2025 will be the year of “Go! 2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025”
On the website www.go2025.eu you will find all the unmissable events
Events in Gorizia and Surroundings from 24 to 30 November 2025
Monday 24 November
🎭 Special Screenings – “Mulholland Drive” (4K). The restored version of Lynch’s masterpiece returns to the big screen. Venue: Kinemax. Time: 20:00. Film in the original version with Italian subtitles.
📚 Lecture – The French Bourbons in Gorizia in the 19th Century. A journey through Gorizian memory, between history and delicate roses of the period. Venue: Palazzo Coronini Cronberg. Time: 18:00. Admission: free
📚 Book Presentation – Diary of Six Years. Poems 2019–2024. Poems suspended between time, waiting and landscape. Venue: Trgovski dom. Time: 18:00. Admission: free
Tuesday 25 November
🎗 “Sow Respect” – Ceremony at the Red Bench. A moment of awareness-raising against violence towards women. Venue: Giardini Pubblici, Corso Verdi. Time: 18:00. Admission: free
🎭 Special Screenings – “Mulholland Drive”. Second evening at Kinemax. Venue: Kinemax. Time: 20:00
Thursday 27 November
🎗 “You Can Choose the Name” – Performance. Theatre and reflection for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Venue: Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž. Time: 20:30
🎶 Jazz Concert – Od Tam Kjer Smo Doma. The sounds of Duo Cehovin & Serafini in one of the city’s most atmospheric districts. Venue: Borgocastello 3. Time: 19:00. Admission: free
📘 “A Poetic Map of the Border” – Bilingual Presentation. A journey through places, verses and literary boundary-crossings. Venue: Trgovski dom. Time: 18:00
Friday 28 November
🎗 “Women Up – The Strength of Being a Woman”. Roundtable and reflections. Venue: Projekt D Studio. Time: 18:00
🎼 Lipizer Concert Season – Cosmic Harmonies. Music and astrophysics in a surprising dialogue.
Venue: Kulturni Center Lojze Bratuž. Time: 20:30
🎭 Teatro Verdi – Non Hanno Un Amico (Luca Bizzarri). Satire, society and sharp irony about our times.
Venue: Teatro Verdi. Time: 20:45. Tickets: Verdi Gorizia / Vivaticket
🎥 Special Screening – “Transcardus”. The story of the first ski mountaineering crossing of the Sharr mountain range. Venue: Kinemax. Time: 20:30
🖼 LIMINA Exhibition Opening – Borders_Confini_Grenzen_Meje. International art on the theme of borders. Venue: Museo del Territorio di Cormons. Time: 18:30. Visits: Fri–Sun 16:00–19:00 until 22/02/2026
🍷 Author’s Glass – Meeting with Veit Heinichen. A dialogue between wine, territory and literature.
Venue: Azienda Agricola Roncus. Time: 18:30. Admission: free
Saturday 29 November
🎡 Sant’Andrea Fair – Opening. Medieval history, rides, scents and colours of the great autumn event.
Period: 29 Nov – 8 Dec. Useful info: stalls only 29 Nov–1 Dec; rides until 8 Dec.
✨ Lighting of “Christmas Lights Without Borders”. Gorizia and Nova Gorica light up together in a unique symbolic moment. Time: 18:30
🎶 My First Christmas Concert. Participatory music for mums, dads and children aged 0–3.
Venue: Centro Lenassi. Times: 9:45 and 11:15. Admission: free with reservation
🎭 35th International Theatre Festival – Do Not Be Afraid. A tribute to John Paul II. Venue: Auditorium della Cultura Friulana. Time: 20:30
📸 Franco Basaglia Exhibition. Where the Eyes Could Not Reach. Three major photographers narrate a cultural revolution. Venue: Museo di Santa Chiara. Dates: 29 Nov – 3 May 2026. 10:00–18:00
🎵 Suns Europe – Alvise Nodale, Alffa and Maddi. Evocative music between minority languages and contemporary creativity. Venue: Gradnik Winery, Plessiva-Cormons. Time: 20:45
📖 PODIPO – Poetry and Images. An event rich in music, poetry and multilingualism.
Venue: EPICenter, Nova Gorica. Time: 17:00. Admission: free
🚶♂️ Guided Tour – Gorizia. A Border Story. An intense account of the city divided in 1947.
Time: 10:30. Reservations: Infopoint Gorizia 0481 535764
🚶♀️ Guided Tour – Gorizian Atmospheres. Architecture and beauty between past and future.
Time: 15:00. Reservations: Infopoint Gorizia 0481 535764
Sunday 30 November
🛂 Crocevie Special Edition – Former Border Huts. A double visit between Italy and Slovenia, in the heart of the Rafut border crossing. Departure times: 11:00 and 12:00. Info: visits also in Slovenian
🎄 Borgnano Christmas Market. Crafts, workshops, games and the atmospheric lighting of the illuminated nativity scene. Time: from 9:30. Venue: Borgnano di Cormons
👨👩👧 Children’s Theatre – Belle Bolle. A dream of music and stage sets made… of soap bubbles!
Venue: Teatro Comunale di Cormons. Time: 16:00
WEEKLY (various dates)
📚 60th Mitteleuropean Cultural Meeting – Borders and Cross-Borderings. Lectures, meetings and concerts within the European setting of Gorizia–Nova Gorica. https://www.kadmos.info
Gorizia is ready to welcome you with its authentic charm: let yourself be enchanted!