By air, train, bus, sea or car. Travelling to the European Capital of Culture 2019 has never been so easy!

By air
The nearest airport to Matera is Bari Palese, which is 55 kilometres away and serves the Italian cities Milan, Rome, Verona, Turin, Venice, Trapani, Bergamo and Bologna, as well as international destinations: London (Stansted and Gatwick), Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, Bucharest,
Tirana, Stuttgart and Munich.
Bari Palese Airport operates flights by Alitalia, British Airways, Lufthansa, MyAir, Ryanair, Hapag Lloyd, AirOne and Club Air.
Alternative airports are Brindisi (140 km) and Naples (250 km).

A shuttle service runs between Matera and Bari Airport. Timetables are available online and booking is recommended.

By train
Trenitalia Official Carrier di Matera 2019

Frecciarossa and Intercity:
2 Frecciarossa Milan-Taranto stop in Ferrandina - Scalo Matera
4 Rome-Taranto Intercity with stop in Ferrandina - Scalo Matera

Freccialink:
2 connections with Bari C.le
4 connections with Salerno

26 Regional Trains per day for Ferrandina Scalo - Matera:
2 connections from / to Naples
4 connections from / to Salerno
10 connections from / to Potenza
10 connections from / to Taranto

Connections from Ferrandina Scalo to Matera

FAL from Bari

By car
From the Mediterranean coast:
Take the Salerno-Reggio Calabria Autostrada followings signs for Potenza and Metaponto on the SS 407 Basentana road, then turn off for Matera after the Ferrandina Scalo FS exit.
From the Adriatic coast:
Take the Bologna-Taranto Autostrada to the Bari Nord exit. Continue to the industrial zone and exit at Modugno for Altamura-Matera, following the SS 96 then the SS 99 roads.
From the south of Italy (Calabria and Sicily):
Take the Reggio Calabria-Salerno Autostrada to the Sibari exit, then the SS 106 Jonica road for Taranto. The Matera exit is near Metaponto.

By sea
Ferries to/from Bari
Bar (Montenegro), Corfu (Greece), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Durazzo (Albania), Igoumenitsa (Greece),
Patras (Greece), Sami (Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece), Zante (Zakynthos, Ionian Islands,
Greece).

By bus
Buses from Milan, Rome, Naples and Bari
Marinobus
FAL
Flixbus
Marozzi

Local buses
The Matera 2019 Passport also provides you with free urban public transport in Matera.
For Matera bus services, routes and timetables are available online from the Miccolis company.

Capital For One Day

'Capital For One Day' Municipalities can be reached on the shuttle service which leaves from Matera.

For information and reservations, please contact:

Ridola Viaggi, Via Domenico Ridola 54 (MT) - +39 0835 314233 - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - www.ridolaviaggi.it

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This section shows the documents concerning the designation of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019 and the reports by the Monitoring Committee.

THE CANDIDACY OF MATERA FOR THE TITLE OF THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019 

Matera 2019 first Bid Book
Matera 2019 final Bid Book

DESIGNATION OF MATERA AS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019 

 MiBact Decree for the Final Approval of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019 (IT)
 Final report for the selection of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019

MONITORING PANEL OF MATERA AS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019

Progress Reports by the Foundation

 Final Formal Monitoring Meeting. Progress report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the formal monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 18th April 2018 
 First Formal Monitoring Meeting. Progress report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the formal monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Informal Meeting. Progress Report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the informal post-designation meeting with the Monitoring Panel held in Brussels at the European Commission on 16 Settembre 2015

Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel

 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - First Formal Meeting (IT)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the first formal meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - First Formal Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the first formal meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - Informal Post-Designation Meeting (IT)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the informal post-designation meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 15th September 2015
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - Informal Post-Designation Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the informal post-designation meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 15th September 2015
 Report by the Monitoring and Advisory Panel - Second Monitoring Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the second monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 18th April 2018

LEGACY PATHWAYS

Legacy pathways (EN)
Matera’s experience as a model for the future European capitals of culture. A document which gives some numbers of the cultural project and the first steps towards creating a legacy.

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	Matera's aim of being at the forefront of a movement stripping away the barriers to culture, especially through new technologies and learning, is visionary.
	The panel was impressed with the vibrancy and innovation of the artistic approach. There are several projects which have the potential to attract a wider and varied European audience, including the major Southern Renaissance exhibition.
	The panel appreciated the engagement with the existing mainstream cultural institutions and organisations especially how they had already started to change their practices. This approach may have wider application for European cultural institutions.
	The panel appreciated the strong focus on digital technology which by 2019 will be far more prevalent in the cultural and social sectors than it is now. The programme ranges from an online TV channel to the digitisation of heritage archives to coding clubs for young people. This is a forward looking and innovative approach for an ECOC.
	The policy towards inclusion is progressive with an emphasis on bringing those frequently excluded from culture into projects rather than creating parallel project lines. The panel appreciated the strong intention of foregrounding participation and co-design.
	The bidbook acknowledged this weakness, indeed the need for capacity building in the cultural sector and public administration is one of the main goals.
	The panel explored the intention to increase tourism from an annual 200,000 to 600,000, and its possible impact on the fragile eco-system of the region. The panel was re-assured that research has indicated this is a sustainable number.
	The panel was impressed on how what was initially a grass-roots initiative has developed into a formal central element of the city and regional planning.
	The concrete commitment of 70% of the funding, regardless of the outcome of the competition, is a clear demonstration of the centrality of the ECOC programme to the city and region’s development. It is one of the clearest examples, in recent years, of a candidate’s programme being part of a strategic plan rather than simply a bid for a competition.

