Alpitudini — Circus, Cinema, Music and Nature Festival on Alpe Cimbra

A widespread festival across the peaks of Alpe Cimbra

Alpitudini is the summer event series bringing culture, art, and nature to the Cimbrian Highlands in the heart of Trentino. Launched in 2024, the festival reaches its third edition in 2026, establishing itself as one of the most original cultural highlights in the Trentino mountains. The name plays on the concepts of «altitude» and «attitude»: experiencing the heights not just as physical elevation, but as a perspective, a way of listening, and a form of contemplative solitude.

The festival is itinerant, traversing the three municipalities of Alpe Cimbra — Folgaria, Lavarone, and Luserna/Lusérn — with events hosted in evocative settings such as alpine dairies (malghe), Great War forts, clearings, and forests. Each stop is designed to take the audience out of conventional performance spaces and immerse them in the landscape.

Contemporary circus, cinema, and hiking

The Alpitudini programme is multi-disciplinary. Contemporary circus opens the season with clowning, acrobatics, and live music. The open-air cinema features «zero-impact» screenings, powered by a mobile photovoltaic system and enjoyed via wireless headphones to preserve the forest's tranquility: documentaries and animated films projected at dusk in forts, cabins, and meadows. Guided hikes, led by mountain guides alongside guests from the worlds of cinema, photography, and alpine wildlife, combine walking, nature, and storytelling.

High-altitude music

The programme concludes with concerts that bring live music to the mountains: from string quartets in alpine dairies to singer-songwriter performances. The 2026 edition culminates on 12 September in Folgaria with a concert by Cisco, the iconic voice of the Modena City Ramblers.

A community project

Alpitudini is organised by the Superflùo collective — creative dissonances and promoted by the Magnifica Comunità degli Altipiani Cimbri, in collaboration with the municipalities of Folgaria, Lavarone, and Luserna, and the Alpe Cimbra Tourist Board. All events are free, many requiring reservation, for a festival that focuses on sustainability, slow living, and the bond between culture and the landscape of the Autonomous Province of Trento, in Trentino-Alto Adige.