The Festival Venues
Region and Festival
The Lerici Music Festival takes place across Lerici, San Terenzo and Sarzana, bringing music into dialogue with architecture, landscape and history. Performances are presented in a variety of settings, from the square below Lerici Castle to a fifteenth-century oratory, from historic villas and former industrial spaces to a beach. Each venue contributes to the character of the Festival and to the experience of every performance.
Accessibility
The Lerici Music Festival takes place across venues in Lerici, San Terenzo and Sarzana. While some locations are easily accessible, others are situated within historic centres or pedestrian areas and require a short walk.
We recommend allowing extra time for travel, particularly at weekends and before evening performances.
The historic centres of Lerici and Sarzana are subject to limited traffic zones (ZTL). Visitors arriving by car are encouraged to use the public car parks outside these areas and, where possible, reach the venues on foot.
Each event page includes practical information on parking, accessibility, maps and access arrangements. Throughout the festival, our staff will also be available to provide assistance and directions between the various venues.
Arriving by car
The Limited Traffic Zone (ZTL) of the Municipality of Lerici is active during the summer season, from 15 June to 31 August. It regulates access to the town centre and to San Terenzo during two daily time slots: 10:00–18:30 and 01:00–05:00.
The ZTL is not active during the evening concert times. For events at Villa Marigola that fall within the ZTL time slots, visitors may register their vehicle number plate in order to avoid a fine.
Cars may be left in the parking spaces reserved for the festival audience along the seafront, subject to availability, or in the paid car parks La Vallata and Erbetta.
Shuttle service
Shuttle 1 – for events at Villa Marigola
Departure points:
- Lerici Town Hall
- Entrance to Villa Marigola
- 21:15 concert → shuttle service circulating continuously from 20:00 to 21:00
- 11:00 concert → shuttle service circulating continuously from 10:00
Shuttle 2 and 3 – for the 21:15 event at Teatro degli Impavidi (Sarzana) and the 21:15 event at Ex Ceramiche Vaccari, Santo Stefano
Shuttle departures:
- 19:30
- 20:30
Departure points:
- Lerici Town Hall
- Entrance gates to Villa Marigola
Return service available after the performance.
About the Venues
SARZANA
TEATRO DEGLI IMPAVIDI
A historic early nineteenth-century theatre, home to the Festival’s opera and orchestral performances.
Santo Stefano Magra
Progetto NOVA / Ex Ceramica Vaccari – Santo Stefano Magra
A former ceramic factory, now restored and repurposed as a venue for music, theatre and the performing arts.
San Terenzo
SPIAGGIA DELLA MARINELLA
A sheltered bay beyond the San Terenzo headland, where performances take place directly on the beach.
SARZANA
ORATORIO DI SANTA CROCE
Built in the fifteenth century, this oratory has preserved its original interior and remains fully integrated into Sarzana’s medieval urban fabric.
Lerici
PARCO SHELLEY
A small park beside the villa where Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley stayed during their time in San Terenzo in the 1820s.
Lerici
Piazza San Giorgio – Castello di lerici
At the entrance to Lerici Castle, this square overlooks the Gulf of Poets, the historic centre of Lerici and the Maralunga headland.
Lerici
Sotto il Castello – San Terenzo
A waterfront setting below San Terenzo Castle, between the rocky shoreline and the village.
Lerici
VILLA MARIGOLA
A seventeenth-century villa overlooking the Gulf of Poets, set within historic gardens on the headland between Lerici and San Terenzo.
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Gardens of the Villa Marigola
DESCRIPTION
Villa Marigola
Costruita sulla sommità del promontorio che separa le due insenature di Lerici e di San Terenzo, è circondata da un fitto bosco di lecci e offre una delle vedute più affascinanti sul golfo dei Poeti.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 130 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
CONCERTS START
The start of the concerts is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. It is kindly recommended to arrive in advance in order to take your seats.
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Gardens of the Villa Marigola
DESCRIPTION
Villa Marigola
Costruita sulla sommità del promontorio che separa le due insenature di Lerici e di San Terenzo, è circondata da un fitto bosco di lecci e offre una delle vedute più affascinanti sul golfo dei Poeti.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 130 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
CONCERTS START
The start of the concerts is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. It is kindly recommended to arrive in advance in order to take your seats.
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Gardens of the Villa Marigola
DESCRIPTION
Villa Marigola
Costruita sulla sommità del promontorio che separa le due insenature di Lerici e di San Terenzo, è circondata da un fitto bosco di lecci e offre una delle vedute più affascinanti sul golfo dei Poeti.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 130 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
CONCERTS START
The start of the concerts is scheduled for 9:15 p.m. It is kindly recommended to arrive in advance in order to take your seats.
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Rotonda Vassallo
DESCRIPTION
Rotonda Vassallo – Lungomare di Lerici
La Rotonda Vassallo è uno storico piazzale circolare situato al centro di Lerici. Built in the early 1900s, it offers a breathtaking view of the Golfo dei Poeti and serves as a popular venue for concerts, events and exhibitions.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 200 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Firmafede Fortress, Sarzana
DESCRIPTION
Fortress Firmafede-also called historically as Sarzana Fortress or La Cittadella-is a military fortification located in the heart of Sarzana’s historic center in the province of La Spezia.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 200 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Lerici Castle
DESCRIPTION
Lerici Castle is a fortification with a polygonal base that stands in a dominant position on the rocky promontory of Lerici Inlet, in the province of La Spezia.
The castle was built beginning in 1152 and underwent numerous transformations by the maritime republics, mainly by the Republic of Genoa and, to a lesser extent, the Republic of Pisa, which contended for possession of the castle in the mid-13th century because of its strategic location. With the last modification in 1555 the castle ended up taking on its present appearance when, at the behest of the Genoese Offizio di San Giorgio work was completed and, to commemorate the event, the plaque still visible today on the entrance portal was applied.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 200 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
HOW TO GET THERE
THE FESTIVAL VENUES
Opificio Vaccari
Santo Stefano di Magra
DESCRIPTION
New Opificio Vaccari for the Arts is an innovative project to convert the factories and industrial areas (an area of more than 180,000 square meters) that once housed Ceramica Vaccari in Santo Stefano Magra (SP), Europe’s largest ceramics factory in the 1950s, into a new multipurpose center with cultural and creative purposes.
INFO
- OUTDOOR CONCERTS
- 200 SEATS
- SEAT MAP
- ACCESSIBILITY
- CONCERTS START at 9:15 p.m.
- ONLINE TICKET SALES
- INFO AND BOX OFFICE
- +39 379 1379677
HOW TO GET THERE
