The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Nataša Pirc Musar, attended the inauguration of Nova Gorica - Gorizia “First European Capital of Cross-Border Culture Go! 2025”. The ceremony took place in Transalpina Square, located on the border between Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and Gorizia, Italy. The event was attended by the President of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Massimiliano Fedriga, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Indigenous Slovenian Communities, Matej Arčon; the Ministers of Culture, Asta Vrečko, for Slovenia, and Alessandro Giuli, for Italy; Marta Kos, Commissioner...

The Capital of Collio Cormons, the panoramic views of San Floriano, the natural ecosystem of Isola della Cona in Staranzano, are just some of the realities enhanced in the new information brochure of Go!2025. The territory of Isonzo, extended to the three UNESCO sites of Aquileia, Palmanova and Cividale, are united in a single brochure, created in collaboration with Promoturismo. “Gorizia and Nova Gorica, together European Capital of Culture in 2025, are located in the center of a beautiful territory, both on the Slovenian and Italian sides, in which two thousand years of history are told, through historical, cultural, environmental testimonies that are sometimes unique, which...

In recent days, an important in-depth meeting of the #GO2025FENICE project was held with Councilor Patrizia Artico of the Municipal Council of Gorizia delegated to the European Capital of Culture (coordination, events and development of commercial accommodation facilities), relations with GECT GO and Zavod GO! 2025, Communication. PARTICIPANTS The meeting with the Councilor was attended by Vittorio Baroni – Coordinator of #GO2025FENICE, Edvard Popit – President of the Association of Music Schools of the Slovenian Coast (Zveza primorskih glasbenih šol) which is the Project Partner of the Municipality of Venice for #GO2025FENICE, Alessandra Schettino – Councilor...

The conference "Towards GO! 2025" was held this week at the European Parliament in Brussels, presenting the objectives and activities of the European Capital of Culture. The Councilor for Culture of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Mario Anzil, emphasized that regional contributions, combined with community funds, "will reach 100 million euros for the entire program". "We were the outlet of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the Mediterranean, the armed garrison of the eastern border and today, thanks to our commitment, being the European Capital of Culture can pave the way to writing a new story". With these words the vice-governor of Friuli Venezia Giulia...

The first construction site opened in the large renovation plan destined to change the face of Gorizia and Nova Gorica will be Piazza della Transalpina, a symbolic place for the two cities. The candidature of the two cities for capital of culture 2025 also included a large revisitation of an area straddling the border to represent a sort of entrance portal to the City of Culture, and, after many bureaucratic problems, the work can finally begin. The project, worth around 10 million, aims to create a new unitary, connected and integrated “district”, which will be the heart of events in 2025, but will remain available to the two cities also...

Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy), European Capital of Culture in 2025, are a testimony of how a border divided by tragic events in the 900th century has transformed from a divisive border to a border of cohesion and collaboration. Nationalist policies have been carried out on this border that have caused pain and suffering to the Slovenian and Italian populations. This has been recognized several times by the Presidents of the respective Republics and by the national Governments. But the border has also divided, after the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, a city that has always been unique, composite, multilingual, with houses in one State and vegetable gardens or stables in the other, until...

"The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia has been pro-European since its origins, because, after all that we had suffered, our most mature leaders, especially those originally from Dalmatia, had understood that only a united Europe could bring peace and justice. This is why we organized this meeting dedicated to Gorizia European Capital of Culture": the National President of the Anvgd Renzo Codarin thus opened the first day of work of the study conference From "holy" and "cursed" to European Capital of Culture 2025. Gorizia between borders, autonomy and cross-border cooperation, realized with the contribution of L....

The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia organizes on 9-10 June 2023 at the Dora Bassi Municipal Hall (Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 7 – Gorizia), thanks to the contribution of Law 72/2001 and with the patronage of the Municipality of Gorizia, the study conference entitled From “holy” and “cursed” to European capital of culture 2025 – Gorizia between borders, autonomy and cross-border cooperation”. On this occasion, Italian and foreign historians, jurists and scholars with a multidisciplinary approach intend to address topics such as Gorizia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gorizia as a city symbol of the Great War; Gorizia in the Second World War between Italy, Germany...