Attraverso Festival (Mornese)

Attraverso Festival in Mornese: culture traveling through Monferrato

Attraverso Festival is a widespread cultural project that transforms the hills of southern Piedmont into a vast open-air stage every summer. The event visits nearly thirty municipalities across the Langhe, Roero, Monferrato, and Piedmontese Apennines, in the provinces of Cuneo, Asti, and Alessandria, bringing theater, music, storytelling, and lectures to historic squares, courtyards, parks, and symbolic locations nestled within UNESCO World Heritage wine landscapes.

Among the festival's stops is Mornese, a small municipality in the upper Monferrato area of the Alessandria province, known for its charming village center and its historical connection to Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello and the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Here, festival events take place in the heart of the town, between the Town Hall Square (Piazza del Municipio) and historic courtyards, briefly transforming a village of a few hundred inhabitants into an intimate open-air theater.

A signature festival of theater and storytelling

The festival is organized by the Hiroshima Mon Amour ETS Cultural Association together with Produzioni Fuorivia, under the artistic direction of Paola Farinetti and Simona Ressico. Over the years, Attraverso Festival has established itself as one of the premier cultural events of the Piedmontese summer, blending theatrical performances, social monologues, concerts, musical storytelling, and intellectual discussions into a single map that connects the region's villages.

The festival's philosophy is to take culture beyond major urban centers, highlighting small towns and their most evocative settings. Each evening becomes an opportunity to discover a different village, square, or courtyard, accompanied by leading national artists. For a village like Mornese, this means welcoming an audience from across the province of Alessandria and beyond to witness performances that would typically only be seen in major city theaters.

Why it is worth experiencing

Attending an Attraverso Festival performance in Mornese means enjoying an open-air summer evening in the quiet of the Monferrato hills, with the high-quality programming that has hosted great names in Italian theater, music, and storytelling over the years. It is an experience that combines the beauty of an authentic territory, the culture of wine and local flavors, and the power of the spoken word and live performance, in an intimate setting rarely found in large city festivals.