Capurso is the other Puglia: A village that surprises you every day. With over 200 annual events and a prime location, it's the ideal starting point for exploring the region and soaking up the Apulian spirit.
For over ten years a point of reference for the Municipality of Capurso, the Library D’Addosio It is a “community” library with two key principles: innovation , creativity, but also welcome and inclusion towards all those who enter it and who are accompanied in the use of services and in cultural creation and consumption activities.
Built in the early 1980s, the Library is located in the center of the municipal park, in the gardens of Piazza Matteotti, where children and families play outdoors.
Al ground floor free wi-fi we find theInfodesk, Reading room, a Children's space where the little ones can take part in readings aloud and workshops, and a Media library equipped with PC stations for finding digital material, consulting ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, audio and video resources, e-learning through the MediaLibraryOnLine-MLOL platform.
Al mezzanine we find one Leisure room dedicated to comics, theater, music, cinema, cooking; a room Laboratory, for cooking workshops (internships and school-work alternation for hotel institutes), buffets, meetings, gatherings and a Terrace for events such as book presentations and concerts.
Al focus on is the Event Hall, for film screenings, literary presentations, cultural activities, exhibitions, theatrical and musical events.
The library boasts the presence of 9.000 testi accessible to everyone.
«Our municipality has been recognized "City that reads 2020-2021" from Center for Books and Reading in agreement with ANCI, as its administration has demonstrated its commitment to continuously implementing public policies to promote reading in its territory – explains the councilor responsible for the library Mariangela Giordano -. The spread of reading in Capurso It therefore has a recognized and shared value, capable of positively influencing the individual and collective quality of life of its citizens – he concludes -. This is why our culturally oriented country could not fail to work on the renovation and redevelopment of its municipal library. The city of Capurso It will once again have its municipal library, a workshop of knowledge and the arts, and a home for local associations, which will be able to revive it through the numerous cultural events that have always taken place and that characterize us."
Opening time:
🕒 Monday to Saturday: 10:00-13:00
🕒 Monday to Friday: 15:00 PM - 19:00 PM
Address: Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 21, 70010 Capurso BA