Inauguration of the MontagnaLibri book fair

A “festival in the festival”. The international review of mountain publications, for twenty-four years the principle international showcase of publications featuring high lands, is preparing once again to “invade” the exhibition area of Piazza Fiera at the foot of the medieval city walls. From 29 April to 9 May the public will be able to browse through a thousand guidebooks, essays, monographs, photographic books and specialist magazines on environment, geology, archaeology, history, war, economics, art, crafts and ethnography, from a hundred publishers from all over the world (all printed in 2009–2010). Besides the display of publications, which in recent years has come close to 15 thousand presences, the review proposes a rich calendar of literary events: meetings with the authors, debates with outstanding personalities, presentations of novelties, readings, exhibitions and shows giving an insight into diverse aspects of the mountains.

MontagnaLibri will also be hosting MontagniLandia, a play area for young readers, and Libreria della Montagna, a bookshop featuring both classic and new works of mountain literature. This year MontagnaLibri is also pleased to present two photography exhibitions: Le nevi di Mario Rigoni Stern by Adriano Tomba and Nel regno dei camosci by Annamaria Castellan.