Genova capitale europea della cultura 2004

Abstract

In 2004 Genoa lived its fourth extraordinary occasion in little more than ten years between the second and third millennium: the World Football Championship in 1990, the Celebration of the Fifth Centenary of America Discovery in 1992, the G8 Summit in 2001, the nomination of Genoa as European Capital of Culture in 2004. Each event is granted special financing, both for the manifestations and for the decorum of the city. On each of the first three occasion, the same burocratic retards, the same anxiety in projecting, authorizations and executions have been experienced. The special opportunity of 2004 was a real occasion for Genoa not only to show itself as a city of art and culture, but first of all to awake in its citizens and institutions a constant attention towards their city, its precious historical heritage, its everyday care, the requirement for the highest quality in every small or large intervention, the quality of its urban landscape, summing up, towards the quality of their life itself. The financing ensured by the special event has been spent on the monuments, in works of re-qualification, as repairs of paving and lighting plants, rearrangement of streets and squares, but also in great public manifestations as far as “Arts and Architecture 1900/2000” urban exhibition.