Balloon International Meeting

The idea was born in 1987 by ballooning passion of Fragnito Duke and municipal administration cooperation, thanks to the joint efforts and friendships within the Club Aerostatico Geneva, They wanted to make a participant of the emotion of the flight citizenship of Fragneto Monforte.

After several years, the Gathering keeps prestige and importance such as to attract even hundreds of thousands of visitors, It is the longest running and most important meeting-event in Italy.

The latest edition has counted about 60 thousand visitors, mainly concentrated in the day of the final Sunday, suddenly making a town of 2.000 people, with appropriate infrastructure and services to that number, a very large city, almost comparable to a provincial capital, creating considerable logistic and organizational difficulties.

With the passage of time, this event has become unparalleled opportunity to export history, culture, traditions and beauty of the area, Fragneto Monforte making a driving force for the promotion of culture and to make further Sannita know and appreciate this little brave and industrious communities beneventana. The nature of the event, in addition to the continued assertion of local identity, always he faces a positive and forward-looking, as far back 1987, European integration, involving crews and citizens across Europe, creating cultural exchanges and promoting peace and brotherhood among peoples.