Salento Book Festival
Edition 2025 Finished Free Literature Poetry Young audience

Salento Book Festival

01 Jul 2025 — 30 Sep 2025
Taviano — Lecce (075)

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Edition 2025 — Salento Book Festival

The 15th edition of the Salento Book Festival took place in the summer of 2025, from June to September, traveling through numerous municipalities in the Lecce province with its "The Festival of Books, the Buzz of Readers" format. The free, open-air evening meetings brought writers, journalists, and key figures of Italian culture to the squares of Salento, confirming the festival as one of the most followed literary events in Southern Italy.

Salento Book Festival 2025

In 2025, the 15th edition of the Salento Book Festival, "The Festival of Books, the Buzz of Readers," brought the Salento summer to life from June to September. The traveling festival, conceived and directed by journalist Gianpiero Pisanello, visited numerous municipalities in the province of Lecce, the heart of the Salento region in Puglia, with free-admission evenings in the squares and historic sites of the area.

In 2025, the festival once again offered dozens of meetings with nationally renowned authors—novelists, television journalists, essayists, and faces of Italian popular culture—who presented their latest works in direct dialogue with the public. The widespread format, capable of reaching even the smallest centers of Salento, allowed readers to connect with books in a convivial and community-oriented atmosphere, setting the stage for the 16th edition in 2026.

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Salento Book Festival in brief

Literature Poetry Young audience Outdoor Itinerant Free Participatory Multidisciplinary International Lecce

History of Salento Book Festival

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