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Consult the use of logo regulations to understand the Matera 2019 logo licensing procedure.

To use the logo for commercial purposes it is necessary to consult the merchandising regulations. Please complete a license application if interested.

In the event that use of the logo is granted, please follow instructions in the user manual for correct use.

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Paolo Verri
General Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Paolo Verri was born in Turin in 1966. Graduated in 1990 on Liberal-Arts at the Catholic University of Milano finalizing studies with a degree thesis on the relationship between culture, literature and television. His graduation thesis “Book and television: a difficult story” was written with the direction of Aldo Grasso and Gianfranco Bettetini and published by RAI, the national broadcasting company.
From that point on he has been working in the publishing industry, first as copy editor, then as editor in chief taking also care of several series for some publishing companies, and finally as general manager of the Italian Internazional Bookfair and Italian International Music Fair Exhibition both based in Turin (role that he held from 1993 to 1997). In the 1998 he became Media Manager for the Italian Publishers Association, promoting Italian book production at international level. In 1998 he started working for trade and promotion of the city of Turin and in the year 2000 was appointed as Chief Executive of Torino Internazionale, the association that develops, coordinates and manages the City Strategic Plans.
In 2003 he takes charge of Atrium Torino, the organization appointed to communicate the city transformations and the Olympic event held at Solferino square in Turin. During the Olympics Torino 2006 he directed the Sponsor Village.
In mid 2006 he left both roles to take on the managing of the Italia 150 project, which in may 2007 became steering committee. The main goal of the Italia 150 committee was to perform a huge, more than 9 months, event that in the year 2011 (year of the 150 anniversary of the Italian Unity) recounted the past, the present and the future of Italy. Italia 150 had a budget of 42 million euros and reached the goal to host more than 4 million people in less than 250 days.
In July 2011 he became the director of Matera 2019 Committee, an organization born to promote the city of Matera as a candidate for the European Culture Capital: successful bid, since Matera became last October 17 European Capital of Culture representing Italy in 2019.
In the meantime, from March 2013 to April 2015, he has managed contents and events for the Italian Pavillion of the Expo2015, that is taking place in Milan (May 1st and October 31st 2015) and whose title is “Feed the Planet, Energy for Life”.
Since May 2015 he has been appointed Director of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, body responsible for the implementation of Matera 2019’s programme. He is also consultant for various cities in order to develop their strategic plans.
Big sport supporter, he is also president of the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers national football team. He is also a travelling lover, passion that shares with his wife and their 3 children.

Claudia Di Perna
Secretary and Assistant to the Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in 1980 to a mother from Matera and father from Puglia, Claudia demonstrated from the outset a particular predilection for everything “foreign”: from languages to customs, traditions and literature. After obtaining her diploma with top marks from the Linguistic Lyceum “Liceo Linguistico T. Stigliani” in Matera, she then graduated in 2004 in Negotiation Interpreting and Translation in English and Spanish at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori di Forlì (College of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì) at the University of Bologna. In her academic career exams in Russian, Japanese and French languages, plus European Rights and the Principles of Economics and Marketing were included. After graduation, she decided to return to the Basilicata region, in the belief that this was the right place and the right time for cultivating her passions and projects.
Thanks to the Leonardo project, she lived and worked for four months in Derry, Northern Ireland. Then in 2005, Claudia undertook an inspiring training course in Organisation and Management of Art Exhibitions, held by the cultural association of Circolo Culturale la Scaletta di Matera and successively, with a team of young people from Basilicata with whom she had already proven her skills in the conception, setup and management of events, in 2006 became co-founder of the Artezeta cooperative, which manages the Cripta del Peccato Original (Crypt of Original Sin) and MUSMA (Museum of Contemporary Sculpture) in Matera. Having already spent five years as a touristic interpreter, in 2010 she became an official tourist guide of the Basilicata region, focusing primarily on the conception, organising and conducting of guided tours that promote the sites and cultural heritage of the entire region.
In March 2012, she participated enthusiastically in the selection for the Secretariat of the Matera 2019 Committee, the promoting entity of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019 and, having been selected, began to dedicate herself to an exciting job that would accompany the city of Matera and the entire region to achieving the ambitious title in 2014, overtaking 20 other Italian candidate cities.
In April 2015, Claudia was hired by the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, an entity that actuates the cultural programme expressed in the Matera 2019 dossier, taking on the role of Head of the Secretariat and Assistant to the Director.

Raffaella Pontrandolfi
Digital Communication (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Since April 2015, she has been the Digital Communications Manager for the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
She manages the Foundation's digital communication tools (website, social networks, newsletters) and carries out the role of interface between creative businesses (graphic designers, photographers, video makers) and the Foundation.
Raffaella Pontrandolfi was born in Matera in 1976. After obtaining her artistic college diploma, she attended the Faculty of Physics at the University of Pisa. A course of study that reinforced her education, she was already predisposed to the attention to detail and the importance of the infinitely small. Raffaella has always been passionate about new technologies. She frequented specialisation courses in multimedia graphic design and web design, collaborating successively as a freelancer with graphic design studios and private clients in her own city and beyond.
Over the years, she has combined creativity and consolidated technique as a web and graphic designer, having extensive knowledge of new digital communication tools.
She attended two specialisation courses in “Web and Social Media Marketing”. Together with other young people from Basilicata, Raffaella formed the Matera 2019 web team in 2012. A group of “digital volunteers”, through social networks they have given voice to the values and themes of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019.
In February 2013, Raffaella undertook a 6-month internship with the Matera 2019 Committee and after, until in March 2015, was the Head of Digital Communications for the said Committee.
She loves her work and considers it a great responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to commit to an ambitious project for the development of the territory. Raffaella loves to relax by listening to rock music, going to the cinema and taking romantic vacations with her husband.

