Michael A. Di Giovine

A Tale of Two Cities: Padre Pio and the Reimagining of Pietrelcina and San Giovanni Rotondo

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Keywords

  • This article presents the concept of an â€
  • œ
  • imaginaire dialecticâ€
  • 
  • â€
  • a complex process of imagining and re-imagining places â€
  • by analysing how the Italian villages of Pietrelcina and San Giovanni Rotondo affect and are affected by tourist imaginaries
  • both materially and immaterially. The birthplace of the popular 20th century stigmatic saint
  • Padre Pio
  • Pietrelcina was â€
  • œ
  • discoveredâ€
  • 
  • by tourists amid Pioâ€
  • s canonisation fervor
  • and has now been rebuilt to conform to imaginaries of a â€
  • œ
  • traditionalâ€
  • 
  • 19th century hill-town that served as a formative environment for the saint. But if Pietrelcina embraced some imaginaries
  • it also reacted against others. Arguing that the iconography promulgated by Pioâ€
  • s shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo marginalises Pietrelcina
  • locals in the village respond with alternative re-presentations
  • such as biographies and images of Pioâ€
  • s childhood. Contending that all groups involved produce and consume tourist imaginaries
  • this article reveals the productivity of examining the imaginaire dialectic when researching meaning-making mechanisms at tourist sites

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