Biblical Festival of Chioggia
The Chioggia stop of the festival that dialogues the Bible with contemporary culture
About Biblical Festival Chioggia
The Bible in dialogue with the present
The Biblical Festival is one of the most well-known cultural and spiritual events in northeastern Italy: born in Vicenza, it is now a traveling festival that crosses various cities in the Veneto region and beyond, creating a dialogue between biblical texts and culture, philosophy, art, and current events. The stop in Chioggia, a lagoon city in the province of Venice, is one of the most anticipated appointments on the program.
Five days of meetings
The Chioggia stop offers five days of meetings, conferences, workshops, theater, and music, hosted in the most evocative locations in the city: the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the Art Gallery of the Santissima Trinità, and the San Nicolò Auditorium. Each year, the festival chooses a guiding theme around which the speakers' reflections revolve.
Prominent voices
Among the guests are theologians, biblical scholars, intellectuals, and prominent personalities – such as Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, one of the most authoritative scholars of the Bible. The meetings, with free admission, are designed for a wide audience and not just for believers: an opportunity to reflect, through the lens of sacred texts, on the great questions of human existence, in one of the most fascinating art cities in the Veneto.
Biblical Festival Chioggia — edition 2026
The 2026 edition, the 22nd, of the Biblical Festival hosts the final stop of the traveling tour in Chioggia (VE), from May 28 to June 1, on the theme 'The Power of Limit'. Five days of meetings, conferences, theater, and music in the city's most beautiful locations, with prominent speakers and free admission. The festival addresses the limit as an essential element of the human experience, a space for relationships, responsibility, freedom, and care.
Programme Biblical Festival Chioggia 2026
Thursday, May 28 — SS. Trinità Art Gallery
- 9 PM — Opening: 'The Endeavor of Good. The Generative Force of Life and Care'
Friday, May 29 — Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta
- 9 PM — Biblical meeting with Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi: 'The Power of Limit. Creator and Creature Yesterday and Today'
Saturday, May 30
- Workshop for high school students
- Theater performance 'Edipus, the Device of the Gods'
Sunday, May 31 — Stella Maris, Sottomarina
- 6 AM — Sunrise meditation
Monday, June 1 — San Nicolò Auditorium
- 9 PM — Closing dedicated to Sammy Basso: 'Sammy, a Life to Embrace and to Love'
Free admission (booking recommended or required for some events).
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How to get there
Chioggia can be reached by car from the SS309 Romea or from the A4 (Padova Est exit and then SR516). The events take place in the Cathedral, the SS. Trinità Art Gallery, and the San Nicolò Auditorium, in the historic center.
Where and when
Historic center of Chioggia (VE), between late May and early June, five days of events. Free admission (booking recommended for some appointments).
Information
Full program on festivalbiblico.it and on the channels of the Municipality of Chioggia.
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Where does it take place — Biblical Festival Chioggia
Cattedrale, Pinacoteca SS. Trinità, Auditorium San Nicolò