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Modena, UNESCO creative city for Media Arts

UNESCO defines a new recognition for Emilia Romagna.

Modena has just been nominated UNESCO Creative City 2021 for Media Arts, the first Italian city of this cluster.

Creativity, digital culture, artificial intelligence: confirming that innovation lives #inEmiliaRomagna.

With 13 recognized places, Emilia Romagna is an important protagonist of the Italian team: discover them all!

Four World Heritage Sites of Humanity

• Ferrara, city of the Renaissance, and the Po Delta -1995
• Early Christian monuments of Ravenna - 1996
• Modena: Cathedral, Civic Tower and Piazza Grande - 1997
• Forest of Sasso Fratino in the context of Ancient primordial beech forests of the Carpathians and other regions of Europe - 2017

Nine other Unesco awards

• Malatesta Library of Cesena - Register of the Memory of the World - 2005
• Abbey of Santa Cecilia alla Croara - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2005
• Bologna - Creative City of Music - 2006
• Chiusa di Casalecchio di Reno - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2010
• MIC - International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza - Heritage messenger of a culture of peace in favor of young people - 2011
• Parma - Creative City of Gastronomy - 2015
• Tuscan-Emilian Apennines - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2015
• Delta del Po Park - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2015
• Po Grande - MAB Unesco Reserve - 2019
• Modena - Creative City 2021 for Media Arts - 2021

Humans of Emilia-Romagna awarded at the International Tour Film Festival

The video-series made #inEmiliaRomagna dedicated to the people who make our region special, won the prize in the “tourism” category at the 10th International Tour Film Festival - International Competition open to short, medium and feature films.

Emilia Romagna has won because it has decided to promote regional tourism through its truest faces and its most beautiful and authentic crafts, linked to tradition, ancient gestures and knowledge handed down through the generations.

Passionate people, close ties with the territory and identity and a respectful look at the past: the elements that have always made Emilia Romagna great even in the tourist hospitality sector.

"For humanity, right from the title, the footage emanates among the beauties of the Emilia-Romagna region, while maintaining the promotion its intent: that of tourism" the realization of recognition for the project.

New website for Visit Emilia

A new site for the 3 provinces, Piacenza, Parma and Reggio Emilia that makes up the Emilia Tourist Destination.

Reorganized contents (locations, interests, travel ideas, events and news), to tell the territory in an innovative way, give ideas on what to visit, but also highlight the experiences and stay proposals of the operators of the Food & Wine Networks, Spas & Outdoor, Culture & Castles, the three main thematic areas of the site.

There is also a section to help you on your journey.

A website that is also a visual journey, thanks to the beautiful photos that invite you to browse and leave, and which is directly connected to social networks, in particular to Instagram, to grasp new inspirations.

Emilia as a unique destination, where the fusion of different experiences creates the unexpected, the extraordinary, in the name of the slow mix, a tourist offer characterized by the peculiarities of the provinces of Parma, Piacenza and Reggio Emilia, which merge into more types of holidays.

The Slow mix of Emilia is in the Italian slow mix, in the different and particular possibilities of unique sales.

Start enjoying what Emilia has in store for you at www.visitemilia.com.

The land of the Slow mix awaits you to surprise you in person ;-)

Parma on Google Arts & Culture

Parma, the Italian Capital of Culture 2020 + 21 is revealed to the world thanks to the Google Arts & Culture project which illustrates four thematic paths related to art, music, food culture and crafts.

Over 17 thousand images of museums and collections and 30 places digitized with Street View of the city, present on the platform, as a preview of what you can discover in person on your next trip to Parma.

A new opportunity that is added to other regional heritages already present on the Google Arts & Culture platform: start your journey from home, we are waiting for you #inEmiliaRomagna

• Piacenza - Civic Museums of Palazzo Farnese
• Parma - Palazzo della Pilotta, Cariparma Foundation Collection, House of Music, Glauco Lombardi Museum Foundation, Ape Parma Museum, Chinese and Ethnographic Art Museum, Teatro Regio di Parma
• Reggio Emilia - Civic Museums
• Bologna - Academy of Fine Arts
• Ferrara - Museums of Ancient Art (Palazzo Schifanoia, Palazzina di Marfisa d'Este and Civic Lapidarium)
• Ferrara - Museum of the Cathedral
• Ferrara - Civic Museum of Natural History
• Ferrara - National Archaeological Museum
• Faenza (RA) - International Museum of Ceramics
• Cesena (FC) - Works chosen by the Gallery of Ancient Paintings of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation

Photo Valley

The places of photography in Emilia-Romagna

Here is the interactive map, which collects the places of Emilia-Romagna linked to 360 ° photography.

190 places, located in 60 municipalities of Emilia-Romagna, including photographic archives and collections, photo libraries, galleries and exhibition spaces, festivals and events, courses and photographic clubs, but also the most photogenic places.

To discover that rich heritage linked to photography that gave birth to great names in photography - from Franco Fontana to Luigi Ghirri, from Nino Miglior to Paolo Roversi - and where some of the most important national and international festivals are present.

Finally, on the subject of photography we also point out the Open Library Emilia-Romagna photographic database which collects and catalogs, in thousands of images, the historical, architectural and naturalistic capitals of our Region.