Festival del Viaggio explained

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

The festival was founded in 2006 by writer Alessandro Agostinelli,^[5] who is the current director.^{[6] [7] [8]}

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

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

External links

• Web site: Official website. it.
• Web site: Società dei Viaggiatori. it. 2019-01-21. 2019-02-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20190221000515/http://www.societadeiviaggiatori.org/. dead.

Notes and References

1. Web site: El Viajero 2017. es. 13 February 2017. 112. pdf. El País.
2. News: Il mondo degli sciamani, via al Festival del viaggio. it . 13 June 2014. . 28 December 2019.
3. Book: Come diventare scrittore di viaggio. it . Janine . Eberle . Don . George . EDT . 9788859254416.
4. News: Festival del Viaggio. it . Alessandro . Agostinelli. L'Espresso. 5 June 2016. 27 January 2019.
5. News: A Firenze il Festival del Viaggio. 3 June 2010. 26 January 2019. it . ANSA.
6. News: Viaggi una tre giorni di trekking urbano. 27 February 2013 . it . La Repubblica. 26 January 2019.
7. News: Giorno e notte 8 giugno, gli appuntamenti a Firenze e in Toscana. Berti. Elisabetta . 8 June 2016 . it . . 26 January 2019 .
8. Web site: it . Alessandro Agostinelli racconta Lascia o Raddoppia . 28 January 2019. 27 January 2011. RAI.
9. News: Festival of Festivals Awards: i vincitori toscani. 9 November 2009. 26 January 2019. it. 20 February 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190220235944/http://www.mediatecatoscana.it/news_02.php?chiave=2362. dead.
10. News: Passeggiando in piazza Signoria. Sull'aria . it . . 26 January 2019. June 2010 .
11. News: Viaggi di nozze: e il tuo com'era?. 26 January 2019. L'Espresso. 22 July 2011 . it .
12. News: Festival del Viaggio all'insegna del cibo e delle passeggiate. 28 May 2018. 26 January 2019. it .
13. News: Festival del Viaggio a Viareggio. Dall'11 al 15 settembre. Da Hendel a Crepet gli ospiti. 26 September 2019. 9 September 2019. it. ANSA.
14. News: it . . 20 January 2019. 11 September 2019 . Dinelli . Simone . Sì viaggiare (a villa Paolina) .
15. News: it . Si conclude il Festival del Viaggio Liberty, "scalzeggiata" e poesia . 26 September 2020 . 26 September 2020 . La Nazione.
16. News: it . 48 . La cultura e il piacere del viaggio. In Versilia il festival all'aria aperta. Il Tirreno. 18 September 2020.