The Ministry of Culture today organized a workshop for the presentation of the recovery and durability (TAA) Fund, “Cultural Routes in Emblematic Archaeological Sites and Monuments”, at the National Gallery-Alexandrou Soutsos Museum. The five cultural routes were designed by the Departments of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Byzantine and Post -Byzantine Antiquities of the Directorate -General for Antiquities and Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture, with thematic narratives covering all the periods of Greek history. According to the relevant announcement of the Ministry of Culture, these are the routes:

1. “Monumental works of cyclops and people during the Mycenaean era (2nd millennium BC)”

2. “The road to the West. From Homer to Cervantes »

3. “In the steps of the Apostle Paul”

4. “Cultural Egnatia Road”

5. “Castle Network: From Byzantium to Ottoman rule”

These cultural routes, based on the Model of the Council of Europe, constitute a privileged and dynamic field of cultural management, promoting interdisciplinary research and synergy of central and regional institutions and bodies, while at the same time constituting a driving force for sustainable development, cultural, economic, economic, economic, economic and cultural development.

As Culture Minister Lina Mendoni noted in her address, “Cultural routes are a particularly effective tool for cultural diplomacy, management and development. They open, literally and metaphorically, new ways of communication, dialogue, exchanges, development of synergies and leverage economics and human resources for the benefit of local communities at many levels.

They interconnect monuments and cultural sites, with natural sights and tourist spots, around common themes in an organized way, creating uniform experiences for visitors. Combining popular with lesser -known destinations, they enhance the overall traffic, offering a scale economy and multiplier, at the level of promotion and recognition of the cultural heritage of wider areas. The model of cultural routes introduces a new approach to the management of cultural capital, focusing on synergy instead of competition. It seeks to increase the overall traffic of an area, through a cohesive plan for improved cultural infrastructure management, by upgrading the services, with a reorganization of tourist traffic towards the decentralization, decentralization and targeted redistribution of visitors, between metropolitan and regional destinations. It is therefore promoting a more uniform, balanced and sustainable productive, local and regional, development. “

Lina Mendoni pointed out that “the cultural routes, as a model of multifaceted and sustainable development that supports synergies and extroversion, are fully in line with the strategic goals of the Ministry of Culture and the public policies we are implementing. They are, by nature, a privileged and dynamic field that promotes interdisciplinary research and cross -sectional synergies between central and regional services and bodies, public and private. With this reasoning we proceeded with the design and implementation of a broader network of associated projects, centrally focused on the cultural routes -on this axis, in addition to the funding of the addresses to execute the projects and actions they would present, in our overall planning, Million euros, and are funded by the Recovery and Resilience Fund- with our conviction that they will contribute to the country’s recovery, recovery and dynamic re-launch of the country’s cultural sector after the health crisis. “

The Minister of Culture made a special mention of the new way of working and cooperating between the services imposed by the management of projects funded by the recovery fund: “The Addresses”, said Lina Mendoni, “coordinated a project that concerns almost all of the ministry’s regional services. It is not always easy to coordinate so much people. It is not always easy, when there are so many people, who often have a different understanding of the logic of the timetable and rational speed, to reach your goal as you have prescribed it. And I think, if something is left by the TAAs, beyond the projects, it is a different way of working, which is even more tighter even more coherent than the way other European programs such as the NSRF are managed. Fortunately, the TAA does not get extensions because we must all be consistent. When we say that we can do something and we decide to take the risk, we must reach the end as we have prescribed it. This is success, that is ultimately excellence. “

The five cultural routes serve specific logic, combining archaeological sites that arouse the interest of local communities and visitors in emerging areas. With today’s investments made in culture and with the cultural routes of promoting less well -known and visiting archaeological sites, more traffic is achieved, creating external economies that maintain entire areas. According to the announcement of the Ministry of Culture, the common aim of planning the routes is to link the cultural and environmental wealth of the areas with their intangible traditions. In the framework of the workshop, all the stages of design and implementation of the five cultural routes, the rationale of each narrative, the work carried out on the selected “stations” of each route, the production of material – the implementation and digital – information and awareness of the society and the basis of their cultural strategy.

The Head of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and Deputy Head of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens Elena Kountouri presented the cultural routes: “Monumental works of Cyclops and Humans during the Mycenaean era (2nd millennium),” “The Road to BC)”. From Homer to Cervantes “,” In the footsteps of the Apostle Paul “. The Deputy Head of the Byzantine and Post -Byzantine Antiquities Directorate, Julia Papageorgiou, presented the cultural routes: “Cultural Egnatia Road” and “Castle Network: From Byzantium to the Ottoman rule”. The meeting was welcomed by the Secretary General of Culture George Dataskalou, the Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage Olympia Vikatou.