Baracche d'Estate

2025 Edition

In July 2025, the figure theatre festival in Tortona, curated by the Associazione Peppino Sarina, offered outdoor puppet and marionette evenings featuring traditional masks of Italian popular theatre. The free shows, included in the "Estate di Eventi" program, enlivened the historic centre and the municipality's hamlets, confirming a much-loved tradition in the province of Alessandria.

As every year, the event combined shows for children with moments capable of captivating adults as well, in the spirit of the puppet booth art of which the Tortona association is the guardian. The summer evenings in the Cortile dell'Annunziata and the hamlets offered the Piedmontese public a simple and authentic occasion for popular culture, anticipating the return of the festival the following summer.