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The 2nd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality (SALENTO AVR 2015) will take place in Lecce (Italy) from August 31 to September 3, 2015. This edition of SALENTO AVR ranged over topics from virtual/augmented/mixed reality to 3D user interfaces and the technologies needed to develop applications in many areas such as medicine, entertainment, arts and cultural heritage, military field, the industry, and maintenance. These topics were addressed by paper sessions, demos and poster sessions. We are very grateful to the Program Committee and Local Organizing Committee members for their support and for the time spent to review and discuss the submitted papers and doing so in a timely and professional manner. We would like to sincerely thank the keynote and tutorial speakers who willingly accepted our invitation and shared their expertise through illuminating talks, helping us to fully meet the conference objectives. We extend our thanks to the University of Salento for the enthusiastic acceptance to host the conference and the sponsors (*) for providing support in the organization of the event. Last but not least, we would like to thank all authors for submitting of their papers and presenting their works at the conference and all the conference attendees for making SALENTO AVR 2015 an excellent forum on virtual and augmented reality, facilitating the exchange of ideas, fostering new collaborations, and shaping the future of this exciting research field. We hope the attendees will find during the conference interesting material and fruitful ideas for their future work. Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) edited by Springer.
(*) supported by: -‐ Assessore al Mediterraneo, Cultura e Turismo of Apulia Region (approval no. 170 -‐ 23/03/2015) -‐ Provincia di Lecce
Committees
Conference Chair Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, University of Salento, Italy Conference Co-chair Patrick Bourdot, CNRS/LIMSI, University Paris-Sud, France Honorary Chair Giovanni Aloisio, University of Salento, Italy Scientific Program Committee Andrea Abate, University of Salerno, Italy Fernando Arambula Cosio, UNAM, Mexico Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Roland Blach, Fraunhofer IAO, Germany Selim Balcisoy, Sabancı University, Turkey Monica Bordegoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Davide Borra, NoReal.it, Torino, Italy Pierre Boulanger, University of Alberta, Canada Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Sergio Casciaro, IFC-CNR, Italy Bruno Carpentieri, University of Salerno, Italy Marcello Carrozzino, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Mario Ciampi, ICAR/CNR, Italy Pietro Cipresso, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy Lucio Colizzi, CETMA, Italy Jean-Marc Cieutat, ESTIA Recherche, France Mirabelle D’Cruz, University of Nottingham, UK Yuri Dekhtyar, Riga Technical University, Latvia Alessandro De Mauro, KU Leuven, Belgium Giorgio De Nunzio, University of Salento, Italy Aldo Franco Dragoni, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy Themis Exarchos, University of Ioannina, Greece Dimitrios Fotiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Francesco Gabellone, IBAM ITLab, CNR, Italy Jaume Segura Garcia, Universitat de València, Spain
