Meetings, readings and dialogues to pay homage to Tour de France through the pages of books. On the occasion of the extraordinary departure of the Tour de France from Italy and as part of the ToRide initiatives of the city of Turin, dedicated to cycling and the values that this sport embodies, the International Book Fair awaits the passage of the yellow two-wheeled race by organizing the literary review “Tour à Turin”, curated 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 manager of the Off Fair.
From Thursday 27 to Sunday 30 June at Palazzo Madama and at the Motovelodromo, eight meetings dedicated to cycling and its stories will see authors, journalists, experts and bike enthusiasts as protagonists, awaiting the arrival in Turin of the third stage of the Tour de France. Protagonists Fabio Genovesi, writer and chronicler of the Giro d’Italia, with the lecture on the Tour de France All First on the finish line of my heart (June 27); Marco Pastonesi, journalist and author Pantani was a god (66thand2nd), twenty years after the disappearance of the “Pirate” (27 June); Eurosport commentators Luca Gregoriojournalist, e Riccardo Magriniformer professional cyclist and now commentator, authors of Close to the clouds. The great climbers of modern cycling (Hoepli), from Pantani to Poga?ar, from Contador to Van Impe (June 28); Omar Di Felice, extreme ice cyclist and writer, with stories about his adventures as an ultracyclist (June 29); the collective Accidental cyclists with the book dedicated to Alfonsina Strada, who participated in the men’s Giro d’Italia exactly one hundred years ago, in 1924 (29 June); journalists Gino Cervi, Andrea Schiavon and HerbieSykes and the writer Gian Luca Favetto with the recent book The last time Pantani left (Mulatero Edizioni) to remember the “Pirate” through more than thirty voices and testimonies (30 June); the association FIAB Turin Bike & Surroundings with the book Discover Piedmont by bicycle (Edizioni del Capricorno) on the many cycling itineraries from the Canavese to Lake Orta, from the Pinerolese to the plain between Novara and Vigevano (28 June).
A special moment on Sunday 30 June, at the end of “Tour à Turin”, will be remembered Gianni Mura, one of the most appreciated and followed Italian sports journalists, who passed away in 2020, an attentive observer of cycling competitions, with readings taken from his journalistic articles collected in his book The red flame. Stories and roads of my tours (minimumfax). Free entry while places last. Reservation recommended here.
