UNESCO Creative Cities

The Global Alliance's Creative Cities Network, a UNESCO program instituted in 2005, recognizes cities world-wide with reputations as centers of excellence in literature, film, music, crafts and folk art, design, media arts and gastronomy. 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 traveller interested in the cities' creative speciality (and other things as well). Current members of the Creative Cities Network are:

Africa
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
AswanEgyptCrafts and Folk Art2005
DakarSenegalMedia Arts2014
KinshasaDemocratic Republic of the CongoMusic2015
LubumbashiDemocratic Republic of the CongoCrafts and Folk Art2015

Asia
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
Al-AhsaSaudi ArabiaCrafts and Folk Art2015
BaghdadIraqLiterature2015
BamiyanAfghanistanCrafts and Folk Art2015
BandungIndonesiaDesign2015
BeijingChinaDesign2012
BusanRepublic of KoreaFilm2014
ChengduChinaGastronomy2010
GaziantepTurkeyGastronomy2015
GwangjuRepublic of KoreaMedia Arts2014
HamamatsuJapanMusic2014
HangzhouChinaCrafts and Folk Art2012
HarbinChinaMusic2010
IcheonRepublic of KoreaCrafts and Folk Art2010
IsfahanIranCrafts and Folk Art2015
JaipurIndiaCrafts and Folk Art2015
JeonjuRepublic of KoreaGastronomy2012
JingdezhenChinaCrafts & Folk Arts2014
KanazawaJapanCrafts and Folk Art2009
KobeJapanDesign2008
NagoyaJapanDesign2008
PekalonganIndonesiaCrafts & Folk Arts2014
PhuketThailandGastronomy2015
RashtIranGastronomy2015
SapporoJapanMedia Arts2013
SasayamaJapanCrafts and Folk Art2015
SeoulRepublic of KoreaDesign2010
ShanghaiChinaDesign2010
ShenzhenChinaDesign2008
ShundeChinaGastronomy2014
SingaporeSingaporeDesign2015
SuzhouChinaCrafts & Folk Arts2014
Tel AvivIsraelMedia Arts2014
TongyeongRepublic of KoreaMusic2015
TsuruokaJapanGastronomy2014
VaranasiIndiaMusic2015
ZahléLebanonGastronomy2015

Europe
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
BarcelonaSpainLiterature2015
BergenNorwayGastronomy2015
BerlinGermanyDesign2005
BilbaoSpainDesign2014
BitolaNorth MacedoniaFilm2015
BolognaItalyMusic2006
BradfordUnited KingdomFilm2009
BudapestHungaryDesign2015
BurgosSpainGastronomy2015
DublinIrelandLiterature2010
DundeeUnited KingdomDesign2014
EdinburghUnited KingdomLiterature2004
Enghien-les-BainsFranceMedia Arts2013
FabrianoItalyCrafts and Folk Art2013
GalwayIrelandFilm2014
GhentBelgiumMusic2009
GlasgowUnited KingdomMusic2008
GranadaSpainLiterature2014
GrazAustriaDesign2011
HanoverGermanyMusic2014
HeidelbergGermanyLiterature2014
HelsinkiFinlandDesign2014
Idanha-a-NovaPortugalMusic2015
KatowicePolandMusic2015
KaunasLithuaniaDesign2015
KrakówPolandLiterature2013
LinzAustriaMedia Arts2014
LiverpoolUnited KingdomMusic2015
LjubljanaSloveniaLiterature2015
LvivUkraineLiterature2015
LyonFranceMedia Arts2008
MannheimGermanyMusic2014
NorwichUnited KingdomLiterature2012
NottinghamUnited KingdomLiterature2015
ÓbidosPortugalLiterature2015
ÖstersundSwedenGastronomy2010
ParmaItalyGastronomy2015
PragueCzech RepublicLiterature2014
ReykjavíkIcelandLiterature2011
RomeItalyFilm2015
Saint-EtienneFranceDesign2010
SevilleSpainMusic2006
SofiaBulgariaFilm2014
TartuEstoniaLiterature2015
TurinItalyDesign2014
UlyanovskRussiaLiterature2015
YorkUnited KingdomMedia Arts2014

North America
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
Austin, TexasUnited StatesMedia Arts2015
Detroit, MichiganUnited StatesDesign2015
Ensenada, Baja CaliforniaMexicoGastronomy2015
Iowa City, IowaUnited StatesLiterature2008
Montreal, QuebecCanadaDesign2006
Paducah, KentuckyUnited StatesCrafts and Folk Art2013
Puebla, PueblaMexicoDesign2015
San Cristóbal de las Casas, ChiapasMexicoCrafts and Folk Art2015
Santa Fe, New MexicoUnited StatesDesign, Crafts and Folk Art2005
Tucson, ArizonaUnited StatesGastronomy2015

Oceania
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
AdelaideAustraliaMusic2015
DunedinNew ZealandLiterature2014
MelbourneAustraliaLiterature2008
SydneyAustraliaFilm2010

South America and the Caribbean
NameCountryCategoryYearNotes
BelémBrazilGastronomy2015
BogotáColombiaMusic2012
Buenos AiresArgentinaDesign2005
CuritibaBrazilDesign2014
DuránEcuadorCrafts and Folk Art2015
FlorianopolisBrazilGastronomy2014
JacmelHaitiCrafts and Folk Art2014
KingstonJamaicaMusic2015
MedellínColombiaMusic2015
MontevideoUruguayLiterature2015
NassauBahamasCrafts and Folk Art2014
PopayánColombiaGastronomy2015
SantosBrazilFilm2015
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