Osvaldo Gervasi, University of Perugia, Italy Luigi Gallo, ICAR/CNR, Italy Viktors Gopejenko, Information Systems Management Institute (ISMA), Latvia Mirko Grimaldi, CRIL, University of Salento, Italy Heiko Herrmann, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia Tomas Krilavičius, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania Torsten Kuhlen, Aachen University, Germany Salvatore Livatino, University of Hertfordshire, UK Luca Mainetti, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Martini, CETMA, Italy Daniel R. Mestre, Aix-Marseille University/CNRS, France Andrés Navarro, VICOMTech, Spain Roberto Paiano, University of Salento, Italy Giorgos Papadourakis, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Sofia Pescarin, CNR ITABC, Italy Paolo Proietti, MIMOS, Italy James Ritchie, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK Robert Stone, University of Birmingham, UK Franco Tecchia, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy Carlos M. Travieso–González, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Manolis Tsiknaki, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece Krzysztof Walczak, Poznan University, Poland
Local Organizing Committee Antonio Mongelli, University of Salento, Italy Ilenia Paladini, University of Salento, Italy
Program at a Glance
Monday 31st August 8,30 – 09,45 RegistraNon
9,45 – 11,15 Tutorial 1 11,15 – 11,30 Coffee break
11,30 – 13,00 Tutorial 2
15,00 – 15,15 Opening Session
15,15 – 16,15 Keynote Speech 1
16,15 – 16,30 Coffee break
16,30 – 17,45 Session 1 – Applica7ons in Cultural Heritage
18,30 – 20,30 Guided Visit of Lecce
Tuesday 1st September 9,00 – 10,00 Keynote Speech 2
10,00 – 11,00 Session 2 – Augmented & Mixed Reality
11,00 – 11,15 Coffee break
11,15 – 12,30 Session 3 – Augmented & Mixed Reality
15,00 – 16,00 Keynote Speech 3
16,00 – 16,15 Coffee break
16,15 – 17,30 Session 4 – Applica7ons in Medicine
20,00 – 23,00 Gala Dinner
Wednesday 2nd September 9,00 – 10,00 Keynote Speech 4
10,00 – 11,00 Session 5 – Applica7ons in Industry and Robo7cs
11,00 – 11,15 Coffee break
11,15 – 12,00 Session 6 – Applica7ons in Industry and Robo7cs
12,00 – 12,45 Poster Presenta7on
14,45 – 16,15 Session 8 – Interfaces
16,15 – 16,30 Coffee break
16,30 – 17,00 Session 9 -‐ Poster Session
17,00 – 17,15 Closing Session
18,00 – 23,00 Guided Visit of Otranto (not included in the registraNon fee)
Thursday 3rd September 9,30 – 12,00 InfoDay of the
MICRO Project (in Italian)
8,30 – 18,00 Guided Visit of Gallipoli (not included in the registraNon fee)
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Monday 31st August
8,30 – 9,45 Registra7on
9,45 – 11,15 Tutorial 1
Stéphane CoNn INRIA – France
Research, Prototyping, and Product Development of Medical Simula@on Applica@ons Using the SOFA Framework
11,30 – 13,00
Tutorial 2 Fabrizio Funtò
Hyperreality Partner -‐ Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cultural Heritage Innova@on Design: What Caught My Eye
15,00 – 15,15 Opening Session
15,15 – 16,15 Keynote Speech 1 Sofia Pescarin CNR ITABC, Italy
Virtual Museums Interac@ng and Augmen@ng Cultural Heritage: an European Perspec@ve
16,15 – 16,00 coffee break
16,30 – 17,45
Session 1 – Applica7ons in Cultural Heritage Chair: Sofia Pescarin
Francesco Gabellone Integrated Technologies for Museum Communica@on and Interac@ve Apps in the PON DiCet Projec
Raynel Mendoza, Danilo Vargas, Silvia Baldiris, Ramon Fabregat
“Social Heritage” Augmented Reality Applica@on to Heritage Educa@on
Roberto Pierdicca, Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingareb, Eva Savina Malinverni, Francesca Colosi, Roberto Orazi
“Making Visible the Invisible. Augmented Reality Visualiza@on for 3D Reconstruc@ons of Archaeological Sites
Roberto Pierdicca, Emanuele Frontoni, Primo Zingareb, Mirco Sturari, Ramona Quadrini, Paolo Clini
Advanced interac@on with Pain@ngs by Augmented Reality and High Resolu@on Visualiza@on: a Real Case Exhibi@on
Pietro Vecchio, Francesca Mele, Lucio T. De Paolis, Italo Epicoco, Marco Mancini, Giovanni Aloisio
Cloud Compu@ng and Augmented Realty for Cultural Heritage
18,30 – 20,30 Guided Visit of Lecce
Scientific Program
Tuesday 1st September
9,00 – 10,00
Keynote Speech 2 Patrick Bourdot
CNRS/LIMSI, University of Paris-‐Sud, France
Collabora@ve Interac@ons within Immersive Environments: Advantages, Drawbacks and Current Research Issues on Mul@-‐Stereoscopic CAVE-‐like Setups
