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which made this Cremona festival a star autumn event on the whole
national scene. In 2015,
300 thousand people attended the 9-day event,
over 300 coaches and
500 camping vans came
to Cremona from all over
Italy, local restaurants and
venues were packed with
visitors.
This year the festival will
comprise many events
from past editions, such
as giant torrone constructions, the re-enactment of Francesco Sforza
and Bianca Maria Visconti’s wedding and the golden Torrone, as well as feature many new historical
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and entertainment events.
The starting point will be
the theme that has been
chosen for the 2016 edition, Time. Although it
is seemingly an unusual
combination, it is actually
a strong and fitting theme because time, just like
torrone, is past and present, tradition, history, it
is knowledge that is alive
and grows as time goes
by. But time is also future,
surprise, dream and innovation, all the distinctive
features which Cremona is
rich of, thanks to this typical product and the processes involved in its production.
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The events, the gatherings
and the experiences that
are going to be part of this
year’s festival will therefore feature time, which is
also somehow a symbol of
the town since Cremona is
the hometown of Janello
Torriani, master watchmaker, inventor and genius
of the 1500s, to whom
the city will dedicate a big
exposition during the autumn season and many
activities during the Festa
del Torrone.
GREAT ITALIANS OF THE PAST:
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI
By Giovanni Verde
Marcello Mastroianni is one of the symbols of the Italian comedy of the '60s, an
actorloved all over the world, an extraordinary interpreter of either comic and
dramatic roles, often brilliant paired with
Sophia Loren, several times protagonist
of masterpieces film from the genius director Federico Fellini.
Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri,
near Frosinone (Lazio region) on September 26, 1924. He moved to Rome's
San Giovanni neighborhood when he
was a child. At a young age he works as
an extra in Carmine Gallone's "Marionette", in Alessandro Blasetti's "La corona
di ferro", in Mario Camerini's "Una storia d'amore" and in Vittorio De Sica's "I
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