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Rhodes Attraction Art Park : A trip to the Art Park of Rhodes Island
By CruiseDirector | March 5, 2010
The Rhodes Island is a prominent hub of the cultural events and galas in Greece. The visitors that come to the island for Rhodes holidays attend and take part in different cultural events and celebrations. One of the famous cultural programs in Rhodes Island is the Art Park, which is held every year since May 2006.
The Art Park of Rhodes, Greece has now become an important institution that attracts the Greek as well as foreign artists to show their artistic abilities and talent. It is a non-profit organization aimed at providing a cultural multi-art platform created for the artists, actors and musicians etc.
The Art Park on Rhodes Island showcases works of different kinds of Art from the month of May to the month of October. It is therefore quite easy for you to visit this beautiful tourist destination during your Rhodes holidays.
Location:
Being at the middle of Rhodes, it is one of the unique galleries that offers natural setting comparative to the other galleries on Rhodes Island. It is located in the beautiful region of Archipolis. The Archipolis is located on the road to Eleousa at a distanced of about thirty kilometres from the Rhodes town.
Also the beach of Kolympia and Afandou are the nearest ones and it just takes about ten minutes on a car or bus to reach there. Park can be found hardly 10 kilometres after the Seven Springs, Rhodes.
History:
Rhodes’ Art Park is primarily an institution founded by a renowned musician, sculptor maker, and artist named ‘Damon Papakiriakou’ and his wife Emily in May 2006. Initially the institute organised a small multicultural integration. The location of this place is in the mid of various picnic spots, the events started here quite slowly and after gaining repute they have become informal art feasts.
In January 2007, the event was recognised when the Art Park of Rhodes won a large scale competition in Greece of the private art institute’s and galleries. The Art Park then received funding from the European Programme Leader.
Today this art park is being operated as a non-profit organization. Various artists and art lovers from across Europe – The Friends of Art Park –are its significant contributors’Friends of the Art Park’ whose members are art lovers and artists from different countries across Europe.
Purpose of the Park:
The basic purpose of this Art Park is to encourage and support different forms of art and music. It encourages young artists and musicians to show off their talent and provides them with a platform.
Attraction of the park:
The Art Park is very interesting place and holds many attractions for the tourists and visitors. You can visit this place for as many times as you want because it is free to enter or participate in it.
It is an environment friendly park. The Park is provided electricity by the photovoltaic cells that convert solar energy into electricity.
Its location is very pretty and there are many small wooden kiosks used for exhibitions. This area also carries certain outdoor workshops where artists can work at no cost. All kinds of music equipment and systems are available in the park.
To encourage and appreciate the amazing art of the young people, you are recommended to visit this place at least once during your Rhodes holidays.
Finding Rhodes accommodation in Rhodes town is a great idea for Rhodes Holidays. In this respect, you can hire one of the available Rhodes Town Hotels, rooms and lodges in Rhodes Town
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