Festival del Viaggio
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Vinicio_Capossela_al_Festival_del_Viaggio_2013.jpg/300px-Vinicio_Capossela_al_Festival_del_Viaggio_2013.jpg)
The Festival del Viaggio (in English: Travel festival) is an annual cultural festival held each June in Florence, Viareggio or Palermo.[1][2] The festival features a vast array of conferences, exhibitions, concerts, movies, and documentaries about traveling.[3] It also organizes workshops on writing and photography about travel, in collaborations with the University of Pisa and the province of Florence. It was the first of its kind in Italy.[4]
History
[edit]The festival was founded in 2006 by writer Alessandro Agostinelli,[5] who is the current director.[6][7][8]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Festival_del_Viaggio_2018_-_Passeggiata_Jodorowski.jpg/220px-Festival_del_Viaggio_2018_-_Passeggiata_Jodorowski.jpg)
In 2009 Festival del Viaggio won the "Brand New Italian Festival Award" in Bologna.[9] In 2010 the festival presented a walk in the Florentine sky: the tightrope walker Andrea Loreni walked on the wire 50 meters high over Piazza della Signoria, entering into the Palazzo Vecchio.[10] In 2011 festival organized a photo contest about honeymoons all over the world, in collaborations with the weekly magazine L'Espresso and the daily newspaper La Repubblica.[11] In 2018 the Festival del Viaggio conceived and realized the plan of the 'Passeggiata Jodorowski',[12] a walk at dawn amongst the most important Florentine monuments going always straight and never turning (inspired by Alejandro Jodorowski's idea). In September 2019 Viareggio was chosen as an additional seat.[13][14]
The 2020 edition was postponed to September and arranged with more open-air and on-line events.[15][16]
Notable guests
[edit]The following people were involved to describe their experience as travellers
- Bandabardò
- Alessandro Benvenuti
- Giulio Borrelli[13]
- Vinicio Capossela
- Franco Cardini[5]
- Paolo Crepet[13]
- Philippe Daverio
- Tiziano Fratus[13]
- Wlodek Goldkorn[13]
- Paolo Hendel [13]
- Dacia Maraini
- Paolo Migone[13]
- Luigi Nacci[13]
- David Riondino[5]
- Beppe Severgnini
- Sergio Staino
- Elena Torre[16]
- Giorgio Van Straten[13]
- Marco Vichi
- Sergey Yastrzhembsky
-
Dacia Maraini at Festival del Viaggio 2013 in Viareggio
-
Alessandro Benvenuti at Festival del Viaggio 2013 in Florence
-
The Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando at Festival del Viaggi 2018 in Villa Niscemi, Palermo
References
[edit]- ^ "El Viajero 2017" (pdf) (in Spanish). El País. 13 February 2017. p. 112.
- ^ "Il mondo degli sciamani, via al Festival del viaggio" (in Italian). La Repubblica. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
- ^ Eberle, Janine; George, Don. Come diventare scrittore di viaggio (in Italian). EDT. ISBN 9788859254416.
- ^ Agostinelli, Alessandro (5 June 2016). "Festival del Viaggio". L'Espresso (in Italian). Retrieved 27 January 2019.
- ^ a b c "A Firenze il Festival del Viaggio" (in Italian). ANSA. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Viaggi una tre giorni di trekking urbano". La Repubblica (in Italian). 27 February 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ Berti, Elisabetta (8 June 2016). "Giorno e notte 8 giugno, gli appuntamenti a Firenze e in Toscana". La Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Alessandro Agostinelli racconta Lascia o Raddoppia" (in Italian). RAI. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
- ^ "Festival of Festivals Awards: i vincitori toscani" (in Italian). 9 November 2009. Archived from the original on 20 February 2019. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Passeggiando in piazza Signoria. Sull'aria". Corriere Fiorentino (in Italian). June 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Viaggi di nozze: e il tuo com'era?". L'Espresso (in Italian). 22 July 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Festival del Viaggio all'insegna del cibo e delle passeggiate" (in Italian). 28 May 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Festival del Viaggio a Viareggio. Dall'11 al 15 settembre. Da Hendel a Crepet gli ospiti" (in Italian). ANSA. 9 September 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
- ^ Simone, Dinelli (11 September 2019). "Sì viaggiare (a villa Paolina)". Corriere Fiorentino (in Italian). Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ^ "Si conclude il Festival del Viaggio Liberty, "scalzeggiata" e poesia" (in Italian). La Nazione. 26 September 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
- ^ a b "La cultura e il piacere del viaggio. In Versilia il festival all'aria aperta" (in Italian). Il Tirreno. 18 September 2020. p. 48.
External links
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- "Official website" (in Italian).
- "Società dei Viaggiatori" (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2019-01-21.