16/07/2026 – 17/07/2026 @ 21:00 – 23:00 – The Volterra Guitar Project summer festival, featuring classical guitar courses and concerts, returns for its 20th year on 16 and 17 July at 9.00 pm.The first concert will take place at the Church of St Augustine and the second at the Palazzo dei Priori. Admission to the concerts is free. For the programme, click on […]
05/06/2026 @ 21:00 – 23:00 – Sixteen shows from January to June in the city of Pontedera, with the usual concert venues of the Festival: the Auditorium of the Piaggio Museum, the “Marco Papiani” Auditorium of the Pontedera Music Academy, Villa Crastan and the ERA Theatre. Friday 5th June at 9.00 pm, last concert of the Pontedera Music Festival 2026 at Museo Piaggio: […]
17/02/2026 @ 15:00 – 18:00 – For 83 years, the Bientinese Carnival Association has organised the five masked parades with new allegorical floats inspired by local situations, political satire or the world of children’s imagination. Characteristic is the cheerful little train that, loaded with small passengers, travels through the village. Adults and children organise themed masked outings. On the evening of […]
17/02/2026 @ 14:30 – 20:00 – For over 60 years, Orentano has boasted one of Tuscany’s most popular masked parades. Every Sunday the floats parade through the centre of the town accompanied by music, often played live by local folk bands, street bands and more. Children can climb aboard the themed floats depicting the protagonists of their favourite cartoons or films. […]
25/06/2026 @ 19:00 – 23:45 – For 17 years, on three Thursdays in June, San Miniato Basso, whose residents are called ‘pinocchini’, has been celebrating the famous puppet with fairy tales, music, games, and street shows with the ‘Giant Pinocchio’ along Via Tosco Romagnola Est. Why are the inhabitants of San Miniato Basso called ‘pinocchini’? It seems that Carlo Collodi was […]
29/05/2026 – 30/05/2026 @ 21:00 – 23:00 – 31 December at the Marchionneschi Theatre in Guardistallo: Grand Variety, including sequins, sequins, lights, comic sketches, macchiettes, jokes, romances, and songs ranging from Operetta to Musical Comedy, passing through Avanspettacolo to Neapolitan songs. The evening sees the extraordinary participation of soubrette Annalena Lombardi, one of the leading artists of Italian light theatre. Toast with panettone […]
04/01/2026 @ 15:00 – 19:00 – The living nativity scene in the setting of the Badia di San Savino takes place on 3rd and 4th January with over 100 costumed figures and set in the year zero, it retraces the Nativity of Christ, from the census to the arrival of the Magi, re-proposing village life with markets and ancient trades. The […]
03/05/2026 @ 12:00 – 18:00 – At the Hippodrome of San Rossore, the galloping season lasts from the end of October to April and takes place on Thursdays (excluded on 4/12) and Sundays. The galloping season takes place at the San Rossore racecourse, the only one in Italy in a natural park. The maximum capacity this year is 5,000 spectators. The […]
27/08/2026 – 27/09/2026 @ 15:00 – 19:00 – The museums at Villa Baciocchi are housed within the 18th-century villa, built on the ruins of Capannoli Castle, which once belonged to the Della Gherardesca family (11th century).They include the Archaeological Museum (temporarily closed), the Zoological Museum and the Botanical Garden in the villa’s grounds. In addition to the Zoological Museum, the villa and the […]
26/09/2026 – 31/12/2026 @ 21:00 – 23:00 – The programme at the Città del Teatro in Cascina gets underway on 26 September. Almost at the same time, the children’s series ‘Domenica a Teatro’ begins The theatre season has not yet been finalised, but the website already lists a number of shows scheduled up to 31 December, such as the Pink Floyd tribute, a […]
23/10/2026 – 18/04/2027 @ 20:30 – 22:30 – The opera season traditionally opens the season at the Verdi Theatre in Pisa, one of Italy’s most beautiful traditional theatres and one of the most successful examples of 19th-century theatre architecture. The opera season generally begins in October and ends in March. Elisir d’amore: 27/Mar/2026 h 20:30 and 29/Mar/2026 h 15:30 See programme on page
14/11/2026 – 04/04/2027 @ 21:00 – 23:30 – The prose season at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa generally begins in November and ends in March. Program on page It is possible to visit the Verdi Theater (guided tours, preferably groups) on Saturdays . Contact the management: Ph 050 941106 – temporarily closed