
This small museum presents a panorama of Cape Corsican dress from the 19th century (1840 to 1900), and a photo library of Cape Corsican life through the centuries.
The exhibition features around fifteen women's and men's costumes (maids' habits, fishermen's habits, wedding dresses, etc.) displayed in the elegant setting of the recently restored former Franciscan convent of Saint Francis, founded in 1506.
All the costumes on display have been made exactly to order by the sewing workshop of the Anima Carnarese association.
The generally accepted idea is that women's costumes have always been entirely black. This is not true.
On the one hand, total black only appeared at the beginning of the 20th century.
What's more, women, particularly those from Cap Corse, a land of trade par excellence, dressed in a wide variety of brightly coloured imported fabrics.
The small hands of Anima Canarese have put together this superb wardrobe, drawing in particular on the research carried out by Rennie Pecqueux-Barboni, an ethnologist who wrote a thesis on old Corsican costume in 1983.
This testimony to the region's clothing heritage is set to become a real tourist attraction for the town.
This museum has become the Conservatoire du Cap Corse, with the creation of a photo library based on private documents on life in Canari and Cap Corse.
An "image" area has been set up at the heart of the museum, where you can view photos of the village and the micro region, both past and present.
For further information, please contact
Town Hall Secretariat
Opening times :
- June & September: Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - 10am to 12pm / 2pm to 5pm
- July to end of August: Every day from 10am to 1pm and from 5pm to 8pm.
- Winter: by appointment.
Address :
Town Hall
20217 CANARI
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