From 6th to 22nd November in the Medieval town of Castello di Vogogna (Val Grande National Park), "Montagna & dintorni" offers a series of events with man and the mountains of the world and offers a journey through the Alps in the past and into the future. Following its extraordinary public and critical success, the event, now in its 4th year, offers sixteeen appointments over eleven days.

The main theme for 2009 is frontiers. The mountains become borders, imaginary lines created by man to separate but also to identify. The mountain as a barrier to overcome, like Goe Chavez did one hundred years ago and like poor smugglers did for centuries. A border to defend with arms and to conquer. But today the mountains are something different. For Alpine mountaineers they are a border to overcome on increasing levels of difficulty, measuring their ability to continually invent new adventures. For those who life of and in the mountains, they are social grounds on which diverse models of development are invented. The mountains as a new frontier for the man of the new millenium. An objective such as that set by John Kennedy in the 1960s in The USA.

In the rich programme there will also be space for the Val Grande National Park on the following dates:

• Thursday 12th November at 9pm MOUNTAIN STORIES: PRESENT AND FUTURE Introduced by anthropologist Michela Zucca followed by: MY VAL GRANDE, A NEVER ENDING SENSATION. Video projection by Giancarlo Parazzoli.
• Thursday 19th November at 9pm. Projection by Sergio Fantoni and E. Tovaglieri THE FOUR ELEMENTS
  

For more information: http://www.montagnaedintorni.eu