Lonely Planet's 2017 Best in
Travel guide has listed Pistoia as seventh top destination among
cities after Bordeaux, Cape Town and Los Angeles.
The Tuscan city has been named Italian Capital of Culture
for next year.
Top countries include Canada, Colombia and Finland and top
regions Peru's Choquequirau, New Zealand's Taranaki and
Portugal's the Azores.
Pistoia mayor Samuele Bertinelli commented by saying that
"the naming of Pistoia among the ten top destinations to visit
in 2017 by one of the most popular and prestigious tour guides
launches the city into a dimension of extraordinary
international visibility it had never before had."
He added that Pistoia was already known for many things
including its agriculture and food industries, musical festivals
and some extremely important works of art, such as Luca della
Robbia's 'The Visitation', which will be exhibited at Boston's
Museum of Fine Arts until December 4 and will later move to the
National Gallery of Washington prior to returning to Italy in
2017.
Mayor Bertinelli said that one of the aims of the City of
Culture would be to "bring together the profiles of Pistoia that
are already known to create a unified image of the city, which
can be shared heritage of all its inhabitants and adequately
represent it and its territory in Italy and throughout the
world. Being named by Lonely Planet - and the only city in Italy
to have been named by it - is an initial, very significant
result of this work."
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