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 | | Neil said I shouldn't emphasise the Pavarotti involvement as the year was not about him but about hundreds of things that were happening. | | | By the time 1990 dawned my work was virtually finished and a specially-established press office dealt with the world's news media who flocked to Glasgow to find out what all the fuss was about. | | | Foreign journalists constantly ask him about the city's cultural policy. |
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| | Organization Studies: Imitating Uniqueness: How Big Cities Organize Big Events |
| | This was, at least, how the project was presented during the lobbying campaign directed at Swedish politicians, though primarily focused on Brussels and on Swedish membership in the European Union. | | | This article summarises two studies of how a city organized a big event: the Jubilee of the Third Millennium of Christianity (in Rome) and the Cultural Capital of Europe 1998 (in Stockholm). | | | From these, a temporary organization, called the Rome Jubilee Agency, was brought to life. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4339/is_2000_Annual/ai_63543386
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| | Bremen Kultur! |
| | For once the world begins outside the borders of Germany: Whether professionals operating in the cultural world or simply people with a passion for culture; everyone is invited to submit ideas and suggestions for projects for Bremen‘s international competition. | | | Especially if Europe is to know what Bremen has to offer. | | | The idea is to use culture to promote unity among the EU member states. |
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http://www.bremen2010.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=820
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| | Is she seeking the blessing and daring to enter the arena against the arrogance of Lyaeus? | | | Behold, Dimitrios, the champion of this city; behold St. Nestor. | | | And the Apostle Paul and the people of Hellas were saved, as were the peoples of Europe and the whole world. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?printit=yes&id=712
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| | EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Bulletin |
| | The institution of a European cultural capital, inspired by the late Melina Mercouri, should, he said, be seen as confirmation of European peoples' trust in the principles, philosophy and laws governing European society. | | | Simitis was speaking to an audience which included the Culture Ministers of 40 European, Balkan, Mediterranean and Black Sea region countries. | | | Simitis said: "The foundation of culture is respect for and cooperation with others, which implies adherence to rules of international law and promoting peace, stability and cooperation between peoples." And he added: "Culture is not a secondary aspect of international relations but a comprehensive and inclusive world view". |
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| | Europe: Stockholm: cultural capital '98.@ HighBeam Research |
| | The above preview is from Europe, February 1, 1998. | | | Our archive contains millions of documents from thousands of sources and goes back over 23 years. | | | With the Swedish capital taking over as Europe's cultural center this year. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20609262&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | BBC NEWS UK England Oxford: City of the future |
| | Oxford is looking to the future, the leaders of its bid for cultural capital of Europe said on Wednesday. | | | UK) City's culture bid boosted by poll (28 Oct 02 | | | Secretary of State Tessa Jowell announced the city is one of six in the running for the title of European Capital of Culture 2008. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/2375867.stm
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| | Right Frame |
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FAMA, in its International Cultural Newsletter has documented Sarajevo that has been denied the rights to civic, existential and social rights
by using the right to survive and the right for culture as defiance and means to continue its mission
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FAMA integrates hopes for peace among the Sarajevans, representing it to the rest of the world and expressing it on the cultural level
My students at Tokyo University received a very important message
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"Sarajevo: Survival Guide," whose title pokes fun at other survival guides that equate travel with life-or-death struggle
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| | 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe |
| | Weimar, widely seen as the country's historical intellectual capital because of its ties to German classicism, was an obvious choice. | | | The ten German cities short-listed to become one of the two European cultural capitals for 2010 this week presented their complete applications to government officials in a race that is about more than just local pride. | | | Journalists and local leaders alike are already flouting what is perhaps the greatest boon of the cultural capital phenomenon of all — the chance for the citizens of each competing city to rediscover what makes their hometown come alive. |
