{"id":1048,"date":"2020-08-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/aktualnosci\/santa-maria-di-campogrosso-in-a-japanese-television-documentary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:29:34","slug":"santa-maria-di-campogrosso-in-a-japanese-television-documentary","status":"publish","type":"aktualnosc","link":"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/en\/aktualnosci\/santa-maria-di-campogrosso-in-a-japanese-television-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"The ruins of Santa Maria di Campogrosso in a Japanese television documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 3 August 2020 the Japanese public broadcaster NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai \u2014 Japan Broadcasting Corporation) filmed, with a crew specialising in documentary production, at the ruins of the Norman church of Santa Maria di Campogrosso, formerly S. Michele del Golfo, in the territory of Altavilla Milicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali in Palermo was glad to grant the request of WAY S.A.S., the coordinator for Italy, authorising the shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Japanese team was making a documentary on the Normans in Europe and in Italy. They were drawn to the ruins at Altavilla Milicia by their monumental scale, and by the fact that the excavations in the church \u2014 aimed at establishing the chronological phases of the building \u2014 have been coordinated since 2015 by the scientific mission of the Centre for the Research on the Culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wroc\u0142aw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The audio-video material documented the architecture of the Norman church and then turned to the cemetery south of it, where masonry tombs have been uncovered. (Pino Grasso)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"The NHK film crew with a camera on a tripod at the site, the sea and the church walls behind them\" class=\"wp-image-1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai \u2014 Japan Broadcasting Corporation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Camera operators filming beside the stone wall of the church, with the town of Altavilla Milicia and mountains behind\" class=\"wp-image-1046\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medievalsicily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/nhk-chiesazza-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The ruins of Santa Maria di Campogrosso will feature in the Japanese broadcaster\u2019s documentary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo: Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Palermo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altavillamilicia.com\/newsDet.asp?idNews=2032&amp;t=i-ruderi-della-chiesa-di-santa-maria-di-campogrosso-in-un-documentario-di-una-emittente-nipponica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">altavillamilicia.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crew from the Japanese public broadcaster NHK filmed at the ruins of the Norman church in Altavilla Milicia for a documentary on the Normans in Europe and 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