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And because 1.900 years have passed since the martyrdom of Yakinthos, he decided to honor the Saint of Love and sing together with him of the poetry of love. Thus Loudovikos founded together with spiritual men and artists an institution called "Corporation of Friends of Yakinthia Events", which organizes the Yakinthia Festivals. The artistic events, which take place every year in the first week of July at the same place called Fourni and in the Cretan village of Anogia are thus called YAKINTHIA. The idea to build a church at the same place came from the Archbishop of Rethymnon, Anthymos, who himself laid down the foundation stone.  The chapel is built in the shape of a Crete "mitato", a circular building made of flat stones without mortar 1.200 m above sea level. The building was realized after the rules of the Late Minoan architecture with a dome. The inclination starts above 2 meters and leaves a hole of 30 cm at the top. The planning and control was realized by the architect Stavros Vidalis. YAKINTHIA 2007 |
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| The special support commission for the "Three-day-Yakinthia", which is due to make the festival nucleus of a cultural and artistic institution for Crete and Greece consists of the following members (1998): | Nikos Koundouros (director), Giannis Smaragdis (director), Kostas Tsoklis (painter), Maro Vamvounaki (writer), Giorgos Grammatikakis (former rector of the University of Crete), Seraphim Phyntanidis (editor), Theodor Rousopoulos (journalist), Chr. Christoulidis (magazine "Experiment"), Kostas Zouraris (university professor), the Archbishop of Rethymnon, Anthymos, former mayor of Anogia, Smbokos, Nikos Dramountanis (manager of the National Youth Institution of Anogia) and others. | ||
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