10,00 – 11,00
Session 2 – Augmented & Mixed Reality Chair: Patrick Bourdot
Stephane Cote, Antoine Girard-‐Vallee
Accurate on Site Georeferenced Subsurface U@lity Model Visualisa@on
I Gede Mahendra Darmawiguna, I Made Gede Sunarya, Made Windu Antara Kesiman, Ketut Resika Arthana, Padma Nyoman CrisnapaN, Eka Putra Widiantara, Gede Agus Putra Yasa, Putu Putri Aryasih, Ni Made Desi Arisandi
The Augmented Reality Story Book Project: A Collec@on of Balinese Miths and Legends
Nicolás Fernando Gazcón, Silvia Mabel Castro
ARBS: An Interac@ve and Collabora@ve System for Augmented Reality Books
Anna Katharina Hebborn, Marius Erdt, Stefan Müller
Robust Model Based Tracking using Edge Mapping and Refinement
11,00 – 11,15 coffee break
11,15 – 12,30
Session 3 – Augmented & Mixed Reality Chair: Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
Sara Invido, Italo Spada, Lucio De Paolis
Augmented Reality, Embodied Cogni@on and Learning
Anna Katharina Hebborn, Milan Dilberovic, Adrian Derstroff, Andre Franke, Nils Höhner, Patrick Krechel, Lisa Prinz, Astrid Szirmai, Fabian Weigend, Stefan Müller
OscARsWelt: A Collabora@ve Augmented Reality Game
Ali Samini, Karljohan Lundin Palmerius
Device Registra@on for 3D Geometry-‐based User-‐Perspec@ve Rendering in Hand-‐Held Video See-‐Through Augmented Reality
Bruno Simoes, Federico Prandi, Raffaele De Amicis
Crea@vity Support in Projec@on-‐based Augmented Environments
Lakshmi Prabha Nadamai Sekar, Alexander Santos, Olga Beltramello
IMU DriZ reduc@on for Augmented Reality Applica@ons
Tuesday 1st September
15,00 – 16,00
Keynote Speech 3 Luigi Gallo
Ins@tute for High Performance Compu@ng
and Networking (ICAR-‐CNR), Italy
Touchless Interac@on in Surgery: the Medical Imaging Toolkit Experience
16,00 – 16,15 coffee break
16,15 – 17,30
Session 4 – Applica7ons in Medicine Chair: Luigi Gallo
Stephane Claude Gobron, Nicolas Zannini, Nicolas Wenk, Carl Schmid, Yannick Charrodon, Aurélien Fauquex, Michel Lauria, Francis Degache, Rolf Frischknecht
Serious games for rehabilita@on using head-‐mounted display and hap@c device
CrisNan Lorenzini, Claudia Faita, Camilla Tanca, Marcello Carrozzino, Franco Tecchia, Massimo Bergamasco
VR-‐based Serious Game Designed for Medical Ethics Training
Francesco Ricciardi, Emiliano Pastorelli, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, Heiko Herrmann
Scalable Medical Viewer for Virtual Reality Environments
Francesco Ricciardi, Chiara Copelli, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
A Pre-‐Opera@ve Planning Module for an Augmented Reality Applica@on in Maxillo-‐Facial Surgery
Adrian Schneider, Peter Thalmann, Simon Pezold, Simone Hieber, Philippe Claude Cabn
Augmented Reality Assisted Brain Tumor Extrac@on in Mice
20,00 – 23,00 Gala Dinner
Wednesday 2nd September
9,00 – 10,00
Keynote Speech 4 Monica Bordegoni
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
How Touch and Smell Enhance the Realism of our Virtual Experiences
10,00 – 11,00
Session 5 – Applica7ons in Industry and Robo7cs Chair: Monica Bordegoni
Víctor H. Andaluz, Jessica S. OrNz, Jorge S. Sanchéz
Bilateral Control of a Robo@c Arm through Brain Signals
Francesco Argese, Andrea MarNni, Lucio Colizzi, Marco Fina, Fiorenzo Ambrosino, Pasquale Bene, Leonardo Cosma, Giovanni Reo
A Virtual Prototyping Pla]orm to Improve CAE Analysis Workflow
Francesco Chionna, Piero Cirillo, Vito Palmieri, Mauro Bellone
A Proposed Hardware-‐SoZware Architecture for Virtual Reality in Industrial Applica@ons
Marwene Kechiche, Mohamed Amine Abidi, Patrick Baert, Rosario Toscano
Using Hap@c Forces Feedback for Immersive and Interac@ve Simula@on in industrial Context
11,00 – 11,15 coffee break
Session 6 – Applica7ons in Industry and Robo7cs Chair: Monica Bordegoni
11,15 – 12,00
Federico Manuri A Flexible AR-‐based Training System for Industrial Maintenance
