Belas Artes Multicultural Center and Art Gallery principles are based on Unesco's intercultural understanding that states:

"Culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional feature of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs.

Culture is at the heart of contemporary debates about identity, social cohesion, and the development of knowledge based economy."

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