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]
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]
The following people were involved to describe their experience as travellers
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