1. The International Bureau of Cultural Capitals www.ibocc.org

2. The International Bureau of Cultural Capitals - The American Capital of Culture - The Brazilian Capital of Culture - US Capital of Culture - The Capital of the Catalan Culture - The Spanish Capital of Culture - National and international campaigns of cultural promotion

3. The Bureau’s goals: 1. To promote and evolve the cultural capitals created by the Bureau. 2. To co-ordinate activities with the other cultural capitals existing in the world. 3. To promote the creation of cultural capitals in the areas of the world where they don’t exist yet. 4. To collaborate with cultural institutions and entities in order to achieve common goals. 5. To provide consulting to public and private institutions on evolvement of cultural projects. 6. To evolve cultural initiatives directly all over the world.

5. The American Capital of Culture www.cac-acc.org 2010: Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) 2009: Asuncion (Paraguay) 2008: Brasilia (Brazil) 2007: Cusco (Peru) 2006: Cordoba (Argentina) 2005: Guadalajara (Mexico) 2004: Santiago (Chile) 2003: Panama City and Curitiba (Panama and Brazil) 2002: Maceio (Brazil) 2001: Iquique (Chile) 2000: Merida (Mexico)

6. Official Channels of TV

7. International support Organization of American States Latin American Parliament European Parliament

9. The Brazilian Capital of Culture www.capitalbrasileiradacultura.org 2010: Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) 2009: São Luís (Maranhão) 2008: Caxias do Sul (Rio Grande do Sul) 2007: São João Del Rei (Minas Gerais) 2006: Olinda (Pernanbuco)

10. Institutional support Brazilian Federal Department of Culture Brazilian Federal Department of Tourism

11. The Capital of the Catalan Culture

12. www.ccc.cat 2011: Escaldes Engordany (Principality of Andorra) 2010: Badalona (Spain) 2009: Figueres (Spain) 2008: Perpinyà (France) 2007: Lleida (Spain) 2006: Amposta (Spain) 2005: Esparreguera (Spain) 2004: Banyoles (Spain)

13. Institutional support Parliament of Catalonia

14. The project will be initiated in 2010 www.culturalcapital.us

15. The Spanish Capital of Culture The project will be initiated in 2012 www.ccesp.org

16. National and international campaigns of cultural promotion (2008-2009)

17. 100 people who have had most influence on Latin-American culture 1. Pablo Neruda 2. Gabriel García Márquez 3. Vinicius de Moraes 4. Octavio Paz 5. Andrés Bello 6. Jorge Luis Borges 7. Rubén Darío 8. Rómulo Gallegos 9. Gabriela Mistral 10. Simón Bolívar....

18. 50 people who have had most influence on European culture www.euroculture50.eu 1. Leonardo da Vinci 2. Shakespeare 3. W.A. Mozart 4. Albert Einstein 5. Socrates 6. Johann Goethe 7. Galileo Galilei 8. Charlemagne 9. Erasmus of Rotterdam 10. Fyodor Dostoievski...

19. Seven Treasures of the Material Cultural Heritage in the World Asunción (Paraguay) 1. Lopez Palace 2. Pantheon of the Heroes 3. Cabildo Museum 4. Cathedral 5. Hotel Guaraní 6. Municipal Theatre 7. Church of the Holiest Trinidad

20. Barcelona (Spain) 1. Sagrada Familia 2. Santa Maria del Mar Church 3. Palace of the Catalan Music 4. Milà House or the Pedrera House 5. The Great Lyceum Theatre 6. Batlló House 7. Agbar Tower

21. Brasilia (Brazil) 1. Brasilia Cathedral 2. National Congress 3. Alvorada Palace 4. Planalto Palace 5. Good Will Temple 6. Dom Bosco Sanctuary 7. JK Bridge (Juscelino Kubischek)

22. Madrid (Spain) 1. San Lorenzo Monastery at El Escorial 2. Royal Palace in Madrid 3. University and historical in Alcalá de Henares 4. Mayor Square in Chinchón 5. Prado Museum 6. Cultural Landscape of Aranjuez 7. Mayor Square in Madrid

23. Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) 1. Cultural landscape of the Volga slope 2. Blagoveschensky (Annunciation) monastery complex 3. Nativity of Our Lord and Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos church (Rozhdestvenskaya Soboro- Bogoroditskaya, called Stroganov’s) 4. Nizhny Novgorod Citadel ("Kremlin“) The walls and towers. 5. “Garantiya” and “Titanic” buildings 6. Fair Palace 7. Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

24. Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 1. Old town part of Sarajevo (Baščaršija) 2. Beg’s mosque complex 3. Hadji Sinan’s house 4. Emperor’s mosque complex 5. National Library 6. Ali-Pasha’s mosque 7. Old Orthodox Church

25. 2008 10 Treasures of the Inmaterial cultural heritage of Catalonia and Andorra 2009 10 Treasures of the Inmaterial cultural heritage of Spain