Giglio Summer Festival – Indie Power

An indie night on Lake Bolsena

The Giglio Summer Festival is the summer series that brings Montefiascone to life, a town in the province of Viterbo overlooking Lake Bolsena, in the heart of the Lazio Tuscia. Born as a hub for open-air evenings, the festival provides a stage that hosts concerts, DJ sets, and musical formats during the warmer months, capable of attracting a wide audience, especially young people, from the lakeside towns and the entire Lazio Region.

Indie Power, Italy's biggest party

The event that brought fame to the series is Indie Power, the touring format that travels through clubs, town squares, and festivals across the peninsula, breaking attendance records. It is not a traditional concert: the formula focuses entirely on audience engagement, where the crowd becomes the protagonist, singing along from the beginning to the end of the night. For this reason, Indie Power is described as a giant karaoke concert under the stars.

The setlist draws from the repertoire that defined Italian indie music over the last decade — tracks by Calcutta, Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Gazzelle, and Coez — alternating with great international alternative classics. It is a selection designed so that no one stays still: those who know the lyrics by heart sing along, and those who don't learn them in real-time.

How the evening unfolds

• Starts at 10:00 PM, the perfect time to kick off the weekend without rushing.
• Music until 1:30 AM: a marathon of over three hours of non-stop entertainment.
• Completely free admission, a choice championed by the organizers to ensure maximum participation.
• Open-air evening, with the festival area equipped for food and beverage services.

Montefiascone, capital of Est! Est!! Est!!!

Those who arrive for the music find much more. Montefiascone is famous throughout Italy for its Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone wine, a white DOC linked to the legend of Bishop Johannes Defuk and his servant, who was tasked with marking the inns where the wine was good with the word "Est": in front of the wine of Montefiascone, the word was repeated three times. The village is dominated by the Rocca dei Papi, which offers one of the most beautiful views of Lake Bolsena, and houses the Basilica of San Flaviano, an extraordinary building with two superimposed churches.

A rich summer in Tuscia

The Giglio Summer Festival is part of a particularly busy summer season for the Municipality of Montefiascone, which distributes concerts, reviews, film screenings, street food, and events dedicated to local traditions across squares, streets, and panoramic viewpoints throughout June, July, and August. Those planning a weekend on Lake Bolsena can easily combine the musical evening with a day at the lake, a visit to local wineries, and a tour of nearby villages — Bolsena, Marta, Capodimonte, Gradoli — all reachable in just a few minutes by car.

Who it is for

The free formula and late-night schedule make the festival ideal for a young audience and groups of friends, yet the atmosphere remains the convivial and familiar one of summer village festivals. It is a simple and direct opportunity to experience a summer night in Tuscia, without tickets or formalities.