Babel. Festival of Literature and Translation
Overview
Intro
Babel is a literary festival centered on translation, both in the strict sense and as a metaphor for linguistic hospitality, crossing, and encounter.
In 2025, Babel turns twenty and celebrates with the languages that shaped it and inspired its research in translation and multilingualism: Italian, which, branching out in Ticino, reaches its natural and transgressible borders, and the other Swiss languages, with which, brushing against and interpenetrating, it designs and redraws linguistic and literary geographies with unique and shared characteristics, fertile and open, constantly redefining themselves. On the stage of the Teatro Sociale in Bellinzona and in the other festival venues, Italian and Swiss-Italian writers will converge with those who translate them into French and Romansh, and writers from French- and German-speaking Switzerland with those who translate them into Italian.
Adult Daily
CHF 20
AVS/AI day pass
CHF 15
Saturday + Sunday adults
CHF 30
Saturday + Sunday OASI/DI
CHF 25
Saturday + Sunday + Babel support
CHF 50
Students
Friday and Babel tent
Price from to
from CHF 8 to CHF 12
| Contact address |
info@babelfestival.com
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| Location |
Piazza Governo 6500 Bellinzona Switzerland |
| Event Homepage | https://www.babelfestival.com/ |
| Price |
Adult Daily
CHF 20
AVS/AI day pass
CHF 15
Saturday + Sunday adults
CHF 30
Saturday + Sunday OASI/DI
CHF 25
Saturday + Sunday + Babel support
CHF 50
Students
Friday and Babel tent
Price from to
from CHF 8 to CHF 12
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Event dates
- 17 September 2026
- 18 September 2026
- 19 September 2026
- 20 September 2026