{"id":7463,"date":"2022-01-21T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2022-01-21T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T10:09:29","slug":"three-new-european-capitals-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/three-new-european-capitals-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new European Capitals of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\">More culture through more Europe. As of 1st January 2022, three second biggest cities will hold the title<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of \u201eEuropean Capitals of Culture\u201c: Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Kaunas (Lithuania ) and Novi Sad (Serbia ). The three different cities are awaiting with very interesting programmes and have a lot to go over.<\/p>\n<p>Following the leitmotiv \u201eREMIX Culture\u201c,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg\u2018s second biggest town presents its unique industrial tradition and wants to establish a center of knowledge, orientated into the future, and to develop innovative and creative technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Kaunas expects the cultural<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>capital year 2022 with 40 festivals, 60 exhibitions, more than 250 cultural events and an impressive participating approach. The second biggest city in Lithuania wants to draw its<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>attention on the European scene and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>is following the focus to bring the utmost possible number of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>people in contact with culture through a low level threshold offer.<\/p>\n<p>Initially planned for 2021, however<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>postponed due to Coronavirus , Serbia\u2018s<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>second biggest town, Novi Sad, prepares its cultural<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>year 2022, with the wish to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>develop further<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>its creative potential. This includes the building of a forward looking<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>identity of the town, which is located on the Danube , as well as the revival<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>of the existing cultural heritage<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>and the creation of a new cultural infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NS1-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NS1-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NS1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NS1-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NS1.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9000666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Kaunas old town from above\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/R7-altstadt-von-kaunas-von-oben-envato-PHPACPC-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"948\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e2.jpg 948w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e2-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/e2-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 948px) 100vw, 948px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More culture through more Europe. As of 1st January 2022, three second biggest cities will hold the title\u00a0 of \u201eEuropean Capitals of Culture\u201c: Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), Kaunas (Lithuania ) and Novi Sad (Serbia ). The three different cities are awaiting with very interesting programmes and have a lot to go over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9000662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}