Babel is a literary festival centered on translation, both in the strict sense and as a metaphor for linguistic hospitality, crossing, and encounter.

In 2025, Babel turns twenty and celebrates with the languages that shaped it and inspired its research in translation and multilingualism: Italian, which, branching out in Ticino, reaches its natural and transgressible borders, and the other Swiss languages, with which, brushing against and interpenetrating, it designs and redraws linguistic and literary geographies with unique and shared characteristics, fertile and open, constantly redefining themselves. On the stage of the Teatro Sociale in Bellinzona and in the other festival venues, Italian and Swiss-Italian writers will converge with those who translate them into French and Romansh, and writers from French- and German-speaking Switzerland with those who translate them into Italian.

Adult Daily
CHF 20

AVS/AI day pass
CHF 15

Saturday + Sunday adults
CHF 30

Saturday + Sunday OASI/DI
CHF 25

Saturday + Sunday + Babel support
CHF 50

Students

Friday and Babel tent

Price from to
from CHF 8 to CHF 12