The Saxon Cultural Areas Act as a model for Italian legislation?

This paper analyses the Saxon Cultural Areas Act (Sächsisches Kulturraumgesetz) as a “model” potentially to be imported within the Italian legal framework for cultural policies. The Saxonian Cultural Areas Act is very interesting for the perspectives of an Italian implementation of District authorities as a mandatory agreement of local authorities for cultural policies. The most relevant topics in the Saxonian Cultural Areas Act are: 1) The mandatory formation of cultural (local and urban) areas as district authorities born by agreement involving municipalities and districts; 2) The organisation, the bodies and governance of cultural areas; 3) The financing and “equalization” of cultural areas.