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| Pinturicchio - Perugia and Spello |
Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria
Perugia
Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore
Spello
www.mostrapintoricchio.it |
| Exceptionally extended through August 31, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| Following the success of the Perugino exhibition in 2004, this great event was organized
to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance
and a symbol of the city of Perugia. The exhibition is held in the renowned Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria. A second
part is held in Spello, in the Collegiata di S. Maria Maggiore in the famous “Cappella Bella” that houses the prestigious
series of frescoes masterpiece of the Perugino. |
| Veneto Jazz Festival |
Veneto Region
Various locations
www.venetojazz.com |
| July/September 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| The Veneto Jazz festival has reached its 20th edition, this year it gives tribute
to an exhibition to Chat Baker who was a guest in 1988 at Castelfranco Veneto. The event which is usually held
in open air theatres anywhere in the Veneto region, presents a rich calendar of events, with guests at an International
level who will be presented in at least thirty different towns. Concerts, as well as informative workshops and
the inauguration of the new Venice Festival, make this edition a musical trip on the discovery of the Region. |
| Tuscia Opera Festival |
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| A Festival that involves the whole province of Viterbo, and puts on stage international
music that melt together art, archeological and gastronomic cultural itineraries, in a territory rich of towns
to be discovered. The event is filled with numerous collateral initiatives to teach a new formal procedure of
classic-opera and contemporary art to an national and international audience. The theme “The Strength of Women”
often found in the interior of the music program will be the base to develop encounters, debates and exhibitions.
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| Walk Walk: The Via Francigena |
Via Francigena
www.viafrancigena.eu |
August 1st to the 10th
September 25th to October 4th 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| On the footprints of those who marked the Street of Faith: Cammina Cammina rediscovers the fascination of the ancient
path of the Via Francigena which from Fidenza brings you to Lucca. New signs, new points of refreshments and overnight
hospitality presents again an ancient route to teach a new form of ecological tourism. From August 1st to the 10th
and from September 25th to October 4th its possible to retrace the itinerary of the once pilgrims which was a total
of 210 km of nature, art and gastronomy. For those who wish to go further you can continue to Altopascio and stop
at the remote “hospitale” build by the Order of the Knights of Tau in the 12th century. |
| International festival of Holy Music and Art - Rome |
San Pietro - Vaticano
San Giovanni in Laterano
Santa Maria Maggiore
San Paolo fuori le Mura
Roma
www.festivalmusicaeartesacra.net |
| October 12 - November 29, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| This Festival of Sacred Music, unique in the world, takes place in the Autumn in the
Papal Basilicas of Rome. The Orchestra-in-Residence is the Vienna Philharmonic. The purpose of the event is to
increase the public's awareness of the institutional activities of the Fondazione Pro Musica e Arte Sacra which
raises funds for the restoration of religious artifacts and buildings. The "Festival Internazionale di Musica
Sacra" is central to its benevolent activities. Since its inception in 2002 the Festival has gone from strength
to strength, winning the plaudits of the public and critics by proposing the spiritually enlightening marriage
between world-class performances and outstandingly beautiful sacred venues. |
| Piedigrotta is back! - Naples gets rich in tradition |
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| The voices, sounds, and cheerfulness of the festival of Naples are back. Here are
the typical places, its religious rites, its fireworks, its illuminations, its floats and its popular music that
made it famous throughout the world. Here is the tradition, the heart of Naples: Piedigrotta. After the success
of last year’s edition, the festival of Naples is ready to celebrate its second edition in a riot of colors and
emotions. Ready to strengthen the everlasting bond with a glorious past that gives hope for the future. Ready to
glorify the spirit of Neapolitans, who are rich in joie de vivre and creativity. Ready to connect all the Neapolitans
who live far from Naples and who can find some part of themselves, their pride of being part of this city, their
values, culture and traditions thanks to this festival. |
| Flemings and the Dutchmen in Florence |
Galleria Palatina - Palazzo Pitti
