Agrigento is the Italian Capital of Culture 2025

Agrigento has been officially named Italian Capital of Culture 2025. The first city to get the important recognition was Mantua in 2016, then Pistoia (2017), Palermo (2018) and Parma in 2020, which was also extended in 2021 because of the pandemic. It was then the turn of Procida 2022 and Bergamo and Brescia 2023. Agrigento will then succeed Pesaro 2024.

The city was chosen by a jury chaired by Davide Maria Desario, who announced it to Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano, from ten finalist cities: Agrigento, Aosta, Assisi (Perugia), Asti, Bagnoregio (Viterbo), Monte Sant’Angelo (Foggia), Orvieto (Terni), Pescina (L’Aquila), Roccasecca (Frosinone) and Spoleto (Perugia).

The title of Italian Capital of Culture is awarded for the duration of one year.

The Italian Capital of Culture 2025 will receive 1 million euros for the implementation of the project, with the aim of showcasing its original features and the factors that determine its cultural development, understood as an engine for the growth of the entire community.

Image: the Valley of the Temples. Photo: Berthold Werner

Agrigento is the Italian Capital of Culture 2025

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