XXI WORLD FESTIVAL ON THE BEACH

The scenery of Palermo’s valley and its cradle, Mondello, are the expressions of the Sicilian essence at its best and the ideal stage where each year the “World Festival On The Beach” punctually takes place.

The 21th edition of the World Festival on the Beach will open its doors once again in May, welcoming even more enthusiastic surfers and tourists who are attracted to Mondello by the various events held, for its particular characteristics that are able to bring together Sicily’s historical and natural environments. The “World Festival on the Beach” is becoming included more and more in holiday brochures as tourism-cultural package holidays in Sicily during the period of the event which opens up the summer. From day to night in the Mondello Bay thousands of keen surf fans are to be found, this great Sicilian Festival brings together different events that transforms this little town outside Palermo into a tourist village unique in its kind.

The Albaria’s World Festival on the Beach has been organized along with Palermo’s Council for over ten years and were both able to bring together an event famous to windsurfers around the world, with the capability of renewing itself year after year and always with great surprises with thanks to the intervention of the Sicilian Regional Tourism Authorities which have for the fourth year running taken the event into account in inserting it into it’s official calendar of events that has a strong tourism effect to the island.

Valdesi Square strictly becomes a pedestrian zone surrounded by its well-cared gardens and opens the gates of Mondello and its festival among palm trees and colourful flowers. Elegant, welcoming, busy and full of colours but most of all free, the public village becomes the heart of all the events of the World Festival on the Beach. There are no tickets to pay and no queues to line up in. It’s a large area open to everyone in which its general aspect is that of a huge living room in the middle of town.

Many sports champions will be in Mondello to participate in the various competitions that are to be held. Windsurfing will open the 21st edition of the “World Festival on the Beach”, it will begin on Monday the 15th of May with the IMCO Class Championships in which the best international windsurf athletes will race each other to win the European Titles.
After the European Championship and the Nation Cup a kind of “RS:X”, Mistral, FW, for windsurfers along the Sicily Grand Prix, an individual competition.
You will be taken in by the Beach Volley in the International Mondello Cup Tournament, the Proseries Beach Tour has chosen Mondello again this year as the opening of its tour. Once again there will be spectacular acrobatics from Kite Surfing, from the Surf Contest and Golf to keep you entertained along with lots of other surprises from the holiday village unique in the world.

The World Festival an event which has become a role model to different parts of the world, a sport and music festival that can not be missed from the 15th to the 21st of May 2006, an event that will give life to a fantastic and exciting entertainment trip…