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Three Cyclades islands - Sifnos, Serifos, and Folegandros - have been named among Europe's seven most endangered heritage sites for 2024, as announced this week.

Europa Nostra, a pan-European organisation dedicated to the protection of cultural and natural heritage, has added the Partisan Memorial Cemetery in Mostar, southwest Bosnia, to its 2023 list of the seven most endangered heritage sites in Europe. 

Two organisations, Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank Institute, on Monday released a technical report urging Albania to save an endangered bridge built in 1927 under Albania's first and last king. Zog.

The wooden church in Ursi village, Popesti commune - Valcea County, was designated among the winners of the European Heritage Awards, in the Conservation category. "The European Commission and Europa Nostra have just announced the 2021 winners of the European Heritage Awards/Europa Nostra Awards, the EU prize for cultural heritage funded by the Creative Europe programme.

Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage organization, and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute have said in a recently issued report that the restoration of the Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage in Istanbul would cost at least 40 million euros and would take four to fıve years to complete.

The Europa ''Nostra Awards'' start nominations for cultural heritage conservation projects.

 The awards are the highest rating in this area in Europe.

 They are awarded for outstanding conservation projects, innovative research, dedication to the preservation of the cultural heritage of professionals and volunteers, initiatives in the field of education and training.

A network of walking paths known as the "Greek Paths of Culture" of the Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage (ELLET) has won a Europa Nostra heritage award in the education, training and awareness-raising category.

The Greek Paths of Culture network was chosen from among 149 applications submitted from 34 European countries.

Europa Nostra is a leading European network of organizations dealing with the protection of European cultural heritage.

The renovation of the Buzludja monument would cost 7.5 million leva, the roof of the building urgently needs to be repaired, it should be declared a monument of culture and decided which state structure will govern it. The owner can then apply for European funds for its reimbursement. Its future functions must be publicly discussed. One of the possible options is to become a modern museum.

A general view of the Prinkipo (Buyukada) Greek Orthodox Orphanage in Istanbul, Thursday. The orphanage is the largest wooden building in Europe and the second largest in the world. Europa Nostra, the leading European heritage organization, and the European Investment Bank Institute included the orphanage among 12 cultural heritage sites.