The 8th-century Byzantine church of Agia Kyriaki on Naxos island is one of the winners of the 2018 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards, the European Commission announced on Tuesday, according to the following report by ANA.
Also awarded the Europa Nostra prize was a cooperative project to restore the mosaics of the Transfiguration in an arch of the St. Catherine of Sinai’s basilica, and the reconstruction at Zographio, the Greek school in Istanbul.
The prizes will be presented at a ceremony in Berlin on June 22, during the first-ever European Cultural Heritage Summit, and shall include EU high-level officials and leading heritage organisations.
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