On Friday, April 24, 2026, at 9:00 PM, the walking cinema event returns with "BOMBE 1943 - special Rebel Rose - Women, War, Liberation".
A stroll through the city, night film projections to relive the city's history firsthand, dedicated specifically to August 31, 1943.
For Liberation Day 2026, Acquario della Memoria is offering three different walking cinema tours in Pisa: in the historic center, along the Walkway of the Walls, and on the Coltano estate.
Immersive experiences between history, memory and urban space, in which the city becomes a diffuse screen. Through wireless headphones and video projections on the walls, viewers walk inside real traveling films built with archives, testimonies and stories. The result is an experience that unites cinema, theater, and cultural tourism, highlighting the city's stratifications and the connection between places and memory.
The 2026 series is dedicated in particular to female figures, and takes its title “Rebel Rose - Women, War, Liberation”, created thanks to the support of the Tuscany Region.
From the excitement of entering the war to the first air raid warnings, from shelters to the belief that "the city of the Tower" would be spared. Until 13:01 on August 31, 1943. In 7 minutes he suddenly enters the horror of war. A journey of projections and stories constructed with archival materials, private diaries, and video testimonies. Fascism in Pisa and the enthusiasm of entering the war. The false alarms and shelters. The bombs and destruction of August 31, 1943: from the station to Saint-Gobain. The end of the water world of the shipbuilders. The city divided in two and the Liberation of September 1944.
For the special tour, dedicated to female figures during the war, the tour will be integrated with live readings by VivaVoce (Giulia Solano), taken from the diaries of Anna Manetti and Tina Tomasi, two extraordinary private chronicles from the summer of 1944 in Pisa.
An evening film tour dedicated to the bombing that hit the city on August 31, 1943.
The main themes: fascism in Pisa and the enthusiasm of the entry into the war in 1940; alarms and false alarms; counter-aircraft measures and shelters in the city; the bombs of 31 August 1943; the destruction from the station to Saint-Gobain; the end of the aquatic world of the boatmen and of “old nineteenth-century Pisa of carriages, trams and animals”; the long 1944 between Nazi-Fascist violence and the Liberation of September 2, 1944.
Created with the support of the Pisa Foundation and the Tuscany Region, and in collaboration with the Franco Serantini Library and MUMU.
Ticket cost: 12€
The route: Logge di Banchi, Corso Italia, Pizza Vittorio Emanuele, Church of Sant'Antonio, Via Bixio Cycle Path, Sostegno dei Navicelli, Cittadella.
Duration: 90 minutes approx
Minimum number: 10 participants
In case of rain the event will be cancelled or postponed to a date to be determined.
