“Many will come to Pesaro to meet you, to learn about your historical-artistic heritage. It is a consequence of this circularity of culture, which does not tolerate restrictions or limits, which demands respect for the possibilities of every citizen and which rejects this demand from public authorities or large corporations to direct sensitivity to the monopoly of a single thought. If culture is knowledge, creativity, emotion, passion, feeling, then it is the prerequisite of our freedoms, including the freedom of being together.” Said Sergio Mattarella at the inauguration of Pesaro, the Italian Capital of Culture 2024.
“We are living through a difficult, in many ways dramatic time, in which man seems stubbornly determined to destroy what he has built and to denigrate his own dignity. The wars that are being waged on the borders of Europe worry us,” he told Mattarella. “Not only because the wind of death, destruction and hate travels faster than weapons and affects our lives, our economy and our conscience.” But “because Europe has written the word peace into its identity.” This calls for “those in power to be held accountable.”
“It is the culture expressed in all these places, with its different sensibilities and its irreducibility to supposed stereotypes, that forms the basis of all this. Culture, free from any ideology, never separated from daily life and from the totality of rights and duties established in the Constitution. Rights and responsibilities that make us feel part of the national community that we bring to life with our diversity,” said Mattarella.
The President continued: “This culture, precisely because of the nature of the historical processes that have marked the progressive development of Italy, consists of relationships with neighboring countries, with other peoples and with specific aspirations of the European dimension. The culture.” of the hundred farms, the autonomous communities, the many patrons who have given life to the incomparable cultural heritage that Italy offers to the world today. A civilization founded on humanism, which speaks to the world, which has managed to lay dignity at its foundations and freedom of the person, equality of rights, solidarity-based participation in the common good”.
From cultural heritage, “from the civilization that emerged from it, comes a call for responsibility,” Mattarella said. “Responsibility,” he added, “to exploit the value of cultural freedom today and in the future, combined with the awareness that it is an indivisible heritage for all humanity.”
Ovation for Mattarella in Pesaro
Around 8,000 people, including 2,000 students from 40 schools, greeted the Head of State with ovations before the ceremony that opened the over a thousand events that will take place throughout the year in the 50 municipalities of the province, each protagonist with the project “50×50 Capital letters in a square”.
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