Rossella Tarantino
Development and Relations Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in Matera, economist, she is specialized in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, with a focus on education, culture and social innovation.
She is the Development and Relations Manager of the Foundation Matera-Basilicata 2019.
From 2002 to 2014 she worked in in the Public Investment Evaluation Unit of Basilicata Region. Under this post, she drafted Strategic Plans (i.e. Regional Economic and Financial Programmes), conducted evaluation studies on projects and policies, designed and developed pilot projects on local development empowered by creativity (i.e. Visioni Urbane, considered as one of the best practices in cultural policies also because of its emphasis on technology and community approach). In addition, she also took part in twinning experiences with Eastern Countries (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) and ran a project on archeology and communities involvement in Jordan.
Because of her competences, in 2010 she was entrusted by Regione Basilicata to Matera 2019 Committee for the preparation of the bid for the title of ECOC. As Project manager, she defined and ran the pilot projects and residencies aimed to strengthen the EU dimension and to encompass it in the city and citizens dimension, developed all the plans aimed to ensure the budget allocation of the bid book (and of the bidding process as well), ensured a close coordination between the bid strategy and the regional and urban policies, took part in the drafting of the 2 bid books as to the aspects concerning finance, legacy and governance as well as to the 2 interviews with the Selection Panel. In addition, she took care of the preparatory work for the setting up of Matera 2019 Committee and subsequently of Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
From 1994 to 2001, she worked in Brussels and matured a long experience in running and assessing cooperation programmes with third countries (India, Mediterranean countries) in the cultural and education field. She took part in several monitoring missions on site both in Indian and EU Universities. In addition, she designed and ran a EU project on Museums storytelling and merchandising.
For the European Commission she took part in a number of selection panels of EC projects in the media and cultural sector. She is also the author of 3 publications (Feasibility studies on tourism and culture; on Visioni Urbane; on Open Matera-Open future, published on Symbola Annual Report).
European committed, she had the privilege of being one of the first Erasmus students (1988 University of Louvain la Neuve).

Rita Orlando
Management, Monitoring and Follow-up (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Rita Orlando is an architect, always on the search for something new, as a manifestation of her happy restlessness.
Since July 2015, she has been part of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation team, focusing on networking, management and follow-up of projects. During the application phase, on behalf of the Matera 2019 Committee, she oversaw innovative projects at a European level (Living on the Edge, unMonastery, Innovation Lab), the artistic residencies programme (devoted to co-productions for the Materadio festival) and the cultural entertainment initiatives of the territory dedicated to schools; in the post-designation phase, Rita has contributed to the administrative closure of the Committee and to the start-up of the Foundation. After graduating in Architecture from the Polytechnic Institute of Bari, she worked for many years at an international architectural firm in Matera, predominantly focusing on projects around the world (in the United States, Montenegro and China) and coordinating multidisciplinary working groups, having the opportunity to learn about different cultures, being her great passion.Successively, Rita worked freelance, even participating in innovative and experimental projects in the cultural field and cultivating her passion for design (also thanks to the “MIM” workshop by PoliMi - the Polytechnic Institute of Milan).
Rita strongly believes in the values of teamwork and the sharing of knowledge and experiences. She loves her job and singing her heart out, and always has her suitcase ready! She likes to think that: “The future is an open book”.

Massimiliano Burgi
Territorial Development (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Massimiliano E. Burgi was born in Matera, Italy on 31st July 1972. After graduating from artistic college, he earned his degree in architecture from the University of Florence, where he also attended the La Pira International Centre, a training ground for life with the belief that a united world is possible. Returning to Matera, he worked as an architect with IPOGEA, an Education Centre on Knowledge and Traditional Techniques, flanking architect Pietro Laureano in the drafting and creation of Italian projects, from which he discovered a scientific reading of the ancient cave dwellings of Sassi di Matera, that was interwoven with a love for the Ancient Neighbourhoods imparted by his father on long Sunday strolls.
Impassioned by working freelance, Massimiliano commenced operating as an architect in the field of restoration and salvaging of common and historical-monumental architecture, utilising traditional and innovative construction systems. Massimiliano places particular emphasis on water harvesting systems. He participates in conferences on traditional systems and processes of desertification. He has published texts and articles on the salvaging of the landscape, architecture of the past and desertification.
In 2009, he was appointed a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Natural History Archaeological Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera, in the role of landscape architect. In Saudi Arabia's Riyadh for a presentation in June 2010 on the architectural system of Sassi di Matera, he discovered the fascinating Islamic world. In September 2011, Massimiliano participated in Tokyo, the first city he loved as a child, attending a work session on sustainable architecture promoted by the International Union of Architects. From 2012 to 2015, he has carried out the role of strict tutor for the graduation course in Architecture at the University of Basilicata.
In 2008, Massimiliano was among the group to propose the idea of nominating Matera for the title of European Capital of Culture 2019, seeing in this candidacy the chance for growth for Matera, for the Basilicata region and for the entire south. He thus commenced, firstly, by joining the Matera 2019 Association and then by working with the Matera 2019 Committee, dedicating himself, together with his colleagues and with all their hearts, so that the citizens of Matera and Basilicata may feel that they too are protagonists and participants in the candidacy pathway. He currently works with the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, focused on the citizen and city dimension.
Besides to his family, in his free time Massimiliano is devoted to cooking, reading and freestyle swimming.

