the challenge
twelve o’clock, October 26, 2021 – 15:12
The most suitable candidacy will be proposed to Minister Franceschini by 15 March
23 cities have submitted the application file including title, cultural project, body responsible for the project, evaluation of economic and financial sustainability and objectives pursued. The candidacies will be evaluated by a commission composed of 7 experts from the world of culture, arts, territorial enhancement and tourism, which will be instituted shortly by decree of the Minister of Culture, Franceschini. By January 18, 2022, the commission will examine the applications and select the 10 finalist projects that will be invited to public hearings that will take place at the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture by March 1, 2022. By March 15, 2022, the commission will propose to Minister of Culture the candidacy deemed most suitable to be awarded the title of Italian Capital of Culture for the year 2024.
All applications
The 23 candidate cities: 1. Ala (Trento). 2. Aliano (Matera). 3. Ascoli Piceno. 4. Asolo (Treviso). 5. Burgio (Agrigento). 6. Capistrano (Vibo Valentia). 7. Chioggia (Venice). 8. Conversano with the metropolitan area of Bari (Bari). 9. Diamante (Cosenza). 10. Gioia dei Marsi (L’Aquila). 11. Grosseto. 12. La Maddalena (Sassari). 13. Mesagne (Brindisi). 14. Pesaro (Pesaro and Urbino). 15. Pordenone. 16. Saluzzo with the Terre del Monviso (Cuneo). 17. Sestri Levante with Tigullio (Genoa). 18. Syracuse. 19. Union of Mountain Municipalities Amiata Grossetana (Grosseto). 20. Union of Municipalities Paestum-Alto Cilento (Salerno). 21. Viareggio (Lucca). 22. Vicenza. 23. Vinci (Florence). The title of Italian Capital of Culture is awarded for a period of one year and the winning city will receive one million euros. In previous years the title was awarded to the cities of Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena in 2015; Mantua in 2016; Pistoia in 2017, Palermo in 2018, Parma in 2020 which was extended to 2021 by the Relaunch Decree. The same decree proclaimed, as a sign of solidarity for the victims of the pandemic, Bergamo and Brescia as Italian Capitals of Culture for 2023. In 2022 the capital will be Procida.
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