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Qui si fa l’Italia

Bologna, 25 March – 13 May 2025

​CUBO in Porta Europa Piazza Vieira de Mello, 5 40128 Bologna
25 Mar 2025 - 13 May 2025

In three live events, Lorenzo Pregliasco and Lorenzo Baravalle recount the moments that mark key events in Italian history to those who, like them, have not experienced them, to offer new and exclusive content and themes.​

The Vajont Tragedy

  • Tuesday 25 March 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30

At 10.39 p.m. on 9 October 1963, a huge wave swept away Longarone and the other towns of the Piave valley. More than 60 years have passed, but the Vajont dam still evokes one of the most complex tragedies in our country's collective memory. A story that intertwines economics, politics, science and society. The story of a disaster that killed 1,910 people: an unpredictable disaster or one that could and should have been avoided?

Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, a Life for the State

  • Tuesday 15 April 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30

General Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa experienced forty years of Italian history. The war, the Resistance, operations against brigands and bandits, the fight against the terrorism of the Red Brigades and the Mafia. He was one of the most popular, respected and feared figures of our post-war period, an investigator capable of understanding people and criminal phenomena like no other, until his tragic death in the ambush in via Carini, Palermo, on 3 September 1982.

The 500 car, the Story of a Legend and the Factory That Built It

  • Tuesday 13 May 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30

The history of the economic boom through the history of the 500: design, industry, new roads, Italian cultural transformations at the wheel of a timeless icon.

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