Cultural Festival Guide: December 2025 to January 2026
A roundup of cultural festivals across Italy from late December 2025 to early January 2026. Highlights include: Buon Natale Ceramica! (until Jan 6), a nationwide ceramic art initiative by AiCC involving 60 cities; Natale in musica at the Reggia di Venaria (Dec 27-30), four chamber concerts in the Cappella di Sant'Uberto; Umbria Jazz Winter in Orvieto (Dec 30-Jan 3), its 32nd edition; Musica per un giorno in Brescia (Dec 27-28), a 24-hour performance by Canedicoda and Roberta Mosca at MO.CA; Avvistamenti in Molfetta (Dec 27-30), the 23rd experimental cinema festival featuring a retrospective of Józef Robakowski and a live-soundtrack screening of Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin; Kids Festival in Lecce (Dec 27-Jan 6), with 30 shows and over 100 performances; and Racconti al femminile in Naples (Dec 26-29), a free music series at Santa Maria la Nova featuring Beth Orton, Ada Montellanico, Ginevra Di Marco, and Indra Rios-Moore.
Key facts
- Buon Natale Ceramica! runs until January 6, 2026, across 60 Italian cities.
- Natale in musica takes place December 27-30 at the Reggia di Venaria.
- Umbria Jazz Winter 2025/2026 is the 32nd edition, held in Orvieto from December 30 to January 3.
- Musica per un giorno is a 24-hour non-stop performance on December 27-28 in Brescia.
- Avvistamenti festival of experimental cinema runs December 27-30 in Molfetta.
- Józef Robakowski is the special guest of Avvistamenti with a retrospective.
- Kids Festival in Lecce runs December 27 to January 6 with 30 shows and over 100 performances.
- Racconti al femminile in Naples features Beth Orton, Ada Montellanico, Ginevra Di Marco, and Indra Rios-Moore.
Entities
Artists
- Canedicoda
- Roberta Mosca
- Józef Robakowski
- Sergej M. Ėjzenštejn
- Edison Studio
- Beth Orton
- Ada Montellanico
- Ginevra Di Marco
- Indra Rios-Moore
- Antonio Musci
- Daniela Di Niso
- Francesco Urbano Ragazzi
- Massimo Torrigiani
- Johnny Cash
Institutions
- AiCC – Associazione Italiana Città della Ceramica
- Reggia di Venaria
- Lingotto Musica
- Consorzio delle Residenze Reali Sabaude
- Umbria Jazz
- Super
- Spettro
- Edizioni Brigantino
- MO.CA – Centro per le Nuove Culture
- Canudo ETS
- Comune di Napoli
- Artribune
- AiCC – Associazione italiana Città della Ceramica
- Spazio Murat
- Kursaal Santalucia
- Officine Solimano
- Raindogs House
- Teatro Biblioteca Quarticciolo
- Museo della Stampa
- Biblioteca Bernardini
- PIA – scuola per le arti visive e gli studi curatoriali
- Teatro del Lido
- Affabulazione
- Valdrada
Locations
- Italy
- Venaria Reale
- Orvieto
- Brescia
- Molfetta
- Lecce
- Naples
- Puglia
- Poland
- Bari
- Savona
- Rome
- Ostia
- Sicily
- Campania
- Quarticciolo
- Municipio X di Roma