The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) selected Gabrovo as a Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art. In 2017, 64 new cities from 44 countries were selected to join Network by the General Director of the organization – Ms. Irina Bokova.

 The decision was formally announced during the General Conference of the 39th Session of UNESCO, which takes place from 30 October to 14 November in Paris. A day before, the news was announced by the chairman of the parliamentary commission on culture and media Vezhdi Rashidov after his meeting with Irina Bokova.

The information is published on the UNESCO website https://en.unesco.org/news/64-cities-join-unesco-creative-cities-network.

The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) was created in 2004 to promote cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. The 180 cities, which currently make up this network work together towards a common objective: placing creativity and cultural industries at the heart of their development plans at the local level and cooperating actively at the international level.