AGRIGENTO (ITALPRESS) – “Only by returning to reflect on one’s own identity, on the paths through which it was formed, on the processes that have shaped it and on the stratifications that have enriched its lifeblood is it possible to achieve the self-awareness necessary to be reflected in other cultures.” Thus the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, in one of the passages of the speech delivered this morning in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, on the occasion of the opening ceremony of Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025. “Agrigento – noted the Minister – has the opportunity to become the cornerstone of the rebirth of a territory rich in complexity, produced by the countless civilizations that in millennia of history have flourished, withered and flourished again. Each of them has brought its own original contribution, making Girgenti the model of a Sicily proudly special and at the same time deployed in the front line, with its extraordinary institutional personalities, in the fight against the rarefaction of the sense of the State that afflicts our present and past times.” “Agrigento,” the minister further said, “can finally interpret the sense of a shared continental memory and make it the ferment of a newfound individual well-being and collective growth, thus contributing to the harmonious development of the territory and the civic consciousness of those who will inhabit it after us.”- photo xq5 Italpress -(ITALPRESS).
