In the latest episode of our “Holistic Heritage” podcast series, Dr Katarzyna Jagodzińska and John Beauchamp meet Vaidas Petrulis, an architectural historian from the Kaunas University of Technology. He offers an insight into the specifics of the city’s modernist architecture in the context of its protection, and discusses the significance of Kaunas's architecture for the Lithuanian nation during the inter-war period.
read moreTo record the latest episode of the "Holistic Heritage" podcast, a microphone alone wasn’t enough – we had to lace up our walking boots and carry a few kilograms of gear on our backs. After all, the longest hiking trail in Romania deserves to be approached with proper respect.
read moreOn 6th September in Cieszyn, Professor Jacek Purchla, Vice-President of Europa Nostra, took part in the ceremony honouring the Serfenta Association with the prestigious European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award. As part of the event, a Medal was also unveiled and embedded in the wall of Serfenta’s headquarters, located in Cieszyn’s old town.
read moreThe first of three podcasts in this series, focused on this topic, is now available – titled “Nadsanie”. In the 13th episode of the “Ukraine Heritage Spotlight” podcast, we’re at the Ukrainian House in Przemyśl, run by the Association of Ukrainians in Poland. In the podcast, members of the Europa Nostra Heritage Hub in Kraków, John Beauchamp and Dr. Katarzyna Jagodzińska, speak with several Ukrainian activists.
read moreThe project, jointly undertaken by the Jagiellonian University and Europa Nostra Heritage Hub, aims to draw attention to the need to save Ukrainian cultural heritage in the post-migration area of south-eastern Poland (Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Slovak, Polish-Belarusian borderlands) and to take actions that would contribute to the integration and opening of this hermetic minority environment, experienced by historical traumas, rootlessness and exclusion.
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