Italica Itálica, a ceremonial city, is officially Spain’s new candidate chosen at the 97th session of the World Heritage Council for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The candidacy in question, chosen by consensus by the autonomous communities, will be presented to the international organization in February 2026. It will not be until 2027 that the UNESCO evaluation committee meets to deliberate.
Italica nominates to the UNESCO World Heritage List
According to the note of the Ministry of Culture, “Italica is the first Roman city founded in Hispania located in the Lower Guadalquivir, halfway between Seville (Hispalis) and Alcala del Rio (Ilipa). An exceptional example of a ceremonial city project, defined and conceived for this purpose, it is a city dedicated to the celebration of the deities of the Roman civilization and the imperial cult”.
Thus, Italica presents a unique legacy where deep Eastern roots and ideas, knowledge, crafts, materials and styles converge, denoting “the extreme Mediterranean cultural connectivity that characterized the Roman Empire during the second century, as well as the culmination of the secular process of Greco-Roman cultural hybridization.”