Pesaro, the city of Rossini and Unesco Creative City for Music, is also the Italian Capital of Culture 2024: the minister has just announced Dario Franceschini during the proclamation ceremony that was held in the Spadolini Room of the ministry, reading the verdict of the jury chaired by Silvia Calandrellidirector of Rai Cultura.
Pesaro was selected among ten finalist cities – Ascoli Piceno, Chioggia (VE), Grosseto, Mesagne (BR), Pesaro, Sestri Levante with Tigullio (GE), Syracuse, Union of the Municipalities Paestum-Alto Cilento (SA), Viareggio (LU) and Vicenza – thanks to its project entitled “The nature of culture”. It is the result of the work of all 52 municipalities in the province of Pesaro and Urbino which, with this victory, will in turn be the Italian Capital of Culture 2024, and involves 250 artists with over 50 ideas of cultural development of the territory in which the relationship between art, environment and technology is central. As Minister Dario Franceschini explained in reading the jury’s motivations, the candidacy dossier presented by Pesaro was unanimously chosen because it was considered excellent, and precisely because enhances an entire territory by promoting innovation and socio-economic development, sustainability.
“Each year this virtuous competition becomes more and more of quality, more exciting. It is truly a beautiful story that we must enjoy even in such a complicated moment to look forwardMinister Dario Franceschini said, congratulating the commission and all the cities on the shortlist for the projects presented. “To these cities goes our thanks and my compliments because they are a wealth of ideas and energy”, continued Silvia Calandrelli.
Obviously, the mayor of Pesaro Matteo Ricci was enthusiastic, who he dedicated the victory to the Ukrainian city of Charkiv, which like Pesaro is a Unesco creative city for music, symbolically offering a leaf of Ginkgo biloba: a plant as wonderful as it is resistant, the only one that has even resisted the nuclear disaster.
Pesaro will be able to carry out its project thanks to the funds allocated by the ministry: one million euros, which Mibac has been assigning since 2015. The title that year went to Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena, that is the cities that had just candidate candidate for European Capital of Culture 2019 (title that was later awarded to Matera), 2016 instead in Mantua, 2017 in Pistoia, 2018 in Palermo, 2020 and 2021 (due to the pandemic) in Parma, 2022 in Procida, and 2023, by decree, Bergamo and Brescia.
Source: Vanity Fair
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