Note from the Councillor for Tourism and Territorial Marketing, Vincenzo Costantino
The celebrations in honor of San Vitaliano, an unprecedented success. Catanzaro has managed to rediscover itself, its ancient tradition that seemed to have faded until a few years ago, the desire to act and feel like a community with joy and lightness. The Municipal Administration did everything possible to make this happen, setting up a varied program that brought together different preferences and tastes. The reports and images of these days, what everyone was able to see live, show us that we hit the mark.
Our patronal festival edition 2025 is for us a further encouragement to continue on the path we have taken and which has a precise goal: to restore to the outside world the image of a city anything but closed in on itself; a dynamic city, capable of building a broad-spectrum offer, where authentically popular events coexist with those of a more refined nature, each with its own relevance and space but all within a coherent framework of territorial promotion which, as such, offers itself and its image to the outside world.
Of course, today we are reaping the immediate rewards of a well-thought-out and equally well-organized patronal festival, but we know that the goals remain medium and long term. Other steps will follow and will be stages in a journey to which we will gradually add new pieces, knowing that soon we will also be able to count on services suited to the goal, from the tourist portal to investments in promotion. We know that “The city where everything meets” is not just a slogan but the concrete construction of a city identity that is perceptible externally and at the same time attractive.
Today, therefore, we are satisfied and we are above all because of the participation of the people, the citizens of Catanzaro who have reclaimed “their” festival, the many people from the hinterland who came to the city, make us feel that climate of trust around us that pushes us to commit even more for a Catanzaro that has a great desire for the future.