Ariane Bieou
Cultural Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Qualified architect, she worked for 15 years in Italy, first as associated architect and then in the management of cultural projects in the field of performing arts, particularly in designing, managing and coordinating art events in public spaces or in connection with heritage. She's also represented the italian partnership from 2006 of IN SITU, the European network for artistic creation in public space. Since 2011, she coordinates IN SITU, leaded by Lieux publics, centre national de création (Marseille – France), and run the ongoing projects META 2011-2016, IN SITU Platform 2014-2017 and IN SITU ACT 2016-2020 that gathers 25 partners from 17 countries throughout Europe. From 2003 and during the course of five projects financed by the European Commission, the activity of IN SITU covered project launches, artistic production, European residences, transnational programming as well as the development and evaluation of pilot actions promoting mobility.

Ida Leone
Build up project coordinator (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in 1966, graduated from Law school, passionate about digital technologies and new forms of online communication, blogger since 2003. Since 2005, she has worked on the Basilicata regional culture policies (Short List Cultura and Visioni Urbane projects). From 2011 to 2015 she was the coordinator of the webteam Matera 2019, which had the function of spreading and pushing the promoter committee initiatives on social media. She also coordinated the online community design and implementation, which allowed citizens to propose projects to support the Matera 2019 candidacy, and to discuss issues that were the core of the dossier that allowed Matera to be selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. She is interested in all the topics related to the web usage as a tool of freedom and participation: open street map, open data, data re-usage, coding for children, online discussions on common topics, and mobilization of collective intelligences. From 2004 and 2015 she was a member of the Strategic Team for POR Basilicata 2000-2006 and PO FES Basilicata 2007-2013 at Basilicata Region, with support functions for upper management and the management activities.

Rebecca Raponi
Organization, production and logistics (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Having obtained her Diploma in Interior Architecture at the European Institute of Design in 1997, she initially collaborated until 2001 with the Valentino Haute Couture fashion house in the design and realisation of shop fittings within the world of visual merchandising in the company-owned boutiques around the world.
This experience lead her to frequent a cosmopolitan environment that was alive and multifaceted, evolving into a permanent partnership with the RomaEuropa Festival, an international event of contemporary theatre, music and dance that takes place in the principal theatres of the city. Here, for almost ten years, she was responsible for all organisational sectors, from the interpretation of stage sets, to production in close contact with the artists, through to the promotion of the scheduled events. Meeting the love of her life in 1997, Rebecca came to know Matera. After such extensive professional experience and the birth of her first two children, in 2010 she decided to move here. This was the year in which the city became a candidate for European Capital of Culture for the year 2019. Initially chosen to work on the Radio3 festival, Materadio, her collaboration became permanent, overseeing large and small events of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

Giuseppe Romaniello
Administrative and Financial Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

A business school graduate, Mr Romaniello is the Special Commissioner for the APOF-IL, the Province of Potenza’s Agency for Orientation, Education and Labour after having been, since 2010, its General Manager. His responsibilities included planning, management and control of the agencies activities, coordinating the activities of 130 work units, including employees and collaborators. He managed an annual budget of an average of 10 million euro from EU, national and regional funds.
An expert in programming, management, monitoring, procedures and control of the Structural Funds, his expertise is in economic and financial planning and the management of public administrations. While he was its head, the Province’s in-house Agency consolidated its role of territorial control over educational policy via the creation of annual Programme Plans (Piani Programmi) aimed at some 8,000 users annually.
From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Technical Assistance Group for the activation procedures of the POR Basilicata 2000-2006 and the PO FES Basilicata 2007-2013 at the Department of Education, Labour, Culture and Sports, with support functions for upper management and the management authority in the field of action planning, the monitoring of financial, fiscal and procedural data of the Programme, as well as managing the finances and operation controls to ensure proper management and surveillance of the PO.

Antonella Buono
Administration (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Antonella Buono is a dreamer and a creative mind - these not generally the characteristics of someone having been involved in administration and accounting for so many years. Her educative pathway saw her first graduate from Matera's “Antonio Loperfido” Business Technical Institute, before her studies led her to Bari, where she attended the University of Economics and Business and completed a specialisation course in “Business Administration and Management”, with its relative six-month internship at the Banca Popolare in Mezzoggiorno. Training courses in Macroeconomics and Asset Management were followed by courses in Bancassurance plus Elements of Communication and Sales. Antonella now works for Financial and Accounting Consultancy firms, where her knowledge and training is enhanced and consolidated.
She can attest to having always wanted to concern herself with numbers, papers, accounting and company balance sheets. It is a job she loves to do, in a responsible and professional manner. Yet she loves even more to travel and to play outdoor sports so as to enjoy the nature that surrounds her. In 2014, Antonella joined the team of Matera 2019 Committee, today known as the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation. A different organisation from her previous places of employment, it is an environment she likes to define as being “creative”, where she may develop personal relationships that form a source of growth and contrast.

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On 17 October 2014, at the end of the intense candidacy period and following the evaluation made by the international panel of judges, Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism, proclaimed Matera the European Capital of Culture for 2019.

Foundation
The Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation, the same organisation which delivered the Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 program, continues to operate in the field of creativity and culture with the aim to promote and support the development of creative, artistic and cultural activities in the city of Matera and at a regional level in tune with the strategies of local authorities and in collaboration with the world of university, research and business; consolidate and strengthen the national and international position of Basilicata and Matera as a platform of cultural innovation that creates relationships, exchanges, projects in Europe and the World; foster social inclusion through art and culture.

