News from Monte San Vigilio/Vigiljoch
Concerts, festivals, delicacies.
Here you can find short articles about events, culinary highlights, our vigilius mountain stories literature competition and other highlights taking place up on Monte San Vigilio/Vigiljoch and at the vigilius mountain resort.
Transart at vigilius
Once again, the Transart Festival took place at the vigilius mountain resort, this year with Grammy nominated percussionist and composer Manu Delago and his 5-member team. With their new project “Circadian” they performed the cycles of the sleep stages. The show represented the REM light sleep, deep sleep and an abrupt awakening. Manu Delago and his crew created a pleasant atmosphere, here at 1500 meters.
Already in the afternoon was another show of the Transart festival at the Mount...
South Tyrolean Jazzfestival at the vigilius mountain resort
This year, the vigilius mountain resort hosted a concert from the South Tyrolean Jazzfestival once again, which took place on Sunday, 27 June 2021.
The event started at 12 noon with a tasting of the victorious Vernatsch wines from the Vernatsch Cup 2021 and a cheese tasting. The concert began at 2 pm.
On a beautiful and warm summer day with a lot of sunshine, everybody listened to the music of the trio Miklós Luckács Cimibiosis.
The cymbalom is an Eastern European psaltery that is played with sticks, and one of the world's most talented and versatile musicians on this instrument is Miklós Lukács. With his 2014 founded Cimbiosis...
vigilius mountain stories 2021/22
Within the framework of vigilius mountain resort’s eighth literature competition the judges selected the best stories also this year. Well over 200 writers from almost all over the world accepted the challenge of addressing the demanding topic of “Myths” and impressed a jury of cultural and literary professionals with their humorous or self-critical, touching and poetic stories. Enjoy exploring these original paths towards simplicity!
English:
The Ruthless Crown von Shannon Wardell
M...
Christmas at vigilius
Perhaps you have already heard how magical Christmas is here at the vigilius on the Vigiljoch, or maybe you have already experienced it yourself one of the last years. The snow-covered landscape, the festive decorations, the Christmas scent all around the hotel and the special tranquillity here in the mountains make Christmas truly reflective, far from the daily hustle and bustle.
This year is different. This year, Christmas at vigilius means a little get-together for the few of us who...
Transart
20.09.2020
The Transart Festival has returned to Monte San Vigilio this year with two exceptional performances: at the Vigiljoch little Church Alex Cecchetti & The Astronomic Weather Choir presented “You are this Planet”, “incantations” dedicated to the nature usin the immersion of the body using the senses; in the evening, instead, the vigilius mountain resort hosted the concert “Still” by Die Knödel, a band that revolutionized Austrian folk music of the 1990s and that gathered/reunited for/on...