Bergamo Candidata "Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019"



The title of European Capital of Culture was created by the EU in 1985 with the aim of highlighting the richness and diversity of European culture, celebrating the cultural ties that unite European countries, promoting the understanding of European countries through mutual knowledge and fostering a feeling of European citizenship.

Each year since 2011, the title has been assigned to two cities of excellence belonging to two different European countries. In 2019 it will be the turn of Italy and Bulgaria.

The Council of Ministers of the European Union has the task of appointing the city chosen to become European Capital of Culture 2019, and this appointment is formalized at the beginning of 2015. Bergamo’s path towards its candidacy for European Capital of Culture 2019

La nostra città
IO VOGLIO BERGAMO 2019!

In July 2011 the Municipal Executive Committee of Bergamo presented the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture.

Bergamo is known throughout the world for the entrepreneurial vocation of its inhabitants, for its important economic, industrial and commercial fabric and for the dynamism of its business environment.

Bergamo is today a cradle of innovation and industrial development, but at the same time a splendid city of art whose land preserves evidence of the great protagonists of art, music, history and religion.

Bergamo is a city that over the centuries has tirelessly developed routes of economic, industrial and commercial exchange throughout Europe, as well as ideas and projects.

Bergamo is a place that has maintained its time-honoured European vision while jealously guarding its traditions.

Bergamo has a unique character that is visionary, understated and distinct all at the same time. A synthesis of rationality, creativity and builder of excellence.

In short, Bergamo is both a valuable trove of treasures and a tireless worksite for the future. Bergamo is a city of positive rivalries, a land of dreamers and builders, which is now building its future with determination, expanding its horizons beyond the beautiful Venetian walls that surround valuable Città Alta, Bergamo’s hilltop city, into a Europe without walls, turning its youth into the European citizens of tomorrow, protagonists and responsible people.

La Altre città
Al momento, il panorama italiano sul fronte candidature si divide tra città la cui situazione è più incerta e città la cui preparazione è invece più solida e in stato avanzato. Ecco un elenco preliminare delle città candidate, che attende conferma dopo la detta data di scadenza: