What to do in Verona and its province during the weekend from 7 to 9 October 2022
New weekend with many interesting events in the Verona area. Below are all the initiatives not to be missed from 7 to 9 October 2022.
THE TOP EVENT
International street food
Bovolone will welcome the 58th stage of the VI edition of International Street Food 2022, the most important street food event in Italy. It will take place in Piazza Scipioni and will begin on Friday 7 October at 6 pm, to continue on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 October 2022 from 12 noon. It is the largest traveling haute cuisine event, which brings with it all the aromas and flavors of the most famous dishes. of regional and international tradition.
EVENTS
Typical of the Marche region
Piazza dello Zodiaco in Bussolengo will be the stage on 6, 7, 8 and 9 October of the “Tipiko Marchigiano” event, a vehicle format for cultural, tourist and food and wine promotion of the Marche Region.
Gardaland Magic Halloween
Gardaland Magic Halloween is back, the most frighteningly fun event of the season which this year reaches its twentieth edition and for the occasion further extends its duration. The official inauguration, with guests from the world of entertainment and sport, of “Gardaland Magic Halloween” will take place on Saturday 8 October.
Val Polis Cellae
“Val Polis Cellae” is back, the event that leads to the discovery of wines and territories in the most famous valleys of Verona with a wine vocation. The event will be held on Sunday 9 October, from 10 to 18. municipalities of Sant’Ambrogio, Fumane, Marano, Negrar, San Pietro in Cariano, Grezzana and Verona.
Villafranca in history
Sunday 9 October “Villafranca in history”, the Middle Ages relive at the Scaligero castle. A unique program to recall history through medieval teaching, medieval artisans, ladies, noblemen, music and falconers recreate an unforgettable experience in a medieval atmosphere.
Sports and street food festival
Saturday 8 October the first edition of the “Festival of Sport and Street Food” in the sports complex of the Circolo Primo Maggio in Montorio Veronese. Unique opportunity to get to know the main street sports offered and practiced by qualified professionals live. The party will be full of activities and shows starting from 11 in the morning until 23.
Book party
“Book festival” in Castelnuovo del Garda. The Saturday appointment of the schools, initiated by the Assessment of Culture and the Municipality, is for Saturday 7 and 8 October in the library and at Brolo Melanie, the central park of the town.
Cacio & Pepe vs Carbonara Festival
The food and wine events are back. In Legnago, the 16th edition of the “Cacio & Pepe vs Carbonara Festival”, the great traveling format dedicated to Roman cuisine, will be staged from 7 to 9 October 2022, for a long weekend of taste and fun not to be missed in the central Piazza Garibaldi.
Valeggio produces
Twenty-first edition of “Valeggio Produce”: the festival dedicated to agriculture, craftsmanship and trade is back, which will be staged from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 October at the Valeggio Fruit and Vegetable Market. At the food and wine stands you will be able to taste the dishes of the local and Veronese tradition while the artisan pasta factories and the cellars of Valeggio will serve the best of typical products: DOC wines and tortellini from Valeggio.
Marciaga in celebration
In Costermano gourmet food, live music and activities for the whole family with “Marciaga in festa” from 7 to 9 October. Gourmet food, live music and lots of activities for the whole family with workshops for children, street circus and wooden games.
Chestnuts and Durello wine festival
In San Giovanni Ilarione the 87th “Festival of chestnuts and Durello wine” from 6 to 9 October 2022.
Bardolino Together
The second edition of “Bardolino Together” will be held on Sunday 9 October at Parco Carrara Bottagisio in Bardolino, a day completely dedicated to children and young people with autism.
MUSIC
“Notre Dame de Paris” returns to the Verona arena
On the occasion of the tour that celebrates the twenty years of success of “Notre Dame de Paris”, the show returns with its majestic staging in one of the most famous Roman amphitheaters in Italy, the arena of Verona. On Saturday 8, Sunday 9 and Monday 10 October 2022 the original cast of 2002, with Lola Ponce as Esmeralda and Giò Di Tonno as Quasimodo, will perform in the emblematic place of world opera.
