L’eletto sguardo: Roman School and 20th-century avant-gardes

About the event

From 11 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, Villa Museo Paolina Bonaparte in Viareggio hosts the exhibition "L’eletto sguardo", promoted by the Municipality of Viareggio and curated by Alessandra Belluomini Pucci.

The show moves through some of the most significant strands of 20th-century Italian art: from the Scuola Romana to Magic Realism, from Metaphysical art to Futurism, from Neorealism to post-war research, and on to Pittura Colta. It presents 63 works by 36 artists from the Giovanni Pieraccini Collection, including de Chirico, Balla, Guttuso, Capogrossi, Dorazio, Pomodoro and Angeli.

The title refers to two ways of looking: that of the collector Giovanni Pieraccini, who recognised and followed some of the most important artistic experiences of his time, and that of the artists, who were called to move beyond the surface of reality and explore its deeper dimension.

Expected weather

Forecast for Tuesday, 27 October 2026 in Viareggio: sunny, 20° by day and 13° at night, 0% chance of rain.

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Getting to Viareggio

By car, leave the A12 at the Viareggio-Camaiore exit; the Viareggio–Lucca link road joins the A11 Florence motorway. Viareggio station is on the Genoa–Pisa line and is the terminus of the line to Lucca and Florence, with regional trains towards Pisa, La Spezia, Lucca and Florence. From Pisa airport, the PisaMover shuttle runs to Pisa Centrale in about 5 minutes, where you change to a train for Viareggio.

Parking: On-street parking in Viareggio is mostly paid blue-line parking, run for the Comune by MoVer (Mobilità Versilia). Rates vary by zone; pay at the meters or with the MoVer app. The signs on site always apply.

About Viareggio

Viareggio is the largest town on the Versilia coast, a resort of about 60,000 people with an entirely sandy shoreline on the Ligurian Sea.

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