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http://auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/eu_politik/aktuelles/kulturhauptstadt2010_html
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| | Bruges on Encyclopedia.com |
| | An early commune of the Low Countries, the city held extensive political privileges and often played a part in the chronic struggle between England, France, and the counts of Flanders. | | | Back in the spotlight: The Flemish city of Bruges reigns as one of two Cultural Capitals of Europe this year. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/Bruges.asp
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| | 2001.08.22 :: Brugge, Belgium :: Cultural Capital of Europe 2002 |
| | But coming back from the bankomat I saw a large group of people gathered down a street and went to observe. | | | 2001.08.22 :: Brugge, Belgium :: Cultural Capital of Europe 2002 | | | Brugge is getting ready for the having the ambiguous honorary title of 'Cultural Capital of Europe 2002.' So the city is spending oodles of money renovating the downtown to make it as picturesque as possible. |
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http://www.beausmith.com/europe/20010822.php
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| | [ NSKSTATE.COM ] [ Department of Pure and Applied Philosophy ] [ The Slovenia of Athens ] |
| | Upon hearing the speech, the Archbishop of Slovenia left the venue in protest. | | | We don’t need culture; what we need is God’s ointment of endurance.[1] Hominis tota vita nihil aliud quamad mortem iter est.[2] Real life is outside this life. | | | Transcript of Peter Mlakar's speech - which he delivered bare-chested and wearing a butcher's apron - for the opening ceremony of the 1997 festival for Ljubljana as a Culture Capital of Europe. |
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| | Rainbow - Thea Musgrave, composer |
| | In nature, of course, a rainbow heralds the end of a storm and the reappearance of the sun. | | | Commissioned by the City of Glasgow to mark the opening of the new international concert hall and to celebrate the city as cultural capital of Europe | | | Here the rainbow is also intended to be a metaphor for a bright future which, hopefully, befitted the exciting occasion of the opening of Glasgow's new Concert Hall as well as celebrating the City as Cultural Capital of Europe. |
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| | European Capital of Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A number of European cities have used the City of Culture year to completely transform their cultural base and, in doing so, the way in which they are viewed internationally. | | | This network also carried out in 1994 a study on the impact of the European City of Culture since its creation. | | | American Capital of Culture – a similar initiative among the American countries |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Capital_of_Europe
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| | The Malta Council for Culture and the Arts |
| | Copyright 2004, The Malta Council for Culture and The Arts, info@maltaculture.com | | | The Malta Council for Culture and the Arts | | | The cities for the years 2005 to 2018 have already been announced. |
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http://www.maltaculture.com/page.asp?n=newsdetails&i=4593&l=1
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| | Weimar |
| | Cultural capital of Europe ("Kulturstadt Europas") for 1999. | | | Goethe not only made Weimar the literary capital of Europe during his lifetime, but he also attracted such men as Herder and Schiller, established and directed the Weimar theater. | | | , when it was made the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Weimar. |
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| | GRAZ 2003 - CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE: FINAL REPORT |
| | When adding the media coverage in the run-up to the Cultural Capital year, of which only about 3,000 articles have been clipped so far, around 12,100 articles on Graz 2003 were published in the period from 1999-2003. | | | This is clearly evident from the media coverage, the successful events, and in tourism figures of the Cultural Capital as well as in a large number of visits from international delegations. | | | Since 01.01.2003, a total of 9,291 media reports on Graz 2003 - Cultural Capital of Europe have been published in various print media. |
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http://www.graz03.at/servlet/sls/Tornado/web/2003/content_e/C17C9957F5662F34C1256DF0002F29CA
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| | Graz |
| | Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). | | | History of the World History of the United States History of Europe Ancient History History Military History | | | New fortifications were constructed on the Schlossberg at the end of the 16th century, which were overrun when Napoleon's army invaded and occupied Graz in 1797. |
