Press release about the winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2023, which features quotes from Europa Nostra’s President Cecilia Bartoli and the European Commission’s Vice-President Margaritis Schinas.
This year, 30 outstanding heritage achievements from 21 countries have been awarded Europe’s top honour in the field.
This year’s impressive collection of award winners includes:
o the true renaissance of the Royal Gardens of Venice (Italy), a most treasured green space in the heart of this unique heritage city;
o the fascinating research project Safeguarding of the Artisanal Fishing Technique “Arte-Xávega” (Portugal), which helps secure the future of one the last examples of artisanal and sustainable fishing in Europe;
o ACTA VISTA (France), an innovative heritage skills training programme which helps individuals marginalised from employment return to work;
o the annual festival Budapest 100 (Hungary), which celebrates the built heritage of this World Heritage City; and
o the transfrontier network of volunteers of SUCHO: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (Ukraine/International Project), which web archived over 50TB of data from Ukrainian cultural institutions in the first months of the war in Ukraine.
The press release will be published in 20 languages tomorrow as of 12:00 CET on the Europa Nostra website:
High resolution photos and digital banners of all the winners will be made available on our Flickr channel (here) and videos will be released on our Vimeo channel (here) as of 12:00 CET.
PRESS RELEASES IN 21 LANGUAGES