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European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage to a Professor of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
27/9/2017
In the evening of the 15th of May 2017, in the church of Saint Michael in the historical city of Turku, Finland, prof. em. of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Eva Simantoni - Bournia, who was the president of the Committee for the Preservation and Enhancement of the ancient city of Karthaia on the island of Kea, received during a magnificent ceremony, the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2017, for the project of the restoration and presentation of the archaeological site of Karthaia in Kea.
On Friday the 15th and Saturday the 16th of September 2017, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades in collaboration with the Municipality of Kea, under the auspices of the Prefecture of South Aegean, organized festivities for the official opening of the archaeological site of ancient Karthaia and a local ceremony for the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2017.
Short presentation film for Karthaia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NS19lNmIYM
The ceremony in Turku: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRYhjGLv0QY
(for Karthaia see 0:59:53 until 1:00:30, 1:02:45 until 1:03:02, 1:03:46 until 1:04:00 and 1:32:00 until 1:34:07)
Photographs from the ceremony in Turku:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/europanostra/sets/72157680279601553/with/34404455986
Local ceremony in Karthaia: http://destinationkea.com/mia-giorti-gia-tin-karthea-apologismos/
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