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Pesaro named Italian Culture Capital 2024

Mayor dedicates win to Kharkiv, another UNESCO music city

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 16 - The Marche seaside town of Pesaro has been named Italian Culture Capital for 2024, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini announced Wednesday.
    Pesaro, known for its Rossini Opera Festival, beat out nine other finalists: Ascoli Piceno, Chioggia (VE), Grosseto, Mesagne (BR), Pesaro, Sestri Levante with the Tigullio (GE), Siracusa, Union of Comuni Paestum-Alto Cilento (SA), Viareggio (LU , and Vicenza.
    Pesaro Mayor Matteo Ricci said he dedicated the victory to the war-torn Ukrainuian city of Kharkiv, "UNESCO city of music like us".
    The jury's motivation for the choice said "Pesaro offers to the country and excellent bid based on a cultural project which, valorizing a territory already extraordinarily rich in historic sites and envionmental-landscape treasures, proposes concrete actions with which to also favour integration, innovation, and social and economic development". (ANSA).
   

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