Meetings, readings and dialogues to pay homage to Tour de France through the pages of books. On the occasion of the extraordinary departure of Tour de France from Italy and within the initiatives ToRideof the City of Turin, dedicated to cycling and the values that this sport embodies, the lounge area International of the Turin book awaits the passage of the yellow two-wheeled race by organizing the literary festival Tour to Turinedited by Federico Vergarijournalist and editorial consultant of the Book Fair for the sports and comics sections, and from Marco Pautassogeneral secretary of the Book Fair and head of the Off Fair.
Dto Thursday 27 a.m Sunday June 30th to Palazzo Madama et al Motorcycle track eight meetings dedicated to cycling and its stories will see protagonists authors, journalists, experts and enthusiasts of bikes, waiting for the third stage to arrive in Turin of the Tour de France on Monday July 1: Fabio Genovesi, writer and reporter of the Giro d’Italia, with there lecture on the Tour de France All First on the finish line of my heart (June 27); Marco Pastonesi, journalist and author of Pantani was a god (66thand2nd), at twentythe since the disappearance of the “Pirate” (June 27); the commentators of Eurosport Luca Gregorio, journalist, And Richard Magriniformer professional cyclist and now commentator, authors of Close to the clouds. The great climbers of modern cycling (Hoepli), dto Pantani to Pogačar, from Contador to Van Impe (June 28); Omar Di Felice, extreme cyclist of ice and writer, with the stories about his adventures from ultracyclist (June 29); the collettive Ciclist for case with the book dedicated to Alfonsina Strada, who participated in the men’s Giro d’Italia exactly one hundred years ago, in 1924 (June 29); journalists Gino Cervi, Andrea Schiavon And Herbie Sykes and the writer Gian Luca Favetto with The recent book The last time Pantani left (Mulatero Editions) to remember the “Pirate” through more than thirty voices e testimonials (June 30th); the association FIAB Turin Bike & Surroundings with the book Discover Piedmont by bicycle (Editions of Capricorn) on the many cycling itineraries from the Canavese on Lake Orta, from the Pinerolese to the plain between Novara and Vigevano (June 28). Ato moment special Sunday 30 June, at the end of “Tour à Turin”, will remember Gianni Muraone of the most popular and followed Italian sports journalists, who passed away in 2020, careful observer of cycling competitions, with readings taken from his articles journalists collected in his book The red flame. Stories and roads of my tours (minimum fax).
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