The 875-year-old city of Chemnitz in Germany will become one of the two cultural capitals of Europe in 2025. Its motto will be "

Traditionally, every year two cities bear the title of the European Capital of Culture, Europulse specifies. A couple of Chemnitz will be one of four Slovenian cities: Ljubljana, Nova Gorica, Piran or Ptuj (countries where the cultural capitals of the next year should be located are determined in advance). Slovenian winning city to be announced before the end of this year.

The title of European Capital of Culture has been awarded to European cities since 1985. An independent jury selects the winners among the cities that have presented a cultural program for the whole year. Cultural capitals receive EU support, new tourists and the opportunity to attract new investors.

European Capitals of Culture 2020 - Croatian Rijeka and Irish Galway. Due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions that followed, they will retain this title until the end of April 2021.. The term of office of the cultural capitals of 2021 - Novi Sad (Serbia), Timisoara (Romania) and Elefsis (Greece) - will also be changed so that each city can host planned events and attract tourists and investments.