was designated World Book Capital, in collaboration with Rome, from 22 April 2006 to 22 April 2007. The municipality of Rome contributed to the programme all year long. The additional WBC theme was: Turin, World Book Capital with Rome: cities to leaf through. The city focused its programme on the meaning of the different punctuation signs and was run by Fondazione per il libro, la musica e la cultura of Turin. Activities began in April 2006 with a poetic, literary, and musical evening, the “Bookstock”. Throughout that day various personalities and artists including writers, poets, musicians, and people from the film industry performed in the city centre with approximately 4,000 spectators attending the event. Many events occurred during the year and the majority of them were under TWBC 2006’s theme, the language of signs, which include: “Il Punto Interrogativo” (The Question Mark), “La Virgola” (The Comma), “I Due Punti” (The Two Points), “Il Punto exclamativo” (The Exclamation Mark), “I Pontini de Sospensione” (The Suspension Points), “Il Parentesi” (The Brackets), “Il Punto” (The final Point), “Le Virgolette” (The Quotation Marks), “ll Punto e Virgola” (The semicolon), “Il @” (The @). The programme was made up of more than 800 network projects, organised not only in Turin but throughout the region of Piedmont as well. Among these events were book readings, literary festivals and awards, school writing sessions, theatres, opera, etc. Rome implemented cultural exchanges in the libraries of Baghdad, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, Guatemala and Rwanda. The “Casa delle Letterature” (House of Literature), in collaboration with the Italian publisher “Gorée di Siena”, has promoted the translation of a book produced by the children of Koh Phi Phi in Thailand, struck by a tsunami. This book was distributed throughout Italy for the reconstruction of the destroyed school. Bogota 2007 Theme: We’ll get Bogota Reading During the Bogota World Book Capital, the top priorities were the development of a culture of reading for social inclusion, the promoting reading among children, young people and adults of the city, especially among those who had limited access. The chosen slogan was: "We'll get Bogota reading." The city of Bogotá hosts an International Book Fair, held in April every year since 1988. The fair is considered to be the largest in the reading culture and publishing industry in Latin America. Various other initiatives were implemented on several fronts: the creation of the Consejo Distrital de Fomento de la