The Renaissance festival celebrating “The Return of the Dorias,” the “Night in White,” the PreMeeting, the Basüe, the Carnevalöa, the CUBO review. But also many literary events, exhibitions, concerts, cabaret evenings, beauty contests, gourmet appointments, sports events. Culminating with the highly anticipated Mahmood concert in Piazza Italia at the end of August. It will be truly unparalleled “Summer at Loano,” the extensive calendar of events that will enliven Loano's Summer 2022. Here the full calendar.
“After two rather complicated seasons,‘ explain Lettieri and Rocca, ’never before has there been such a desire as there is this year to resume normal ‘habits’ and begin again to fully enjoy the opportunities for relaxation and fun that, especially at Loano, characterize the summer. And precisely to try to meet this need, the administration, municipal offices and local businesses have prepared a truly rich and varied calendar of events. Without fear of contradiction, we feel to say that few other places in Liguria can boast a proposal of this kind. Alongside classic events in our town such as the ”Notte in Bianco', the Witches' Festival, the carnival, the National Prize City of Loano, the PreMeeting, we wanted to promote some interesting novelties. Such as the expanded and enriched version of the renaissance festival celebrating the proclamation of Loano as a free county, the vintage fair on the waterfront or the cinema on the beach. The highlight of this summer will undoubtedly be Mahmood's concert in Piazza Italia. An event that, within hours of its announcement, has already created great anticipation. Never before has the contribution of the city's associations and activities been as crucial as this year, which not only confirmed the commitment of previous years, but also promoted new and interesting projects that are very useful for further diversifying the offer. To them goes our most sincere thanks. If this will really be, as we hope and hope, the summer of the real restart, it will also and above all be thanks to them.".
It begins on Saturday, June 18, with “The return of the Dorias”, the grand renaissance festival that will commemorate the proclamation of the free county of Loano that took place in 1575 during the rule of Counts Zenobia Del Carretto and Gianandrea Doria. The event was promoted by the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the Loanese Committee and Vecchia Loano. In addition to being a historical re-enactment that aims to reconstruct coherently and on the basis of original documents what happened on July 2, 1575, the date of the settlement of the Doria princes and the oath of the Loanese community, the event will be an opportunity to enliven the historic center and the waterfront with moments of historical-themed entertainment that will involve tourists and residents in a real journey through the centuries.
The following week, that is, Saturday, June 25, the “White Night”, the long marathon of fun promoted by the City of Loano in collaboration with Comitato Loanese and Fipe-Confcommercio. As always, the mainstay of the event will be the businesses and venues, which will stay open until late in the evening and offer original tasting points and, from 5 p.m., many shopping opportunities thanks to the “desbarassu.” Also starting at 5 p.m. on the seafront promenade will be the stands of the artisans and artists of the Artigianalmente association, who will be displaying the fruits of their ingenuity and skill until the evening. The stalls will feature works of sculpture, painting, drawing, engraving and fine arts as well as painted ceramics, wood-carved objects, painted glass, bags and belts made from leather and art costume jewelry. Great protagonist will be music, with more than a dozen concerts and performances by rock bands, cover bands, jazz groups in different parts of the city. At 9:30 p.m. the big free concert that is the highlight of the White Night will kick off: this year on the stage set up in Piazza Italia will go up Donatella Rettore with her “Summer Tour 2022.”.
And also in Italy Square will be held, on August 27, the long-awaited concert of Mahmood organized by the City of Loano together with Strobe srl. Less than two months after his second participation in the Eurovision Song Contest (Turin, May 10-14, 2022) and fresh from his success at the 72nd Sanremo Festival, where he won with “Brividi” with Blanco, the most listened to song ever in one day on Spotify Italy with 3,384,192 streams in just 24 hours after release and certified triple platinum, Mahmood will open his summer tour on July 7 at the Cavea Parco Della Musica in Rome. He will then touch virtually all of Italy to arrive at Loano for a concert that will provide strong emotions. Among the songs with which Mahmood will perform on stage are not only the very successful unreleased tracks from his latest album “Ghettolimpo” and the Sanremese “Brividi,” but also some of the most beloved hits from his less recent record projects, such as “Gioventù Bruciata” and the single “Dorado,” featuring Sfera Ebbasta and Feid. Here is Mahmood's possible concert setlist also based on his recent performances for the Ghettolimpo Tour 2022 in clubs across Italy and Europe: “Gods,” “Ghettolimpo,” “Kisses from Tunisia,” “Inuyasha,” “The Nile in the Nile,” “Eternantena,” “Dorado,” “Remo,” “Burnt Youth,” “Icarus is Free,” “Kobra,” “Rubies,” “Karma,” “I Love You,” “Barrio,” “Talata,” “Rapids,” “Chills,” and “Money.”.