Daniele SporNllo, Giovanni Avveduto, Franco Tecchia, Marcello Carrozzino
Training in VR: a Preliminary Study on Learning Assembly/Disassembly Sequences
Kostas Kontakis, Malvina Steiakaki, Michael KalochrisNanakis, Kostas Kapetanakis, Athanasios Malamos
Applying Aesthe@c Rules in Virtual Environments by Means of Seman@c Web Technologies
Wednesday 2nd September
12,00 – 12,45
Session 7 – Poster Presenta7ons Chair: Antonio Mongelli
Giorgio Bernabei, Angelo Corallo, Roberto Lombardo, Simone Maci, Valerio Galli, Antonio Notaro, Danilo Cannoleda
Development of a framework to support Virtual Review within complex-‐product lifecycle management
Yevgeniya Daineko 3D Physics Virtual Laboratory as a Teaching Pla]orm
Ugo Erra, Valerio Colonnese
Experiences in Development of an Augmented Reality Dressing Room
Asylgul Gabdullina, Anuar Zhukeshov, Assem Amrenova, Zhandos Moldabekov, Anar Kusyman, Mira Amirkozhanova, Tannur Bakytkazy, Kuantay Fermakhan, Argynbek Kaibar, Kaster Serik
Development of a Virtual laboratory for inves@ga@ng the interac@on of materials with plasma
Lucian Ilea, Catalin Boanta, Cornel Brisan
Aspects Concerning Algorithms of VRML Surfaces’ GeneraNon
Tobias Müller Towards a Framework for Informa@on Presenta@on in Augmented Reality for the Support of Procedural Tasks
Sihem Ben Jouida, Saoussen Krichen
A Dynamic-‐Oriented Decision Support System for group Interview Knapsack Problem
Carlo Vizzi Virtual Reality as Cross-‐Domain Language in Collabora@ve Environments
Wednesday 2nd September
14,45 – 16,15
Session 8 – Interfaces Chair: Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
KonstanNnos Cornelis Apostolakis, Petros Daras
Natural User Interfaces for Virtual Character Full Body and Facial Anima@on in Immersive Virtual Worlds
Raffaello Brondi, Marcello Carrozzino
ARTworks: an Augmented Reality Interface as an Aid for Restora@on Professionals
Giuseppe Caggianese, Luigi Gallo, Pietro Neroni
Design and Preliminary Evalua@on of Free-‐Hand Travel Techniques for Wearable Immersive Virtual Reality Systems with Egocentric Sensing
Claudia Faita, Federico Vanni, CrisNan Lorenzin, Marcello Carrozzino, Massimo Bergamasco
Percep@on of Basic Emo@ons from Facial Expressions of Dynamic Virtual Avatars
Zulqarnain Rashid Bridging Offline and Online World through Augmentable Smart Glass Interfaces
Alessandro Zocco, Madeo Damiano Zocco, Antonella Greco, Salvatore LivaNno, Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
Touchless Interac@on for Command and Control in Military Opera@ons
16,15 – 16,30 coffee break
16,30 – 17,00 Poster Session
17,00 – 17,15 Closing Session
TUTORIAL 1 Stéphane Cotin INRIA – France Research, prototyping, and product development of medical simulation applications using the SOFA framework Stephane Cotin joined INRIA in 2007 as Research Director. Since January 2010 he has lead the SHACRA group, a multidisciplinary team of scientists involved in the field on medical simulation. Stephane also manages the development of a Large Scale Initiative on Medical Simulation. Stephane is a senior research scientist with experience in biomechanical modeling, real-time simulation, and physics-based modeling. Specialized in medical applications, from training to planning of complex medical procedures. Management of several projects and teams. Stephane is currently responsible for the development of a national initiative on Medical Simulation using the SOFA framework as a common platform for research, integration and validation of new algorithms. From 1999 to 2007, Stephane was the research lead for the Sim Group at CIMIT in Boston where he was responsible for defining research directions and technical infrastructures for several simulation projects, including a Chest Trauma Training System, a Computer-Enhanced Laparoscopic Training System and an Interventional Radiology Training System.