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| | EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash |
| | Thessaloniki, the Lady of the Balkans, is as of today also the Cultural Capital of Europe," renowned Greek tragedian Irene Pappas told a gathering of thousands in the city's center, ushering in the New Year and inaugurating the year-long Cultural Capital events. | | | Greece's northern port city of Thessaloniki marked the advent of 1997 with city-wide festivities that bodes well for the city's tenure as Cultural Capital of Europe. | | | Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos told the huge crowd of personalities and city residents he had "fighting optimism" about the success of Thessaloniki's term as Cultural Capital of Europe. |
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| | A Message from the President of the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe |
| | A Message from the President of the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe | | | President of the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe | | | Particular efforts have been made to ensure that design and printing of the catalogue are of the highest standard, and for this I would like officially to extend my congratulations to the organizers of the Exhibition. |
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| | EUROPA - Culture - European capitals |
| | Designed to "contribute to bringing the peoples of Europe together", the European City of Culture project was launched, at the initiative of Melina Mercouri, by the Council of Ministers on 13 June 1985. | | | Proposal for a decision establishing a community action for the European Capital of Culture event for the years 2007 to 2019. | | | Henceforth, the European Capital of Culture will be decided each year by the Council on a Commission recommendation, which will take into account the view of a jury comprising seven prominent independent members, each of them experts in the culture sector. |
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| | www.stavanger2008.no |
| | This is where the road to 2008 will be planned. | | | A lot of people have questions regarding The Capital of Culture. | | | I have a proposition for The Capital of Culture, how do I go about it? |
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| | Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004 |
| | In 2002, the Cultural Olympiad will be offering the public in Birmingham, Berlin, New York and Barcelona an extensive review of the archaeological and historical sciences covering the period from prehistoric times to the post-Byzantine era. | | | This section of the Cultural Olympiad will continue in 2002 with an exhibition of work by Dionysis Fotopoulos and the activities of Swatch. | | | The Cultural Olympiad looks at the environment and sends out a message encouraging awareness of ecological issues in the belief that the future of the planet lies in respecting its natural environment. |
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| | Stephen Bailey - Graz 2003 Cultural Capital of Europe |
| | Because it is the year that Graz was named the Cultural Capital of Europe. | | | This time, Norbert did a very good job at convincing us that we did not need the band. | | | Stephen Bailey - Graz 2003 Cultural Capital of Europe |
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http://www.stephenbailey.com/pov/graz03/ynz_graz03.html
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| | Culture Capitals of Europe |
| | The Cultural Capital of Europe 2004 is Lille. | | | In 2008, the Cultural Capital of Europe will be a city in Great Britain. | | | Choose one city from the six selected British cities to become Capital of Culture 2008. |
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http://ndaeuro.rapnouil.net/documents/cultcapitals/intro.htm
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| | Council Investigate Bid for Cultural Capital of Europe |
| | Council Investigate Bid for Cultural Capital of Europe | | | The Highland Council is to investigate the feasibility of bidding for Inverness and the Highlands to become the European Cultural Capital in 2008. | | | Members of the Cultural and Leisure Services Committee are eager to work with other agencies to identify the costs involved in tabling a bid to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. |
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| | Graz Tourism: Welcome to Graz - Cultural Capital of Europe 2003 |
| | The events of the cultural year 2003 can be found on www.graz03.at | | | For a long time, Austria’s second-largest city, Graz, was a well-kept inside tip among Austrian state capitals - “Austria’s secret love.” During recent years, however, the city has increasingly become a cultural, economic and scientific center in the southeast of Austria. | | | Graz will offer a comprehensive, discriminating and multifaceted program of the highest level, including more than one hundred projects and a thousand individual events in all cultural areas. |
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| | hackwriters.com - Why Liverpool is the Cultural Capital in Europe 2008 - Colin Todhunter |
