Greece
The Byzantine museum is located northeast of the Acropolis (Its-Kaleh) of the castle of Ioannina. It is a two storey building, on the ground floor of which the main exhibition is housed, comprising of findings (sculptures, coins, ceramics, pictures, bema doors, gospels) from the 4th to the 19th century.
The Byzantine museum is located northeast of the Acropolis (Its-Kaleh) of the castle of Ioannina. It is a two storey building, on the ground floor of which the main exhibition is housed, comprising of findings (sculptures, coins, ceramics, pictures, bema doors, gospels) from the 4th to the 19th century.
The permanent exhibition is laid out in seven rooms, corresponding to three exhibitional units: Paleochristianic, Byzantine, Metabyzantine. The jewellery exhibition is a part of the museum. There are exhibited ecclesiastic and various personal collections’ exhibits.
The museum is equipped with a workshop for the maintenance of ceramics, murals, mosaics and stone, as well as storage space in the underground area of findings’ reception.
The aim of the Ioannina Byzantine Museum is to collect, protect, study and promote works and objects of art from the 4th to the 19th century. Also, to be the center of a space of civilization, housing musical and theatrical events, temporary exhibitions etc.
The National Gallery has in its collections more than 17.000 works of painting, sculpture, engravings and other forms of art, and is the treasury of the recent Greek artistic creativity, covering a timespan from the metabyzantine days up to our days.
There found shelter at the Byzantine period the pirates, that gave and the name in “Karabo” A incredibly enchanting landscape that reminds Norwegian fiords but with in sunlight the rocks the colors and the wild beauty of Crete, is found well hidden in Libyk.o Sea
The Athens festival is big celebration, which continues the active presence for 56 consecutive summers, which have shown some of the most famous names of the theater, music, dance, the field of music is Mitropoulos and Callas, Sain-Saens and Rostropovits, Pavarotti, Leonidas Kabakos
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