What to do in Verona and its province during the weekend from 19 to 21 August 2022
A new weekend full of interesting events in the Verona area. Here are all the initiatives not to be missed during the weekend from 19 to 21 August 2022.
THE TOP EVENT
American summer party
The American Summer Party returns to the Parco Ottocento on Saturday 20 August. American Summer Party is the most anticipated American-style event of the summer. A fabulous experience, with the best DJs and choreographers, aimed at fans and curious, united by a passion for the world and American music. In Verona a party awaits you immersed in nature, on the banks of the Adige river, a stone’s throw from the suggestive Boscomantico airport.
EVENTS
Festival of San Rocco
Until 23 August a calendar full of events and sporting events for the awaited return of the Sagra di San Rocco, the traditional festival of Albaredo d’Adige that involves the territory of the lower Verona area, ending with fireworks on the embankment of the ‘Adige, a unique fireworks display of its kind and also appreciated by the neighboring municipalities and provinces.
The Ama market in Garda
A market on the lakefront, a Garda. About twenty stalls and behind as many artisans. People who put their hands, and their hearts, into every small item for sale. There are those who work with leather, those who make copper sculptures, those who re-elaborate antique cameos, those who deal with creative sewing. Then there is a gentleman, who makes wooden tops. Another that recreates children’s games of yesteryear. It will happen in Garda, this weekend, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 August.
Great Purple Santa Feast
The historic Festa Grande Santa Viola returns to Grezzana, with a rich program of shows and concerts not to be missed. There are also many culinary delicacies that can be tasted during all days of the event until 22 August.
Street circus
Games, shows and food and wine at the “Circus on the road”, on 21 August 2022 in Nogarole Rocca at the Parco della Rocca.
Patronal feast of San Bartolomeo in Illasi
From 21 to 28 August 2022 in Illasi, in the province of Verona, on the occasion of the patronal feast of San Bartolomeo, the appointment with the traditional village festival is renewed.
MUSIC
Verona Arena Opera Festival
Malcesine music festival
Penultimate weekend with the Malcesine Music Festival. On Friday 19 August the music literally starts to cross Malcesine at 6 pm with the Tiger Dixie Band parade, departing from the former Fraglia and then heading towards the center, ending at 9 pm. The “Padre Mario Casella” Gardens will host then at 9.30 pm the concert of the Franks, Tribute band by Amy Winehouse.
VISIT GUIDE
THEATER
Back to Momix
In Verona from 6 to 18 August 2022 the Roman Theater hosts “Back to Momix”, a show born from the desire to return to the stage after difficult years that have distanced the company from its audience, with the desire for lightness and carefree, particularity of the Momix company, and a look that is always aimed at the future: hence the play on words of the title that recalls a classic of 80s cinema.
Theater in the Courtyards
The historic review “Theater in the Courtyards”, from 1 July to 7 September 2022, brings on stage about twenty companies that will alternate in three locations: the traditional Cloister of Sant’Eufemia, the Cloister of Santa Maria in Organo and Cortile Montanari . In all, 23 different shows will be presented, from comedy to prose in music, from dramatic to comic.
“Celestina and the river” at the Mura Festival in Verona
The 19 and 20 August 2022 at the Bastion of San Zeno on the occasion of Feast of the Wallsa story that sings about water and rivers: “Celestina and the river”.
“Cipì”
On the occasion of the centenary of Mario Lodi’s birth, Fondazione Aida presents the rearrangement of this great classic of children’s literature: “Cipì” will be presented on August 21 at the Dim Theater in Castelnuovo del Garda as part of the Dim Estate review.
CINEMA
Lessinia Film Festival
The Lessinia Film Festival, the international film festival dedicated to life, history and traditions on the highlands of every corner of the world, returns from 19 to 28 August 2022 in Bosco Chiesanuova. The program of films and collateral events is rich to offer a privileged perspective from which to observe reality, climate changes and, more generally, contemporary society. Among the guests Michelangelo Frammartino, the astronaut Luca Parmitano and the director Pupi Avati.
Among the novelties in the room we note:
- The Pataffio – «In a Middle Ages full of hunger and famine, weird characters like the Marconte Cagalanza, the Marcontess Bernarda, fat and discontented, move in a totally unfortunate and approximate court, with rusty and hungry soldiers and the hungriest peasants yet. There is never an end to hunger and it unites peasants and ramshackle gentlemen ».
