Week Ber Sport

A sports festival in the heart of the Canavese

The Week Ber Sport is the late May event in Bairo, a small town in the Metropolitan City of Turin nestled in the Canavese, which celebrates sport as an opportunity for connection and community life. For an entire weekend, the village's squares and open spaces transform into a stage for sports activities, recreational moments, and initiatives open to families, young people, and enthusiasts.

Bairo and its sporting tradition

Bairo is not a random choice when it comes to sports in the Canavese. The village is the cradle of the Podistica Bairese, a club founded in the seventies that has been promoting running and track and field in the area for decades, organizing historic races like the Gir dal Mulin ed Ber and the Youth Cross-Country. The Week Ber Sport builds on this fertile ground, expanding the concept of a sports festival to a wider audience by combining amateur competition, play, and conviviality.

Sport, community, and territory

The event stems from the collaboration between the Municipality of Bairo, local associations, and volunteers, following the spirit typical of Canavese communities, where village festivals are moments of strong aggregation. The program highlights the popular dimension of sport: not just performance, but also fun, participation, and an opportunity to rediscover the village's spaces.

What makes Bairo special

Nestled on the morainic hills of the Canavese, Bairo preserves a compact historic center, dominated by the striking Red Clock Tower and embellished by the church of Santa Marta. Its location, a short distance from Ivrea and its famous Carnival, makes the town an ideal starting point for discovering an authentic Piedmont, characterized by traditions, hilly landscapes, and genuine gastronomy, including the local specialty, zabaione.

• Where: Bairo, in the heart of the Canavese (Metropolitan City of Turin)
• When: A weekend at the end of May
• Theme: Sport, outdoor activities, and village social life
• Organizers: Municipality of Bairo and local associations

A simple and genuine event that tells the story of the sporting and community spirit of a Piedmontese village where running, playing, and being together are part of the same tradition.