UNESCO Creative Cities
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The Global Alliance's Creative Cities Network [1], a UNESCO program instituted in 2005, recognizes cities world-wide with reputations as centers of excellence in Design, Folk Art, Gastronomy, Literature and Music. The program is intended to help creative cities share ideas on preserving and enhancing their cultural programs. Needless to say, cities in this program can also be appealing travel destinations for the traveler interested in the cities' creative specialty (and other things as well). Current members of the Creative Cities Network are:
- Aswan, Egypt - UNESCO City of Folk Art
- Berlin, Germany - UNESCO City of Design
- Bologna, Italy - UNESCO City of Music
- Buenos Aires, Argentina - UNESCO City of Design
- Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom - UNESCO City of Literature
- Montreal, Canada - UNESCO City of Design
- Popayan, Colombia - UNESCO City of Gastronomy
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America - UNESCO City of Folk Art
- Seville, Spain - UNESCO City of Music