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In recent years policies fostered the leading role of culture in urban regeneration in Italy, financing and supporting not only consolidated cultural and art institutions, but also providing new economic opportunities to emerging community-based groups and associations. Research on culture-led urban interventions has however mostly adopted a micro-level of analysis, missing the possibility to grasp general trends also usable in a policy dimension. The paper aims to advance the state-of-the-art of the national debate on long-lasting culture-led regeneration processes, by offering a landscape view of the phenomenon in Italy. The research is based on the analysis of two databases of project applications for national-level funding programs on culture-led urban regeneration, containing respectively 141 and 54 processes. The paper identifies the most salient trends and common characters of these initiatives: i) the …