Concert by Giorgio Conte
Exclusive, intimate and extraordinary concert by Giorgio Conte, Friday 7 October at 9 pm at Modus, the theater at the Orti di Spagna directed by Andrea Castelletti.
Manuel Bonino Combo lives a Negrar
The Manuel Bonino Combo, with Paolo Antoniazzi and Almiro Comucci represents the testimony of an era made of fun, of happy daysof unbridled rock’n’roll, traditional ballads of the 50s and 60s and original compositions by Manuel inspired by that golden age. Saturday 8 October at 9 pm you can immerse yourself in that atmosphere at the Vecchia Rama di San Peretto di Negrar.
VISIT GUIDE
CINEMA
Among the novelties coming out in the Veronese cinemas we note:
- Bears don’t exist – “Two different love stories run side by side: in both lovers they are hindered by different kinds of forces, be it superstition, power or mechanisms that are difficult to define and yet inevitable.” Director: Jafar Panahi.
- Paradise ticket – «Wren Butler accompanies her friend Lily on a trip to Bali: they both graduated from the University of Chicago and the trip is a sort of reward and break, before resuming life and entering society. But in Bali, Lily meets a local boy, falls in love with him and decides on the spot to marry him ». Director: Ol Parker.
- Travelling – «In 2013, just elected, Pope Francis goes to Lampedusa. In 2021 he makes an important trip to the Middle East, Iraq and Kurdistan. The same places that Gianfranco Rosi described in Fuocoammare and Notturno ». Director: Gianfranco Rosi.
MONSTER
Contemporary Day
Art, science, nature and ecosystem emergency. On the occasion of the XVIII Day of the Contemporary, climate change takes shape through the visionary creations of denunciation by artists committed to building a new human awareness. At the Achille Forti Modern Art Gallery, the protagonist will be the artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò, author of the guiding image of the great national event promoted by AMACI – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museumsas well as the Remote project, conceived for the Verona Civic Museums and winner of PAC2020 – Plan for Contemporary Art.
Banksy’s world
Banksy’s journey to the stations of Italy will stop in Verona until 30 October 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 Verona a photographic exhibition dedicated to the history of Libya
“The Italian occupation of Libya. Violence and colonialism 1911-1943“ is the topic at the center of the photographic exhibition, promoted by the University’s Radici Rights Group in collaboration with the Veronese Institute for the History of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age, with the patronage of the University of Verona, aimed at citizens and in particular to students of the university and middle schools of Verona and its province. The exhibition will be set up in the cloister of Santa Maria delle Vittorie and will remain open from 16 September to 8 October.
Meantime # 3 – Meanwhile
Canvas impossible to translate into words. Paper structures that adapt to the places that welcome them. Berber colors of fabrics and carpets among eighteenth-century frescoes. October is the month of contemporary art in Valeggio sul Mincio, where “Nel Frattempo # 3 – Meanwhile”. The exhibition is conceived by the internationally renowned artist Lucio Pozzi. It will be inaugurated on October 6 and can be visited on weekends until October 23 and is grafted as a side event in Artverona.
An exhibition dedicated to the master of stamps Gaetano Rizzo
Through a series of finds that he used to teach, Gastone Rizzo, the master of postage stamps, returns to his homeland in Verona. Gastone Rizzo was born 100 years ago in Marega, a hamlet of Bevilacqua and passed last May with a stamp issued by the Ministry of Economic Development based on a design by Marco Ventura. via Teatro Filarmonico 11.
The colors of the soul
The personal exhibition of Athos Faccincani is called “The colors of the soul” set up in the Historic Building of Piazza Catullo 1 in Peschiera del Garda from 24 September to 31 December.
Ex voto
The Artericambi gallery presents “Ex voto”, the first posthumous exhibition of the artist Delfina Marcello set up in the gallery spaces. The inauguration will be held on Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 5 pm, while the exhibition will then remain visible until October 20, 2022. The exhibition “Ex voto” was born from a communion of intent aimed at remembering and making known the work of Delfina Marcello will focus mainly on her pictorial production.
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 preserved 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 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 the 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, not normally on display to the public.