“Every wound and trauma to a monument of civilization is a wound and a trauma to our soul,” said the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
Pavlopoulos expressed his sorrow for the devastating fire that struck Notre-Dame, in his address at the presentation of the photo album “UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Greece”, organized by the “Marianna V. Vardinoyannis Foundation,” at the Museum of the Acropolis.
President Pavlopoulos stressed that this publication constitutes an emblematic contribution to the promotion and defense of our civilization, both Greek and European, to which Greek culture is an irreplaceable support.
In this context, he noted that among the monuments of Greek antiquity, which make up the core of our entire cultural heritage, the Parthenon occupies a top position, as it symbolizes, in a unique way, the starting point and the cradle of the western civilization in general, and in particular the starting point and the cradle of both our spiritual origins and the institutional pillars of our Republic.
Source: ANA-MPA