| | The city is in the Guinness Book of Records for being the Capital of Pop because more artists with a Liverpool origin have had a number one hit, than from any other location in the world. | | | However, in the wake of it gaining World Heritage and Capital of Culture status, the whole world is now in on the secret. | | | Liverpool& treasure trove of events and sites have been kept a fairly well kept secret until recently. |
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| | FRANCE Magazine |
| | It was in fact trade that gave rise to the city, which grew up during the 10th century as a village of tanners and traders on an island in the Deule River (whence its name, originally L’Isle) where the counts of Flanders had a strategic château. | | | France’s northernmost city is excitedly preparing for its role as Europe’s Cultural Capital in 2004, eager to show the world the results of two decades of economic, cultural and urban renewal. | | | The former president of Europe’s largest producer of fresh, frozen and canned vegetables in Europe—a €1.2 billion business now run by his sons—Bonduelle is currently president of both APIM, the agency responsible for promoting foreign investment in Lille, and of NFX, the regional economic development agency. |
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http://www.francemagazine.org/articles/issue67/article76.asp?issue_id=67&article_id=76
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| | Mermaid Lounge - July 1996 |
| | The City of Copenhagen is strategically located between the Nordic countries, the mainland of Europe and the Baltic Sea. | | | This fact has left its clear mark on the Copenhagen 96 program, in which the city will be exploring not only its own cultural history, but also its future role as potential cultural center of a region which is becoming increasingly important in a European context. | | | Over the centuries, Copenhagen has in many ways been the cultural crossroads of the North. |
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| | 2003:Homepage |
| | You and everyone who actively supported and participated in the year’s events as members of an urban community united through culture – you all formed part of a powerful transmitter whose signals were received all over Europe and beyond. | | | It would be hard to find a single resident of Graz who did not participate in the events of the cultural capital at least once during the year, who did not partake of culture wholesale or at least briefly test the cultural waters. | | | Director, Graz 2003 &; Cultural Capital of Europe |
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| | Bruges: cultural capital of Europe |
| | There was the trade with entire Europe (from Scandinavia and England to the cities in de Mediteranean Sea). | | | Throughout the Middle Ages, the region around Bruges was one of the most prosperous of Europe and because of that a very wanted area for foreign rulers. | | | The county of Flanders came to existence here and Bruges was its capital. |
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| | Salonka Synagogue |
| | Though a year of celebration for the Greek city, it has also been a time of reflection for its Jewish community. | | | The Jewish Community of Salonika received a grant from the Ministry of Culture as part of the financing of the 1997 Salonika Cultural Capital of Europe activities. | | | In some cases this is spotty, due to sparse records, but overall, there is a great deal to interest the historian of Sephardic culture and the architectural historian. |
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| | Thessaloniki, Cultural Capital of Europe 1997 |
| | For us, year of Culture means year of self-consciousness and promotion of our national cultural identity. | | | Thessaloniki starts living on the rhythms and the strenuousness of the European Cultural Capital with the necessary combative optimism for the organizing of such an event of major importance. | | | he year 1997 is a year of Culture for Thessaloniki and therefore for the whole of Greece. |
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| | Thompson Hine LLP : Brussels - City Description |
| | Brussels also is known as the "Capital of Europe." The European Union, the political and economic union of 15 member states in Europe, has most of its institutions in Brussels including the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. | | | Due to the presence of so many national and international government agencies, Brussels, not unlike Washington D.C., houses a large number of law firms, consultants and lobbyists. | | | Additionally, Brussels is the headquarters of NATO, the Western European Union, the Customs Cooperation Counsel and more than 50 other intergovernmental organizations, creating a multi-lingual, multi-cultural city that is the administrative and political center of continental Europe. |
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| | Stockholm strutting its stuff as '98 Cultural Capital of Europe |