Board of Directors
President, Michele Somma, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata
Vice President, Francesco Mancini, President of the Province of Matera
Councilor, Vito Bardi, President of the Basilicata Regional Authority
Councilor, Raffaele Ruberto, Prefectural commissioner of the Municipality of Matera
Councilor, Ignazio Marcello Mancini, Chancellor of the University of Basilicata

Board of Trustees
Vito Bardi, President of the Basilicata Regional Authority
Basilicata Regional Authority - 2 components awaiting reappointment
Raffaele Ruberto, Prefectural commissioner of the municipality of Matera
Municipality of Matera - 2 components awaiting reappointment
Ferdinando Mirizzi, Professor of the University of Basilicata
Nicola Cavallo, Professor of the University of Basilicata
Francesco Mancini, President of the Province of Matera
Province of Matera - 1 component awaiting reappointment
Michele Somma, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata
Patrick Suglia, Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata

College of Auditors
Dott. Comm. De Luca Maria Teresa, President 
Dott. Comm. Latronico Leonardo, Member 
Dott. Comm. D’Alessandro Valeria, Member

Supervisory Body
Mr Gianpaolo Carretta

Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation


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Here is the final Matera 2019 bid book.
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...and it will be the turn of:

2025

Chemnitz (Germany)
Nova Gorica (Slovenia) with Gorizia

2026

Oulu (Finland)
Trenčín (Slovakia)

 

2027

Liepāja (Latvia)
Évora (Portugal)

 

2028

České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Bourges (France)
Skopje (North Macedonia)

Tartu (Estonia)
Arts of Survival

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Bad Ischl (Austria)
Culture is the new salt

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Bodø (Norvegia)
Arcticulation

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Valletta (Malta) and Leeuwarden (Netherlands) are the European Capitals of Culture 2018 and we want to wish them a good job!

The European Capital of Culture in Valletta will be held an opening ceremony from the 14th to the 21st of January 2018 to officially begin the year.
The central theme "Imagine 18" is an exciting opportunity to experience cultural identity afresh in new contexts that push the boundaries and allow for ideas, dialogue, creativity and innovation to flow freely. Valletta 2018 will bring shifts in mentality, challenge to experiment, raise expectations both as artists and as audiences, and embrace permanent change to enrich Maltese cultural lives. This will be done by focusing on encouraging the participation of individuals and organizations from different parts of society. 
The programme includes festivals and performances in science, arts, kids and youths, dance, theatre, food and many others topics. The concepts behind the events are driven by three main themes: “Island Stories”, “Future Baroque” and “Voyages”.

The opening ceremony in the city of Leeuwarden, on the other hand, will be held the following week on the 26th and 27th of January.

The central theme "The iepen mienskip - open community" has the aim to connect different kinds of communities across Europe, both online and ‘in real life’. With more than 800 projects, the ECoC will show an idiosyncratic and committed community sensitive to and curious about each other’s ideas, opportunities and challenges.
The programme is articulated into three themes. Theme one is about how nature and culture relate to each other in the broadest sense. Theme two focuses on the relationship between city and countryside. The third theme is about how people live together in these places and how different co-existing cultures communicate and interact.

Running alongside the main programme, Leeuwarden 2018 has two side programmes. Lab LWD can be compared to a toolbox to test out different kinds of open platforms for connecting people. The second one, Royal Friesian, is a programme considering the past, present and future of cultural import-export relations.

He has a background in architecture and a long experience in large-scale projects with a strong social impact, both in Italy and abroad. Since 2003, she has been involved in urban and social regeneration projects, coordinating multidisciplinary and international working groups, and was the creator of the project Mimers, design al plurale, which brought together 40 professionals and companies from the cultural and creative industry.

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Passionate about foreign languages and foreign relations, after her high school education she graduated in Translation and Negotiation Interpreting in English and Spanish in 2004 at Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori in Forlì, University of Bologna. In her university education she takes every opportunity to enrich her education with exams in Russian language, Japanese, European law, economics and marketing.

Believing in the importance of lifelong learning, she has continued to attend professional training courses: most recently the course in Institutional Relations and Public Affairs organized by Luiss Business school; in 2023 the course in Europlanning for Culture organized by Feltrinelli Education. He has taken courses on transparency and anti-corruption in private organizations under public law, with a special focus on cultural organizations. In 2010, already a tourist interpreter for 5 years, she passed the exam and joined the regional register of tourist guides of Basilicata and is mainly involved in the conception and implementation of cultural tourism itineraries for the entire region. In 2007, thanks to the Leonardo project, she lived and worked 4 months in Derry, Northern Ireland, taking English language courses. Her professional training, however, had already begun immediately after graduation when, in 2005, she returned to Matera and attended an inspiring training course in Organization and Management of Art Exhibitions held by Circolo Culturale la Scaletta in Matera.

In 2006 she helped set up a team of young Lucanian professionals with whom, working alongside the Zetema Foundation of Matera, she set up and inaugurated MUSMA, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Matera, which they then managed until 2012 together with the Crypt of Original Sin.
Her ultra-decade-long journey within the “Matera Basilicata 2019” project began in May 2012, when she was selected as the Secretariat of the Matera 2019 Committee, the body promoting Matera's candidacy as European Capital of Culture for 2019, and began to devote herself to an exciting job accompanying the city of Matera and the entire Region to obtaining the ambitious title.
In April 2015 she was hired in the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation as Head of the Secretariat and Executive Assistant, supporting the Executive Board in maintaining external relations and taking care of Board meetings.
Since 2022 she has also held the role of the Foundation's Head of Prevention of Corruption and Transparency.

