Procida named Italian Capital of Culture 2022. First time for a small city

Procida will be the Italian Capital of Culture 2022. This was just announced by Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini during the proclamation ceremony. Procida prevailed over the other nine finalists-Ancona, Bari, Cerveteri, L’Aquila, Pieve di Soligo, Taranto, Trapani, Verbania, and Volterra. This is the first time the title has gone to a small city, and the first time a city that is not a provincial capital has been nominated. Procida comes after Cagliari, Lecce, Perugia, Ravenna and Siena (2015), Mantua (2016), Pistoia (2017), and Palermo (2018). In 2019 the title was not awarded as Italy had Matera as European Capital of Culture, for 2020 and 2021 the capital is Parma, and for 2023 it will be Bergamo and Brescia.

This is the official motivation: “The context of local, regional, public and private supports is well structured, the heritage and landscape dimension of the place is extraordinary, the laboratory dimension including social aspects and technological diffusion is vital for the Tyrrhenian islands but relevant for all the realities of the small Mediterranean islands. Through the combination of these factors, the project could bring about a genuine discontinuity in the area and represent a model for sustainable processes based on cultural development of the island and coastal realities of the country. The project is also capable of conveying a poetic message, a vision of culture that extends from the small island reality as a wish for all of us to the country in the months ahead.”

“I think Procida can be considered a metaphor for so many places, so many administrations, so many communities that have rediscovered the enthusiasm and pride for their territories and that with this title want to build an important redemption for their lands,” said Procida Mayor Raimondo Ambrosino warmly. “We are honored, we congratulate all the other cities whose dossiers we have seen, we have studied their cultural proposals and how culture, for us and for them, can be an extraordinary detonator of the strategic revitalization plan. We thank you for this enormous opportunity, historic for a small municipality and a small island, which we will certainly seize by working hard to make Italy proud of this beautiful choice.”

This is the summary of Procida’s candidacy dossier: “Procida is running for Italian Capital of Culture because the island land is a place of exploration, experimentation and knowledge, it is a model of cultures and a metaphor of contemporary man. Power of imagination and concreteness of vision show us Procida as an exemplary capital of relational dynamics, practices of inclusion as well as care for cultural and natural heritage. The path that led to the creation and delivery of the nomination file is a significant experience of social innovation, for the centrality of a model of active urban life, oriented to the culture and desires of the community. Procida is the island that does not isolate, a cultural laboratory of social happiness.”

Procida named Italian Capital of Culture 2022. First time for a small city

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