EΝtopia Project

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Sikinos Island,

Greece

A programme for landscapes and villages

Sikinos Municipality and ELLINIKI ETAIRIA- Society for the Environment and

ENtopia Project-Structure

 International Organization: Europa Nostra

 National Member Associations oversee the ENtopia project in each country

 Project Director: Prof. Philip Geoghegan

Without a local municipality's active participation it is impossible to achieve the project’s objectives ENtopia Project Objectives

What is the ENtopia Project?

Objective: Establish a pan-European Network of traditional settlements

Different localities that may join the network (whether small parts of towns, cities, islands or sites) should:

 maintain -as far as possible- authentic natural and architectural characteristics

 maintain their customs and traditions, including traditional production

 support local government committed to sustainable development of the locality with respect for its cultural heritage

 contain a population of under 15.000 people

Any locality that joins the network will be reassed after 3 years in the light of development over that period Inis Oirr, Ireland ❶ Landscape: The Northern hills and lakes

Westmeath,Ireland

Cantabria, Spain

Shipca, Albania

Belo Planto,

Sikinos Island, Greece

Surrounding Landscape Surrounding

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Trying to preserve the scarce but precious soil, local residents have built kserolithies (= dry stone walls) along the bare mountain.

Sikinos Island, Greece

Surrounding Landscape Surrounding

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Sikinos Island, Greece

The village square is surrounded by old mansions, which have been restored. These mansions are all

two storeys high and built tightly next to each other in order to form a wall.

"What human beings need is not utopia ('no place'), but Entopia ('in place') ... a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the projections of the artist and the Builder merge”.

C. Doxiadis ‘Ekistics’, 1968

Spanish Coastline

Until today

 The ENtopia project is the newest program of Europa Nostra

 Pilot period 2012- to the end of 2014

 Official launch: Conference in Chios March 2014

 Online platform available from March 2015

 February 2015: opening date for nominations

The Mastichohoria

of Chios, Greece

A programme for landscapes and villages

Chios Municipality and ELLINIKI ETAIRIA- Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage

Chios is famous for its mild climate, its history, its dominant position in

the world shipping industry and its monuments. It is known worldwide also for producing mastic.

Mastic is a product cultivated on the island from the aromatic resin, which is extracted from the shrub pistacia lentiscus that thrives on Chios’ southern hills aand is beneficial to human health. Last year mastic was

Landscape: History>Mastic andChios History>Mastic Landscape: added by UNESCO to the list of

Intangible Cultural Heritage of ❶ Humanity.

Landscape: History>Mastic andChios History>Mastic Landscape:

These settlements were established during Genoese rule (1346-1566), and ❶ until today the villages’ existence is inextricably bound up with the valuable crystal “tear” shed by mastic trees that grow only here and only in the southern part of the island.

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Skyros Island, Greece

Skyros Island,

Greece

A programme for landscapes and villages

Skyros Municipality and ELLINIKI ETAIRIA- Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage

Rare endemic plants such as Aethionema retsina, Campanula merxmuelleri, Centaurea rechingeri, Scorzonera scyria, Aubrieta scyria, Galanthus ikariae grow in inaccessible rocky places, mainly in the southern partof the island.

On the steep cliffs of Mount Kochylas and the nearby islets, are nests of Falcon (Falco eleonorae), a migratory falcon that is a globally threatened species. Greece is considered as the most important country for its survival since hosts 85% of the world population of the species. Skyros has the largest colony of Falco Eleonorae worldwide with more than 1,000 couples.

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❷ • Southern Skyros has been for centuries the natural habitat of the indigenous breed of Skyros horses (Equus cabalus skyriano), unique in the world today, considered to be under threat of extinction by the .

•These horses play a significant role in the rural heritage of the island, since in the past they were used by locals for farming, especially during the summer months

Amorgos Island,

Greece

A programme for landscapes and villages

Amorgos Municipality and ELLINIKI ETAIRIA- Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage

“Krokellos”, is the highest point (821 m) dominating the north-west. The area from Langada village to the island’s northern tip is a protected area, part of the Natura 2000 network.

Chora, the Saracen island and the area of Ormos Kalogrias, Atsitsa and a neighbouring pine The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, founded in 1017 by monks fleeing persecution in Palestine, is one of forestthe older have in thebeen Aegean. designated Refounded as inLandscapes 1088 it hangs of on Outstanding a cliffside 300 Natural metres above Beauty the accordingsea. Its annual to feast Greek is on 21 November, celebrating the entry of the Mother of God intolegislation. the Temple.

Chora, the Saracen island and the area of Ormos Kalogrias, Atsitsa and a neighbouring pine forest have been designated as Landscapes of OutstandingMonastery Natural ofBeauty Panagia according Hozoviotissa, to Greek legislation.Amorgos w w w .e n t o p i a p r o j e c t . e u

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