The recognition of the value of traditional rural buildings and landscapes is reflected in international and national law in recent decades. The event attempts to explore, on the one hand, the existing legal protection of these landscapes and the individual buildings and structures they contain, both drystone and otherwise, and, on the other hand, the possibilities for applying this protection in practice.

European Cultural Heritage Days 2025:

"Architectural Heritage: Bridging the Past with the Future"

"Theoktista and Handmade: Legal Protection of the Rural Cultural Landscape of the Cyclades"

September 26, at 7:00 p.m.

Ionian Center (11 Lysou Street, 105 56 Plaka)

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SPEAKERS (in alphabetical order):

• Maria Karamanov (Vice-President of the Council of State (retired), President of the Chamber of Environment and Sustainability)

• Iakovos Mathioudakis (Associate Professor of Administrative Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School, Lawyer)

• Eleni Maistrou (Architect, Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens, President of the Architectural Heritage Council of ELLET)

• Viviana Metallinou (Architect, Environmental Historian)

• Theodoros Chios (Postdoctoral Fellow, Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Lawyer, President of the Tinian Studies Society)

Coordination: George Lialios (Journalist, Kathimerini newspaper)

A discussion will follow.

The event is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture.

Parallel Exhibition of Photographs of Cycladic Rural Landscapes and Buildings, 27/9-18/10 at the "S22" space of Nefeli Publications (22 K. Smolenski, Exarchia, Mon-Sat 10:00-17:00)

CO-ORGANIZERS (in alphabetical order):

Ambassada of Tinos, Andros Routes, Wind of Renewal of Sifnos, Network for Sustainable Cyclades, Cultural Association of Agios Ioannis Kythnos, Hellenic Society for the Environment and Culture, Andros Research Center, Movement for the Protection of the Islets, Paros Citizens' Movement, Amorgos Island, Cultural Association of Agia, Paros, Save Ios, Association of Moniates of Naxos "The Art," Association of Dryopides of Kythnos, Association of Iites, Association of Kythnians, Association of Sikines, The Mitato of Amorgos.