{"id":216656,"date":"2017-02-02T12:44:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/palermo-is-the-italian-capital-of-culture-2018"},"modified":"2017-02-02T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T11:44:59","slug":"palermo-is-the-italian-capital-of-culture-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/en\/palermo-is-the-italian-capital-of-culture-2018","title":{"rendered":"Palermo is the Italian Capital of Culture 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Palermo the Italian Capital of Culture 2018. After a series of selections, the Sicilian capital managed to win. Here are the last 10 finalists:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Alghero<\/strong>, province of Sassari, Sardinia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aquileia<\/strong>, province of Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comacchio<\/strong>, province of Ferrara, Emilia Romagna<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ercolano<\/strong>, province of Naples, Campania<\/li>\n<li><strong>Montebelluna<\/strong>, province of Treviso, Veneto<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palermo<\/strong>, Sicily<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recanati<\/strong>, province of Macerata, Marche<\/li>\n<li><strong>Settimo Torinese<\/strong>, province of Turin, Piedmont<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trento<\/strong>, Trentino Alto Adige<\/li>\n<li>Union of Elimo Ericini Communes (<strong>Buseto Palizzolo, Custonaci, Erice, Paceco, San Vito Lo Capo and Valderice<\/strong>), province of Trapani, Sicily<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For the truth, the candidate locations were as many as 21, representing almost all Italian regions. This is the complete list before the initial culling:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Alghero<\/strong>, province of Sassari, Sardinia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aliano<\/strong>, province of Matera, Basilicata<\/li>\n<li><strong>Altamura<\/strong>, province of Bari, Apulia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aquileia<\/strong>, province of Udine, Friuli Venezia Giulia<\/li>\n<li>Joint candidacy <strong>Viterbo \u2013 Orvieto (Tr) &#8211; Chiusi (Si)<\/strong>, Lazio\/Umbria\/Tuscany<\/li>\n<li><strong>Caserta<\/strong>, Campania<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comacchio<\/strong>, province of Ferrara, Emilia Romagna<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cosenza<\/strong>, Calabria<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ercolano<\/strong>, province of Naples, Campania<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iglesias<\/strong>, Sardinia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Montebelluna<\/strong>, province of Treviso, Veneto<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Spezia<\/strong>, Liguria<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ostuni<\/strong>, province of Brindisi, Apulia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Palermo<\/strong>, Sicily<\/li>\n<li><strong>Piazza Armerina<\/strong>, province of Enna, Sicily<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recanati<\/strong>, province of Macerata, Marche<\/li>\n<li><strong>Settimo Torinese<\/strong>, province of Turin, Piedmont<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spoleto<\/strong>, province of Perugia, Umbria<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trento<\/strong>, Trentino Alto Adige<\/li>\n<li>Union of Elimo Ericini Communes (<strong>Buseto Palizzolo, Custonaci, Erice, Paceco, San Vito Lo Capo and Valderice<\/strong>), province of Trapani, Sicily<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vittorio Veneto<\/strong>, province of Treviso, Veneto<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Italian Capital of Culture 2019 has already been announced. It is Matera, which, in the same year, will also be the European Capital of Culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">After a long selection, Palermo has been named the Italian Capital of Culture 2018. Succeeding Mantova (2016) and Pistoia (2017).<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/en\/palermo-is-the-italian-capital-of-culture-2018\" title=\"Palermo is the Italian Capital of Culture 2018\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-destinations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fulltravel.it\/trade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}