Firenze
www.polomuseale.firenze.it |
| Through October 26, 2008 |
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| The Galleria Palatina in Palazzo Pitti hosts a great exhibition that shows the interconnection
between the artistic impact and the business relationship between the Netherlands and the Italian regions in the
XV century. The exhibition details the changes in painting brought about by the introduction of oil - as the binding
element in colors – in the Nordic countries and the way in which this new approach was quickly embraced by Italian
artisans’ workshops. The works on display were commissioned or purchased in Florence between 1430 and 1530 and
underline the importance of the work and creativity of Flemish artist Jan Van Heyck and his school: they certainly
moved and attracted the interest of well-to-do Florentines, which translated in an innovative push felt and adopted
by Italian artists. |
| At the Border Between Sardinia and Jazz - Sant'Anna
Arresi (Carbonia-Iglesias) |
Saint Anna Arresi (Carbonia-Iglesias)
www.santannarresijazz.it |
| August 26th/ September 6th 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| A heavengly angle of Sardinia will host one of the most interesting events dedicated
to jazz, thanks to its scenery where the evening events are held and thanks to the level of the musicians present
on billboards. Dedicated to Don Cherry who was exhibited for the fisrt time in 1985 in Saint Anna Arresi, the
Festival will host musicians of an international level, musical workshops and a photographic workshop dedicated
to photography. |
| Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival - Rome |
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| The Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival has reached its fifteenth edition. A traditional
event which opens its doors offering a range of visual arts in general. In addition forms of eclectic artistic
activity will be of particular importance. The Festival will follow a thematic or interdisciplinary approach dedicated
to Countries and musicians from all over the world. This years hot news is the participation of the Columbia College
Chicago. |
| Ferrara Balloons Festival |
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| Ferrara will host the Hot Air Balloon Festival born in 2005 as an experiment and in
very little time has become one of the biggest hot air balloon shows in Italy and one of the biggest tourist success
in the past years. The skies of Ferrara will be colorful for 10 days thanks to a rich and captivating program:
kites, artists, air and fire, the characters of Ferrara Palio, musicians, singers, acrobats and dancers, sportspersons,
comedians, everything to make this festival even better. Parachute jumps, aerobatics, balloon flights open to the
public and the Night Glow, the stunning night-time flight of illuminated balloons accompanied by music. Rich program
and lots of surprises make this event so special. |
| Sferisterio Opera Festival - Macerata |
Macerata
www.sferisterio.it |
| 24 July - August 12, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| Seduction is this year’s argument carrying the lyrical season in Macerata. The selection
of this theme brings to a natural conclusion the fascinating triptych devised by Pier Luigi Pizzi and establishes
a strong link with last year’s edition dedicated to “Power Games”. The University of Macerata will contribute to
the event with lectures and conferences. The Opera Festival, is mainly accommodated in the magnificent theatrical
structure of the Sferisterio, sole in its architectural type. Planned in 1823 by the architect Ireneo Aleandri,
where his name and his plan has segment as a circle of the original destined game of “ball with a bracelet”. |
| The Rebirth of the Arts from Donatello to Perugino - Rome |
Museo del Corso
Via del Corso, 320
Roma
www.museodelcorso.it |
| Through September 17th, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| The Fondazione Roma and Artemisia put together this interesting exhibit to pay homage
to the artistic contribution and invaluable influence of the Roman masters in the European Renaissance. The exhibition
is divided in five sections: the city; the social and religious life; Rome, holder of antiquities; The Rome of
the Popes; The great artists. The event is organized through loans from Berlin, London and Dusseldorf. There are
170 art works on display by great masters such as Mantegna, Perugino, Pier Della Francesca, Pinturicchio, Donatello,
Michelangelo, Filippo Lippi, Gentile da Fabriano and Beato Angelico. |
| Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2008 |
Arena di Verona
Verona
www.arena.it |
| From June 20th to August 31st 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| The Arena di Verona, the famous ancient Roman amphitheatre capable of holding 30.000
spectators, is the backdrop for the most famous open air opera season since 1913. Starting from June 20th and ending