From July 6 to 10, the PreMeeting of Loano, the event that anticipates the themes of the Rimini Meeting, a kermesse that the Friendship Among Peoples Foundation organizes in August each year in Rimini. The initiative, scheduled to take place in Marina di Loano, is promoted and carried out by the cultural association Cara Beltà and the San Francesco Maria da Camporosso “Padre Santo” Solidarity Bank of Loano with the contribution of the Municipality of Loano, Marina di Loano, and the Region of Liguria.
From July 12 to 14 at Loano will stage “CUBE LIVE - places, ideas, voices, events”, the itinerant review of live performances promoted by CUBO, the Unipol Group's business museum, which will take place in five particularly evocative venues in Bologna, Milan, Turin, Liguria and Versilia. Pop and rock artists, jazz concerts, classical music and theater will enliven the summer evenings with stimulating proposals and performances that live up to CUBO's style. As for Loano, a concert by Marlene Kuntz will be held on July 12 in Piazza Italia, while on July 13 and 14, Loano's beautiful Marina Yacht Club setting will host performances by Marina Rei and the Alfredo Rodriguez Trio, respectively.
August 10 in Italy Square “music festival” with dj-set by Strobe Ltd.
From July 28 to 30, the events related to the City of Loano National Prize for Italian Traditional Music, the most prestigious award for traditional music in Italy. Concerts, meetings with authors and in-depth discussions with leading exponents of the genre will characterize, as always, the event organized by the Company of the Curious.
After a two-year stop due to the pandemic, the “Carnevalöa Summer Edition”. Starting at 9 p.m. on Corso Roma, floats made by volunteers from Old Loano and others will return to parade. The parade will be accompanied by music, dancing, confetti and masked groups. And it is always Vecchia Loano that will organize the “Basüe Festival”. On Saturday, Aug. 13, hundreds of figures will bring to life the era of witch hunts that raged across Europe for several centuries, with the persecution of women suspected of performing acts of magic such as spells, curses, enchantments and ligatures. The traditional fireworks display will follow. Masks still take center stage on Sept. 10 with the parade of masks national and regional programs in the historic center and on the waterfront, again by Old Loano.
New this year will be the cinema on the beach: Every Wednesday in July and August, the best children's and family films will be shown at the Lampara Baths. With free admission while seats last.
Never before will Italy Square be the real “spectacular heart” of Loano. On Tuesday, July 5, the following will take place. “Suddenly you ...”, a dance, singing and acting performance by Asd Modern Jazz Dance, Attimo Danza civic school and the Small Arts Workshop. Finally, on Friday, August 19, “Maria Rosa Raimondi, who is she? Of Giuseppe Garibaldi mother is she”, the musical produced by the seaside association Lodanum that reconstructs the life of the Hero of Two Worlds“ mother, who was born in Loano. In August, triple date with cabaret. Saturday, August 4, the "Crai Summer Tour 2022” will bring Gianluca Impastato's show to Loano. Friday the 5th always “cabaret night” by Pro Loco. Finally, on August 20, again in Piazza Italia night of cabaret With Renzo Sinacori.
On Saturday, August 6, “Universe in Pink”, the event to benefit Loano's “Artemisia Gentileschi” listening desk against violence against women. The day will begin at 6 a.m. on the Kursaal Pier with a classical music concert featuring Paola Arecco and Gianni Collo. At 6 p.m. at Loano Marina's Beefly demonstration of self-defense techniques with Asd Krav Maga Parabellum. At 9 p.m. in Piazza Italia concert with “I Divina.” The evening will be hosted by Elena Ballerini.
On Sunday, August 14 on the terraces of the Marina Center in Marina of Loano will be held the tenth edition of Miss Pro Loco Loano, which will also involve the election of “Venus of Italy for Liguria”. On Sunday, August 28, the regional finals of Miss Italy and Miss Riviera of the Palms promoted by Old Loano.