Caterina Venece was born in Montemurro, a small Lucanian village near Potenza, in 1987. She is a journalist. In 2010 she obtained her BA in Italian Literature from the University of Salerno, specialising in journalism. Later she moved to the University of Bari. In 2013 she obtained an MA in Information and publishing systems with a thesis on Italian culture analysed through the pages of “La Domenica” in “Il Sole 24 Ore”.

After graduating, she attended a Master in Marketing, Public and Business Communication specializing in Social Media Strategy and collaborated to a research project on the monitoring of the private broadcasting stations in Apulia promoted by Corecom Puglia with the University of Bari. She lived in Apulia for several years where she started to work as a journalist for some online newspapers, for a local radio station and later for the press office of a consultancy firm dealing with local development and participatory planning. In 2013 she started working with the Fondazione Leonardo Sinisgalli in Montemurro where she was the person in charge of the press and communication office. From 2015 to 2016 she took part in the training programme “Borse di studio per la promozione e comunicazione del brand Basilicata nel mondo” (Internships for the promotion and the communication of Basilicata brand worldwide) promoted by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and the Basilicata Region.
Within the framework of the above mentioned programme she spent three months at the Malta Society of Arts in La Valletta (Malta), the European Capital of Culture 2018, and six months at Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation in Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019.
During these years she gained experience at the front office,in the organizing secretariat as well as in the press and communication office. In Malta she joined “Tal Kultura”, the team of Malta 2018 volunteers for the Valletta Green Festival.
In 2017 she did an internship as a press agent at Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation. Since the beginning of 2018 she has been working for the Press Office of Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, a great unique opportunity to tell the whole world about Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 and the region of Basilicata alike through local, national and international media.

Over the years, she has taken care of the press office for several cultural realities in Basilicata.
She loves travelling, reading, singing as well as discovering the hidden tangible and intangibile heritage within the territory.

He was born in Matera in a year that has become a symbol of the future: 1984. “It’s Orwell’s fault,” he jokes, explaining his self-given title as a “futurist archaeologist,” always in search of fossils, words, and stories from the not-yet. A journalist since 2012, he writes for VITA non-profit, a long-standing authority on Italy’s Third Sector. He serves as editor-in-chief of S-Catenati, a newspaper produced inside the Matera correctional facility.
A returning “Lucanian,” he spent several years in Ferrara and Milan, where he nurtured his passion for storytelling and technological innovation. Thanks to a scholarship from Il Corriere della Sera, he got to witness the budding internet startup movement in Italy. Back in Basilicata with the Progetto Policoro, he has channeled his passion for storytelling and innovation into the social sphere. In this transition, the speed of digital bits has given way to the slowness of relationships.
With the social cooperative Il Sicomoro, he has worked on projects involving disability, migration, and elder care. Currently, he leads press offices for a number of Third Sector organizations and serves on the scientific committee of Fqts (Formazione Quadri Terzo Settore). He is the co-founder of Da zero a zero, the first festival of social envy.
With a master’s degree in law, he is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in business management, focusing on the social economy. His interest in civil economy has been lifelong.
In his blog, he writes, “I seek words that build community.”

Since April 2015, she has been the Digital Communications Manager for the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
She manages the Foundation's digital communication tools (website, social networks, newsletters) and carries out the role of interface between creative businesses (graphic designers, photographers, video makers) and the Foundation.
Raffaella Pontrandolfi was born in Matera. After obtaining her artistic college diploma, she attended the Faculty of Physics at the University of Pisa. A course of study that reinforced her education, she was already predisposed to the attention to detail and the importance of the infinitely small.

Raffaella has always been passionate about new technologies. She frequented specialisation courses in multimedia graphic design and web design, collaborating successively as a freelancer with graphic design studios and private clients in her own city and beyond.
Over the years, she has combined creativity and consolidated technique as a web and graphic designer, having extensive knowledge of new digital communication tools.
She attended two specialisation courses in “Web and Social Media Marketing”. Together with other young people from Basilicata, Raffaella formed the Matera 2019 web team in 2012. A group of “digital volunteers”, through social networks they have given voice to the values and themes of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019.

In February 2013, Raffaella undertook a 6-month internship with the Matera 2019 Committee and after, until in March 2015, was the Head of Digital Communications for the said Committee.
From 2021 to 2023, Raffaella also collaborated with the Giacomo Brodolini Foundation on drafting and monitoring social media strategy plans for projects managed by the Foundation (Interreg Italy-Slovenia; Sviluppo Rurale Veneto, Metropolitan City of Venice).
She loves her work and considers it a great responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to commit to an ambitious project for the development of the territory.

Born in 1990, Dario Colacicco, originally from Apulia, got to know Matera while attending the local classical high school, where he graduated. Since then, the bond with the city has never been severed. His studies led him to pursue legal studies, which did not prove to be the right path, leading him to take over his father's business, agriculture, an activity he continues to pursue with passion and dedication. At the same time, since 2015, he has been interested in the world of digital communication, starting to work in the field of cultural communication and collaborating on music, film, theatre and art projects. From 2017 to 2019 she is responsible for communication for the IAC - Integrated Arts Centre, dealing in particular with the Nessuno Resti Fuori festival and the Matera Città Aperta project, part of the Matera 2019 cultural programme. From 2018 to 2020 she is in charge of communication for the project Architecture of Shame, by the collective Architecture of Shame, also part of the cultural programme of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. From September 2019 and until the end of 2020, she is in charge of communication for Open Design School, for which among others she is in charge of the project So far so close, a performing arts festival to rethink the scenic act in view of the pandemic period.
At the same time, together with a group of contemporaries who had returned to the city due to the momentum and ferment of Matera 2019, he worked on the foundation of a contemporary art museum, the TAM - Tower Art Museum, a museum that saw the light of day in December 2022, with a programme of artistic residencies and original museum productions, and a project linked to events, books, and workshops. In 2024, he returned to collaborate with the Matera 2019 Foundation, again in the communication area, following the AIRFARE, Podcast Academy, and Digitare Cultura projects. Passionate about music, he runs a music selection project with his partner and associate Debora. Passionate mölkky player. He makes a podcast called Volevosoloaprireunpodcast.