Tutorials
TUTORIAL 2 Fabrizio Funtò Hyperreality Partner – Los Angeles, CA, USA Cultural Heritage Innovation Design: what caught my eye Fabrizio Funtò received the Italian “Laurea” in Philosophy of Language in 1984. After some collaborations with Enidata as teacher of Network Technologies and C Language programming, he joined Infobyte Spa as Programmers Team Leader, and after a couple of year as Managing Director. During his conduction, Infobyte has produces 30+ interactive CD-ROM titles and probably the most famous Virtual Reality attractions ever published in that pioneer age. He won the Perseo d’Oro (Mediartech, Florence, 1996) in the category of Best Interactive CD (“Galleria Giulia”) and, together with Silicon Graphic, the TiLE Award 1997 with “In Searching for the Holy Grail” – first ever multiplayer real time VR game. He then created the first virtual set for the Italian State Broadcast company (RAI) for two programs, Mixer and SuperQuark. In 1998 he teamed up with ACS Studio, continuing to produce worldwide level Virtual Reality titles like The Nero’s Domus Aurea, The Mistery City, The Rollercoaster for “The Tech Museum” in San Jose (CA, USA) and some experiences for ESA (EU Space Agency). In the 2000 he founded a new company, Softdesign, in partnership with Harold Production, and followed two different production directions: real time attractions for videogames and virtual reality immersive experiences and 3D off-lines animations and visual effects. After some productions for the Rome Film Fest and the participation to an international project for distributing digital movies through satellites (ISIDE for the European Space Agency) as Digital Pictures, he became R&D consultant for Advanced Projects in Activision Blizzard, the USA giant videogames corporate of Vivendi/Universal Group. He is now involved into the design of large Cultural Heritage attractions.
Tutorials
Keynote Speakers
Monica Bordegoni Politecnico di Milano, Italy How Touch and Smell Enhance the Realism of our Virtual Experiences Monica Bordegoni is full professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Design at Politecnico di Milano. She teaches Virtual Prototyping at the School of Design and at the School of Industrial Engineering, and is coordinator of the Virtual Prototyping Lab. Her research interest includes interactive Virtual Prototyping, Virtual/Augmented technology for industrial applications, haptic technology and haptic interaction, product experience, emotional engineering. She is member of the executive committee board of ASME Society – Computers and Information in Engineering, and co-chair of the Design Society SIG on Emotional Engineering. Patrick Bourdot CNRS/LIMSI, University of Paris-Sud, France Collaborative Interactions within Immersive Environments: Advantages, Drawbacks and Current Research Issues on Multi-Stereoscopic CAVE-like Setups Patrick Bourdot is Research Director at CNRS and head of VENISE team (http://www.limsi.fr/venise), the Virtual & Augmented Reality research group he has created in 2001 at CNRS/LIMSI Lab. Architect graduated in 1986, he received his PhD in Computer Sciences at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1992, joined the CNRS/LIMSI lab in 1993. His main research focuses are multi-sensorimotor, multimodal and collaborative V&AR interactions, and the related issues for users’ perception and cognition. He coordinated the scientific partnership of his Lab or led a number of research projects that have been or are currently funded by French government or by national and regional research institutes. He has been the founding secretary of AFRV, the French association of V&AR. At the international level, one of his actions has been to manage the CNRS Labs involved in INTUITION, the NoE of the 6th IST framework focused on V&AR, where he was member of the Core Group. He is founding member of EuroVR Association (www.eurovr-association.org), and has been re-elected last year to its executive board.
Luigi Gallo Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR-CNR), Italy Touchless Interaction in Surgery: the Medical Imaging Toolkit Experience Luigi Gallo received the M.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Naples “Federico II” in July 2006 and a Ph.D. degree in Information Technology Engineering at the University of Naples “Parthenope” in April 2010. He is a Research Scientist at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) – Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), and a Lecturer of Informatics at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Since January 2011, he has been a member of the iHealthLab – Intelligent Healthcare Laboratory. Since June 2007 he has been a member of the Advanced Medical Imaging and Computing labOratory (AMICO), developed from a cooperation agreement between the IBB and ICAR institutes of the National Research Council of Italy. His fields of interest include natural user interfaces and human interface aspects of Virtual/Augmented Reality, specifically considering medical application scenarios. Sofia Pescarin CNR ITABC, Italy Virtual Museums Interacting and Augmenting Cultural Heritage: an European Perspective Sofia Pescarin, Archaeologist, Degree in Topography of ancient Italy, PhD in History and Computing, Master in “Technology of Museums”, is a specialist in 3D survey, GIS, landscape reconstruction, virtual museums, open source applied to cultural heritage and virtual archaeology. She works as a researcher at the Institute of Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Council of Researches in Rome (CNR ITABC), in the Virtual Heritage Lab. Here she coordinates a research dedicated to “Virtual Heritage” and has been the project coordinator of V-MUST.NET, FP7 ICT Network of Excellence focused on virtual museums (2011-2015). She is the chair of the Italian School of Virtual Archaeology and the scientific director of Archeovirtual (www.archeovirtual.it). Within V-MUST, she has recently coordinated the exhibition “Keys to Rome” in 4 museums and co-directed the Italian chapter of the exhibition: “Le chiavi di Roma. La città di Augusto” (Museo dei Fori Imperiali, 23th Sept 2014 – 10th May 2015).
