The Symbols of Beauty

About the event

On Friday 9 October at 9:30, the Auditorium del Vittoriale hosts the conference The Symbols of Beauty. The meeting opens with a welcome from Giordano Bruno Guerri, President of the Vittoriale degli Italiani, and institutional greetings from Giovanna Ciccarelli, head of the schools and education department of the Fondazione Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, and Emanuela Fugazza, President of the Centro di Studio in Simbolica Giuridica of the University of Pavia.

Seven talks follow: Giosuè Allegrini (EDiSU Pavia) on symbols of beauty in contemporary art, Giulio Chiodi (University of Insubria) on aesthetics and symbolic forms, Giuseppe D'Anna (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) on symbol and Spanish mysticism, Maurizio Harari (University of Pavia) on Medusa, Michele Madonna (University of Pavia) on religious symbols, Filippo Moretti (University of Pavia) on razón poética, and Marco Sorelli (Accademia di Belle Arti di Brescia SantaGiulia) on a neuroaesthetic reading of symbolism.

Entry is free, subject to available seating.

Programme

Expected weather

Forecast for Friday, 9 October 2026 in Gardone Riviera: sunny, 21° by day and 10° at night, 31% chance of rain.

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Getting to Gardone Riviera

The nearest railway stations are Desenzano del Garda and Brescia. Arriva's RL202-1 (Brescia – Salò – Gargnano, every half hour) and LN027 (Salò – Gargnano – Limone – Riva) run along the shore road through Gardone, and the local LN005 goes Salò – Gardone Riviera – San Michele with a stop at the Vittoriale entrance. Gardone is also a Navigazione Laghi ferry stop.

Ferry: Regular Navigazione Laghi stop between Salò and Maderno; the Maderno–Torri car ferry, a crossing of about 30 minutes, is the nearest way to take a car to the east shore.

About Gardone Riviera

Gardone Riviera grew from a farming village into a winter health resort from the 1880s, when Luigi Wimmer built the Grand Hotel Gardone and doctors praised the mild climate; Central European families followed with villas until the First World War. That belle-époque layer still shapes the lakefront along Lungolago D'Annunzio.

Guide to Gardone Riviera →