From the 16 on 19 June to edition 2011 of the Festivity of the Marineria



Edition 2011 of the Festivity of the Marineria will hold from thursday 16 to Sunday 19 june to. This year the manifestation, that it has toed make one's debut with success in 2009, will come abreast to the celebrations for the 150 years of the Unit of Italy and the Marina Militare Italiana that will be carried out on 10 June in from Liguria city.

"The Festivity of Marineria 2011 - it has anticipated the mayor of, Massimo Federici - will be a great event who has the ambition to exceed the success of the first edition and to make of a point of reference for the marineria on a national level and not only. In 2009, with its 200,000 presences, the Festivity has been the event that more than all it has involved and embraced the several spirits of the city. For edition 2011 we intend to create to a great event that points a lot on the quality and that is, still more, vehicle of the image of and the Liguria".

"This year - the president of the Harbour Authority of has declared, Lorenzo Forcieri - the Harbour Authority is partner of the Municipality of in the organization of the Festivity. It is an event to which also we believe very for the contribution that can supply to the increase of a new knowledge: the development of the relationship with the sea that can do good to the city and its increase so much. This in parallel with the development of the port that it wants to grow in a more and more compatible and harmonic relationship with the city. The Festivity will be a vehicle in order to introduce our excellence: mercantile port, tourist Marina Militare, ports, yards, research centers, industries to high technology and tied to the sea and tourism, that they must be considered the base and the stimulus in order to construct a better future, creating the conditions because the various vocations cohabit".

The heart of the review will be to, but important events will be accommodated also in the municipalities of Lerici and Portovenere. This year the program will be opened on 16 June with an event that will take cue from the written ones of Emilio Salgari in the centenarian of the dead women of the great writer who for million readers has represented the same essence of the adventure on the sea. The Italy Pier and the Morin Walk will be transformed in the audience into the show dedicated to the last travel of the Black Privateer of the Corona Events Company that has thought it purposely for the Festivity of the Marineria. The mythical figure of the Black Privateer will give to voice and poetry to an only performance, created purposely for the amphitheater of water that is the Gulf of, giving to public the dreams, views and emotions. Great international host of the evening the dj and English producer Howie B., already collaborating of U2 and Bjork, thanks to which a mix between theatre and electronics already experienced with success in the performance will come true from two year ago of the Fura Dels Baus.

Municipality of and Harbour Autorità of organizes the event with the contribution and the support of Liguria Region, Province of, Municipality of Lerici, for services Cultural Municipality of Portovenere, Marina Militare, Institution of the Municipality of, Chamber of Commerce, Centro Fieristico, Committee of the Hamlets and the Sea Joins to us.