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The Versiliana park, now a communal property, extends itself at
Marina di Pietrasanta
on almost a million square metres, from Fiumetto to viale Apua, and
until the border with the town of Forte dei Marmi.
An intense cultural programming of quality (prose, ballet, music,
cinema and cabaret) takes place in the summertime in the vast and dense
pinewood around the famous villa that hosted the poet D’Annunzio. A
straight boulevard, planted with trees, starts from Fiumetto and goes
towards the interior of the land leading to the county town (3,5Km)
Pietrasanta,
which is located between the Aurelia and the
Apuan AlpsThe Versiliana,
not devoid of cultural traditions of great importance,
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has not only imposed itself as the most prestigious place for cultural
entertainment in Versilia but has also affirmed itself nationally. The
Versiliana Park, where the Festival takes place during summer,
owes its name to the villa of the homonym name that was built in it at
the end of the XVIII century. The fascination and magic that surround
this splendid residence that became famous for hosting Gabriele
d’Annunzio during the first years of the 1900s are undeniable.
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The story of his stays at the Versiliana often gets confused with the
legend, with many suppositions on his stays, on the women who
accompanied him, or on the works he wrote inspired by this natural
landscape. It is however possible to recognise in the great poet the
promoter of the afternoon meetings and of the open-air shows. In fact,
he loved to talk to his friends under the shade of the splendid pine
trees of the park and he got involved in promoting an open-air theatre
where his work as well as the literature classics could be recited.
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The Versiliana Café
starter at the beginning of the 80s, when “talk shows” didn’t exist yet
and it soon became a huge success.
Every year, as a prestigious and coveted window, it presents the most
notorious people of the world of culture, politics, journalism,
entertainment and fashion who have written a book or have had a book
written about them. Interviews and declarations made on the small stage
of the “Versiliana Café” have often filled the newspapers first pages
and unleashed TV programmes speculation. It is a unique space of daily
life in Italy.
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"The Children’s Versiliana"
had to be created, a space for children dedicated to creative playing,
to fables that small children not only listen to, but also take part
into in order to make them come to life: in the process, children come
to understand the secret that each fable holds. A small theatre holds
daily shows created by companies that are specialised in children
theatre. It is a natural space, simple and creative, immersed into the
green of the park.
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