He was born in Matera on 31st July 1972. After graduating from artistic college, he earned his degree in architecture from the University of Florence, where he also attended the La Pira International Centre, a training ground for life with the belief that a united world is possible. Returning to Matera, he worked as an architect with IPOGEA, an Education Centre on Knowledge and Traditional Techniques, flanking architect Pietro Laureano in the drafting and creation of Italian projects, from which he discovered a scientific reading of the ancient cave dwellings of Sassi di Matera, that was interwoven with a love for the Ancient Neighbourhoods imparted by his father on long Sunday strolls.

Impassioned by working freelance, Massimiliano  commenced operating as an architect in the field of restoration and salvaging of common and historical-monumental architecture, utilising traditional and innovative construction systems. Massimiliano places particular emphasis on water harvesting systems. He participates in conferences on traditional systems and processes of desertification. He has published texts and articles on the salvaging of the landscape, architecture of the past and desertification.
In 2009, he was appointed a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Natural History Archaeological Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera, in the role of landscape architect. In Saudi Arabia's Riyadh for a presentation in June 2010 on the architectural system of Sassi di Matera, he discovered the fascinating Islamic world. In September 2011, Massimiliano participated in Tokyo, the first city he loved as a child, attending a work session on sustainable architecture promoted by the International Union of Architects. From 2012 to 2015, he has carried out the role of strict tutor for the graduation course in Architecture at the University of Basilicata.

In 2008, Massimiliano was among the group to propose the idea of nominating Matera for the title of European Capital of Culture 2019, seeing in this candidacy the chance for growth for Matera, for the Basilicata region and for the entire south. He first joined the Matera 2019 Association and then worked for the Matera 2019 Committee and the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

In 2019 he coordinated community projects such as Lumen, Gardentopia, Altofest Matera Basilicata 2019 and Volontari 2019 focused on the theme of citizen participation in urban regeneration and cultural processes with particular attention to peripheral and inland areas.

In the legacy years after 2019, he managed the projects In linea d'aria, Pietrapertosa by the artist Emily Jacir, Tableaux Vivants da Caravaggio, Life(s) of Webs. Arachnophobias, arachnophilias, and other stories by the artist Tomas Saraceno.
He currently works with the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation as project manager in charge of citizen engagement and participation for community projects.

Besides to his family, in his free time Massimiliano is devoted to cooking, reading and freestyle swimming.

She graduated in interior design in ‘97 at the European Institute of Design. She collaborated with the maison Valentino Haute Cuture in the design and realisation of layouts on visual sector for boutiques in the world, until 2000.

This experience led her to a cosmopolitan, lively and eclectic environment, which grew into a steady collaboration with RomaEuropa, an international theatre and performance Festival, a cultural benchmark in the country's contemporary scene. Here, she worked for almost ten years in all areas, close to artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bob Wilson, Jan Fabre, Alessandro Baricco, Marina Abramovic, Emio Greco and Pierfrancesco Favino.
In 1997 she met the love of his life and decided to move in Matera in 2010, the year of the nomination of European Capital of Culture 2019. Since then, she managed most of the events, shows and performances, with particular focus on the adaptation of the projects to the chosen sites, working side by side with institutions, security headquarters, authorities and artists, in an all-round approach.

Calabrian. Born in Lungro, an Arbëreshe linguistic minority town in the province of Cosenza. Proud of the history and cultural heritage of her area, she oriented her study and professional career with the intention of bringing out its great tourism potential.
After graduating from the Università della Calabria with a bachelor's degree in Tourism and Cultural Systems Enhancement, she continued with postgraduate training in territorial marketing and tourism web marketing.
During her academic career, she accumulated significant experience in the tourism industry, working for Valtur both in Italy and abroad, and holding senior roles in marketing and customer relations in hotels in Calabria.

Her career was further enriched by working with the National Association of “Borghi Autentici d’Italia” where she advised municipalities in Campania and Calabria, and with the Ministry of Tourism, supporting the Mission Unit for the PNRR in coordination, monitoring and reporting activities.
For the past nine years or so, she has passionately chaired a local tourism promotion association, dedicating herself to the promotion of the area and the well-being of communities. In addition, she now works as a freelance consultant for public and private entities and foundations, and teaches tourism subjects at higher education institutions.

Her collaboration with the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation began in December 2018, dealing first with ticketing management and then with cultural reporting and planning.

Born in Matera in 1983, she moved to Lecce to graduate in Science and Technology of Visual Arts, Music Fashion and Entertainment with a thesis on “Valorization of the territory through the film industry.” Her passion and inclination for working in the field of communication and event organization led her to Milan to attend a Master's degree at IED- Istituto Europeo di Design in Event Management. In Milan she collaborates with several agencies following organization of cultural events , roadshows, product company launches. Later she returns to Matera where she continues her work as a freelancer and later follows courses in Digital Communication and Social Media Management.
Since 2018 she has been responsible for communication and event organization for Compagnia Teatrale l'Albero of the Community opera project Silent City as part of Matera - European Capital of Culture 2019. In 2021 she is production manager of the Silent City Festival” Festival of Lyric Opera for Children, produced by Compagnia Teatrale l'Albero.
Since 2022 she has been working in the project management team of Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
He has an unbridled passion for airports. An incurable wanderlust , she plans to drop everything to travel around the world at least once a day. She enjoys writing and chronicles on a blog and instagram channel her family-sized traveling trips.