MONSTER
Caroto and the arts between Mantegna and Veronese
From 13 May to 2 October 2022 in Verona, in the monumental spaces of the Palazzo della Gran Guardia, the great exhibition on Giovan Francesco Caroto (circa 1480 – 1555) can be visited. It is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to the artist, with over 100 works from some of the most prestigious Italian and international collections, which presents the evolution of the great painter, following him from his early beginnings to the recognized role of artist.
The lichenological collections: from Abramo Massalongo to today
Essential components in the production of anticancer drugs and fragrances with forest notes. Air quality bioindicators. And, again, functional to treat and sunburn. They are the “Lichens”, a small and almost unknown force of nature. Result of the union between a fungus and an alga, which from a close and advantageous coexistence give rise to an important element for the environment and useful to man. To get to know them, the History Museum opens to the public the new natural exhibition “Lichenological collections: from Abramo Massalongo to today” visible from Wednesday 22 June to 28 August.
The Arche Scaligere in Verona: admission for only 1 euro
The Arche Scaligere enclosure at the church of Santa Maria Antica in Verona is open to the public: from 1 June to 30 September 2022 it is possible to visit the tombs of the Scaligeri thanks to the precious collaboration of the Legambiente volunteers.
Verona through the photographs of Gabriele Basilico and Alessandra Chemollo
In the spaces of Castel San Pietro and Palazzo del Capitanio, together with those of Palazzo Pellegrini, the photographic exhibition “Common Places. Construction sites and monumental sites of historical and industrial Verona in Gabriele Basilico and Alessandra Chemollo. “An unprecedented journey through three places that tell the cultural, political and productive history of the city of Verona.
Banksy’s world
Banksy’s journey to the stations of Italy stops in Verona until October 30, 2022 with the exhibition “The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience”. Next stop: Porta Nuova station. “The World of Banksy – The Immersive Experience” presents the British artist in a new light, thanks to an installation of over one hundred works by the most famous street artist in the world it will be possible to get to know the character in its entirety through an immersive experience.
In Malcesine the Athos Faccincani exhibition
From Saturday 20 August to 11 September 2022, at Palazzo dei Capitani in the enchanting and luminous Malcesine, a city of art known for its artistic and architectural beauties, as well as the pearl of Lake Garda, it will be possible to visit the personal exhibition of the painter Athos Faccincani.
The colors found. The restoration of the frescoes of Palazzo Miniscalchi
In Verona at the Miniscalchi-Erizzo Museum Foundation the exhibition “The rediscovered colors. The restoration of the frescoes of Palazzo Miniscalchi”. The exhibition, scheduled from 14 April to 1 September 2022, offers a fascinating account of the origins and family history of the Miniscalchi-Erizzo family from their arrival in Verona to the rapid social rise witnessed and shown1 celebrated through the construction of Palazzo Miniscalchi and the peculiar facade decorated with refined frescoes.
In Verona the National Archaeological Museum
The National Archaeological Museum of Verona has inaugurated the section dedicated to Prehistory and Protohistory, from the Paleolithic to the Bronze Age, 200,000 years of history of the Verona area. The museum is open to the public from 10 am to 6 pm on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. 200 thousand years of history kept in the new National Archaeological Museum of Verona which sees the displacement, with other treasures, of the “Shaman”, perhaps the oldest human figure in the world.
“Passions and visions” at the Gallery of Modern Art in Verona
The story of the birth of the Achille Forti Gallery of Modern Art told in a new exhibition itinerary of over 150 works. This is how the passion for art and the far-sighted vision of Ugo Zannoni, Achille Forti, Licisco Magagnato and Giorgio Cortenova, four fundamental characters for GAM and its identity, are presented to the public in a special exhibition curated by Francesca Rossi. and Patrizia Nuzzo.
Ancient vases at the Archaeological Museum
The charm of the Etruscan bucchero on display at the Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theater. Open to the public, in the room dedicated to temporary exhibitions, the new exhibition on “Ancient vases”, curated by Margherita Bolla, which dedicates a special focus to Etruscan ceramics. One, open until 2 October 2022, a section that presents some of the most evocative pieces of the collection of pre-Roman ceramics, about eighty vases from the seventh to the fourth century BC, which make up a part of the rich collection of the Archaeological Museum, which is not normally exhibited. to the public.