The city of Parma will be the Italian capital of culture in 2020

Not only the undisputed capital of food and wine, in 2020 Parma will be the Italian Capital of Culture .

Parma began its candidacy process in the summer of 2017, starting by carefully listening to testimonials from businesses, cultural operators, universities and associations, which resulted in a mapping of highly relevant realities in all creative sectors: from manufacturing to cinema, from theatre to music, from gastronomy to plastic arts.

The nomination came on February 16, 2018 in Rome where the jury appointed by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism elected Parma Italian Capital of Culture for 2020, choosing it among the ten finalist cities with the following motivation:

“The strengths of the program presented, Culture beats time, are in particular the ability to activate and coordinate an extremely complex system of subjects, extended on a wide territorial basis. The project, in fact, emphasizes a strong, active involvement of private individuals and businesses in the area, a close relationship with the world of universities and research, with the world of culture and welfare. But also the presence of a conscious relationship between urban revitalization, social integration and cultural productions with explicit reference to the activation of districts; a system of excellent cultural offerings created with explicit attention to young people, to the integration between artistic disciplines, with particular reference to the musical tradition; and a strong capacity for cultural infrastructure and management of reception systems and management of attractiveness in view of overall sustainability”.

“Culture beats time” , this is the slogan of the event, means wanting to understand culture in its broadest, lively and productive sense, a decisive factor in the negotiation process that the different temporal and social dimensions demand: culture marks the life time of the city and in doing so favors the demolition of historical and social barriers that complicate forms of dialogue