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ARMENIA TO HOST DAYS OF EUROPEAN HERITAGE
Mediamax, Armenia
Sept 30 2011
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenia will host the sixth Days of European
Heritage on October 1-6.
Deputy Minister of Culture of Armenia Arev Samuelyan said today that
the Days will be held under "Written Heritage" slogan this year,
Mediamax reports.
The choice of the theme was conditioned by 2 events due in 2012:
500th anniversary of Armenian printing and declaring Yerevan "World
Book Capital" by UNESCO.
"The monuments and locations where the Armenian scripts have been
formed over centuries will participate in the events. We tried to
present the whole Armenian script-starting from cuneiform up to SMS",
said the Deputy Minister.
Head of the EU delegation in Armenia, Ambassador Raul de Luzenberger,
said that Days of European Heritage will include about 30 thousand
cultural centers in 50 participant-countries and the number of visitors
on these Days reaches up to 20mln people.
Mediamax, Armenia
Sept 30 2011
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Armenia will host the sixth Days of European
Heritage on October 1-6.
Deputy Minister of Culture of Armenia Arev Samuelyan said today that
the Days will be held under "Written Heritage" slogan this year,
Mediamax reports.
The choice of the theme was conditioned by 2 events due in 2012:
500th anniversary of Armenian printing and declaring Yerevan "World
Book Capital" by UNESCO.
"The monuments and locations where the Armenian scripts have been
formed over centuries will participate in the events. We tried to
present the whole Armenian script-starting from cuneiform up to SMS",
said the Deputy Minister.
Head of the EU delegation in Armenia, Ambassador Raul de Luzenberger,
said that Days of European Heritage will include about 30 thousand
cultural centers in 50 participant-countries and the number of visitors
on these Days reaches up to 20mln people.