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Lucca comics & games 2008

Comics & Games Lucca

Lucca Comics & Games 2008 is a great cultural event which attracts each year thousands of visitors from all over the world. From a couple of years, the event is more interesting and suggestive as it takes place within the city walls of Lucca. In 2007 about four hundred exhibitors from all over the world tooks part in Lucca Comics and Games, on over 16,000 square metres with over 100,000 visitors. During these days (from the middle of October to the 4th of November) Lucca also organizes forums and cinema and comics exhibitions.

Comics & Games Edition 2008 – Program

30 october – 02 november
» MARKET SHOW

18 october – 02 november
» EXPO

Competition Comics and Games for Lucca Junior 2008

Dedicated to Giacomo Puccini: Princesses, Emperors and Mandarins The competition for Lucca Junior 2008 of comics and games of this year is dedicated to Giacomo Puccini, the title is: Princesses, emperors and mandarins. The illustrators and cartoonists can download on-line the competition notice in PDF format dedicated to Princess Turandot.
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Lucca Games 2008 – Competition for the best unpublished game

Lucca Games, the section dedicated to the smart games and to the fantasy of Lucca Comics & Games, and DaVinci Publishing propose also this year the Competion for the best unpublished game… read more

Puccini and Lucca by the international exhibition of games in Norimberga Lucca Games and DaVinci Publishing present the competitio for the best UNPUBLISHED GAME 2008!… read more

Lucca Cosplay 2008

Lucca Cosplay 2008 is the exhibition of Comics and Games of Lucca that offer the chance to the partecipants to simulate in the appeareance, with the costumes, in the make-up, often in avery detailed way their favourite comics characters. Every partecipant or group on a stage from 1 to 8 minutes (according to the n° of people). The winners will be rewarded the last day of comics and games. Every partecipant has to sign up and respect all the rules. You can find more info on the official web site of Lucca Cosplay.

September Festivals and Holiday Events inTuscany

Tuscan Festivals, Holidays, and Special Events in September

In September Italians return from their vacations. Many festivals take place the first Sunday in September as summer comes to an end. You’ll still find small food festivals throughout Italy during the month of September. Look for brightly-colored posters (like the one in the picture) for a festa or sagra, where you can usually sample inexpensive regional food.

Here are some of the top festivals you’ll find in Tuscany in September.

Palio di San Rocco in Figline Valdarno is said to be one of the first palio competitions (definition of palio) in Tuscany. The palio includes five days of medieval competitions with jousting, archery, and a horse race during the first week of September.

Feast of Rificolona is believed to be one of the oldest festivals in Florence. You’ll find outdoor festivities September 6 and 7 including a big fair in Piazza Santissima Annunziata. The celebrations close the evening of September 7 with a procession from Piazza Santa Croce led by the Cardinal. You may also find Feast of Rificolona celebrated in other parts of Tuscany September 7.

Luminara di Santa Croce, illuminations of the holy cross, is a beautiful procession in Lucca, Tuscany, on September 13. The city is illuminated with thousands of candles at night as the procession goes through Lucca’s historic center. (Lucca travel resources)

Feast Day of San Michele on September 29 is a popular saint’s day celebrated many places in Italy, often with an agriculture festival.

Tuscany Halleluja! Lucca Gospel Festival

Grazie a Halleluja! Lucca Gospel Festival (first Gospel festival in Tuscany) for a week (from 10 to 15 june) Lucca will be the capital of Gospel soul.