| | Sweden's capital has been designated the 1998 Cultural Capital of Europe. | | | The information center for Cultural Capital of Europe is at Kulturhuset on Sergels Torg, three blocks west. | | | While the Cultural Capital programs focus on successes, Stockholm's prime tourist attraction is a monument to an astonishing failure: the Vasa, the warship that was supposed to be the pride of the mighty Swedish fleet but which sank 15 minutes into its maiden voyage in 1628. |
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| | Austrian Press & Information Service |
| | This city, that more than any other reflects a new Europe of greater understanding and broadened concepts, was selected Cultural Capital of Europe 2003. | | | In selecting Graz as European capital, the EU was aware of what a United Europe represents, and the year 2003 will highlight this notion-open borders and unity. | | | It is difficult to imagine that the small city of Graz which for decades lay in the shadow of the Iron Curtain would receive three prestigious awards simultaneously: Cultural Capital of Europe, World Cultural Heritage Site, and City of Human Rights. |
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| | EUROPA - Culture - European Commission - Culture - Portal - homepage |
| | The European Culture Portal provides information on these policies and directs you to specialised sites where you can find more detailed information, such as the Culture site, which specialises in aid for cultural cooperation in Europe. | | | The Portal can also direct you to the sites of the national authorities responsible for culture in Europe. | | | There are many EU policies for the promotion of culture: subsidy programmes, regulations, etc. |
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| | Lyra Newsletter - May/June 1997 |
| | This year’s conventions are especially noteworthy, as the city of Thessaloniki has been awarded the distinction of being the “Cultural Capital of Europe” for 1997. | | | The presentation was part of Professor Harrison’s class, World Music and Cultures, which brings area ethnic musicians and dancers to the lecture room and allows students to experience first hand what is covered in their textbooks. | | | This marked the fourth time that the Orpheus Dance Troupe has visited Prof. |
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| | Cultural Capital |
| | For those unfamiliar with the European Cultural Capital designation, it is an appellation given annually to a particular European Union city. | | | Attendees at the 1990 ICMC in Glasgow, Scotland (the first time an ICMC was held in a Cultural Capital city) can attes t to the cultural vitality generated by the Cultural Capital Organization. | | | The initiative of the late Greek Minister of Culture of Greece Melina Mercouri, evolved into a leading cultural institution for Europe and until 1997 it will have passed through twelve European citi es. |
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| | deseretnews.com Bruges, Belgium |
| | Belgian city embarks on its year as a Cultural Capital of Europe | | | His feelings underscore the extent to which this city, which holds the title of Cultural Capital of Europe in 2002, has changed for the better in little more than a generation. | | | Over the past three years, the monuments of Bruges have become UNESCO world heritage sites three times over — first the beguinage, then the belfry and last year its historic center as a whole. |
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| | F/138/01 12/03 ROTTERDAM 2001/PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO CELEBRATE ROTTERDAM AS CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE IN 2001. |
| | Letter, from Rotterdam 2001 regarding programme of events entitled "Hometown Rotterdam" being organised in celebration of the selection of Rotterdam as Cultural Capital of Europe in 2001, which was circulated was considered: | | | "That the County Council be represented at Rotterdam 2001 programme of events entitled "Hometown Rotterdam" being organised in celebration of the selection of Rotterdam as Cultural Capital of Europe in 2001 and that the names of the Members who wish to attend be given direct by the Members concerned to the Secretariat Department". | | | F/138/01 12/03 ROTTERDAM 2001/PROGRAMME OF EVENTS TO CELEBRATE ROTTERDAM AS CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE IN 2001. |
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| | The point where East meets West, the cross-roads of peoples and civilisations, the nursery of new ideas and achievements, Thessaloniki has always been a city of the people. | | | After a period of economic and cultural stagnation, the cily begins to exploit the reforming tendencies of the Ottoman Empire and becomes once again a commercial and cultural beacon for the peoples of the Balkans. | | | Because here, it's people who make the culture |
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| | She was most inspired by the experiment "Amanda" at the South Pole were scientist try to detect muons in the ice to be able to find neutrinos from the origin of the universe. | | | August-December 1998 (Stockholm was Cultural Capital of Europe 98). | | | The artistic result was "Towers" which was built for the Cultural Capital of Europe 98 in Stockholm, Sweden. |
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