pageants, unusual costumes, moments of great celebration and social cohesion in which is involved the entire population: scoprite i carnevali di Verrès, Pont-Saint-Martin, della “Coumba Friday” e tutte le altre feste in maschera della Valle d’Aosta. (source LoveVDA)
«Musicastelle Outdoor» with five concerts 16 al 26 July: the 16 a Etroubles Daniele Silvestri, the 17 Champorcher Dolcenera, the 23 a Verrayes Alex Britti, the 24 July in La Thuile and Roberto Vecchioni 26 July in the square in the Bard Fort Weapons pianist Ezio Bosso.
the review «Non solo show cooking» (from 2 July to 21 August) It offers to the public (100 places available) It can become sworn during various events and offers a gala dinner followed by a dance on 22 July to Verrès Castle.
The «Magic summer camp» (11 e 12 agosto a Brusson) It is open to participants from 6 to 16 years and now it boasts two literary cafes on the theme of illusion: the 29 July to the castle of Issogne the protagonist will be Alexander, the most famous mentalist Italian, and the 5 August, al castello Sarriod de La Tour a Saint-Pierre, the meeting will be with the magician and escapologo Mark Berry.
Fairy tales in the woods, from 9 July to 28 August
"Everything colored ', the laboratory of comics (from 25 al 30 July), It moves from the Matterhorn to the Gran Paradiso. Ayas and in Rhêmes-Notre-Dame there are two tourist proposals for families: two days on the farm where experience the milking, become cheese producers, learn to know the pasture grasses.
"The great game of monopoly in the Valle d'Aosta" that echoes the classic Snakes and Ladders game revisited in a format suitable to the public square, in which "animAttori" tell the Valle d'Aosta through anecdotes , stories and performances starting the 9 July from Aosta and finishing 28 agosto a Montjovet.
As part of the exhibition Wildlife Phtoographer of the Year 2016, Fort Bard offers a master with residential mode.
The master, held by the teachers Stefano Unterthiner (stefanounterthiner.com), internationally renowned photographer and EmanueleBiggi (anura.it), conductor of Geo program Raitre, It offers a highly qualified training with professionals, dedicated to increasing wildlife photography techniques, the reading of the portfolio of the participants and the use of photo editing tools. The Master will be held on 7 e 8 May 2016 and is split over the activity in the classroom also output by a green area of Valle d'Aosta. (Source www.fortedibard.it)
The exhibition documents a particular time of the expressive research of one of the most significant protagonists of contemporary art, Sandro Chia (Florence 1946), He appeared on the international scene at the Venice Biennale of 1980 with the group of five artists of the Trans.
Since then his work has been exhibited in major international art festivals and in prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The exhibition of Aosta, curated by Daria Jorioz with Enzo Di Martino, It focuses on the legendary ancient Xi'an warriors(2.200 A.C.), found in China in 1974.
Artist nomadic for his ability to feed his creative world from different sources and always reaching for a personal formal digit, Chia has done on clay copies of some of these extraordinary warriors operation picassiana appropriation, deponendovi its unmistakable painterly gesture. The result is a fascinating exhibition, that intends to deliver to visitors a view representative of the complex and poetic imaginative world of this artist. (source: LoveVDA)
Mistletoe was an important element in the Celtic tradition, the origin of many rites and legends.
Celebrating its harvest, that traditionally precedes the holiday season, the party, which it takes place around the mistletoe street market, where you can also find typical products of the local gastronomy, It is made even more impressive by music and dances of the traditional Franco, Occitan and Celtic culminating, after the award of the most beautiful mistletoes, in a torchlight procession and lighting of the Druidic fire.
Timetables: 10:30 -19:30, giovedì 8 December 2016
(source: LoveVDA)
The last Sunday in May from 10 all 18 a tour of the valley to taste the excellent wine from Valle d'Aosta. The only cost is that of the glass beaker (10,00 euro) you can buy it at each winery (