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:
So, you would guess these are just the biggest ones, but there is much more going on in the city!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Discover the 2025 season for Opera, Symphonic Music and Dance.