Martedì 10 giugno – ore 14.00 – Carcere di San Giorgio
Coro: Vijay & Joyful Angels – Lucca Gospel Choir

Mercoledì 11 giugno – ore 21.15 – Teatro Jenco – Viareggio
Coro: Jubilation Gospel Choir

Giovedì 12 giugno – ore 21.15 – Teatro Alfieri – Castelnuovo Garfagnana
Coro: Joyful Singers

Venerdì 13 giugno – ore 21.15 – Cortile degli Svizzeri – Lucca
Coro: The Pilgrims

Sabato 14 giugno – ore 10.00 – Palazzo Ducale – Lucca
Iscrizione/Check in Concorso

– ore 15.00 – Auditorium San Girolamo – Lucca
Concorso Cori Gospel

– ore 15.00 – Cortile degli Svizzeri – Lucca
Concerto cori partecipanti

– ore 21.00 – Proclamazione dei vincitori
Seguirà la premiazione e il concerto dei cori che hanno vinto la competizione

Domenica 15 giugno – ore 10.00 – Basilica San Frediano – Lucca
Prova della Santa Messa
– ore 12.00 – Santa Messa Gospel
– ore 15.00 – Cortile degli Svizzeri – Lucca
Concerto dei cori partecipanti
– ore 21.15 – Cortile degli Svizzeri
Concerto di Joyful Angels & Cheryl Porter
A seguire: Cheryl Porter Ensamble in concerto

Per informazioni: www.joyfulangels.it oppure: Ida Viviano (393/6023573).

Tuscany – September with Casale Sodini

Siena Remembers “The Hero”

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Cycling Lovers Unite!

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Enrolment for courses has started at the University of Florence

Lastly, the closing date for degrees in Motor Sciences at the Department of Medicine and Surgery is the 12 th of September.
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Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder on September 11th

Standing Shoulder-to-Shoulder on September 11th For more information, please visit or call Manola Maiani at 055.73.98.329 or 335.13.00.615 3 September 2007
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2006 Grape Harvest: Ornellaia starts on the first of September

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From a vanguard to rediscovery

From September 28, viewers can enjoy Aldo Tambellini: A Syracuse rebel in New York ’, created in collaboration with the Istituto d’Arte Passaglia. One-day club membership fee is 3 euro. 28 September 2007
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Luca Cordero dio Montezemolo, testimonial di 'Corri la vita'

Florence at the starting line

On Sunday, September 30, more than 12,000 participants are expected to take to the streets for Italy ’s most successful marathon/walkathon. Participants may also register in Piazza Santa Croce on September 30. 25 September 2007
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Paris Leather Fair Welcomes Tuscan Companies

Eighteen companies are set to travel to the City of Light from September 18 – 21 for a leather fair held at the Paris Nord Villepinte convention centre. The important Parisian event takes place twice a year (in February and September).
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Paris Leather Fair Welcomes Tuscan Companies

Eighteen companies are set to travel to the City of Light from September 18 – 21 for a leather fair held at the Paris Nord Villepinte convention centre. Over ten thousand people visited 177 exhibitions during the February show. 8 September 2007
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Experience the Magic of Tuscan Tortelli

The festival runs from August 31 to September 2 and again the following weekend. The sagra goes on the entire month of August and the weekend of September 1 and 2.
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54th Festival Puccini in Tuscany

Giacomo Puccini

54th Festival Puccini

The Puccini Festival 2008 will be characterized by one of the most important cultural events of the latest years: the opening of the new Theatre, around which will take form a cultural park, where to celebrate Giacomo Puccini, his music, his history and his art, on the lake Massaciuccoli which inspired him in his life.

54th Puccini Festival

June – August 2008

THE PERFORMANCES START AT 9.15 p.m.

CONCERT
Sunday June 15th , Puccini IV Act

Tribute to Puccini
Sunday July 6 2008 a co-production with Accademia Chigiana in Siena

TURANDOT
Friday July 11th; Saturday July 19th; Friday July 25th;
Sunday August 3rd; Sunday August 10th; Saturday August 23rd

TOSCA
Saturday July 12th; Friday July 18th; Sunday July 27th; Friday August 8th; Friday August 22nd

MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Sunday July 20th; Saturday July 26th; Saturday August 2nd; Sunday August 17th

EDGAR
Saturday August 9th; Saturday August 16th