Orvieto Food Festival

Orvieto feeds the mind!

Second edition of the culture and gastronomy review that combines the excellence of "flavors and knowledge": food, wine, stimulating cultural events, through initiatives, meetings and conviviality with testimonials of significant experiences.

Because in addition to the food and wine festival, the Festival offers a combination of nourishment for the body and food for the mind, the pleasure of good food and cultural stimuli, the tradition of good wine and suggestions for the spirit.

Gastronomic itineraries in the city's restaurants, concerts, tastings, aperitifs, conviviality with guests and testimonials of our time, tastings, markets, presentations, meetings, insights with excellent characters from the world of culture and current affairs will make the city a crossroads of knowledge, of flavors and experiences.

The guests and the program

Friday 9 December
Piergiorgio Odifreddi, mathematician, logician, essayist and historian of science, interviewed by the firm of Repubblica PAOLO MAURI to tell a "story of beauty", from the birth of perspective to Euclid's denial and explore the themes most dear to the writer, author , among others, of the recent "Dear Pope, I write to you".

Friday 9 December
Vladimir Luxuria tells the journalist and TV presenter Pino Strabioli about his first novel "Eldorado", which touches, wisely dosing the tones of tragedy and irony, many places of homophobia of yesterday and today.

Saturday 10 December
The great Chilean writer Luis Sepulveda presents his "Latest news from the south" with his Argentine photographer friend Daniel Mordzinski, travel companion in Patagonia and author of the thirty images that illustrate the book. Gianni Minà will lead the meeting.

Saturday 10 December
Bruno Gambacorta, well-known signature of Tg2 and creator of "Eat Parade", tells LUCIO BIAGIONI about the most memorable and interesting characters of the show and what in the three minutes of the television report it is impossible to say.

Saturday 10 December
Fabio Volo, a veritable publishing, literary, and lifestyle phenomenon, presents his latest novel, at the top of the sales charts, "The first lights of the morning" and tells himself to Riccardo Campino.

Sunday 11 December
Erri De Luca relies on the images of the short film "Beyond the glass" (presented at the 68th Venice Film Festival) written and interpreted by him and, after the screening, discusses it with the director ANDREA DI BARI and the journalist, author and conductor Guido Barlozzetti.

Sunday 11 December
Fausto Bertinotti, interviewed by Pino Strabioli and Stefania Pennacchini, Chief Editor of RAI Parliament, reconstructs in his latest book "Who is in charge here?" the genesis of our republican charter - based on the inalienable principles of work, freedom, peace and social justice - and the role it played in the "thirty glorious years" following its promulgation.

Other institutional characters and other interesting meeting opportunities, not to be missed!

Saturday 10 December
In addition, musical appointments, starting with the opening with Gegè Telesforo 5tet and one of the most interesting projects of today's Italian music scene, with some of the most popular Italian jazz professionals (Thu 08 Dec); Ezozo Ballarano groovin (Fri 9 Dec); Argentine and Latin music in a jazz key with the show "Milonga de mis amores" by Natalio Mangalavite and Michele Ascolese.

Itinerant lunches: in the restaurants of the historic center for taste itineraries to discover the flavors and places of the city, Christmas markets with handicraft and gastronomy stands, friendly countryside markets with the sale of agricultural products at km 0, to remember that behind every food there is it is a land, a climate, a producer, a distribution network to which our culture of good living is connected.

The individual wineries : Altarocca, Vitalonga, Martinelli, Sergio Mottura, Podere Vaglie, Tenuta La Pazzaglia, Bigi associate their wines with the various events of the Festival, testifying to the inseparable link between the territory and its wine.

Paypal purchase
Each itinerary and banquet can be purchased online through the Paypal circuit

Reservations
booking@orvietofoodfestival.it

Box office:
C / O Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo | Orvieto
From 8 December h. 10.00 - 13.30 and 16.00 - 23.30
Tel. +39 392 9813512
Tel. +39 393 0527178
info@orvietofoodfestival.it

Information
info@orvietofoodfestival.it
Tel. +39 392 9813512
Tel. +39 393 0527178