The Ministry of Culture has chosen the two Italian sites to be nominated for the European Heritage Label 2025

The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and the Bosco delle Querce Regional Nature Park in the municipality of Seveso (province of Monza and Brianza) have been selected as Italian candidates for the European Heritage Label as part of the 2025 selection process. The Commission established at the Ministry of Culture evaluated the eleven applications received, based on the European relevance, design quality and operational-management capacity of the proposed sites.

The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza was evaluated by the Commission as “a site that excels in a specifically European field and manifests its historical continuity. Prominent in the submitted project are digitization initiatives aimed at improving European visibility and educational activities. Notable is the focus on accessibility, the environment and sustainable tourism.”

Regarding the Bosco delle Querce Regional Nature Park, for the Commission, “the site is particularly well suited to promote European values, being a successful example of territorial recovery after the environmental disaster, which also gave name to the European Directive ”Seveso.“ The project also leverages environmental education in view of the anniversary in 2026 of the 50th anniversary of the accident.”

The two applications will be submitted to the European Commission by March 1, 2025, and then reviewed by a panel of European experts, who may award recognition to only one of the two sites, in accordance with the Decision establishing the European Heritage Label (EU 1194/2011).

TheEuropean Heritage Label is an EU recognition aimed at enhancing the common cultural heritage, with the goal of strengthening the sense of belonging to the European Union. This initiative, managed by the European Commission under the Creative Europe program, aims to highlight those places that have played a significant role in the history, culture and development of the European Union, while promoting informative and educational activities about their European dimension. Currently, the Italian sites awarded the European Heritage Label are the Casa De Gasperi Museum (recognized in 2014), theArchaeological Area of Ostia Antica (2019), Forte Cadine (2017), the Municipality of Ventotene (2021) and the National Peace Park in the Municipality of Sant’Anna di Stazzema (2023).

The Ministry of Culture has chosen the two Italian sites to be nominated for the European Heritage Label 2025

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