“L’Aquila Multiverse City” is the title of the dossier submitted by the Abruzzo capital to the competition announced by the Ministry of Culture to select the Italian Capital of Culture 2026. The city of the Perdonanza Celestiniana, already recognized in 2019 as a Unesco Intangible Heritage Site, was selected among the finalists and presented a territorial development project collaborating with the regional inland areas and the Municipality of Rieti to show that, after the wounds of the earthquake, revitalization and rebirth is already underway, especially through culture.
A hearing to explain all the points of the project was held yesterday in the early afternoon in the Spadolini room of the MIC in Rome. In addition to L’Aquila, the proposals of the other nine finalists were heard between yesterday and today by the same jury, chaired by Davide Maria Desario, that selected the ten finalists from a shortlist of sixteen nominations in recent months.
The title will be awarded next March 29.
A video, designed for the contest, takes us on a tour of the wonders of the Abruzzo candidate:
