The great performer Melina Aslanidou was adored by thousands of people at the official opening of the 40th Ayia Napa International Festival that took place on Saturday night in Seferi Square.
Unique and unrepeatable moments were experienced last Saturday night by those who attended the official opening of the 40th Ayia Napa International Festival and watched the great concert given by the great artist Melina Aslanidou, who with her rich program that lasted almost three hours and the amazing her interpretations met the audience's awe and received the institution's applause.
The opening of the official opening of the Ayia Napa International Festival was made by the Minister of Transport, Communications and Works, Mr. Alexis Vafeadis, who, after expressing his joy for his presence at the Festival, said that during his tour of the 40th International Festival, he had see how "our tradition continues to this day, that knowledge is passed down from generation to generation and that history is stored through our traditions, customs and traditions".
"At events like these," he added, "it's an opportunity to show everyone, not only the permanent residents but all our visitors, who we are and how we can find solutions to challenges through the arts, through the way we process the our land and how in this way we can become rich not in money but in culture in morals and customs and how we can offer to a society to become better year by year".
"Forty years this Festival, I think it's forty opportunities like this here to allow all visitors to Ayia Napa to know who we are, who are you, who have proven time and again that you can creatively lead the way."
In his own greeting, the Mayor of Ayia Napa, Mr. Christos Zannettou, initially referred to the history of the organization of the 1st Festival in 1985 on the occasion of the celebration of World Tourism Day, which was determined since 1970 to be celebrated every year on September 27.
"Together tonight, and throughout this three-day period, he added, "here in this square, which in recent years has been a model of the city center, in the "Giorgos Seferis" square, where all the upgrading work is expected to be completed in the coming months, we are reviving traditions , morals and customs, we pass on and preserve memories by spreading the aroma and color of a multicultural event of international scope".
"Through diverse actions carried out within the framework of the Ayia Napa International Festival, said Mr. Zannetto, culture as an integral part of everyday life is also a fundamental attraction for tourism, while at the same time it is commonly accepted that a developed and dynamic cultural life can contribute decisive in the development of sustainable local societies and in the promotion of economic regeneration.
Welcoming the event, the Deputy Mayor of the Municipal District of Ayia Napa of the Municipality of Ayia Napa, Mr. Antonis Christou, said that throughout its forty-year history, the Ayia Napa Festival, having hosted hundreds of great artists and creators, remarkable music and dance performances and thousands of spectators, continues to maintains its character and is an institution for our country and is rightly ranked as one of the leading cultural and musical events in Cyprus with an international reach and impact.
At the same time, he added, "the festival, in addition to the promotion of important creators, performers and artists from Cyprus and Greece, revives the morals and customs of our country as well as all those elements that stamped the physiognomy of the people of our country, thus contributing to preservation of our traditions and cultural heritage and at the same time, for four decades, it strengthens the extroversion of our country, as through the experiences that our foreign visitors take with them, they go beyond the borders of our country and are projected to the whole world".
