On the occasion of the departure of the Mille Miglia from Turin and on the opening day of the exhibition – Wednesday, June 12, from 5 to 7 p.m. – MAUTO presents the second edition of the Mille Miglia of Ideas titled Passages and Landscapes. How the Most Beautiful Race in the World Unveils and Reveals the History and Geography of Italy: the review of interventions and stories curated by Gianluigi Ricuperati, who in 2023 had inaugurated the Museum’s 90th anniversary celebrations, bringing in exponents of contemporary humanism to talk about the culture of the Automobile.

Prominent names from the Italian cultural scene will take turns in the MAUTO Piazza to explore the different ways in which Italy’s most important race has been intertwined with the country’s historical events, with the landscape and the issues, fundamental today, of sustainable mobility.

Francesco Filippi, one of the revelation historians of recent years-translated throughout Europe with his books on Mussolini-will tell what our Country was like when the Mille Miglia debuted, at the height of the fascist era. Italy’s greatest poet, Valerio Magrelli, on the other hand, will alternate readings of his own texts and those of Vittorio Sereni, who dedicated a lyric contained in his masterpiece ‘Diario d’Algeri,’ a milestone of postwar poetry, to the Mille Miglia, exploring a different Italy emerging from the tragedy of world war. Touring Club Italiano’s editorial director Ottavio di Brizzi, taking a cue from the race’s suspension in 1957 due to an accident, will help us explore the theme of the landscape narrative of the ‘treasure peninsula,’ between tourism, sports and culture. Elisa Gallo, disseminator of ‘active mobility,’ will lead a journey into the future-present of the urban landscape, bringing the instances of ’30 km/h’ into a different context from the one in which we usually debate bicycle and city. Photographer Gigi Cifali will close, showing images of a period that the Mille Miglia – suspended until the 1990s – did not witness, namely the 1970s, in which the link between cars and landscape took on the connotations of social clash and the nightmare of terrorism, culminating in the symbolic ‘Renault 4’ in which President Aldo Moro’s corpse was found.