“Every hundred years a creature called that is born Melina.But if you think about it, our own Melina was the perfect example of a woman who could grow and blossom in every season, responding to the mirror of her time. She was beautiful and fearless. She was classy, ​​grandiose and inconsistent. She was brave in what she believed most and submissive in what she loved most. She was in love all her life with life and lived in one life a hundred lives and each one separately,” said Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni. ‭ ‬

Today,wherethirty years have passed since her death,the Ministry of CultureandMelina Merkouri Foundation they commemorate and honor the “wonderful Greek woman, the politician who put Culture at the center of her politics, the Minister of Culture who demanded, peremptorily and globally, the return of the Parthenon Sculptures”. “Since then, this has been the national demand of Greece. The Sculptures must sparkle in the Greek light” concludes the announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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