What kind of summer are we experiencing? How will we remember the warm nights of this 2026? Alongside the big concerts, which are growing again this year, entertainment is changing form and increasingly blending with sports, while the situations loved by teenagers remain quite distinct from those preferred by those a bit older.
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Fortunately, there are beautiful exceptions, moments that mix people of different ages. They come to life in spaces like Papeete Beach in Milano Marittima and The Beach, both in Sharm and Sicily. With a spritz in hand, in swimwear or jacket, you dance with DJs capable of making anyone go wild, and you also eat very well, stylishly, without spending a fortune. Papeete is more playful, which on August 10 features Dombresky at the console, who is very talented but certainly not Carl Cox, because here the fun of the audience counts, not the name of the artist at the console. The Beach, on the other hand, focuses on dinner shows and personalities like Federico Fashion Style and unique voices like those of Matteo Borghi and Bianca Atzei.
Between fashion, music, and the fashion system moves the 2026 edition of LADY-J, a lively and now established female tour/contest. As judges/tutors, professionals of the mixer like Tommy Vee, Georgia Mos, Albi Scotti return. This year also sees the arrival of Paola Majuri, who after last year’s well-deserved victory, rightfully moves to the other side of the “barricade”.
Italy, especially the one made up of girls who are committed to what they do, is full of talents, for example those returning to the field for Femminile Rimini Calcio. The club, born back in 2014, from 2026-27 will also field many players from the San Marino National Team “circle”. It is a great result, confirming the seriousness of the project by president Denys Maiorino and general manager Zeno Lisi. The presence of Gabriele Rossi, former international referee for San Marino, on the bench of Femminile Rimini Calcio also helps. In Italy, women’s football, which elsewhere is a very followed sport, is growing in terms of participants and it can be certain that it will also grow in public attention.
Despite the alleged “crisis of nightclubs,” which unfortunately is always talked about without remembering the numbers (today there are only 13 million Italians under 25, while thirty years ago, in 1996, there were 3.3 million more), young people dance. Some venues close, but those that remain grow. And they are increasingly well cared for. MOLO, in Brescia, represents the perfect summer nightclub (the girls pictured in the photo dance here). Large but not huge, equipped with an audio-video system up to the task, it is also open on Ferragosto and hosts top-level artists, between house and trap, like Sick Luke or Artie5. And above all, it has a team of DJs who are much better than famous, who in winter move to Circus beatclub, also in Brescia. The same atmosphere, or perhaps more relaxed, in the Lombard province. For example, at River Garden, in Soncino (Cremona) and at La Caleta Hotel Costez in Castrezzato (Brescia).
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Big news starting from autumn, then, precisely for the Costez brand. Paolo and Francesco Battaglia will open a new space between restaurant, entertainment, and music in Bergamo, right in the center, exactly where Balzer Globe was. There is great anticipation, also considering the success in Ponte di Legno, in the mountains, of 75 Costez, a restaurant and meeting point with a high style quotient. In general, there is a desire for luxury spaces where you can enjoy dream nights, like in the various Twiga, now part of Leonardo Maria del Vecchio’s group, or at Phillip’s Club, in Milan, where Modus DJ is resident at the console. “In recent years, Milan remains alive and lively even in August. With the strong increase in tourism, venues remain full,” he explains.
On the same musical wavelength moves also Alessandro Br1, who at the beginning of August, from the 3rd to the 6th, is the protagonist at Jerò of the exclusive Porto Cervo with his colorful sound, ranging from afro house to chill to pop. “Jerò’s kitchen is exceptional, there are unique performers. Music at certain moments of the evening becomes the protagonist, sometimes it serves ‘only’ to create atmosphere,” he modestly explains.
We close with “Cucina Liquida,” the new volume by Friulian molecular bartender Michele Piagno, a book certainly perfect for summer. It is perfect both for bar professionals and for those who want to learn how to prepare a good cocktail. Among the pages, full of photos and illustrations and not just recipes, Piagno’s love for his land, Friuli, is strongly felt, from which also Barancli, his original Friulian gin, was born. The smile Michele shows on the pages of his book is then the same as many colleagues. The one bartenders use to welcome those who enter a bar to relax and chat, not just to drink something.
