THEthe Italian Song Festival it could say Goodbye to Sanremo starting from 2027. Tensions with the Ligurian municipality would in fact be pushing Rai to explore new locations to host the most anticipated musical event in Italy. Among the hypotheses, coastal destinations that combine beauty, accessibility and a unique identity, ready to collect the legacy of the city of flowers.
Sanremo Festival, the new destinations
According to reports The messengerRai would be considering the idea of Move the festival to other Italian locations or to make it itinerant, with a rotation every two years. Among the womb areas are the Amalfi coast, with Sorrento as a possible candidate, Versilia, where Viareggio stands out for its structures, and the Adriatic coast, with options such as Rimini, Senigallia or the Gargano. Italy offers large possibilities of choice from north to south, and therefore – it is said in Rai – there are many places that could aspire to transform into the stage of the Festival to celebrate music and cultural tourism.
Applications
There Campania, According to the newspaper, he is already at the forefront, with the president Vincenzo De Luca who would like to nominate Sorrento, city that evokes the myth of Caruso by Lucio Dalla. But also Emilia-Romagna, with Rimini, and Puglia, with Gargano, They would be ready to invest to grab the event, taking advantage of their international appeal. Versilia, with Viareggio, instead offers consolidated structures for great events, as already shown in the past.
La Rai: a festival that lives beyond Sanremo
The CEO of Rai, Giampaolo Rossi, for his part reiterated the centrality of public TV in the organization of the event: «The Sanremo Festival is the Sanremo Festival, but it is above all the Rai Festival, in the sense that without Rai it would not existIt clarified during the presentation of the schedules in Naples. Adding that the festival “will be broadcast in 2026 a little late for the winter Olympics.
The production machine has already set in motion “ And “Rai will do its festival, because it is able to have a unique production machine in Italy, capable of creating an event of this type everywhere”. Words that underline the determination of Rai regardless of the agreements with the Municipality of Sanremo.
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