Reggio Emilia - Italy

Reggio Emilia is an open city that innovates, creates bonds, explores the future with solid foundations in the present and in its history, rich in freedom and civic sense, solidarity, concreteness and a tradition of excellent cuisine. Here people take care of their living environment: the separate waste collection reaches 70%, public urban gardens producing zero-km products are shared and social cohesion makes it possible to welcome 18% of the population with non-Italian origin and belonging to a hundred different nationalities.