The 3D replicas of the churches belonging to the “Painted Churches in the Troodos Region”, included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, are to be handed over to the visually impaired community of Cyprus, in an event scheduled to take place on 7 December 2022, at the “Ayios Varnavas School for the Blind”.
The replicas will be donated to local stakeholders and installed in several locations, in order to enhance the tactile experience of the visually impaired people.
The initiative makes part of the Invisible Heritage-Analysis and Technology (IH-AT) project, led by the Cyprus Institute and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation. The project, which focused on the “Painted Churches in the Troodos Region”, involved the multidisciplinary study of the monuments through the use of digital non-destructive technologies, aiming at analysing their structures and lost features.
The project is supported by the Department of Antiquities, the Italian Embassy in Nicosia and the “Ayios Varnavas School for the Blind”.
| Date: | Wednesday, 7 December 2022 |
| Time: | 16:00 hrs |
| Venue: | School of the Blind “Agios Varnavas”, Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Speakers: | Dr Dante Abate, Associate Research Scientist, The Cyprus Institute
Prof. Michel Menu, Acting Director, STARC, The Cyprus Institute H.E. Federica Ferrari Bravo, Ambassador of Italy in Cyprus Dr Marina Solomidou Ieronymidou, Director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus Ms Kika Kassini, Director of the School of the Blind “Agios Varnavas” Nicosia Mrs Marilena Paraskeva, Head of Operations, Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) |
