The Duomo of Florence
Corporate events · Production

Launches·Galas·Team buildingEvents that holdin a real building.

FormatsLaunch · gala · offsite
VenuesPrivate & institutional
ProductionFull, in house
First proposal48 hours
01Corporate events

The hardest part of an event in Italy is rarely the idea. It is the fact that the perfect room is four hundred years old, protected, and was never wired for three hundred people.

We produce corporate events across Italy: product launches, client galas, anniversaries, board dinners, awards evenings and team building that adults do not resent. The work runs from finding the room to striking the set at two in the morning.

Historic venues are our normal working condition, and they come with rules — load-in windows, weight limits, fire officers, heritage officials, neighbours. Knowing those rules before the creative is signed off is the difference between an event that happens and an event that gets redrawn a fortnight out.

30
Years producing in Italy
20
Regions covered
48h
To your first proposal

We would rather tell you in week one that a venue cannot take your set than let you find out in week nine.

02What we handle

From the room to the strike.

Venue search

Palazzi, cloisters, courtyards, villas, rooftops and industrial spaces — including privately owned buildings that are never listed.

Permits and compliance

Heritage authorisations, fire and safety, noise limits, ZTL access, SIAE. Filed on time, by people who have filed them before.

Production

Staging, audio, lighting, video, sets, furniture, flowers. Specified against what the building can physically take.

Food and beverage

Caterers matched to the venue and the occasion, with tastings before you commit.

Team building

Regattas, treasure hunts through a city centre, kitchen competitions. Designed so that the quiet people are not punished.

On-site direction

A production team present from load-in to strike, with a run-of-show that survives contact with reality.

03How a project runs

Feasibility first.

01

Brief and feasibility

What the event is for, how many people, and what the room needs to do. We test the idea against real venues before anybody falls in love with it.

02

Proposal

A first itemized proposal within 48 hours: venue options with their constraints stated, production outline, costs per line.

03

Build

Site inspections, technical surveys, permits filed, suppliers contracted, run-of-show written.

04

Delivery

Load-in, rehearsal, event, strike. Our team is on site for all of it.

04Questions we’re actually asked

Can you find venues that are not publicly listed?

That is most of what we do. A significant share of the buildings we use are privately owned and never marketed — access runs through relationships built over thirty years, not through a directory.

Do you handle production, or only the venue?

Both, and we prefer both. Splitting venue and production between two companies is where most Italian events go wrong: the constraints of a protected building only surface when somebody tries to hang something from it.

How far ahead do you need for a gala or launch?

Four to six months is comfortable for a major venue in a major city. Permits, not availability, are usually the limiting factor.

Do you do team building as a standalone?

Yes, and we also build it into longer programmes. Formats range from a sailing regatta to a treasure hunt through a historic centre to a kitchen competition — chosen so that the introverts in the group are not being penalised.

05Next step

Describe the event.

What it is for, how many people, and when. A first itemized proposal comes back within 48 hours.

Or directly: info@motivation.it  ·  +39 06 7045 3905

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