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22° WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH
Mondello - 16-20 MAGGIO 2007
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WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH
Mondello's past can be remembered amongst some of this
years new ideas
A week of sport, shows and culture all set in the landscape of Mondello,
one of Palermo's fishing villages.
In May the World Festival on the Beach returns with its 22nd
edition. Organised by the Albaria and Palermo's
local council and backed up by the Sicilian Regional Council since 2001.
There are plenty of new ideas in this years
surprise program, ideas that will accompany the traditional
events that make up the Festival, an event that is directed
towards everybody's taste, set up in a pedestrian zone in Mondello that
doesn't cause any disruption to the local traffic, with plenty of
entrances and exits. The organisers of this event haven't been put off
by the amount of the problems that are created in Sicily, problems that
slow down the organisation of any event, they have carried on their work
and are already organising the 2008 edition.
The historic group from the Albaria who organise the event along with
those who collaborate and private sponsors, will once again take on
their "mission impossible", which can guarantee its audience a great
party that brings the summer in.
The protagonist of the event is Mondello with its sandy beaches and the
tropical colours of the sea. All this is only 7 kilometres from Palermo
and a few hours away from some of Sicily's hidden treasures, passed on
by the various dominators of the island (phoenicians,greeks, arabs,
normans,).
There will be a step back in time in Mondello with two new ideas,
starting off with a building the "garitta del dazio", which up until
the 900's stood before Piazza Valdesi, Mondello, which formed a boundary
up until the 20's where battles were carried out. And it will be here
that the World Festival on the beach will hold a fencing display.
Seaplanes will be back in Mondello's skies after 80 years, they
were once assembled and winged for their first test run here.
There will be the
Sicily Grand Prix, valid as third race of the National Olypic Class
RS:X Circuit and characterized by an "open" formula,a competition which will see athletes competing
in the different table categories. The windsurfing champion Valeria
Zullo will be up for a challenge in the "one woman show". The
athlete from Rome, took a bronze medal in the last RS:X Italian
Championships, Valeria will take on the 32 miles
windsurfing from the coast of Ustica to Mondello. At the Festival there
will be the catamaran's A Class sailing race. During the weekend
there will also be the Palermo-Mondello sprint, a sailing race
from Palermo to Mondello. Again this year we can find the event that
brings sails and golf together. There will be a skin game contest
on a golf course and a the new variant of the beach golf, that will be
played in Mondello beach.
Between the 18th and the 20th of May there will be the international
beach volley tournament, before this the students beach volley
tournament will take place, last year there was more than 450 pupils
from Palermo and its outskirts. Another event to be held at the World
Festival on the Beach are the paratrooper and the acrobatic aeroplane
shows.
Towards the evening for who wants to have a relaxing walk along the
beach without the noise of traffic and the smog in the air, can take
part in different shows that are part of the World Festival on the Beach
program. There will be jazz, classical music and pop concerts,
with artists who are well known and those who are not so well known but
all with one goal, to celebrate the 22nd World Festival on the Beach.
The Photo Contest will as always be another event
at the Festival which calls upon who loves to take pictures to gather
the Festival in a click.
Ufficio Stampa:
Tel. +39 091/ 6844483
albariapress@tin.it
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