It's one of Italy's cultural highlights: until September 27, the sixteenth-century Castle of L'Aquila, home to the National Museum of Abruzzo, will hold the exhibition "The Visitation in L'Aquila. Raphael and Pontormo". The exhibition brings back to the city, after more than four hundred years, Raphael’s celebrated "Visitation", exceptionally loaned by the Prado Museum in Madrid. Giovanni Battista Branconio, the Urbino master's friend and patron, commissioned the altarpiece, which was created between 1518 and 1519 for the Branconio family chapel in the church of San Silvestro. After spending almost a century in L'Aquila, the piece was relocated to Spain, where it is currently preserved. The masterwork is shown alongside Pontormo's "Visitation of Carmignano". This homecoming has significant symbolic meaning for a city that, seventeen years after the earthquake, is celebrating its rebirth through art.