Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020. The Emilian city becomes the Italian capital of culture. In fact, from January 2020 the doors of Parma will open to a national and international audience. There will be a schedule full of events. In Milan, at the headquarters of the Stock Exchange in Piazza Affari, there was the presentation of the program.
The Parma Capitale program
It begins on 11 January with the inaugural parade and a concert by the Toscanini orchestra. Later the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella officially opens the year of Parma Capital of Culture on 12 January. The inauguration ceremony of the opera season at the Teatro Regio with Turandot is also scheduled. The day after, however, there is the ceremony of Sant'Ilario, patron saint of Parma, where Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is expected.
Furthermore, Federico Pizzarotti, mayor of the city, declared that the year of the capital for Parma is the result of a work done with competence, intuition and taking the right steps. Parma thus demonstrates that it knows how to work as a team and wins an important challenge.
Over 400 events
In Parma, capital of culture 2020, green themes, cultural and food and wine insights are scheduled. But also shows, debates, exhibitions and discovery of the territory. This is how the program of a year full of events is presented. But even more important is the willingness to talk about culture in the neighborhoods of the city. In the same way, we want to create thought and well-being together with institutions, companies and associations.
This is the aim of the city to get to involve every single citizen. Parma Italian capital of culture 2020 is a territorial growth project. It also wants to be a model for the following Capitals of Culture. Even more, it is a work that intertwines Parma's history, tradition and culture. This city is the symbol of Italian excellence but it also wants to be a European city. Likewise Parma is the first Italian city designated Unesco Creative City for Gastronomy 2015.
Wikipedia image, author: Filippo Aneli, license: CC BY 3.0
On the other hand, Parma reveals its thousand faces as a Roman and medieval city. But it also shows Renaissance and Baroque Parma. The Bourbon and Enlightenment Parma is known as well as the revolutionary and Habsburg one. In addition to this we know the reality of Verdi city like that of peasant and entrepreneur, of popular traditions and of technology. Even more important are the over 150 initiatives and 250 meetings on the theme of knowledge.
Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 then begins on 11 January with three days of events but the 2020 agenda is full of events!
