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With a collection of actions, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina participates within the nationwide motion of the Ministry of Tradition “Inexperienced Cultural Routes 2024”.
The start takes place on Thursday, Might 23 with the tutorial program “Be taught, love, defend. Pure atmosphere and monuments of the Citadel of Ioannina”, for third grade college students. The tutorial program can be carried out in collaboration with the fifth Main College of Ioannina and consists of an academic tour of the Citadel of Ioannina (wall, citadels and monuments) with particular reference to the timeless position of the lake in relation to the Citadel and its settlement, to the topic of its change pure and residential atmosphere, in addition to elevating consciousness in issues of preservation and safety of monuments. The motion concludes with tree planting in Its Kale and symbolic adoption of the brand new tree by the scholars. The intention is for the scholars to get to know the monuments of the Citadel higher, but in addition the peculiarities of the pure atmosphere of the town of Ioannina. On the similar time, the lively participation of the scholars with the act of planting timber will contribute to the event of “ties” of the younger college students with the native cultural heritage and the pure atmosphere. These liable for the motion are the archaeologist Mata Kortzi and the archaeologist-museologist Sofia Kiga.
Walks – themed excursions
On Friday, Might 24, at 10 am, there can be two simultaneous walks – thematic guided excursions for grownup teams of the general public, on the archaeological web site of Kastritsa entitled “22,000 BC. – 1913. The traces of time within the archaeological web site of the hill of Kastritsa” and within the archaeological web site of the acropolis of Megalo Gardiki with the title “There have been instances, time goes, like legendary ones”.
The hill of Kastritsa, to the south of Lake Pamvotida, is a palimpsest of makes use of from the Paleolithic period till at the moment. On its western facet is a cave, which was a base and summer time camp of Paleolithic hunters between 24,000 – 11,000 BC. Finds from the foot of the hill, close to the lake and in a cave, testify to the event of agricultural and animal husbandry actions, throughout the Early – Center Neolithic Period (5,500 – 3,200 BC). Stays of a walled settlement and box-shaped tombs testify to the habitation of the lakeside areas throughout the Late Bronze Age, whereas from the third century BC. the habitation is moved to the highest of the hill with the development of a fortified enclosure. Step by step, new buildings had been erected contained in the citadel, which for 3 centuries performed an vital position within the community of Molossian citadels. In 167 BC the legions of Aemilius Paulus intently besiege the acropolis however regardless of the sturdy resistance of its inhabitants, the town surrenders to the Roman conquerors. After the destruction, the partitions are repaired, the buildings are used once more and the fortified settlement of Kastritsa continues to outlive and develop till the Early Byzantine Interval, when the settlement appears to be deserted. Within the eleventh – twelfth century, the Holy Monastery of Agios Ioannis the Forerunner was based on a plateau throughout the historic fortifications, which continues to operate to today. In the course of the First Balkan Struggle (1912-1913), the hill of Kastritsa was included within the Turkish protection sector of the town of Ioannina and was fortified with the development of machine weapons, concrete trenches and barracks amenities. The archaeologists Vivi Youni, Kappa Chara and Ypatia Faklari can be in control of the tour (contact telephone: 26510 01074 and 26510 01060-61).
The “Kastri” hill of Megalo Gardiki controls the northern a part of the basin and the approaches to and from it and has successive fortified amenities, courting from the Hellenistic interval to the start of the twentieth century. The archaeological investigations revealed an organized settlement-city on the prime of the hill at the very least from the start of the third century. e.g. The older students, similar to Professor Sotiris Dakaris, thought of that this Molossian metropolis was Passarona, the capital of the Molossians. Town flourished throughout the third and till the center of the 2nd century. BC, when it was occupied (167 BC) by the Romans. The particular person liable for the guided tour would be the archaeologist Thalia Kyrkou (Contact quantity 2651001073).
Thematic tour of the Archaeological Museum
Lastly, on Sunday, Might 26, at 11 a.m., on the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina (Room 1 “Prehistoric Epirus – Palaeolithic Period Part”), a thematic tour entitled “Paleolithic societies and local weather modifications: the mountainous landscapes of Zagori in final ice age’ for grownup viewers teams. Zagori and the Tymfi mountain vary represent a definite Mediterranean instance of the methods by which prehistoric societies of hunter-gatherers transferring from place to put negotiated an space extraordinarily delicate and weak to the consequences of climatic fluctuations between chilly and heat intervals, lengthy or small scale. The thematic tour goals to focus on the multifaceted and high-resolution archaeological and paleoenvironmental researches, which have demonstrated particular methods and practices of exploitation, that the Paleolithic communities developed on this tough micro-landscape, with the massive top variations and the fragmented reduction. It’s an early and complicated cultural panorama of managing and adapting to unsure situations. Answerable for the motion is Dr. archaeologist of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ioannina Eleni Kotzambopoulou, dr. geologist, postdoctoral researcher A.P.Th. Christos Stergiou and the coed on the Division of Historical past – Archeology of the College of Ioannina Styliani Zisi (Contact telephone 2651001075).
Entrance to the guided excursions is free, nevertheless, the situation is to register by Thursday, Might 22. If there’s inadequate participation, the occasion is not going to happen.