Only know you love Barolo when you let it go?

Barolo, king of Italian wines and charming little town in the Langhe hills of Cuneo (Italy), will host English folk-rock singer-songwriter Passenger in concert on 18 of July 2015.

The interest showed by the Italian national press and TVs for the innovatory formula of the festival and the presence of the most appreciated international writers and artists have made Collisioni a rendezvous well-known, thanks to the numerous artists and writers who have chosen it as the ideal place where to introduce their advance works and settle their concert: Salman Rushdie, Paul Auster, the Oscar winner director Michael Cimino, Don DeLillo, the Nobel prize awarded José, Saramago, Vidia Naipaul, Ian McEwan, Bret Easton Ellis, A. Yehoshua, Luis Sepulveda, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Boy George and many Italian artists, from Lucio Dalla, to Zucchero and Luciano Ligabue.

Barolo and Collisioni

For three days Barolo, a small village on the top of the hills, turns into an open air non-stop stage where the audience attend lectures, readings and concerts for three days and live together in the magical mood of a small village in the hills.

The concert arena is placed in the natural amphitheatre of the main village square, surrounded by the ancient vineyards of the five “grand crus of wine” Barolo.

Collisioni is the biggest literature and music event in Piedmont organised with the grant aid of the Piedmont Region to promote culture and art.

The peculiar feature of the festival is is its social involvement with young people.

Every year the government provides with boarding more than 1000 literature and arts students coming from all Europe, especially from the poorest regions who couldn’t otherwise join cultural activities.

Every year during the festival some of the most important Italian singers and writers organise meetings with the youth to speak about urgent matters of the present days.

Barolo: king of Italian wines and home to Nutella

Barolo is worldwide famous as the home of the well known wine which takes the name after the village.

It’s located in the heart of the Langhe Hills, in Piedmont, northern Italy, one our from Turin.

The village is renowned for its vineyards and its variety of delicious red wines.

Barolo is quite small (5,6 sq. km) with a population of 750 inhabitants. Plenty of people, mainly wine connoisseurs, from all the world, visit Barolo every year and join the music and literature festival Collisioni in July.

Wine has been made and produced here from Roman times. It’s quite easy to reach the Langhe area with a short one hour drive. The place can offer beautiful sights, good restaurants, hotels, and farm holiday resorts.

If you name Barolo to any Italian people, you’ll see their eyes lit up at the thought of the delicious wines and food produced there in the surrounding towns of La Morra, Barbaresco, Monforte e Serralunga.

These legendary names appear in the top restaurant wine lists across Italy. They are the villages and castles whose names have been given to wines, produced on specific selected hillsides.

The Barolo area is the heaven of food. The lower slopes of the wine planted hills are the proper ground for the cultivation of the hazelnuts nicknamed “the round and gentle hazelnut of the Langhe”.

These are folded into nougat, pounded into cookies and confections, and often married to chocolate.

Nutella and its nobler versions originate here.

Don’t miss thin handmade egg noodles called tajarin. Yolk-yellow, they are fabulously rich topped with melted butter, meat sauces or porcini mushrooms.

Agnolotti, the local ravioli stuffed with mixed meats, are also typical of the Langhe.

Meats here are often braised slowly in red wine – not food for faint hearted people, but they go well with the local red wines.