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Cypriot youth, up to the age of 21, for the eighth consecutive
year, have captured through their youthful glimpse their
country’s cultural heritage. Through the 14th International
Heritage Photographic Experience the young people, mainly
school children, had the opportunity to explore the cultural
heritage as well as the cultural landscape of Cyprus and to
present and promote it to the millions of people all over Europe,
whose countries also participate in the Experience.
In the Contest, organized in Cyprus in the framework of the
European Heritage Days 2009, by the Department of Town
Planning and Housing with the co-operation of the Cyprus
Youth Board, the Federation of Environmental and Ecological
Associations and under the guidance of the Cyprus Photographic
Association, a large number of young persons, frm all over the
island, participated. The theme of the contest is the architectural
heritage as we inherited it fom the past and that consists part
of today’s built environment as well as the cultural landscape,
resulting fom the harmonious coexistence of man and nature
over the centuries. The pictures were submitted in relevant
two theme categories. A jury composed of members of the
Cyprus Photographic Association and representatives of the
National Committee for the European Heritage Days, selected
six winning entries, with criteria that included the subject, the
technical quality, and the artistic expression. In these pictures
the richness of the anonymous architectural expression and the
harmony of the built and natural environment are presented.
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