The Europa Nostra Team has announced the 27 winners of the 2014 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage and invites the public to vote for their favourite heritage achievements among them.
The winner of the “Public Choice Award” will be announced and presented during the European Heritage Awards Ceremony to be held on 5 May 2014 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. This Ceremony will be co-hosted by Maestro Placido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra and Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.
The deadline for voting is 22 April 2014. To vote one should visit http://vote.europanostra.org/
More about the 27 award-winning achievements out of which one can choose his/her 3 favourite ones can be found at www.europanostra.org/public-choice-award
The 2014 Award Winners listed alphabetically by country are:
Category 1 – Conservation
Horta Museum, Brussels, Belgium
Home for Cooperation: Educational Centre in the Buffer Zone of Nicosia, Cyprus
Biblioteca Bardensis, Barth, Germany
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza, Italy
Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italy
Walser Houses: Preservation of Vernacular Architecture in Alagna Valsesia, Italy
Hovelsrud Villa, Helgøya Island, Nes på Hedmarken, Norway
Historical Route of the Lines of Torres Vedras, Lisbon, Portugal
Dragomirna Church’s 17th Century Frescoes, Suceava, Romania
Cooperative Wineries Programme, Catalonia, Spain
Historical Landscape of El Sénia’s Ancient Olive Trees, Spain
Roman Bridge, Gate of the Bridge, Calahorra Tower and Surrounding Areas, Cordoba, Spain
Abbotsford: The Home of Sir Walter Scott, Melrose, United Kingdom
Category 2 – Research
Roman Vaulted Construction in the Peloponnese, Greece
Transylvanian Castle Gardens, Budapest, Hungary
Van Dyck in Spain, Madrid, Spain
Category 3 – Dedicated Service
Gustav Klimt Memorial Society, Vienna, Austria
Kempens Landscape Association, Putte, Belgium
Iubilantes Association, Como, Italy
Category 4 – Education, Training and Awareness-Raising
Cultural Heritage without Borders’ Regional Restoration Camps, Tirana, Albania
Passage: From a Rusty City to a New Miskolc, Hungary
The Coen Case, Hoorn, The Netherlands
‘Encounters with Heritage’ Radio Programme, Lisbon, Portugal
Shaping 24: Promoting Heritage in Norwich and Ghent, United Kingdom and Belgium
A Europa Nostra Award is also presented to projects from two European countries not taking part in the EU Culture Programme (2007-13):
Conservation – Agate Rooms in Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia
Conservation – Belle Époque Steamers on Lake Geneva, Lausanne, Switzerland
Research – Church Architecture of the 7th Century in South Caucasus, Moscow, Russia
