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Annual calendar

What’s happening in Bologna? Enjoy the richness of the city while studying Italian!

Here is a page we put together just for you to know about the main events happening in Bologna all year round. Just to give you an idea, Bologna has:

  • 56 Theatres/Auditoriums
  • 51 Museums
  • 121 Libraries
  • 6 Museum specialised in Music
  • 5 Libraries specialised in Music

So, you would guess these are just the biggest ones, but there is much more going on in the city!


Museum of Illusion

Palazzo Belloni, Via de' Gombruti 13/a | 27 January 2024 - 31 May 2025

Art and science meet at Palazzo Belloni to create an exhibition with 70 works including installations and photographs showing the mechanisms of perception and deception.


Antonio Ligabue. La grande mostra

Palazzo Albergati, Via Saragozza 28

21 September 2024 - 15 June 2025

Palazzo Albergati hosts for the first time in Bologna the most important exhibition ever held on Antonio Ligabue, one of the most popular and exciting Italian artists of the 20th century.


Savini dynasty

Museo Ottocento Bologna, Piazza S. Michele 4C | 18 October 2024 - 5 May 2025

A major exhibition on the Savini family, an authentic mirror of 19th-century Bolognese art.

The exhibition celebrates a family of hard-working painters who, through the generations, represented Bologna and the pictorial development of the 19th century: Giacomo (1768-1842), Alfonso (1838-1908) and Alfredo (1868-1924) - great-grandfather, father and son - artists who, with their brushes, spanned a century.


The Palazzina dei sogni | Antonello Ghezzi

Palazzina Liberty Giardini Margherita , Piazzale Mario Jacchia ¼ | 13 December 2024 - 12 June 2025

A large collage of astronomical images covers the building, inviting reflection on how we observe the universe and our unity under the same sky. A beam of light, linked to the radio telescopes in Medicina, activates every time a meteor falls, turning the Palazzina into a "machine of wishes." This project blends science and technology, allowing passersby to express their dreams.


LNP Italian Cup 2025

PalaDozza - Piazza Manfredi Azzarita 3 | 14 -16 March

Bologna's PalaDozza will host the Coppa Italia LNP 2025 Old Wild West, the prestigious event that will see the best basketball teams from Serie A2 and Serie B National competing for the trophy.


Fiera del Cicloturismo

Piazza Lucio Dalla | 4 - 6 April

The first event in Italy dedicated to bike enthusiasts, the Cycle Tourism Expo & Talks, will be open to advertise destinations, services and products. It will offer a broad overview of easy holidays for families, adventures for cycle travellers, sports for those who want to train, and everything else.


JAZZ ON SIMPHONY

CELSO VALLI – THE MAN I LOVE
MASTERPIECES OF ITALIAN MUSIC
22 – 23 March | H 8:30 p.m.
Auditorium Manzoni

With the Jazz on symphony project, Paolo Fresu inaugurates his artistic direction at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with an ambitious and visionary idea: to intertwine the vibrant sounds of jazz with the evocative power of symphonic music. A unique event, celebrating the excellence of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the undisputed protagonist of this initiative capable of combining tradition and innovation.


Davis Cup Finals

Unipol Arena | 18-23 November

Bologna, already the venue for the last three years of the final phase qualifiers played at the Unipol Arena, will host the 2025 Davis Cup Final Eight.
Italy, holder of the title, will be a participant by right in the final phase as host country.
A unique opportunity to admire live the best tennis nations in the world.


Teatro Comunale

Discover the 2025 season for Opera, Symphonic Music and Dance.