Festival Terra e Laghi

A festival that crosses borders

The Festival Terra e Laghi is one of the most important travelling theatre reviews in Northern Italy, curated by the company Teatro Blu. Its mission is to bring theatre outside conventional venues, into the squares and villages of Insubria, the historical and cultural region straddling Lombardy and the Canton of Ticino, where borders become places of meeting rather than barriers.

The stop in Lavena Ponte Tresa

Among the 44 locations touched by the festival is Lavena Ponte Tresa, in the Province of Varese, a village overlooking Lake Lugano right on the Swiss border. Here the festival stops with an open-air performance at the Area Feste Tretto, offering the community an evening of quality theatre in a suggestive natural setting.

Prose, street and circus

The Terra e Laghi programme ranges from prose, street theatre and contemporary circus, with performances designed for a wide, intergenerational audience. The artistic direction of Silvia Priori carries forward the idea of popular and accessible theatre, capable of enhancing the territories and their identities.

Twenty years of distributed theatre

The festival, supported by the Lombardy Region and the Ministry of Culture, represents a model of distributed theatre that intertwines culture, territory and cross-border relations. The stop in Lavena Ponte Tresa is a precious opportunity to experience open-air theatre in one of the most charming villages on Lake Lugano.