Vespa World Days 2024 happening on April 18 to 21
With a week to go before kick-off, everything is ready for the 2024 edition of the Vespa World Days. The most spectacular Vespa rally in the world, held for the first time in Pontedera – the town where Vespa was founded and the site of its manufacture since 1946 – promises to be one of the grandest in its 70-year history, which began with the first Vespa Days Paris in 1954.
Fans representing thousands of Vespa Clubs will flock from countries including Australia, Canada, Japan, the US, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, the Philippines, China, Pakistan, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kuwait, Morocco as well as all the European nations.
Indeed, the eight thousand places available for the parade on Saturday, April 20, which is the most spectacular event of the rally, are set to pass through some of the most beautiful places in Valdera. It promises to be an incredible sight, stretching for more than 10 kilometers with the officially registered Vespas joined by thousands more, many already on their way to Tuscany.
Furthermore, during the Vespa World Days, the Piaggio Museum in Pontedera will be celebrating 140 years of Piaggio, which was founded in 1884, with a major exhibition entitled “Vespa all over the World”: brimming with spectacular original material from the Piaggio Historical Archive.
It tells the story of Vespa's spread around the world, tracing the history of its early internationalization between the late 1940s and the 1960s. Through the reconstruction of an imaginary global assembly line, and thanks to the generosity of the collectors who have lent the exhibition a number of very rare original models, produced and outfitted all over the world, the objects on display narrate the story of the thousands of roads traveled by Vespa, which was being assembled and sold on all continents soon after its conception – decades ahead of the advent of globalization.
Philippines represent!
Photo courtesy of Aris Cuevas, VOSS
Pinoy riders are perhaps one of the top 5 in the world who revere their Vespa scooters with much enthusiasm. This year, dozens of Vespa riders from the Philippines will join the Vespa World Days in Pontedera, Italy which will run from April 18 to 21.
Riders from Vespa Club Paranaque, VOSS, EuroMotoPH, Cavite Vespa Club, Vespa Club of the East, and many more, will be the official delegates from the Philippines.
