{"id":9308,"date":"2024-12-17T10:45:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T09:45:24","slug":"decades-of-european-capitals-of-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/decades-of-european-capitals-of-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Decades of European Capitals of Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vgblk-rw-wrapper limit-wrapper\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">From Year 1985 onward at least one European city receives the title \u00bbEuropean Capital of Culture\u00ab<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/emk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1012\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/emk.png 1012w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/emk-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/emk-768x414.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative came from the then Ministers of Culture Melina Mercouri from Greece and Jack Lang from France. Additional bonuses of the title \u00bbCapital of Culture\u00ab for the selected cities are growth of tourism, improvement of image among local population and strengthening of loyalty to the EU. The title should also support the chearing up of regional culture and traditions. However also a possibility exists to obtain Melina Mercouri&#8217;s Prize in the value of 1,5 million Euros.<\/p>\n<p>Every year 2 EU member states &#8211; the selection has already been made till Year 2033 &#8211; are nominated as hosts, up till now more that 60 cities were nominated for \u00bbEuropean Capital of Culture \u00ab. The confirmed selection for next year is city Chemnitz (Saxony, Germany) and for the first time pair Nova Gorica (Slovenia) \/ Gorizia (Italy). A part of the programme in Nova Gorica will be the \u00bbCarinthian Ambassador\u00ab Project &#8211; mirrored and accessible dome Ingeborg Bachmann, work of Austrian visual artist Armin Guerino, which will invite for an interactive event starting on April 25th, lasting 2 months and enriched by the cooperation of Carinthian artists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .vgblk-rw-wrapper --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Year 1985 onward at least one European city receives the title \u00bbEuropean Capital of Culture\u00ab \u00a0 The initiative came from the then Ministers of Culture Melina Mercouri from Greece and Jack Lang from France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9000815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-9308","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\/9308","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=9308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aacc.co.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}