Athens proposal to UNESCO to include two religious celebrations in NW Greece as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

 

Greece’s culture ministry this week submitted a case file to UNESCO requesting that the annual religious celebrations on the Aug. 15 Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Mother of God, in the villages of Vlasti and Syrrako, both in mountainous northwest Greece, be included in the world’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Πηγή: www.orthodoxianewsagency.gr