The candidacy process of the entire territory of the province of Trapani for the UNESCO network of Creative Cities for Gastronomy has officially begun. An extraordinary tool to enhance the area of western Sicily, its products, its uniqueness and the professionalism present. The Western Sicily Tourist District has promoted presentation meetings to share the application project with institutional representatives, sector associations and tourist operators, gathering great interest and participation in a shared application.
Municipalities, University Centre, Asp, Chamber of Commerce, Free Municipal Consortium of Trapani and many private entities have expressed their willingness to join the initiative which represents a great opportunity for international visibility and relaunch for the province. In fact, if the candidacy is accepted, Trapani would be the first city in southern Italy to enter the “UNESCO network of Creative Cities”.
The path includes several stages which will end in May 2025 when the dossier will be presented to the Italian national UNESCO Commission. At the moment, in the 7 clusters (Crafts and Folk Arts, Media Arts, Cinema, Design, Literature, Music and Gastronomy) there are 14 Italian cities present in the UNESCO Creative Cities network (Bologna, Fabriano, Turin, Parma, Rome, Alba, Carrara, Milan, Pesaro, Bergamo, Biella, Como, Modena and Bolzano), and work together with the aim of placing creativity and cultural industries at the center of their development plans at a local level and actively cooperating at an international level. Globally, there are a total of 350 creative cities. To date, the creative Italian cities for gastronomy are Parma, Alba and Bergamo.
“The objective is – comments Rosalia D’Alì, president of the Western Sicily District – ambitious, we are aware of it. We want to unite all the great food and wine cultural heritage of our land and enhance it with a vision project based on the values that UNESCO pursues”. The candidacy project will be coordinated by Cristiano Casa of PA Studio who, as councilor of the Municipality of Parma, followed the candidacy of the Emilian city as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy and who in 2015 obtained the recognition and collaborated in the creation of the District of the Creative City of Italian Gastronomy.
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