What's On

  Cento  (Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna), February  5th – 12th – 19th – 26th – March 5th 2012.   The most extravagant Carnival in Europe is twinned with the Brazilian Carnival for the style of its allegorical floats, the beautiful costumes and for the riotous fun. Cento is a town near Ferrara in Emilia-Romagna and it will host many famous guest stars for the world of...

  Castiglion Fibocchi (Arezzo).  February 5th -  12th 2012 .  On 5th and 12th February in Castiglion Fibocchi, a town near Arezzo, will take place the 16th edition of the Carnevale dei Figli di Bocco (Figli di Bocco Carnival). Castiglion Fibocchi is situated along the Roman road called Cassia Vetus, near the mountain of Pratomagno: a characteristic town dating back to the medieval...

  Busseto (Parma) . February 5th- 12th- 19th - 26th  2012 .   A whole month of festival is programmed just 50 miles from Parma: Busseto offers its traditional Carnival: “Il Carnevale della Risata”. The event dates back to 1600 and since 1993 is twinned with the Rio...

  Ivrea (Turin) January  6th - February  22nd  2012.   Traditional sounds of pipe and drum bands open the festival that sees the most spectacular event of the famous Battle of the Oranges (on 8 March). Undoubtedly, this is the most spectacular event of the festivities representing the fight for liberty, the symbol of the Ivrea Carnival. The orange battle is an incredible cultural and...

    Bagnoli (Naples), 7th – 15th April 2012. The prestigious America’s Cup World Series will come to Bagnoli, a seaside district of Naples in April this year. The Neapolitan coastline is undergoing extensive regeneration and the races just one of the projects currently undertaken by the authorities to help this process. The AC World Series features tight, shortrace courses...

 Rome:  March 18th 2012.   Since the early years of the twentieth century the roads and squares of the Eternal City have seen some of the really mythical moments of the whole history of racing on foot. It is an event that unites spirit and passion with alternative routes for...

  Rome: 11thFebruary  & 17thMarch2012  The most important European Rugby Tournament returns to Italy (Stadio Flaminio in Rome) this year with the following...

    Capitoline Museum, Rome  1st March – 9th Setember 2012.    An unprecedented cultural and media event: 100 original documents, preserved for 400 years in the Popes’ Archive, will leave the confines of the Vatican City walls for the first time in history, and will be admired at the Capitoline Museums in Rome, from February till September 2012, for the exhibition Lux in arcana...

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 3rd March – 15th  July 2012. The exhibition explores the American impressionists’ relationship with Italy, and with Florence in particular, in the decades spanning the close of the 19th and dawn of the 20th centuries. There was a marked upswing in the number of American artists travelling to Europe after the Civil War ended in 1865, and the trend continued...

  Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo (Veneto) 25th February - 24th June 2012.    Divisionism was the Italian answer to the French Neo Impressionism between 1890 and the end of the First World War which co-existed alongside the works of Signac and Seraut. Instead of  “stipples”  the Divisionists used strokes of colours often one on top of the other to obtain the desired effects of light. The...