Saluzzo entrusts Mediterranean memory to Savall and Valla
The 2026 Chevalier Errant Prize closes the Medieval and Ancient Book Festival with a dialogue between music, cinema and mother tongues.
Saluzzo’s Medieval and Ancient Book Festival closes its sixth edition by honouring two careers that bring history into the present. On Saturday 31 October at 4pm in the refectory of the San Giovanni complex, the Chevalier Errant Prize will be presented to Jordi Savall, performer and scholar of early music, and Fredo Valla, filmmaker and storyteller of border cultures. At 4.30pm they will discuss Mediterranean musical cultures, the Cathar epic and the protection of mother tongues in From Occitania to Catalonia. At 6pm Savall will perform with Hespèrion XXI in the Church of San Giovanni in The Gardens of the Hesperides. Admission to the ceremony and conversation is free: a closing event that connects books, oral memory and cultural transmission.