Keynote Speakers
Venue
The SALENTO AVR 2015 will take place in the Monastery of the Olivetani (Monastero degli Olivetani), adjacent to the Church of Saints Nicolò and Cataldo. The monastery was probably built between 1171 and 1174 for the order of Benedictine blacks. Of particular relevance are the traces of frescoes depicting episodes of monastic life. The Monastery has been recently restored by the University of Salento in collaboration with the Municipal administration. Today the monastery houses part of the Department of Cultural Heritage and the Department of Historical Studies, sections of the Cultural Heritage Faculty of the University of Salento.
Monastery of the Olivetani Department of Cultural Heritage – University of Salento
Viale San Nicola - 73100 Lecce, Italy
phone +39 0832 296805
Social Events Monday 31st August
18,30 – 20,30
Guided Visit of Lecce, the Capital of Baroque (included in the registration fee)
The route moves through the center of Lecce and will describe the history of the city since ancient times – Messapian and Roman – up to the splendor of the Renaissance and Baroque city. The visit includes Porta Napoli, Via Palmieri (a historic street) and Piazza Duomo, the square that contains the Bishop’s Palace, the Seminary, the Bell Tower and the Cathedral. Walking through Corso Vittorio Emanuele you will reach Saint Oronzo’s Square, where you can see the Roman Column and the Ampitheatre, important remains of Lecce’s glorious Roman heritage. The tour will end with the Church of the Holy Cross, jewel of Lecce’s Baroque.
At the end of the guided visit there will be a tasting of local products.
Social Events
Tuesday 1st September 20,00 – 23,00
Gala Dinner with Pizzica Dance Show
(included in the registration fee)
Accompanying persons and students are welcome; the cost of the gala dinner is € 50
The Pizzica is widespread mainly throughout the Salento region, over the last 15 years in August it takes place the largest festival dedicated to the pizzica called “La Notte della Taranta” (Taranta Night). It is one of the most famous Italy’s folk dance, a traditional music and ballet of considerable social and cultural importance. This ballet is surrounded by religious beliefs and something mythological that has always fascinated people since old times. The music is performed by various instruments such as violins, mandolins, guitars and flutes, but the tambourine is the most important.
Social Events
Wednesday 2nd September 18,00 – 23,00
Guided Visit of Otranto, the Gateway to the East
(not included in the registration fee)
Price: € 30,00 per person (minimum 20 persons)
Otranto is Italy’s most eastern town and so its port has always played a pivotal role in trade and relations with the Orient. The visit includes the castle that still preserves the signs the Ottoman’s attack in 1480, when the troops of Muhammad II occupied the city. The tour continues with the Norman Cathedral, which has a huge mosaic floor, dating back to the XII century and depicting the Tree of Life. Inside there are the remains of the 800 martyrs of 1480. For this reason Otranto is called the “City of Martyrs”. The tour will end with the Byzantine Church of St. Peter that preserves important frescoes. 18,00: leaving for Otranto 19,00–20,30: guided visit of the Otranto town 20,30–22,15: free time in Otranto 23,00: arrival to Lecce
Social Events
Thursday 3rd September 8,30 – 18,00
Guided Visit of Gallipoli, the Pearl on the Ionic Sea
(not included in the registration fee)
Price: € 30,00 per person (minimum 20 persons)
The walking tour of Gallipoli is developed inside the strict and narrow streets of the historic center situated in an island that you can reach walking on an wooden bridge connected to the mainland. During the tour the visit to the St. Agata Cathedral and those of St. Cristina, of the Canneto Madonna plus the Greek fountain are included. We recommend a visit to one of the so many underground oil presses where the oil for lamps was produced. 8,30: leaving for Gallipoli 9,30–11,30: guided visit of the Gallipoli town 11,30 – 17,15: free time in Gallipoli 18,00: arrival to Lecce It is possible the transfer by bus at the beach (Lido San Giovanni).
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