A decade of artistic experience in television as a presenter brought him into close contact with the world of entertainment, specialising over time in the production of events. In 1999, he opened a company specialising in public relations, staging, concert organisation and conferences.
For several years, he managed and coordinated the staging of public events in major squares, working for various national organisations such as RAI.
From 2014 to 2018 he managed the space of the Provincial Mediatheque of Matera. Since 2018 he has been collaborating with Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019 in the production and logistics of events.
He never tires of arranging light and sound. He has a strong addiction to the stage.

Born in 1983 in Toronto to parents from Lucania who moved there for work, she relocated to Matera with her family in 1990 out of a desire to return to their homeland.
Her multicultural disposition led her toward a master's degree in “Sciences of Intercultural Mediation” (English, French and German) from the University of Bari, which she earned with 110 cum laude. Her passion for the area was decisive in completing a PhD in Economic Geography, with specialization in Geography of Tourism. She also collaborated with the Basilicata Territorial Promotion Agency from 2006 to 2018, maturing qualified skills in statistical data collection and processing, tourism legislation, and the tourist accommodation system.

In 2013 with great enthusiasm, she accepted the proposal to collaborate in the drafting of the first Matera 2019 Candidacy bid book: months of intense work, characterized by a strong spirit of collaboration and a great cultural ferment, during which she followed and verbalized the meetings of the Scientific Committee; in addition, she coordinated the drafting of the bid book that passed the first selection phase among the 20 Italian candidate cities. At the end of this intense period of work, she left the Committee to give birth to a baby girl. She continued to work sporadically in different activities first for the Committee and, following the victory, for the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

She returned to work on a permanent basis for the Foundation in December 2017, with the role of Executive Secretary, supporting the activities of the General Management and the Administrative Office, assisting in the organization of institutional meetings and coordinating the activities of the Managers of the various areas of the Foundation. To date, she plays a coordinating role between the Management and Administrative Offices, supporting information flow, document editing, information publication and archiving.

Since January 2023 (ongoing activity) she has been Coordinator for Basilicata of the PNRR Italea project “Tourism of Roots,” conducted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for International Cooperation. As part of the project, in collaboration with regional authorities and territorial networks, she supports groups of public and private operators in organizing the tourism offer aimed at Italians abroad and in fostering awareness with respect to the theme of Italian emigration and the reception of root tourists. She also participates as a speaker in seminars and meetings on the subject, as well as in international events for the dissemination of the Italea project, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of ENIT and other public and private organizations.

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Antonella Buono is a dreamer and a creative mind - these not generally the characteristics of someone having been involved in administration and accounting for so many years. Her educative pathway saw her first graduate from Matera's “Antonio Loperfido” Business Technical Institute, before her studies led her to Bari, where she attended the University of Economics and Business and completed a specialisation course in “Business Administration and Management”, with its relative six-month internship at the Banca Popolare in Mezzoggiorno.

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Born in Matera in 1972, she attended the scientific high school, graduated in Economics and Business at the University of Bari with top marks and finally qualified as a chartered accountant and auditor. After working in professional firms and in the administration area of some local companies, she began her experience in the field of financed training: she worked for a few years at some companies accredited by public bodies dealing specifically with the design, monitoring and reporting of complex projects.

Subsequently, she became Sole Director of a Soa, with the role of supervisor of the economic, legal and technical sectors of the company and maintained constant relations with the AVCP.

Another sector in which she has deep experience is insurance, especially in the security branches in favour of PAs, and catastrophes in the agricultural field in addition to the elementary branches. In 2014 she qualified for registration with the RUI section A and B of IVASS. Since September 2017 she has been working at the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation initially as collaborator, then as a fixed-term employee and finally as a permanent employee in the administrative area where she mainly deals with reporting.

Since august 2023 she has been working as a external consultant of the Basilicata Region’s Observatory for Administrative Simplification. She fully considers herself a cultural inhabitant and devotes her free time firstly to her family and then to culture in general. An avid reader and cat lover, she loves theatre and cinema. Very attached to the area, she has never strayed far from it by choice.

Marco Piegari was born in the province of Salerno in 1977. He completed his high school diploma in scientific studies and then gained a Degree in Law from the University of Siena. After that, he passed the bar exam. While he was at University, he completed an internship at the I.C.E. (ItalianTrade Agency) in New York. He gained a Masters Degree in “Globalizzazione dei mercati e tutela del consumatore (Globalization of markets and protection of consumers) from the University of Rome 3 in 2008  and a Masters Degree in “Gestione delle Risorse Energetiche” (Management of Energy Sources) from the Institute Safe in Rome in 2012.  

He enriched his professional background with work experiences in several national companies such as Sielte SpA and Poste Italiane SpA.

In 2015 he was appointed as deputy chairman of the management board of  Consorzio Stabile OSCAR scarl. He has also been a member of the management board of the Fondazione per il sostegno e lo sviluppo degli studi giuridici (Foundation for the support and development of law studies) in Siena. 

By working in such a  stimulating professional context he has honed his legal skills and become a successful lawyer specializing in company and administrative law, pleading before administrative jurisdiction and carrying out extra-judicial activities.

Deeply passionate about politics, he was a member of the Council of his home town for about eight years, being in charge of legal proceedings, youth politics and production activities.

Versatile, inquisitive and highly dynamic, he loves travelling, reading as well as practising sports especially skiing, trekking and horse-riding.