In the summer of Loano there will be no shortage of literary events from “LOA Reads in Every Corner Summer” sponsored by Monica Maggi's Atuttotondo in collaboration with Aps #cosavuoichetilegga and Loano's Mondadori Bookstore. Each week, Don Leone Grossi Park will be the location of the “Fairy tales and legends in the park” with Grandma Piera. Piera Alba Merlo, Celtic bard and storyteller, and her helper Monica Maggi will entertain young participants with readings from Grandma Piera's books of fairy tales and legends. The readings are aimed at boys and girls ages 5 and up. And in July there will also be room for the “Books Children under the Lime Tree”, with read alouds, authors and workshops for children and their families that aim to activate the pleasure of reading through listening to words, which from written words come alive through meeting those who thought them up and translated them into books. Guests at the event include Sergio Olivotti, Elena Lunardi, Giorgio Scaramuzzino and Vania Pucci. Literature and music will be the protagonists of the “Sunrise Readings” with musical accompaniment to be held on August 21 in the early hours of the day on the Kursaal Pier. On Saturday, September 3, Borgo Castello will once again become “The village of poets”, with an evening of readings by poets and poetry lovers curated by #cosavuoichetilegga who will try to answer the question “Will poetry save the world?” Finally, on Sept. 6, there will be the presentation of “The Young Camallo's Handbook,” the latest publishing project of the association “Two Backpacks and a Camallo,” created with the collaboration of cartoonist Pietro Celestino Marengo and aimed at young children, to raise their awareness of respect for nature and the environment. July and August will also see the return of the meetings with authors promoted by the Centofiori Eventi Association in collaboration with the Libreria del Conte and those of the “Culture Tuesdays” review organized by Aps #cosavuoichetilegga in collaboration with the Mondadori Bookstore. Presenting their books at Loano will be Andrea Vitali, Massimo Calandri, Veronica Pivetti, Luca Bianchini, Gianluigi Nuzzi, and Nadia Terranova.
There will be no shortage of shopping opportunities. On Sept. 3 from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on the waterfront there will be the first edition of the fair dedicated to “Vintage, modernism and surroundings” organized by the E20 Free Cultural and Recreational Association. Every second Sunday of the month under the arcades of Corso Europa and in the nearby gardens “Bestoso” will return the Antiques and Collectibles Market organized by E20 Free. Dozens of exhibitors will present a selected collection of furniture, silverware, paintings, carpets and objects with an antique flavor and full of charm. Every Tuesday and Friday in July and August, the stalls of “Crafts in the square”, the artisans' and artists' market organized by the association Artigianalmente. Professional craftsmen and skilled artists will display the fruits of their ingenuity and skill.
For lovers of the outdoors, the “Loano not only sea”, the program curated by the Loano section of the CAI. The hikes are free and practicable by those with a fair amount of training in mountain hiking. The aim is to promote hiking as an opportunity for socialization, personal well-being, and knowledge and appreciation of the area. Also for hiking enthusiasts, on Sunday, July 10, there will be a hike in San Damiano organized by Pro Loco Loano as part of the “National Day of Pro Loco”.
Throughout the summer, the tennis club of Loano will host a series of tournaments aimed at athletes of all ages. Among the most relevant is definitely the European Summer Cup under 14 women's, a youth event in which the best 8 European national tennis teams participate. And a series of tournaments and trophies will also enliven, in August and September, the bowling alley of Via Alba. Highlights include the Palme d'Or Trophy on Aug. 6 and 7 and the national team Italian Cup finals on Saturday, Sept. 10 and Sunday, Sept. 11. On Saturday, Aug. 20, the 10th running race “Marina Classic” promoted by Asd RunRivieraRun. Finally, from August 29 to September 4, the fifth edition of “Loano in dance”, the Asd Promozione Danza Liguria event that was created to offer participating interns and students in the area the opportunity to pursue dance studies with teachers with proven curricula. Among the teachers in this year's edition is Kledi Kadiu.
There will also be no shortage of events specially designed for music lovers. Such as the evenings of “Listening Guide” organized by the Loanese Music Association-City Polyphonic Choir of Loano, which will take participants on a discovery of the best-known and well-known arias from classical music and beyond; or the concerts which will be held in the Oratory of Our Lady of the Rosary and organized by the Confraternity of the Cape Turchine; or the other events scheduled in Piazza Italia, the heart of Loano's historic center, promoted by the Associazione Musicale Santa Maria Immacolata.
For those with a sweet tooth, there will be no shortage of food and wine appointments. Such as the “Ancient Tastes on the Salt Road” festival on June 25 and 26, the “St. Francis Festival” on July 8 and 9, the traditional ’Summer Muscolata“ from July 15 to 17, the ”Crostolo Festival“ from July 22 to 24, the ”Trenetta Festival“ from Aug. 3 to 5, the ”St. Pius X Festival“ and related running race from Aug. 16 to 19, the ”Quellu cu passa u cunventu“ festival on Aug. 26 and 27, the ”Sagra dell'Otto“ from Sept. 8 to 10, and the ”Sagra di Santa Libera’ from Sept. 15 to 17.
