Attraverso Festival - Franco Arminio: The Grace of Fragility

Franco Arminio in Morbello for the Attraverso Festival

On July 15, 2026, the small town of Morbello, nestled among the woods of the Apennines in the Province of Alessandria, will host one of the most beloved voices of contemporary Italian poetry: Franco Arminio. The event takes place at Villa Claudia in Località Costa and is part of the Attraverso Festival, the widespread cultural series that brings the villages of Southern Piedmont to life every summer.

The Grace of Fragility

The performance Arminio brings to Morbello is titled The Grace of Fragility. It is a poetic reading that weaves together verses, thoughts, and stories: the poet and "paesologo" from Irpinia invites us to rediscover the beauty of small things, depopulated villages, and lives on the margins. His is a civil poetry, capable of speaking about solitude, community, and territory with a direct and intimate language. In a village like Morbello, far from mass tourism routes, his reflection on Italy's inland areas finds the perfect setting.

A festival that spans Piedmont

The Attraverso Festival is a traveling event that visits dozens of towns every year across the hills of Langhe, Monferrato, Roero, and the Piedmontese Apennines, territories inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Promoted by the Hiroshima Mon Amour ETS Association together with Produzioni Fuorivia and directed by Paola Farinetti and Simona Ressico, the festival blends theater, music, literature, meetings, and outreach, bringing great names of Italian culture to often unexpected places: courtyards, villas, churches, squares, and natural landscapes.

Morbello and the Alessandria Apennines

Morbello is a village of a few hundred inhabitants immersed in the greenery of the Apennines in Piedmont. Its intimate atmosphere and the silence of the hills make the experience of a poetry reading under the stars particularly evocative. The evening with Franco Arminio is the only Attraverso Festival event hosted in Morbello, a precious opportunity to discover this little-known corner of the Province of Alessandria.

• Date: July 15, 2026, at 9:00 PM
• Venue: Villa Claudia, Località Costa, Morbello (AL)
• Protagonist: Franco Arminio
• Ticket: 15 euros