Festivals
Festivals and appointments in Turin
World Figure Skating Championships
Turin, 22 – 28 March 2010
Torino is again the protagonist on the world sports stage: the city will host from March 22 to March 28 2010 the 100th ISU World Figure Skating Championships. The organising committee is composed by FISG (Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio) and Torino Olympic Park. The venue of Palavela will host the most important competitions of figure skating, after the Olympic Games, with over 200 athletes!
www.Torino2010.org
The Holy Shroud
Turin, next exposition 10th April – 23rd May 2010
In the spring of 2010, just ten years after the Exposition in the jubilee year, the Holy Shroud will once again be on display in the Cathedral of Torino starting on 10 April to 23 May and also Pope Benedict XVI will be there to revere it. The Pope will be in Turin Sunday 2 May 2010.
It’s the first exhibition of the “renovated” Linen after the intervention it underwent in 2002 that removed pieces of cloth burnt in the Chambéry fire of 1532 and placed it on a new support.
www.sindone.org
The Salone Internazionale del Libro (International Book Fair)
Turin, 13 – 17 May 2010
Lingotto Fiere, via Nizza 294, Turin
1,400 exhibitors, 12,500 teachers, and 13,089 publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents, illustrators and translators came together at the 2008 Salone. The Salone dedicates special sections to trade professionals.
THE THEME. The theme of memory, which will mark the 2010 edition of the Book Fair, is central to the evolution of human societies, since when they acquired awareness of themselves, became organised and looked out on history.
THE PRIZE. 2010 sees the launch of the new Turin Book Fair International Prize. This is a recognition reserved for eminent personalities in contemporary international culture, considered in their field as authentic masters, living ferments of thought.
www.salonelibro.it