The International Bureau of Cultural Capitals

www.ibocc.org

The International Bureau of Cultural Capitals

- The American Capital of Culture - The Brazilian Capital of Culture - US Capital of Culture - The Capital of the Catalan Culture - The Spanish Capital of Culture

- National and international campaigns of cultural promotion

The Bureau’s goals:

1. To promote and evolve the cultural capitals created by the Bureau.2. To co-ordinate activities with the other cultural capitals existing in the world.3. To promote the creation of cultural capitals in the areas of the world where they don’t exist yet.4. To collaborate with cultural institutions and entities in order to achieve common goals.5. To provide consulting to public and private institutions on evolvement of cultural projects.6. To evolve cultural initiatives directly all over the world.

The American Capital of Culturewww.cac-acc.org

2010: Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)2009: Asuncion (Paraguay)2008: Brasilia (Brazil)2007: Cusco (Peru)2006: Cordoba (Argentina)2005: Guadalajara (Mexico)2004: Santiago (Chile)2003: Panama City and Curitiba (Panama and Brazil)2002: Maceio (Brazil)2001: Iquique (Chile)2000: Merida (Mexico)

Official Channels of TV

International support

Organization of American States

Latin American Parliament

European Parliament

The Brazilian Capital of Culturewww.capitalbrasileiradacultura.org

2010: Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo)2009: São Luís (Maranhão)2008: Caxias do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul)2007: São João Del Rei (Minas Gerais)2006: Olinda (Pernanbuco)

Institutional support

Brazilian Federal Department of Culture

Brazilian Federal Department of Tourism

The Capital of the Catalan Culture

The Capital of the Catalan Culturewww.ccc.cat

2011: Escaldes Engordany (Principality of Andorra)2010: Badalona (Spain)2009: Figueres (Spain)2008: Perpinyà (France)2007: Lleida (Spain)2006: Amposta (Spain)2005: Esparreguera (Spain)2004: Banyoles (Spain)

Institutional support

Parliament of Catalonia

The project will be initiated in 2010

www.culturalcapital.us

The Spanish Capital of Culture

The project will be initiated in 2012www.ccesp.org

 National and international campaigns

of cultural promotion (2008-2009)

 

100 people who have had most influence on Latin-American culture

1. Pablo Neruda2. Gabriel García Márquez3. Vinicius de Moraes4. Octavio Paz 5. Andrés Bello6. Jorge Luis Borges 7. Rubén Darío8. Rómulo Gallegos 9. Gabriela Mistral 10. Simón Bolívar....

 

50 people who have had most influence on European culturewww.euroculture50.eu

1. Leonardo da Vinci2. Shakespeare3. W.A. Mozart4. Albert Einstein5. Socrates6. Johann Goethe7. Galileo Galilei8. Charlemagne9. Erasmus of Rotterdam10. Fyodor Dostoievski...

Seven Treasures of the Material Cultural Heritage in the World

Asunción (Paraguay)

1. Lopez Palace2. Pantheon of the Heroes3. Cabildo Museum4. Cathedral5. Hotel Guaraní 6. Municipal Theatre 7. Church of the Holiest Trinidad

Barcelona (Spain)

1. Sagrada Familia 2. Santa Maria del Mar Church 3. Palace of the Catalan Music 4. Milà House or the Pedrera House5. The Great Lyceum Theatre 6. Batlló House 7. Agbar Tower 

Brasilia (Brazil)

1. Brasilia Cathedral 2. National Congress3. Alvorada Palace 4. Planalto Palace 5. Good Will Temple 6. Dom Bosco Sanctuary 7. JK Bridge (Juscelino Kubischek)

Madrid (Spain)

1. San Lorenzo Monastery at El Escorial2. Royal Palace in Madrid3. University and historical in Alcalá de Henares4. Mayor Square in Chinchón 5. Prado Museum 6. Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez 7. Mayor Square in Madrid

Nizhny Novgorod (Russia)

1. Cultural landscape of the Volga slope2. Blagoveschensky (Annunciation) monastery complex3. Nativity of Our Lord and Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos church (Rozhdestvenskaya Soboro-Bogoroditskaya, called Stroganov’s)

4. Nizhny Novgorod Citadel ("Kremlin“) The walls and towers.

5. “Garantiya” and “Titanic” buildings6. Fair Palace7. Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

1. Old town part of Sarajevo (Baščaršija)2. Beg’s mosque complex 3. Hadji Sinan’s house4. Emperor’s mosque complex5. National Library6. Ali-Pasha’s mosque7. Old Orthodox Church

200810 Treasures of the Inmaterial cultural heritage of Catalonia and Andorra

200910 Treasures of the Inmaterial cultural heritage of Spain