August 31st, this year’s program is composed of five operas and forty-nine performances and begins with Verdi's
Aida. A magnificent event longed-for by the passionate with a program which blends to the old and new music standards
and makes the event and the Arena not to miss. |
| Giotto's Heritage - Florence |
Galleria degli Uffizi
Florence
www.polomuseale.firenze.it |
| From June 10th to November 2nd, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| This exhibition will be held at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence will aim to
focus on the legacy left by Giotto's artistic influences. Giotto had been acknowledged, by his contemporaries,
for his pivotal role in the evolution of painting and pictorial vision of the time. Giotto died in 1336 and art
critics considered the period following his death as devoid of any vitality and negatively marked by the terrible
plague of 1438. New and recent interpretations have changed this assumption, and have reconsidered the works of
other artists from the early 1400s, as well as Florentine art around 1370. This exhibit aims to document the artistic
developments of a period lesser known to the public. |
| Florence Opera Festival |
Florence - San Galgano Abbey - Barberino di Mugello - Montevarchi
www.festivalopera.it |
| June 13th August 3rd 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| The Opera Festival is presented again to the public with a full and rich calendar,
with both classic and modern operas, passing through four prestigious and famous locations in Tuscany. From the
magnificent Boboli Gardens of Pitti Palace in Florence to the ruins of the gothic Abbey in San Galgano, in the
province of Siena, from the Medici Villa of Cafaggiolo to Barberino of Mugello to the historic Varchi Square of
Montevarchi. This year the melodrama embraces musicals, with the original production of Cats a notable performance
and loved world wide, it has been duplicated with a timeless success since 1981. |
| Roman Victories: Days of Glory - Rome |
Colosseum
Roma
www.pierreci.it |
| Until September 14th 2008 |
Opening hours:
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At the Colosseum the bas-reliefs, bronzes, coins, sculptures and paintings are on
display aiming to get the concept of
Roman victories across to the public by telling us about the ceremonies and festivities surrounding the historic
big battles. The first section of the exhibition relates to victories and their development, from the Etruscan
to the Hellenistic worlds; the second section shows images of illustrious victors and the illustrious defeated
- among which Caesar, Pompeius and Octavian - and reproduces battle scenes. The last section is devoted to conquered
peoples: the Greeks, the Judeans, the Dacians and the Barbarians. |
| Spanish Art from Picasso Mirò Dalì to Today - Palermo |
Palazzo Sant Elia
Via Maqueda 81
Palermo
www.mostraespana.it |
| May 18th to September 14th 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| This event will be one of the most important exhibitions dedicated to Spanish artists
in the last few decades. Espana 1957-2007 commenced in 1957 with the constitution of the El Paso group who, in
the panorama of 20th century Spanish art, represents the passage from modern to contemporary. Taking 1957 as the
departure point for a radical change in Spanish art, the exhibition includes works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò,
Salvador Dalì, artists whose developing work and style continued to represent a reference point for successive
generations. |
| Filippo Lippi Genius and Passion - Prato |
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| One of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance, the cycle of wall paintings by
Filippo Lippi in the main chapel of the Duomo of Prato (which, according to Vasari, constitutes the most excellent
of all his works ), with the completion of long conservation and restoration work, returns to thrill visitors with
its harmony of colors and the equilibrium of its complex scenes, recovering lightness and volume to the figures
and transparence and luminosity to the colors. Prato is the only city in the world that can claim to have the richest,
most important body of works by Filippo Lippi, one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. |
| Puccini Celebrations - Lucca |
Province of Lucca
www.puccini2008.it |
| Until December 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| An international event of resonance to celebrate the 150 years of the birth of one
of the best known composers in the world. A calendar rich of events, concerts, conferences, shows which will run
until the end of the year, with the intent to give tribute to the artist and to present to the public the beauty
of his home land. Puccini s reputation as a well known artist, which is renewed from one theatre to another, from
Europe to the United States to South America, would constantly bring his cultural and artistic Italian tradition.
