ALEXANDRIA. The second box of the animated Advent calendar has also been opened. The appointment of yesterday 2 December, for those who managed to find number 2 illuminated in the streets of the center, was in the Vicolo dell’Erba, at the corner of Via Trotti. Music from the Vicoloco dj-set inside the Bio Cafè, exhibition by Andrea Canestri and live painting outside entrusted to Lele Gastini. All organized by the Young Entrepreneurs Group of Confcommercio Alessandria and Murder.
Tonight the events moved to Corso Roma, between 5 pm and 7 pm: with a traveling show of singing, stories, music, juggling and gags with the musical cart by “The round circle”, in collaboration with the association Peppino Sarina.
But in Alessandria the initiatives follow one another without solution of continuity: today “Natale ai Giardini” has started, which Confesercenti is launching with a program of events for the holidays lasting more than a month. In Corso Crimea, there are 14 wooden houses of the market, but a Christmas ball and a package with a bow, about 5 meters high, also stand out. The Ferris wheel was then installed in the gardens.
And again: again in the gardens, on Monday at 6 pm «The luminous house», created by CulturAle Costruire Insieme, will be inaugurated in the space in front of the newsstand at the end of Corso Roma. Within this space, a rich program of games, workshops and entertainment will be offered for children of all ages. Each participant will be involved in the creation of stories, in decorations of objects and in Christmas jobs.
Also in the Cristo district there is activity for the holidays. After ten years, “Un Natale che Vale” is back, scheduled for Sunday, which will see via Carlo Alberto and Corso Acqui great protagonists for Christmas shopping from 8 to 18. A special day for Christ with the lights on, the open shops that will exhibit 70 stalls of quality products thanks to Carosello Eventi: handmade costume jewelery, Christmas items, selected exhibitors with stock and lots of news, clothing, footwear, accessories, home furnishings and much more thanks to the return of the prestigious Turin market of Crocetta Più.
The initiative carried out thanks to the association of traders and the collaboration of the councilor for Commerce, Mattia Roggero, will also see participation in the maxi gathering of Santas by bike with the Uspidalet Foundation thanks to the Fiab Alessandria, Amici della Bici, Uisp and the Bike School of Mirabello Monferrato: departure is at 3.30 from the Morbelli school, in via Campi, to reach piazza Marconi.