CoopCulture promotes educational activities aimed at schools of all types and levels, through various visit experiences that combine the pleasure of knowledge with educational growth and the acquisition of a conscious citizenship.
The activities proposed are diversified according to the school level. The themes, the visit approach and Engaging visit experiences, which include playful and educational activities inside the Cloister and the Cathedral, often enriched by practical-creative activities.
Mosaicists at work
Where: The Cloister of Monreale, in Monreale
Target group: Primary school
Type of activity: game visit
Duration: 1 h
Cost: Euro 80,00 per group
The Cloister of the Benedictines of Monreale is a magical place, where you can admire extraordinary capitals decorated with historical figures and fantastic animals, and columns embellished with small and colorful tiles .
Accompanied by a didactic operator, the young visitors will learn about the artistic characteristics of the mosaic and will realize by themselves a drawing decorated with coloring cards.
The Benedictine Cloister
Where: The Cloister of Monreale, Monreale
Target group: primary/secondary school
Type of activity: visit
Duration: 1 h
Cost: Euro 80,00 per group
The Cloister, with its size and the charm of its architecture in the Arab tradition, provides countless stories about history, art and culture.
A guide will recount the anecdotes and details of the rich historiated capitals, themes from religious iconography and from the Old and New Testaments, animals from the medieval bestiary and the Middle Eastern tradition to phytomorphic themes can be found.
The Abbey Complex of the Cathedral of Monreale
Where: The Cloister of Monreale, Monreale
Participants: primary/secondary school
Type of activity: visit
Duration: 1 h
Cost: Euro 80,00 per group
The educational tour will propose an itinerary that will guide the students to the exploration of the Cathedral, with its extraordinary mosaic narration, passing through the Chapel of the Crucifix, better known as the Roano Chapel, named after its founder, and will conclude the walk along the ambulatories of the Cloister, with a special look at the important sculptural decoration of its capitals.