Upper Austria's Bad Ischl Becomes European Capital of Culture 2024

More+More+ ♦ Published: November 12, 2019; 09:41 ♦ (Vindobona)

Together with two other capitals of culture, Tartu in Estonia and Bodo in Norway, Bad Ischl (together with 20 other municipalities of the Salzkammergut) was elected European Capital of Culture 2024.

Bad Ischl, together with Estonia's second largest city Tartu and the Norwegian city Bodo will form the 2024 Capital of Culture. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / MrsMyer at German Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en)]

Within Austria, the competing projects from Vorarlberg "Dornbirn plus" (towns of Feldkirch and Hohenems, and the Bregenzerwald) and the Lower Austrian provincial capital of St. Pölten were shortlisted.

Bad Ischl, together with Estonia's second largest city Tartu and the Norwegian city Bodo, will therefore form the 2024 Capital of Culture.

The Salzkammergut region,…