Italian Capital of Culture 2025, here are the 16 candidate cities

There are 16 cities vying for the title of Italian Capital of Culture 2025. The cities aspiring to succeed Pesaro, capital for 2024, will submit their candidacy dossiers by Sept. 13, which, as is the practice, will be submitted to a committee of seven experts in cultural heritage management for evaluation. The candidacy dossier will have to contain the title of the candidacy, the one-year cultural project, including the timetable and individual planned activities, the body in charge of the elaboration and promotion of the project, its implementation and the monitoring of the results, with the identification of a responsible figure. And then again, the assessment of economic and financial sustainability of the proposed cultural project, the objectives pursued, in qualitative and quantitative terms, and the indicators that will be used to measure their achievement.

By November 15, 2022, the committee will define the short list of the 10 finalist cities; the evaluation process will be concluded by January 17, 2023. Here are the candidate cities: Agrigento; Aosta; Assisi (Perugia); Asti; Bagnoregio (Viterbo); Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria; Enna; Lanciano (Chieti); Monte Sant’Angelo (Foggia); Orvieto (Terni); Otranto (Lecce); Peccioli (Pisa); Pescina (L’Aquila); Roccasecca (Frosinone); Spoleto (Perugia); and Sulmona (L’Aquila).

The title of Italian Capital of Culture, desired by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, is awarded for the duration of one year, and the winning city receives one million euros for the implementation of the project. Procida holds the title for 2022, since its inception, the title has been awarded: in 2015, to the Cities of Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena; in 2016, to Mantua; in 2017, to Pistoia; in 2018, to Palermo. Parma was the Italian Capital of Culture for 2020 and 2021, Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capitals of Culture for 2023, and the city of Pesaro will become Capital of Culture in 2024.

Pictured: Peccioli

Italian Capital of Culture 2025, here are the 16 candidate cities

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