Our events
Folk festivals, concerts, fairs and exhibitions, theatre performances, and more! Divisione eventi e congressi offers the public and tourists a varied range of events that attract more than half a million people to Lugano every year.
Festival and Reviews
An event centred on the dimension of direct discussion with writers, poets, musicians, journalists, graphic designers and illustrators, in a small, familiar and friendly time and space, but whose intent is to open up to the boundless worlds of research and curiosity
Since 2010 it has been developing ever new and surprising connections between the public and the space around them: Arte Urbana promotes the meeting of emerging artistic creation, the particular urban environment and all the citizens who live and grow in it
Aulos
Appointment every summer for Sunday matinees of classical music in the cool setting of Parco Ciani: from Baroque to contemporary classical music, via Romanticism and Renaissance, classical music awaits everyone in the shade of the park’s centuries-old trees
More than 30 years of history for the oldest blues festival in Switzerland. Every year, the festival features American roots music, performed by established musicians and the most interesting youngsters on the contemporary blues scene
An apparent delirium of freaks, artists, egos, musicians that in five days is composed and decomposed into an artistic harmony of beauty and fullness. The Festival pays tribute to the artistic street performance that, despite its essentiality of means, gives life to quality performances
Cinema in Tasca offers a selection of some of the most critically and audience-acclaimed films of the recent film season, at prices to suit all pockets
Seasonal events
To animate the city center, its streets and squares during the Easter period, a program with entertainment and activities.
Flavors and colors of the autumn season envelop us in an atmosphere that brings us back to traditional Ticino environments
The heart of the city becomes a bright village that offers opportunities for entertainment, musical performances, a rich market and surprises until Epiphany