Exhibitions, food, sports and wellness. There are plenty of choices regarding destinations and plans for the next All Saints’ day weekend. The important thing is to get out of the house and take advantage of the unexpected four day holiday (not for everyone, unfortunately), to disconnect and visit new places, then return to work regenerated...at least until Christmas!
Cosplay and comics in Lucca
It’s really worth it to visit Lucca from October 28 to November 1, where they are marking the occasion of 50 years of the most important comic festival in Italy, "Lucca comics & games". It will be a special edition, full of exhibitions, meetings, and authors coming from all over the world. For half a century, the comic event has been renewed and over time it has been receptive to other forms of culture, entertainment and lifestyle: the board game world, fantastic illustration, acronyms and TV series, cosplay, movies, home videos, video games.
Open oil mills in Umbria
The launch of the 19th edition of the event celebrates oil throughout the Umbria region, this year from October 29 to November 27. There are five weekend proposals in the countryside to visit medieval villages, farms, museums and of course the local oil mills, where the milling and extraction of precious liquid takes place. Everyone will have the opportunity to attend traditional music concerts in the squares, to engage children and adults in popular games, to learn to discover and recognise the true flavour of DOP extra virgin olive oil and other products from Umbria and to walk among the olive trees, castles, abbeys and farms. The municipalities involved are Assisi, Bettona, Campello sul Clitunno, Castiglione del Lago, Foligno, Giano dell’Umbria, Gualdo Cattaneo, Magione, Narni, Passignano sul Trasimeno, Spello and Trevi.
David Bowie exhibition in Bologna
There is always a great excuse to visit Bologna, and this time the unmissable event is the retrospective David Bowie Is at Mambo (until November 13), dedicated to the career of the White Duke; the only and final Italian stop-over of a European tour that brought 1.4 million visitors to London. There is a multimedia exhibition created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, which traces the life and career of this extraordinary and chameleonic artist, who renewed British pop culture in a world made of colours, bizarre covers and stage costumes that were among the most creative ever seen. The exhibition also features his memorabilia: photographs, personal items, books and records. It is an artistic journey that led David Robert Jones to becoming an icon.
At Castrocaro, hunting for mysteries on Halloween night
For Halloween night, the castle of Castrocaro (Forlì) will be filled with mystery and will have special guided tours with a medieval theme late into the night. Margherita, Jacopa, Claradia, Bonifacio, Achille and Apollonia are just some of the personae from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance who spent time at the castle and who may choose to manifest themselves in the form of ghosts. The flickering light of hundreds of torches will accompany you in the halls, the courts and in the twists and turns of the ancient castle, where the spectators will be around a fire, in the company of warriors, witches and goblins, and will including spells and sorcery.
Marina Abramovic and other extraordinary women in Bergamo
40 international artists, protagonists of contemporary art, will exhibit their work at the Specchio Concave exhibition, which will also include photography and video art. Among the artists are Marina Abramović, Vanessa Beecroft, Barbara Bloom and Rä di Martino. The exhibition is organised by BACO, an acronym for Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna, which is an open working group whose purpose is dialogue and the involvement of local cultural operators, nationally and internationally through the promotion of the most significant languages and experimentation of artistic contemporary culture. While you're there you can also visit the exhibition dedicated to a master of Contemporary Art such as Michelangelo Pistoletto, which is at the revived Accademia Carrara, the GAMeC - Gallery of Modern Contemporary Art, a few steps from the art gallery.