2024-06-14 22:46:18
The Annual Adamoma of Sarakatsanians of Epirus at Sarakatsaniki Stani in Gyftokambos Zagori and the winery and winemaking traditions of Metsovo – Katogi Averof are among the many 19 new components of intangible cultural heritage, registered by the Ministry of Tradition within the Nationwide Index of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Greece.
The bulletins for the 19 components of intangible cultural heritage had been submitted in 2022 and had been systematically processed by the Directorate of Newer Cultural Heritage, the Nationwide Scientific Committee for the Implementation in Greece of the Conference for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (UNESCO, 2003) and, in fact, the operators’ communities themselves.
The Annual Sarakatsanian Epirus Physique Mass has been held since 1979 in Gyftokambos of Zagori, Ioannina, in Sarakatsaniki Stani, a real copy of Sarakatsan life, in a verdant atmosphere. Sarakatsani from each nook of Greece collect in a big outside cultural occasion, of their effort to protect their custom, cultural heritage and mutual relations. They carry out their customs with reenactments of nomadic life, conventional dances and storytelling.
The winery of Metsovo, one of the crucial mountainous in Greece, long-lived and historically hospitable, traditionally linked to the financial, social, non secular and cultural lifetime of the Vlachs of Pindos, has been steadily deserted because the first many years of the 20 th century, disappearing from phylloxera within the decade of the Forties, but it surely will get worse on the finish of the subsequent decade. Since then, with the creation of wine-making services that produce high-quality wines, it stays to this present day intently linked to the cultural and productive identification of the place, being a degree of reference for the everlasting residents of Metsovo in addition to its guests.
“With the registration of 19 new objects within the Nationwide Intangible Cultural Heritage Index, the Ministry of Tradition takes one other vital step to guard and spotlight our collective identification. The info that’s registered consists of the footprint of individuals over time. An imprint that condenses the expertise, data, expertise, ingenuity, creativity and emotion of our individuals as they manifest in varied locations, constituting mosaics of our nationwide self-consciousness. The intangible cultural heritage of our homeland bears deep traces of a wealthy and, to some extent, unexplored previous of our individuals. On the similar time it’s a lived custom, a dwelling component of our Tradition. We should honor it, respect it and protect it as a assure of self-awareness for ourselves and for the subsequent generations”, says the Minister of Tradition Lina Mendoni in her assertion.