Mediterranea, with its artistic and poetical choices, represents on one side the will to enlarge the geographical and political borders of European continent, working at the view of a Mediterranean Europe, including countries and cultures of other continents (Africa and Asia) facing the Mediterranean sea, alive and integrant part of its history and identity; on the other side it means to open the Mediterranean perspective to the acknowledgement of cultures which are far from the Mediterranean sea but recognizing themselves in the common values of the Mediterranean civilization.

Mediterranea ranges over the whole three-continental axis of Mediterranean nations (including the ones of the Black Sea) and includes writers and artists who are not Mediterranean, but who recognize themselves ideally and expressively in the dialogical and multicultural values of a common Mediterranean identity. By means of specific and different reviews, the Festival covers the following fields: poetry, music, theatre, cinema, visual arts, and video.

Poets from different areas (from the Arabic coast to the Balcanic land until the West European area) will meet in Rome, Ladispoli, Cerveteri, Santa Marinella and in other towns of the Latium Region to live up various events of public readings; their voices will cross and alternate with the works of other artists to express in different ways the same language of freedom, of opening to a pluralistic world, of fight against exploitation, war, terrorism.

Finally a real novelty is the publication of some books of collected poems which will cover, by initiative of Allegorein, a too long and culpable negligence of Italian book industry with reference to: Gao Xingjian (Chinese Nobel edited by Cristina Pisciotta), Kunwar Narain (Indian poet winner of Feronia Prize 2006, edited by Tullia Baldassarri), Saadi Yousef (in exile in London because against Saddam Hussein’s government, edited by Fawzi Al-Delmi), Mahmoud Darwish (for thirty years at the top of Palestinian literature and of a democratic fight for the creation of a Palestinian State, but still neglected and “an outlaw” in the book circuit of our country. Edited by Francesca Corrao).
In July 2007 the fourth edition of the Festival of Literature and Arts of Mediterranean will take place in the towns of Rome, Ladispoli, Cerveteri, Santa Marinella and in other towns of Latium Region. The theme is concerning with peace and struggle against war, in all kind of declination: civil, ethical and cultural.