The First Edition of the event will take place in Tivoli on 4, 5 and 6 July. Japanese Culture Festivalwithin the scope of the report
twinning agreement that links Tivoli to the Japanese city of Yugawara.
This event is part of the complex of institutional relationships that connect the two communities and also aims to represent a bridge between two thousand-year-old cultures that seem distant but actually have many points of contact.
The Municipalities of Tivoli and Guidonia Montecelio, the Va-Ve Institute, Villae Tivoli, the Italy-Japan Foundation, the DMO of Tivoli and Valle dell’Aniene Terre di Otium and the Presidency of the Regional Council of Lazio, which also provided a financial contribution to support the initiative, have given their Free Patronage to the initiative.
There were numerous private sponsors from the area who wanted to support the event.
The Festival’s Promotion Committee is composed of the Tivoli Città della Cultura Association, Tivoli ONLUS, LUIG (Libera Università Igino Giordani) and Agenzia del Viaggiatore-CTS. The attached program is broad and full of events and is aimed at making some aspects of Japanese culture known with the intent of strengthening relationships also from an institutional and commercial exchange point of view.
A delegation from the City of Yugawara will be a guest of our City on the same days in which the Festival will take place and will visit many places and structures both in Tivoli and in Guidonia Montecelio.
The Mayor of Tivoli will welcome the delegation on July 4th at Palazzo San Bernardino for greetings and the exchange of institutional gifts. Particularly significant and evocative will be the event on July 6th, at 5.00 pm, at the Scuderie Estensi.
On that occasion, the first Rome-Tokyo air raid of 1920 will be celebrated and the figure of Pilot Officer Arturo Ferrarin who made the flight will be commemorated. For the occasion, on July 5th at 9:30 am, the 60th Wing of the Italian Air Force stationed at Guidonia Montecelio Airport, will fly over the City of Tivoli to pay homage to the memory of the Italian pilot, his feat, the Japanese Delegation and the city of Tivoli.
In Yugawara there is one of the largest biscuit factories in Japan named after the city of Tivoli, as well as a large Shopping Centre
Commercial, inaugurated in 2017, where there is a large area where it is possible to find Italian food products, in particular from Tivoli and the Aniene Valley.
THE PROGRAM
