The Arts Support Fund has created a pilot scheme to select one Slovak city and give it the title of City of Culture in 2019. In the course of 2019, a set of artistic and cultural activities, events and presentations will be held in the city to promote the development of city culture 
and mediation live experience for residents and visitors with different types and forms of contemporary art and traditional culture.

http://www.fpu.sk/sk/oznamy/423-pozname-finalistov-o-udelenie-titulu-mesto-kultury-2019