This event in honor to remember Puccini s musical legacy, has the intent to involve the whole country. |
| Galileo s Telescope - Firenze |
Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Firenze
www.imss.fi.it |
| March 4th to December 31st, 2008 |
Opening hours:
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| The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza holds an exhibition on Galileo s telescope
and the observations he made with it. The displays will consist of rare and precious instruments (among them the
objective and the only two existing telescopes by Galileo), manuscripts and ancient books. Comprehension of optical
and astronomical principles will be facilitated by interactive exhibits and multimedia. Visitors will have the
opportunity to experience through their own eyes the extraordinary Galileo s experience. |
| Happy Birthday, Andrea Palladio 1508 - 2008 - Vicenza |
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| Andrea Palladio is one of the greatest artists of the 16th century. Palladio's beautiful
villas are recognized all around the world for its beauty and in 1994 were put on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
To celebrate the 500th birthday of his great artist, the enchanting city of Vicenza will offer different art exhibitions
all along 2008. Masterpieces of Michelangelo, Sansovino, Tintoretto, Van Dyck, Canaletto and many other original
hand signed drawings will complete this unique art event. There are also chances to taste typical recipes and listen
to musical projects of the 16th century. |
| Marca Storica: A new itinerary in the province of Treviso |
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| A new eco-museal itinerary is available for all who yearn to visit the territory of
the province of Treviso. Marca Storica is a passage that aims to rediscover any traces of prehistoric life, traveling
the ancient Roman roads, admiring the castles, towers, and fortifications of the medieval period. The ancient ruins
and the superbly restored noble residences tell the history of this territory that today, presents itself to the
visitor like a widespread, spacious museum. |
| Pinocchio Park |
Parco di Pinocchio
3, Via San Gennaro - Collodi
www.pinocchio.it |
Info
Phone:
+39 0572 429 642
+39 0572 429 613 |
| All year round |
Opening hours:
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| The Collodi Park is entirely dedicated to the little wooden puppet who so wished to
be a little boy and all the wonderful characters of Collodi s classic fairy tale. The town of Collodi in Tuscany
is the birthplace of Carlo Collodi, the literary creator of the world s favorite wooden puppet. Born Lorenzetti,
the writer paid tribute to its hometown by adopting Collodi as his last name. The park includes a workshop where
one can follow the creation of a puppet from beginning to end, as well as shows, exhibits and entertainment. Picnic
areas are available throughout the park as well as the Osteria al Gambero Rosso. The park which centers around
the Italian Pinocchio imagery and not the Disneyesque version of the character is a fun activity for fans of the
puppet, big and small alike and a pleasant way to spend a few hours wondering in the peaceful Tuscan countryside. |
| "Roma-Pass" also valid for the sea |
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| Everything is in track for the summer season. The Roma Pass was launched by the Municipal
Authorities of Rome and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in conjunction with ATAC, and this new plan expects
to make it possible to use the Roma-Pass card for means of transportation that lead from the Capital to the Sea
and supplementary services at seaside establishments. It has everything, with one coupon valid for 3 days that
also includes the possibility to rent bikes at no charge, given that you reserve them in advance. |
| Arte Sella Exhibition Centre - Borgo Valsugana (Trento) |
Arte Sella Exhibition Centre c/o Malga Costa
Val di Sella - Borgo Valsugana (Trento)
www.artesella.it |
Info
Phone: +39 0461/751251 |
Opening hours:
- June, July, August, September: every day.
- October: weekends only. |
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| Arte Sella is an international biennial exhibition of contemporary art which began
life in 1986. It takes places in the open, in the fields and woods of the Val di Sella valley (near Borgo Valsugana
in the Province of Trento). Since 1996 the Arte Sella project has been laid out along a path in the woods on the
southern slope of the Armentera mountain. The route, named ARTENATURA ( Art in Nature ) is designed to enable visitors
to view the artworks and at the same time enjoy the natural site itself (with its different types of woods, rocks
and trees &) In the last few years Arte Sella has expanded to include the nearby rustic Malga Costa. This unusual
but attractive building has served as the backdrop for various exhibitions and events which have attracted considerable
interest. In 2001 near the Malga Costa the artist Giuliano Mauri built the massive Tree Cathedral artwork for Arte
Sella. |
| Parco Sculture del Chianti - Pievasciata (Siena) |
Parco Sculture del Chianti
La Fornace - S.P. 9, 53010 Pievasciata (Siena)
www.chiantisculpturepark.it |
Info
Phone: +39.0577.357151 |
All Year Round
From November to March by appointment |
Opening hours:
please consult website |
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| Parco Sculture del Chianti at Pievasciata (Siena) in the heart of Chianti is the first
Italian park situated in a natural wood totally devoted to international contemporary sculpture. From April to
October always open from 10 a.m. to sunset except Monday. |
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