WELCOME TO SAMAIN

THE BEGINNINGS OF MILAN

Back again, scanned by the ancient Celtic calendar, the magical days of meeting between the worlds, when the time generates the new year, "Samain".
It's back and Milan starts to celebrate it with a whirling of music, dances, suggestions and tastes along the three days of shows and re-enactment of the "Celtic New Year" and with a busy calendar of cultural interdisciplinary initiatives - which will cover the entire month of October - for a rediscovery of the Golasecchian and Latènian Milan.
The event, now in its ninth edition and entered into the circuit of major European Celtic Festivals, guide, into the timeless Castle circle, the largest audience ever - 100000 presences in the 2007 - in an exiting journey between ancient camps, heated battles, whispers of enchanting harps, craftsmen and the most engaging entries of Celtic and national and international level folk landscape, the discovery of a heritage which is essential part of the cultural identity of Milan and Lombardia.

The three days feast of the Castle will make precede, for the whole month of October, from a dense network of cultural events - conferences, workshops, exhibitions - designed to promote the rediscovery of a still little-known part of the city's history. the history of golasecchian and latenian Milano and Lombardia, trying in particular to illustrate - this year - the spiritual world and the conception of the universe, its origin and its order, a rich calendar of concerts and shows, located in the various theatres and squares of the city, dedicated to all expressions of live arts.
For 2008 the choice is to put the celebration of Samain in an educational-cultural interdisciplinary stories and explaining the link between the origins of Milan and the feast of "TRINVXTION SAMONI SINDIVOS", explaining that retrace together, today, those ancient rites means keep alive in its all time cradle, a tradition that accompanies our city by the down of its foundation.
With the intention and hope that new generations get into the richness of this cultural heritage, the program provides, throughout its duration, initiatives aimed specifically at schools and smaller.