Mission Peace with Professor Pasticcio and the parrot Napoleon

ORGANIZER: City of Locarno Cultural Services.

Locarno. City Center and Visconteo Castle.

Saturday, 27 September 2025, 2:30 pm.

Free event with purchase of standard admission ticket for adults.
Free admission for children.

Suitable for families with children.

Booking required by email: evento.musei@locarno.ch.

• Castello Visconteo website
• Locarno Cultural Services website

One of the wackiest scholars in European history is about to arrive at the Visconteo Castle: Professor Pasticcio, who is always scratching his head to remember dates (and so ends up more and more disheveled!). Keeping him in line is Napoleon, a colorful, vain, and knowledgeable parrot who croaks loudly when something doesn't quite add up!

Together, these two quirky characters will accompany children on an adventure between the exhibition dedicated to the Locarno Treaties and the rooms of the Castle. They will retell what really happened in 1925, after a terrible war, when great leaders from all over Europe came to Locarno to talk peace.

At the heart of the visit, a special question:
"If you had been the desk mate of one of the powerful people who later went to war, as a child ... what could you have said or done to help him choose peace when he grew up?"

Through games, stories, mysterious objects and funny moments, Professor Pasticcio and Napoleon will help little ones reflect in a simple but profound way on what it means to build peace, even at a young age.