Vinicio Capossela al Festival del Viaggio 2013

The Festival del Viaggio (in English: ''Travel festival'') is an annual cultural festival held each June in

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or Palermo (Italy). The festival features a vast array of conferences, exhibitions, concerts, movies, and documentaries about traveling. It also organizes workshops on writing and photography about travel, in collaborations with the

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and the

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. It was the first of its kind in

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History

The festival was founded in 2006 by writer Alessandro Agostinelli, who is the current director. Festival del Viaggio 2018 - Passeggiata Jodorowski

Festival del Viaggio 2018 - Passeggiata Jodorowski

In 2009 Festival del Viaggio won the "Brand New Italian Festival Award" in

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. In 2010 the festival presented a walk in the Florentine sky: the tightrope walker Andrea Loreni walked on the wire 50 meters high over

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, entering into the Palazzo Vecchio. In 2011 festival organized a photo contest about honeymoons all over the world, in collaborations with the weekly magazine

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and the daily newspaper

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. In 2018 the Festival del Viaggio conceived and realized the plan of the 'Passeggiata Jodorowski', 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

was chosen as an additional seat. The 2020 edition was postponed to September and arranged with more open-air and on-line events.

Prominent guests

The following people were involved to describe their experience as travellers * Bandabardò * Alessandro Benvenuti * Giulio Borrelli *

Vinicio Capossela Vinicio Capossela (born 14 December 1965) is an Italian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. Capossela is renowned for the highly original and poetic lyrics of his songs. Many of them draw from traditions of Italian folk music, especially those ...

* Franco Cardini * Paolo Crepet * Marcella Croce *

Philippe Daverio Philippe Daverio (17 October 1949 – 2 September 2020) was an Italian art historian, gallerist, teacher, writer, author, politician, and television personality. Biography Daverio was born in Mulhouse, Alsace in 1949 from an Italian father, bu ...

* Tiziano Fratus * Wlodek Goldkorn * Lucia Goracci * Paolo Hendel * Annet Henneman * Marino Magliani * Dacia Maraini * Paolo Migone * Luigi Nacci * Riccardo Onori * David Riondino * Patrizio Roversi *

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Sergio Staino Sergio Staino (born 8 June 1940) is an Italian comics author, satirist and film director. Biography Staino was born at Piancastagnaio, in the province of Siena. After graduating in architecture, he moved to Scandicci. His comics debut was with ...

* Elena Torre * Giorgio Van Straten * Marco Vichi * Sergey Yastrzhembsky FDV Dacia Maraini e il direttore del festival.jpg, Dacia Maraini at Festival del Viaggio 2013 in

Festival_del_Viaggio_2013_Alessandro_Benvenuti.jpg, Alessandro Benvenuti at Festival del Viaggio 2013 in

The Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando at Festival del Viaggio, Palermo 2018.jpg, The Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando at Festival del Viaggi 2018 in Villa Niscemi, Palermo

References

External links

* * {{tourism Cultural festivals in Italy Summer festivals Florence Tourist attractions in Tuscany Recurring events established in 2006 2006 establishments in Italy Tourism in Italy