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Subcultural Event Tourism: The Case Study of Monte Paradiso Festival in Pula (Croatia)

This research analyses the Monte Paradiso hardcore punk festival in the city of Pula (Croatia) as a significant subcultural event and its impact on tourism supply. Monte Paradiso Festival is one of the longest-running hardcore punk festivals that has brought Pula to the centre of European subcultural events. Pula was a large naval base and industrial city in the last century, but simultaneously the city became famous by the national film and book festival. In the summer of 1992, a group of punk teenage enthusiasts and volunteers from Pula's working-class district of Vidikovac Hill (in Italian Monte Paradiso) organized the 1st Monte Paradiso hardcore punk festival. The event took place in the abandoned former Austro-Hungarian fortress Casoni Vecchi. That place hosted the festival every summer in the last weekend of July or the first weekend of August from the period of 1992 – 2000. Every year the festival program with concerts of punk and similar bands from all over the world were attracting numerous punks, punk sympathizers, DIY distributors, music journalists, fanzine editors, etc. In the Casoni Vecchi period of festival visitors were using informal and non-commercial accommodation and catering facilities including local grocery stores for food supply and an improvised but poor equipped camping ground for sleeping bags, tents and vans. From 2001 to the present-day the festival has been organized in the Community Centre Karlo Rojc that is placed in the former Yugoslav Army barracks at the foot of the hill of Pula’s district of Monte Zaro. The accommodation and the catering facility were significantly improved for the bands and the visitors as well, but always respecting DIY punk ethics and standards. Punk bands were accommodated in the special arranged rooms inside the Community centre or in the commercial tourist apartments and hotels. For the visitors, a well-equipped temporary campsite was built every year including the chemical toilets, field showers, bars and catering facilities. In the recent, Covid-19 epidemic era, the festival was organized in September 2020 in the one-day form with the implementation of all epidemiological measures and limited number of visitors.

Subculture, event tourism, festival, Istria, Pula

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