They will be there Trentino Pro Loco to open on the evening of June 21stthe Christmas Eve celebrations 2024in particular inauguration ceremony desired by the Pro Loco Historic Center of Trento, organizer of the event together with the Santa Chiara Services Center, which, in this year of Trento Capital of Volunteeringthus aims to celebrate the approximately 20 thousand volunteers who work in the Pro Loco of the province.
Their representatives, in fact, will parade through the streets of the city center in the traditional way Historical parade, together with the many participants dressed in Renaissance clothing, showing the importance and variety of volunteer activities present in the area, to finally arrive in Piazza Duomo. That’s where the event will be held inauguration ceremony with the raising of the flag and the oath of the raftsmen, before Penitentiary Tribunalwhich at 9.30 pm in Piazza Fiera will retrace the main events of the year and will pillory the public figures who have distinguished themselves in a negative way, subjected to the investigation of the “Supreme Judge” Mario Cagol.
However, we will have the real first taste of Vigiliane before the official opening: Saturday June 15in fact, the evocative setting of Piazza Duomo will be the backdrop to the Ganzega dei Ciusi and Gobjthe traditional laid table that unites two of the protagonist factions of the traditional Vigil challenge.
The rich calendar of events that will end only on Wednesday 26 June and which sees in. starts from that preview Saturday 22 June his longest day. Historical re-enactments, guided tours, musical and gastronomic events will enliven the city from the morning (from 10am to 2am the Albere Summer Festival will be staged in the Albere district, while the San Pio will take place in the Parco Duca D’Aosta from 3pm to 9.30pm X Music Festival), ending late at night with the Magical Nightwhich this year too will populate the historic center with events, concerts, DJ sets and opportunities to have fun in company, until breakfast, at 3 in the morning, in the courtyard of Palazzo Thun and Palazzo Geremia.
Sunday 23 Junefor those who manage to get up, it will instead be the day of Goose Palio, the exciting raft challenge along the banks of the Adige river between representatives of the districts and suburbs of Trento, in which the competing crews, each made up of five rafters in costume, will have to pass nine skill tests in the shortest time possible. And always in the waters of the Adige river, at 8 pm, the much feared “Tonka”, the burlesque revival of the ancient punishment in use between the 14th and 17th centuries which today affects the well-known faces who will have been condemned by the Penance Court, symbolically locked in a cage and then immersed in the waters of the river.
There are also numerous events and shows scheduled Monday 24 June, among which Raul Cremona’s magic and comedy show stands out at 9.30pm in Piazza Fiera; And Tuesday 25which from 7pm to 11pm will see a special walk through the organs of the churches in the city centre, organized by the R.Lunelli Trentina Organ Association, and in the evening it will end in Piazza Battisti with the concert of the musical schools protagonists of the Teatro capovolto, while the stage in Piazza Fiera will be the setting for the Night of Dance.
Wednesday 26 Juneparty of San Vigiliowill open at 9.30 from the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, where the tour will start procession who will bring the urn with the relics of San Vigilio inside the Cathedral. There, at the end of the Solemn Massthen the distribution of San Vigilio pan e vin. It is just the beginning of a long day which, between appointments and historical re-enactments, will bring the people of Trentino to Challenge of the Ciusi and the Gobj. The historical re-enactment of the battle dating back to the 6th century, during which the Gobj from Trentino, dressed in grey-black costumes, will defend the polenta from the assault of the Ciusi from Feltre, who will wear yellow-red costumes and will try to break the chain to steal the precious polenta, will be preceded, again in Piazza Fiera, at 8pm by the show of the Città di Feltre flag-waving group, and at 9pm by the delivery ceremony of the Pollone del Castagno dei Cento Cavalli, the particular homage to Trento by the municipality of Sant’Alfio (CT), a sign of the twinning between Trentino and Sicily, which bears as its symbol “The Chestnut of the Hundred Horses” the oldest tree in Europe with its 4000 years of life, protected by UNESCO just like the Trentino Dolomites. And at the end of the evening, everyone with their eyes turned upwards, because this year too the closing of the holidays at 11pm will be entrusted to the fireworks display of the traditional Fires of San Vigilio.
