With the support and impetus of the Forme festival, UNESCO recognized the wisdom of the art of dairy farming in the Orobic area.
Among the 66 cities that entered the list of Creative Cities on the planet last October there is Bergamo, recognized by UNESCO as a “laboratory of ideas” capable of building “a tangible contribution to achieving sustainable development goals through innovative thoughts and actions”. Thanks to the value attributed to the dairy production of its mountain territory, which boasts 30 traditional cheeses, of which 9 DOP and 3 Slow-Food defense. To give decisive support and impulse to the recognition in Bergamo – the second by Unesco, after the one of the Walls that surround Città Alta – was also the kermesse Forme dedicated to Italian and world dairy art. After the official launch of the nomination during the last edition, the project – thanks also to the Cheese Valleys village in the last two editions and to the Italian “premiere” of the great world competition of the World Cheese Awards – gave the decisive push. “It is a further, extraordinary acknowledgment of the centrality of the orobic territory with respect to the dairy chain – declared the president of Forme, Francesco Maroni – and an incentive to create a system to develop high-profile initiatives for the international enhancement of Italian dairy excellence”. The creative cities of Unesco thus rise to 246. The other creative Italian cities are Bologna (music), Fabriano (crafts and folk art), Rome (cinema), Parma (gastronomy), Turin (design), Milan (literature), Pesaro (music), Carrara (crafts and folk art), Alba (gastronomy) and Biella (textile crafts).
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