WhiteCarrara – Design Lives in the City 2026
WhiteCarrara returns in June 2026, transforming the Tuscan marble capital into a sprawling design laboratory. The event occupies the city […]
Lucca Biennale Cartasia – LUBICA 2026
Lucca Biennale Cartasia—known locally as LUBICA—returns in 2026 with its distinctive focus on paper as a medium for contemporary art,
Tragicomica – Perspectives on Italian art 2026
Tragicomica opens at MAXXI with a bold proposition: that irony is not merely a stylistic flourish in Italian culture, but
Puccini Festival 2026
The Puccini Festival is an annual opera festival held during the summer months in Torre del Lago Puccini in honour of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The festival town is located 18 kilometres from Puccini’s hometown of Lucca.
Evening concerts in San Quirico d’Orcia 2026
Enjoy enchanting classical concerts in the evenings this autumn in San Quirico d’Orcia, set in the heart of Val d’Orcia. Historic venues host world-class musicians in one of Tuscany’s most atmospheric settings.
ETRUSCHI E VENETI – Acque, culti e santuari 2026
The Palazzo Ducale opens its magnificent halls to an exhibition that traces the spiritual and material connections between two of
Peggy Guggenheim in London: The Making of a Collector in Venice 2026
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents an extraordinary exhibition examining the formative London years of one of the twentieth century’s most
Rothko a Firenze
Florence welcomes one of the twentieth century’s most profound colourists to one of the Renaissance’s most commanding palaces. Mark Rothko,
‘Rumori Mediterranei’ Jazz Festival of Roccella Ionica
One of Italy’s oldest and most respected jazz festivals, held every August in a tiny Calabrian town you’ve never heard
The Michetta Festival in Dolcecacqua
Each August, the medieval village of Dolceacqua in western Liguria turns its attention to a humble but beloved local bread: the michetta. This small sweet roll — characterised by its distinctive shape becomes the centrepiece of a festival that draws visitors from across the region and beyond.