A rock icon in a unique location: Patti Smith chooses Piazza San Marco in Venice for the only summer date in Italy in 2025, on July 7, as part of the Festival della Bellezza.
The charismatic American artist will perform her masterpieces in an unforgettable atmosphere, songs that have made the history of rock and connected the artistic and poetic imagination of several generations.

Tickets for “Patti Smith in Venice” concert are available on the Ticketone and Boxol circuits.

An eclectic artist, musician, poet, actress, photographer and visual artist, Patti Smith is one of the most fascinating icons of the contemporary artistic scene. She has been nominated several times for the Grammys and the Golden Globes and Steven Sebring's 2008 documentary, Patti Smith: Dream of Life, received an Emmy nomination. She also received the prestigious 2010 National Book Award for her bestseller Just Kids, which recounts her deep friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and their artistic collaboration. Fiction, poetry, photography are the themes of her books: Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, Collected Lyrics, M Train, Devotion, Year of the Monkey, A Book of Days. Among the list of international honors, the title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Ministry of Culture. In 2016 she went to Stockholm to collect the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Bob Dylan singing A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.

The event “Patti Smith in Venice” is part of the program of the XII edition of the Festival della Bellezza which in 2025 has as its theme “La Meraviglia”. Conceived around the idea of “Art in Art”, a unique event at an international level, the Festival della Bellezza will be staged in 30 symbolic places of the Italian historical-artistic heritage from the 6th century BC to the 20th century. Promoted by the Veneto Region among the “Major Events”, it is organized by the Idem association with the idea and artistic direction of Alcide Marchioro. Main Partner is Generali, Partners are Newchem and Ottella.

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