With two thousand boats on the way to the Gulf of Trieste, Barcolana arrives this year at the 49th edition.
The world’s most crowded race, the nautical event of the autumn, will take place as traditionally on the second weekend in October – this year on Sunday, the 8th – preceded by September, the 29th from a rich calendar of water and land events that will turn Trieste at a Festival of the Sea. Organized by the Velica Company of Barcola and Grignano, Barcolana has always been a unique event in the international sailing panorama, with its unique formula that allows everyone to find their side on the starting line. From professional sailors to simple enthusiasts and boats of any size, divided into categories depending on length overall. An historic international sailing regatta “Unique as its city”, as the promotional campaign of this 49th edition, which speaks not only to sailing enthusiasts, but becomes an ambassador around the world of the magic of Trieste. The calendar includes, among the various events, Barcolana Nuota dedicated to the bottom swimming and Barcolana Rema, where the protagonist is rowing. Among the sailing events, the new Fincantieri CUP edition dedicated to the students of the European Naval Engineering Faculty,
which will take place on J70 monotypes. Also on the calendar are racing for monotypes M32, night challenge for Ufo and other monotype classes. On the ground comes the alliance with the Triestine theaters in the third edition of the “Blue Night”, but also the second edition of Barcolana in the City, to discover the knowledge, tastes, tradition and culture of the city of Trieste. Among the novelties of this edition is the new opening calendar of the Barcolana Village, which will also open on the first weekend of the event, from the afternoon of September, the 29th, to Sunday, October 1st, and then reopen from Wednesday, the 4th, until Sunday, October, the 8th. And the image of the 49th edition of the regatta is a photograph by Maurizio Galimberti: a sail that tends to the wind, one morning, in the Gulf. The Milanese photographer, who is currently exhibiting at the Venice Biennale, has arrived this winter in Trieste to capture in a non-filtered image the sensations of that exact moment in which the sail is up and the boat navigates freely in the sun and the wind : the true essence of Barcolana.
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