Unesco Creative Cities: the most vibrant for art, music, cinema, culture and food

Unesco Creative Cities: the most vibrant for art, music, cinema, culture and food

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The designation by Unesco of Parma as a Unesco Creative City of Gastronomy, and of Rome as a Creative City of Cinema, is very good news for culture, tourism and national pride. Here are all the Unesco cities.

Unesco has created a network, Creative Cities, divided into seven areas corresponding to as many cultural sectors: music, literature, folk art, design, visual arts, gastronomy, and cinema. By holding this title, cities can make themselves visible on a world stage, share their experiences, support one another and place a much greater focus on quality tourism, enhancing their own capabilities and increasing the presence of their cultural products on national and international markets.

The Italian cities to have received the designation are Bologna, Fabriano, Turin and the newly added ones (11 December) Parma and Rome.

Unesco's objective with the Creative Cities

Through this programme, Unesco aims to forge a bond between cities capable of sustaining cultural creativity and making it an essential element of their economic development, offering local operators an international platform on which to channel the creative energy of their cities and thus laying the foundations for projecting local experiences into a global context. The objective is to promote the culture industry.

Here is the complete list of Unesco Creative Cities divided by category.

Creative City of Music

Creative City of Literature

Creative City of Folk Art

Creative City of Design

Creative City of Visual Arts

Creative City of Gastronomy

Creative City of Cinema