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December 20, 2019 "2019 was an important year for the city. It represented the final stage of a path of rebirth started in the 1950s and which led to the law for the recovery of the Sassi in 1986, to the recognition of the city as a UNESCO heritage in 1993 and, finally, to the title of European Capital of Culture, but it was also the beginning of a new phase of his life, that of maturity, recovered social self-esteem and awareness of the role that, through his fixed capital of history, has managed to achieve. "The mayor of Matera said it, Raffaello de Ruggieri, during the closing ceremony of the year as the European capital of culture.
"In 2019 there was a bond between a past, guiltily forgotten for so many years, and a future that appeared asphyxiated. In a unique and universal place, remained alive for more than eight thousand years, the need to always create new history is an element Matera has lived the present as a foretaste of the future and, in the year in which it could have abandoned itself to the celebrations - he continued - it has set its future by working to create principals for cultural production, because production is the characteristic that it distinguishes the cities that live by culture from those that simply consume it without creating it. Some are already active like the Higher Education School for the conservation of cultural heritage, others, like the headquarters of the Experimental Cinematography Center, we hope will be soon. Culture is, in other words, social energy. Matera - concluded the mayor - forgot the shame and proposed to the world as an example. "