Events
Click on the following link for a monthly list of festivals and events by region
www.sagreinitalia.it
Piedmont’s National Chestnut Festival: La Fiera Nazionale del Marrone, October 14-17, 2010. The province and town of Cuneo is famous for its chestnuts and marrone glace, those luscious glazed chestnuts that appear on many Italian, French and American dessert carts. This year the Piemontese celebrate the harvest with special exhibitions on chestnuts and the many wonderful products made with them. The restaurants in town as well as the surrounding area will feature special dishes made with chestnuts. If you’re in the area, make sure to stop by Cuneo on this weekend. www.marrone.net
Bologna and Artelibro: Art Book Festival, September 24-26, 2010. Lectures, roundtables and conferences for technical professionals, initiatives for children’s books including workshops reserved for exploring the stages and evolution of childhood and adolescence. The great Umberto Eco, a professor at the University of Bologna, will speak as well as Luciano Canfora. A film festival will be created in collaboration with the Movie Library of Bologna. Topic: Antiquarian booksellers’ world. An award will be given for the best film.
Plus the 23rd International Antiquarian Book Fair, September 20-26, 2010. Showing their antique bindings and rare books will be Italian exhibitors, and international exhibitors from Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, UK, USA and other countries. www.artelibro.it
Siena and Il Palio: Every year Siena celebrates part of its intriguing history with two horse races called Il Palio. Undoubtedly, these are two of the most famous events in Italy. 10 contrade, or neighborhoods of Siena, participate in each, racing their own horse with jockey in a 90-second madness around Il Campo. It begins with a solemn but beautiful procession, followed by the blessing of the horses in each contrada’s chapel and then the cut-throat race in which a horse can finish and win with or without its jockey! July 2 is Il Palio della Madonna di Provenzano. August 16 is Il Palio dell’Assunta. This year ticket prices are Euro 250,00.
www.2beinsiena.com
Click on the following link for a list of theatre events in Napoli
www.teatrofestivalitalia.it
June 4-27, 2010: Napoli Teatro Festival involves the entire city and features more than 20 locations as a stage with classical and modern live performances and plays. Napoli, Italy.
July 22-25, 2010: In its 23rd year, Porretta Soul Festival, with a tribute this year to Otis Redding. Porretta Terme, Italy. www.porrettasoul.it
Until July 25, 2010: Fellini. From Italy to the Moon. A project co-produced by MAMbo, the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, and the Bologna Film Collection, this retrospective covers 40 years of Fellini’s work showing important photographs, signed drawings, audio-video stations, documents, playbills, posters and movies. Bologna, Italy.
Until September 26, 2010: Caravaggio e La Fuga in the Doria Pamphilj Villas. For the first time in one location, 80 landscape paintings by Caravaggio with the highlight being the painting Rest During the Flight to Egypt. This exhibit celebrates the reopening of the Villa del Principe, the most sumptuous noble home in Genoa, Italy. Interiors and gardens are restored. During restoration, frescoes by Perin del Vaga were discovered along with 11 Flemish tapestries commissioned by the Doria between the 15 and 16th-centuries. Many of these works are being shown to the public for the first time. Genova, Italy. www.dopart.it/genova
Until October 3, 2010: Some of our greatest contemporary artists exhibit their works in the Valle dei Templi. To aid the restoration of the Telamon at the Temple of Zeus, more than 50 sculptures and paintings will be shown throughout this extraordinary temple. Visitors view these works and after October 3 may bid on them at a Christie’s of Milan auction. This is part of a UNESCO project in cooperation with the Macro Museum in Rome. Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. www.ilcigno.org/public/Valle_dei_Templi.html
February 20-June 13, 2010: Caravaggio Exhibition at Scuderie del Quirnale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, Roma, Italy
April 7-11, 2011: In Verona, Vinitaly
www.vinitaly.com
