Genius Loci. Discovering Santa Croce

The festival, now in its eighth edition, will once again be weaving music, art and words together in one of Florence’s most iconic sites from 24 to 28 September. 

The programme consists of three nights and one dawn, in the course of which artists, intellectuals, writers and musicians will be accompanying the audience in a novel and highly atmospheric experience, proposing new visions of the complexity of our present times.

New this year, and central to the festival’s overall vision, an interfaith experience will take visitors on a guided tour of the basilica and of Florence’s synagogue and mosque on Sunday 28 September.

The first guests on the bill include artist and Nobel Peace Prize candidate Michelangelo Pistoletto, talented musician Frida Bollani Magoni, iconic jazzman Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch, a pianist with 20 Grammy Award nominations to his name. The list also includes author and scriptwriter Carlo Lucarelli, popular singer-songwriter and Tenco Award finalist Emma Nolde and Ubu Award-winning theatre company Lombardi Tiezzi.

Genius Loci is organised by Controradio Club, Opera di Santa Croce and Controradio, with the contribution of the Municipality of Florence (Estate Fiorentina 2025) – PN Metro Plus and Città Medie Sud 2021-2027 and the support of Fondazione CR Firenze.

Admission is free of charge, but reservations are required. To make a reservation, go to our website and choose the event you wish to attend, based on the following schedule:

• 12 September: tickets for the evening of 24 September can be booked starting 12.00 noon;
• 15 September: tickets for the evening of 25 September can be booked starting 12.00 noon;
• 16 September: tickets for the evening of 26 September can be booked starting 12.00 noon;
• 17 September: tickets for the concert at dawn of 27 September can be booked starting 12.00 noon;
• 18 September: tickets for the events of 28 September can be booked starting 12.00 noon.

Tickets are valid up to the moment the event gets under way. Once the event has started, your reservation is no longer considered valid, and admission cannot be guaranteed.

Guided tours of the basilica, the mosque and the synagogue are free of charge, but online reservations are required. The tour lasts two and a half hours, in the course of which guides will accompany groups from one site to the next. The individual religious venues cannot be visited singly.