Da mercoledì 26 marzo a domenica 6 aprile 2025, Villa Rospigliosi e il Teatro Comunale di Lamporecchio torneranno a essere il palcoscenico di una delle competizioni musicali più prestigiose del panorama internazionale: il Concorso Internazionale Pianistico Giulio Rospigliosi, giunto alla sua 30ª edizione, e il Concorso Chitarristico e Cameristico, giunto alla 29ª edizione.
Quest'anno, si aggiunge un'importante novità: la 1ª edizione del Concorso di Musica Contemporanea Giulio Rospigliosi, dedicato alla valorizzazione delle nuove voci della composizione musicale.
Come sempre le audizioni sono aperte al pubblico per tutti i concorsi dalle 9 alle 13.30 e dalle 15 alle 19. Aperti al pubblico anche i concerti dei finalisti. Inoltre, alcuni negozi accoglieranno nei loro spazi pianoforti a libero uso dei candidati che potranno così esercitarsi durante tutta la durata del Concorso.
Accanto alle audizioni aperte al pubblico, il concorso offrirà quattro imperdibili serate di premiazione e concerti.
Evento con il contributo di Fondazione Caript, Conad e Rotary Club Montecatini – Pistoia.

Villa Rospigliosi is set in one of the most beautiful natural settings in the world, the Tuscan hills, a truly unique crossroads of nature, art and history. Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the most important architect of the Italian Baroque, author of the Colonnade of St. Peter and the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona in Rome.

Pope Clement never had time to live there because he died the same year that the works were started. The Villa, sober and well-matched with the Tuscan countryside, was used by the Rospigliosi family as a summer residence until the early twentieth century. In front of the main entrance the green of the garden is reflected in the splashes of the fountain. On the opposite side of the lawn emerges the Cappella Gentilizia embellished with frescoes.

On the first floor is the Royal Hall, with a ceiling so high that it extends into the upper floor.

This is where the palace ceremonies actually took place.

Large doors with stone frames allow access to the side rooms where, thanks to an expensive and demanding technique, the frescoes were rediscovered.

Through the large windows the gaze sweeps on one side over the Italian garden and the family chapel, on the other over the valley that slopes down towards the Tuscan countryside of Lamporecchio.

On the main floor you are welcomed in the Salone dello Zodiaco, the most representative room of the Villa, entirely frescoed by Ludovico Gimignani.

In the centre are depicted Apollo on the chariot of the Sun pulled by four horses, Aurora with her hands full of flowers dissolving the darkness and cherubs, one of whom has a torch, the symbol of the morning star.

The representation of the vault is symbolically linked to the renewal of the seasons. This motif finds perfect correspondence in the underlying allegories of the Signs of the Zodiac, winged female figures, which mark the twelve months of the year.

The chapel, dedicated to Saints Simon and Jude, dates back to 1675. Here too, the style of Gian Lorenzo Bernini can be recognized, capable of making every space suggestive and welcoming.
The walls are entirely frescoed.

The hall is oval, closed by a quadrangular wall box and decorated with illusionistic squares.
Inside there is a valuable 18th century Marian statue.

In front of the main entrance of the Villa opens the Italian garden, embellished by an ancient circular fountain with a statue of a triton in the center.

At the end of the lawn is the scenic elliptical chapel.