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A mobile recommendation system (MRS) that classifies in situ visitors according to different visiting profiles could act as a mediator between their visiting preferences and cultural content. Drawing on the above, in this paper, we propose ACUX Recommender (ACUX-R), an MRS, for recommending personalized cultural POIs to visitors based on their visiting preferences. ACUX-R experimentally employs the ACUX typology for assigning profiles to cultural visitors. ACUX-R was evaluated through a user study and a questionnaire. 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