articles/Award leaves Matera facing funding battle — theartnewspaper.com

Cave dwellings in Matera. Photo: Mario Guidotti The small southern Italian town of Matera, famous for cave dwellings of prehistoric origin, has succeeded in its bid to become Italy’s 2019 European Capital of Culture, alongside Plovdiv in Bulgaria, but needs to find more than €20m to meet its operating budget. The Matera 2019 Committee, led by the town’s mayor, Salvatore Adduce, and Paolo Verri, the former director of Turin’s 2011 events programme for the 150th anniversary of Italian unification, has set up the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation to administer the project until 2022.

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