Summer invites us to perform one of the oldest and most fascinating gestures in the world: to raise our eyes to the sky. Far from the lights of the city, the summer sky reveals itself as an immense black velvet dotted with diamonds, a silent theater where ancient myths and breathtaking cosmic shows take the stage.

The true heart of the summer sky is the Milky Way. Observing it with the naked eye in a dark barrel is a mystical experience: billions of distant stars merge in a luminous embrace, interrupted here and there by clouds of dark dust that create dramatic contrasts.

For those taking their first steps in astronomy, the summer sky offers an infallible reference: The Summer Triangle. It is not a true constellation, but an "asterism" formed by the three brightest stars from three different constellations that dominate the sky almost at the zenith (right above our heads): Vega in Lyra, Altair in Aquila, and Deneb in Cygnus.

The summer sky is also an open book of mythology. When the Earth orients itself towards the center of the Milky Way, the sky is populated with heroes, monsters, and love stories that the peoples of the past (especially Greeks and Romans) used to explain the universe.

Leading our guests at the Astronomical Center, on this journey through myths and legends related to the constellations, will be Sandra De Bacco, not only through the magic of the planetarium but especially in the presence of the real wonders of the starry dome.