Despite the crisis, culture resists. Indeed, in spite of all skepticism, it grows. The 2013 report "I am culture - Italy of quality and beauty challenges the crisis", drawn up by the Symbola Foundation and Unioncamere with the collaboration of the Culture Department of the Marche region, reveals comforting data on the culture sector.
Culture yields 5,4% of the wealth produced to Italy (almost 75,5 billion euros) and employs 5,7% of the country's employed people, or almost 1 million 400 thousand people. The added value that culture brings to our country's economy is 80,8 billion (equal to 5,8% of the national economy). In 2011, the share was 5,7%. Compared to 2011, those employed in the cultural system grew in 2012 by 0,5% (compared to -0,3% for the total economy). The same trend also in the change in the number of businesses: in 2012 the operators in the cultural production system grew by 3,3%. A positive sign also comes from the trade balance of the culture system: in 2012 it recorded a record surplus of 22,7 billion euros (exports exceeded 39,4 billion, equivalent to 10% of total national exports, and the imports of the sector is 16,7 billion).
The capital city of culture is Arezzo. In fact, it is the province of Arezzo that takes first place in terms of added value (8,4%) and employment related to the cultural sector (9,9%). After Arezzo, in the ranking based on added value, we find: Pordenone, Pesaro and Urbino, Milan, Vicenza, Treviso, Rome, Macerata, Pisa and Verona.
If we then analyze the contribution of the various Italian regions to the total economy, the pink jersey goes to Lazio (first in the standings with 6,8%). Next, there are: Marche, Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Tuscany, Trentino Alto Adige, Abruzzo and Emilia Romagna. In the ranking on the incidence of employment in cultural industries on the total economy, Lazio is no longer the winning region and leaves its place to Veneto, followed by Marche, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Lazio, Tuscany, Piedmont and Valle d 'Aosta.
