On January 18, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities will communicate which city deserves the title of Italian Capital of Culture 2022, chosen by a commission of experts among ten candidates, that is Ancona, Bari, Cerveteri, L’Aquila, Pieve di Solito and the Highlands of the Marca Trevigiana, Procida, Taranto and the Grecìa Salentina, Trapani, Verbania and Volterra (you can also see them in the gallery above).
It’s 10 finalist, selected from a shortlist of 28 locations that came forward last spring to aspire to the title (the other 18 are Arezzo, Pisa, Fano, Isernia, Arpino (Fr), Castellammare di Stabia (Na), Padula (Sa), Molfetta (Ba), San Severo (Fg), Trani, Venosa (Pz), Tropea ( Vv), Modica (Rg), Palma di Montechiaro (Ag), Scicli (Rg) and Carbonia).
I DOSSIER
Each presented a detailed development project: a dossier that puts its ambitions in black and white, ideas for a better future, who they would involve and how. In the gallery above you will find the highlights of each of the ten projects passed to the scrutiny of the ministerial commission: all different, but united by essential values ​​such as sustainability, inclusion and social regeneration, as well as enhancement of the cultural heritage. To the city that presented the best project, as always, will go one million euros.
THE CAPITALS OF CULTURE
As Minister Dario Franceschini said several times, the one to become the Italian Capital of Culture “is not a beauty contest: the city that manages to develop the most engaging, most open, innovative and transversal cultural project is awarded“. It was he who had the idea of ​​rewarding an Italian city every year for its commitment.
It all started after the appointment of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019, which was an adventure in 2014: to reward the Italian cities excluded from the European competition – Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena, which in turn had presented ambitious candidacy projects – the minister, by decree, proclaimed them Cultura 2015, and also decided to call a selection every year to identify a worthy city and offer it a concrete opportunity to improve.
In 2016 it was the turn of Mantua, in 2017 of Pistoia, in 2018 of Palermo, in 2020 and 2021 (the deadline has been extended due to the pandemic) Parma. No capital in 2019 precisely because it was the year of Matera. We already know the Italian Capital of Culture of 2023. There will actually be two: it is Bergamo and Brescia, the cities most affected by the first wave of the pandemic. They applied by putting aside a historic rivalry (football, above all) and, thanks to an amendment to the Relaunch decree, they deserved the title. A sign of hope and rebirth: culture can do this too. To see the candidate cities and projects, browse the gallery above
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