{"id":22673,"date":"2026-10-01T03:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/president-tasoulas-opens-restored-nicopolis-as-unesco-file-moves-forward-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:16:46","slug":"president-tasoulas-opens-restored-nicopolis-as-unesco-file-moves-forward-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/01\/president-tasoulas-opens-restored-nicopolis-as-unesco-file-moves-forward-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tasoulas opens restored Nicopolis as UNESCO file moves forward \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

President Konstantinos Tasoulas has inaugurated completed restoration works at ancient Nicopolis, returning the site to the public as Greece advances its UNESCO World Heritage bid.<\/h2>\n

The ceremony marks a fuller picture than earlier ministry briefings: new rooms in the palace, conserved hunting and marine mosaics, and a funded third phase at the Great Theatre.<\/p>\n

\"President <\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n

Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said a preliminary UNESCO dossier has already been submitted. Nicopolis, she said, records the passage from the Hellenistic world to Rome and then to Christianity, in a landscape that is still largely intact.<\/p>\n

National goal, one file<\/h3>\n

Mendoni tied the works to Recovery Fund and NSRF money and to planned climate-protection studies with other ministries and universities.<\/p>\n

She noted that in seven years of the Mitsotakis government Greece submitted three UNESCO nominations \u2014 Zagori, the Minoan palatial centres of Crete and Olympus \u2014 and all three were inscribed. Nicopolis, she said, is a \u201cnational goal.\u201d Competing claims of ownership of the bid, she warned, can damage a process that needs a single file.<\/p>\n

A bypass built by the Region of Epirus now keeps the national road out of the ruins and treats the site as one monument. Mendoni thanked Governor Alexandros Kachrimanis, the Ephorate of Antiquities of Preveza, Mayor Nikos Georgakos and ministry teams.<\/p>\n

Great Theatre: Phase 2 done, Phase 3 funded<\/h3>\n

Phase 2 cost \u20ac3.38 million under NSRF 2014\u20132020 (Epirus programme). Crews cleared fill, repaired the lower cavea and retaining walls, and placed temporary steel shoring on the stage building.<\/p>\n

Phase 3 entered NSRF 2021\u20132027 on 8 April 2026, budgeted at \u20ac3.5 million: stage house and paraskenia, orchestra, more seats, disabled access, drainage, and remaining excavation and records. The Augustan theatre, rebuilt in the 2nd century AD, seated about 8,000.<\/p>\n

Palace: 36 rooms found<\/h3>\n

Recovery Fund works (\u20ac503,452) on the Palace \u2014 the House of Georgios Ekdikos \u2014 uncovered 36 further rooms, repaired walls and re-erected two columns. Conservators treated Nicopolis\u2019s only surviving wall mosaic, in the Small Nymphaeum.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n

The house covers about 10 stremmata, a full Roman block, on several levels, with repairs from the 1st to the 7th century AD.<\/p>\n

Basilica A: hunts and the sea<\/h3>\n

A \u20ac550,000 Recovery Fund project conserved mosaics at Bishop Dometios\u2019s Basilica A and at Basilica IV and built an accessible path around Basilica IV.<\/p>\n

Basilica A\u2019s floors show plants, animals, hunting scenes and marine subjects. Inscriptions naming Dometios help date the church.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/source><\/picture><\/figure>\n

Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Nicopolis and Preveza, MPs Spyros Kyriakis and Kostas Barkas, Kachrimanis, Georgakos, Ephorate head Anthi Angeli and local and military officials attended. The Preveza children\u2019s choir Armonia, directed by Anelia Stefanova, closed the event.<\/p>\n

\n

SEO<\/strong><\/p>\n