(ANSA) - GORIZIA, 06 FEB - With a day of borderless events
and initiatives spread across the territory between Slovenia and
Italy, between Nova Gorica and Gorizia, the countdown to GO!
2025 European Capital of Culture officially kicks off on
Thursday, February 8, 2025, on a significant anniversary for the
two countries, because it crosses the National Day of Culture in
Slovenia - the anniversary of the passing of the great poet
France Prešeren - with the birth of Giuseppe Ungaretti
(8.02.1888). "Nova Gorica and Gorizia are thus preparing to face
together, for the next 365 days, the organization of the
international events of the European Capital of Culture 2025,"
explains Romina Kocina, director of Gect GO, a European Grouping
of Territorial Cooperation whose mission is to "build" a
cross-border city to attract in 2025 a wide audience, curious to
experience an area straddling cultures, languages, and
historical events. On Thursday, Feb. 8, a series of events
designed in Slovenian, Italian or bilingual languages will take
place in Nova Gorica and Gorizia, just as the daily exchanges of
the inhabitants in the two "twin" cities take place.
It officially begins at 10 a.m. in the most iconic place of
the two cities' 'sisterhood,' the Transalpina/Trg Evrope Square,
on which both overlook, the meeting point between Italy and
Slovenia, an exciting crossroads. Immediately afterwards, in
Nova Gorica and Gorizia, guided tours aboard #borderless buses
will kick off, offered in Slovenian and Italian. In Nova Gorica,
initiatives for the day will coincide with the National Day of
Culture. (ANSA).
Go!2025: Feb. 8 begins countdown toward culture capital
Preseren and Ungaretti celebration. First event on Transalpina