Second weekend of September with the weather forecast which promises sun especially Sunday. So here are our suggestions, in addition to the usual guide for the trips to Lake Como, for this expected penultimate weekend of summer. An agenda with all the most important events in the city and on Lake Como.
The ritual of a unicum, one of the most well -known and prestigious competitions in the world, for seaplanes and amphibians, is renewed on Lake Como, Saturday 13 September 2025. The race, born in 1913, and then won by Roland Garros, already boasted in the first editions, the presence of aviators from all over Europe (Hirth, Chemet, Fischer to name a few), He began at the dawn of the 1900s recalls competitors who, either in mixed crews, or with their airplanes, will arrive in Como from different nations. Continues
The new 2025/26 season of the Social Theater of Como – Fairplay – which will stage the Love Elixir of Gaetano Donizetti on 25 and 27 September approaches. Pending the inauguration, the month of September, until Sunday 28, will become an advance of the season, with a series of events to start Fairplay. On the morning of September 13 there will be the Open Day Schools Teatro, where you can ask for information on new lessons and see a taste of some courses. From 13 afternoon to Sunday 14, space for martial arts, with the participation of ASD Lario School of Judo, Mon Club Libertas, Sankaku Judo Como, Judo Centro Como, Shorinji Kempo Italia Como, Diamond Gym, La Fenice Bianca. Continues
The charm of classical boating and the excellence of hospitality meet once again in the splendid setting of Villa d’Este for the 2025 edition of “Este Style Villa – Vintage Yachting”, Scheduled for Saturday 13 September. The event celebrates the timeless elegance of motor hulls with over 30 years of history, authentic masterpieces of the nautical design belonging to the collection of Lariana boat museumwhich will be exhibited in the garden of Villa d’Este. The exhibition will be accompanied by a historical-cultural path edited in collaboration with the museum, aimed at enhancing the tradition and heritage of the vintage boating. Continues
Lake Como Design Festival continues his journey and announces the sixth edition, from 15 to 22 September 2024 in the city of Como and around his lake. Lightness is the guiding thread of this new appointment that accompanies the visitor on a widespread path to discover exhibitions and site-specific installations to deepen the theme from different points of view. Never as at this moment we need lightness, that same lightness told by Italo Calvino in his American lessons that “is associated with precision and determination, not with the vagueness and abandonment to chance”. Continues
The 2025 edition of MiniArtextilinauguration on Friday 8 August at 6 pm, revolves around the eternal theme. A title that invites us to reflect on one of the most deep -rooted and lasting forces of the human soul: desire. Desire is what pushes us to seek, to imagine, to move towards something we don’t have yet. It is part of our nature: it manifests itself in daily gestures, in the emotional ties, in the thoughts that accompany us over time. It is a constant presence, which changes shape but does not disappear. This edition of Miniartextil proposes a reading of desire as a creative energy. Not something to possess, but an inner tension that can generate beauty, relationship, form. Continues
It starts on Thursday 11 September with a very special guest: Mario Calabresi. The journalist and writer will open the pop party by presenting his latest book “Il Tempo del Bosco” a manual to put order in thoughts and slow down the rhythm. Friday 12 Punk Rock evening born in collaboration with the Joshua Blues Club. Headliner will be the legends of the English Punk 77 The Boys. In fact, the band comes from the same wave that saw Sex Pistols and The Clash born. To the worthy conclusion of the musical part of the Festival on Saturday the legendary audio 2 will close, proponents of an unmistakable and engaging pop Battistian pop. Before them another artist of remarkable caliber such as Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi. Unmistakable voice, living history of Italian music: give the crus to his solo works, Giovanardi has always been able to surprise by mixing rock, pop and songwriting. Continues
The special preview of the Festival will be held Sunday 14 Septemberat 16.30, with the concert “Emotions“, At the suggestive setting of the Park’s Mulino di Anzano (CO) that will feature Gianmarco Carroccia and Mogol. For the first time the historic location, a symbol place for the Battistians, will reopen its spaces after almost fifty years to host a concert that already promises to be a unique and unrepeatable event. A unmissable opportunity to immerse yourself in the authentic atmosphere of the old recording studio, accompanied the path of Battisti and saw dozens of masterpieces give birth. Continues
All the other appointments of the weekend
