From 25 September to 28 September 2025, the appointment with the Festival del Viaggio returns, now in its twentieth edition.
The Travel Festival was the first in Italy dedicated to the theme. It was founded in Pisa in 2006 and then moved to other cities, of which we remember Florence, Palermo, Venice, Viareggio, Milan. A few years ago the festival returned to Pisa, with the support of the Pisa Foundation, in the prestigious setting of Palazzo Blu. In 2025 the twentieth edition is celebrated with a book-catalogue of images and memories of the history of the Festival del Viaggio and with a program dedicated entirely to music.
Sergio Caputo, Rita Marcotulli, Bobo Rondelli, Federico Maria Sardelli, Tommaso Novi, Fabio Morgera are some of the names participating in this twentieth edition.
The event has the patronage of the Tuscany Region and the Municipality of Pisa, and is supported by the Pisa Foundation and Unicoop Firenze.
All events are free to enter between the event on September 28th!
PROGRAMME
Thursday 25 September
- 6 pm, Palazzo Blu - FABIO MORGERA talks about the TRUMPET. An almost human voice. One of the most eclectic Italian trumpeters arrives at the Festival del Viaggio to talk about his relationship with the trumpet. Why he chose her and what satisfaction she gave him. After much apprenticeship in the major Italian jazz clubs, Morgera crossed the Atlantic Ocean and went to New York City to try his hand at American musicians. He returned full of suggestions and new ideas for his compositional work and multiple improvisational jam sessions.
- 7 pm, Palazzo Blu - BOBO RONDELLI talks about the GUITAR. Everyone's instrument. Second time by Bobo Rondelli at the Festival del Viaggio. This time, the irreverent singer-songwriter from Livorno will tell how he learned to play the guitar and what his style and technique are. And then he'll tell how some songs came about and how the guitar is an instrument that at some point in existence can save your life and also make you become a romantic, decadent playboy.
Friday 26 September
- 5 pm, atrium of Palazzo Gambacorti - SWING. The dance of vitality. With music by Café Ouvert. Margherita Giorgi, vocals, Vittorio Fioramonti, guitar, Giovanni Gargini, washboard. Swing is one of the most popular dances of the twentieth century. In the United States it was incredibly successful. It is an agitated and adrenaline-filled couple dance that originates from African-American dances, hi-hat and vintage jazz. We dance in pairs to the syncopated rhythms of swing music. It's a very frenetic dance full of shots and blocks. A demonstration to understand how to dance swing.
- 6 pm, Palazzo Blu - TOMMASO NOVI talks about the WHISTLE. Buscaglione, Dalla and the silbo-gomero. Before giving life, together with Francesco Bottai, to Gatti Mezzi, Tommaso Novi studied the piano for a long time and also a strange instrument, often held in low regard, the oral apparatus that gives life to the whistle. Is there a technique for learning to whistle? How do you whistle? In what ways is the whistle linked to current music? What is the whistle journey?
- 7 pm, Palazzo Blu - RITA MARCOTULLItalks about the PIANO. How to make a soundtrack. Rita Marcotulli is one of the greatest interpreters of European jazz. An eclectic pianist, she has dedicated most of her career to African-American music, but has also distinguished herself in a special way in composing soundtracks for films and performance projects. In this meeting he will talk about the piano and its relationship with this fundamental instrument.
- 9.15 pm, Palazzo Blu - KAIRA MAYRA AND THE JOURNEY. Music from the world. Chiara Pellegrini (vocals and guitar) in concert ft. Andrea Pellegrini (piano). Father and daughter meet on stage, as if at a crossroads, discussing a repertoire of songs from various parts of the world. A refined and profound musical journey with a very strong interplay that reaches its maximum level of celebration and celebration live.
Saturday 27 September
- 5 pm, atrium of Palazzo Gambacorti - TANGO. Passionate dancing. Milonga and lessons with music. Describing tango in words is impossible. There has always been talk of the passion, poetry, melancholy, intensity of this popular dance, born in Argentina at the hands of musicians and dancers who lived far from their lands of origin. But this is also one of many interpretations. This will be a demonstration of how to dance tango.
- 6 pm, Palazzo Blu - FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI. I'll tell you about Vivaldi. Musician, conductor, music historian, but also comedian and cartoonist for the satirical magazine “Il Vernacoliere”. Sardelli studied Antonio Vivaldi all his life and wrote about him, with great competence and creativity. In this meeting he recounts the life, death and miracles of the famous eighteenth-century Italian composer. Antique way.
- 7 pm, Palazzo Blu - SERGIO CAPUTO. An italian Saturday. How did one of the most popular songs of the ’80s come about? What does an Italian Saturday represent for at least two generations of Italians? The guitarist and singer-songwriter Sergio Caputo, a sparkling and ironic singer of Italian vices, desires and frustrations, lays himself bare, telling his life, his travels and his musical experiences.
- 9.15 pm, Palazzo Blu - BAMBARA FILES. Concert Traveling. We are at the roots of the blues, where Sandro Joyeux's guitar meets the ancestral sound of the percussion of Inoussa Dembele, the eightieth generation of Griots from Burkina Faso. With them Sergio Dileo who enriches the sound with horns, bass and global rhythms. Bambara Files is a sound story that crosses deserts and metropolises, mixing traditional West African songs, original compositions and reinterpretations of African classics revisited with an essential and engaging style capable of evoking the trance of griot songs and the melancholy of the Mississippi Delta. The performance alternates moments of intimate listening with rhythmic outbursts in which it is impossible to stand still. Music becomes ritual, dance, memory and celebration.
Sunday 28 September, 11.30 am at the San Rossore Park - THE FOREST BAREFOOT: SOUNDS & NATURE. Musical stomping in San Rossore. Marzia Maestri and Mascha Stroobant accompany the participants on a barefoot journey in the San Rossore Park, to physically discover the differences in terrain on which we place our feet. A journey in the form of terrestrial antennas towards the biological desire for celestial elevation, but also a journey to discover the sounds of nature.
Reservation required by email to: viaggi@festivaldelviaggio.it
In case of rain the event is postponed to a later date.
