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Nova Gorica and Gorizia – two border towns to be a single “European Capital of Culture” in 2025

February 2021

Nova Gorica and Gorizia – two border towns to be a single “European Capital of Culture” in 2025

On 18 December 2020, the border towns of Nova Gorica (Slovenia) and Gorizia (Italy) were designated “European Capital of Culture 2025”. This 100% cross-border candidacy represents a historic milestone for this competition: for the first time, the candidacy and the joint urban and cultural development project were steered by an EGTC in all of the phases of this long process.

Drawing on its experience of overcoming administrative obstacles between the two countries’ systems, the “EGTC GO” will coordinate the planned cross-border investment, designed to foster a genuinely “borderless” conurbation. The ITI method (integrated territorial investment), tried out successfully within the framework of the 2014-2020 Italy-Slovenia Interreg programme, will be used to achieve this.

The GO!2025 website

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