IL CONI PER IL FESTIVAL

June 29-July 15

_City Hall _

Chapel of St. Pontian, Spain Hall and Hall of the Dukes

**Olympic Torchlight Exhibition.

Inlays of Sports and History of Cycling and Boxing.

Literary salon

exhibition opening hours:

Monday to friday from at 16.00 to at 20.00

Saturdays and Sundays from at 10 a.m. to at 1 p.m. and at 4 p.m. to midnight

July 7

_City Hall _

Hall of Dukes

at 7:30 p.m.Sports literary salon

Celebrating 50 years of the Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Conversations with national and international sports personalities

July 14

_City Hall _

Hall of Dukes

at 7:30 p.m.Sports literary salon

Conversations with national and international sports personalities.

Cycling and the Story of Gino Bartali

The excellence of Italian sports and culture meet in Umbria.

The 61st edition of the Spoleto Festival also finds space for tricolor sport, which, through The CONI for the Festival, lets itself be told by the blue protagonists, from journalists and men of literature.

The dream to five circles thus envelops the palace of Comune di Spoleto which, from June 29 to July 15, hosts an exhibition on the Olympic Games, with the display of images and symbols par excellence: the Olympic torches. In the halls of the town hall - in a Festival from always a combination of innovation and tradition - an exhibition on cycling and boxing, two sports, glories of Umbrian and national sports, also finds its rightful place.

On the Festival stage, moreover, thanks to a program created by the School of Sport together with the Regional School of Umbria and the Federations involved, the protagonists are the actors and actresses of Italy's Olympic successes: champions of yesterday and today who have been able to write their names in the firmament of world sports and who, in two appointments conducted from masters of journalism and literature, recount their experiences to five circles, the result of great motivation and strong, pure and polite values that inspired them in their exploits. On the program this year are the Olympic Games in Mexico City: told by the protagonists to 50 years later and cycling, through the story of Gino Bartali, one of its most beloved heroes and who inspired the start of the Giro d'Italia from Israel.

After last year's success, CONI confirms its participation in the Festival: the positive values that guide the champions of Italian sports go to embellish the billboard of a unique event, with culture to make from fil rouge between two worlds only apparently distant.