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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-06-30
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[01] Faltaits Folklore Museum on Skyros
[01] Faltaits Folklore Museum on Skyros
The Faltaits Museum on Skyros (www.faltaits.gr), which houses unique
collections of tools and utensils of primary and secondary traditional
economy, announced that it planned to introduce this summer a series
of experiential and informational seminars on the traditional life,
trades and crafts of Greece.
Those who will participate in the seminars will have the opportunity to
come in direct contact with thousands of items of the traditional life of
the Greeks, collected from Manos Faltaits from different parts of Greece.
The Faltaits Museum, established in 1964, is housed in the reasidence
of the Faltaits family. The Museum houses items of everyday life in the
various periods of the long history of Skyros. There is also a collection
of documents and publications dating from the Byzantine period to the
Independence war, traditional Skyrian costums, everyday tools, maps,
gravoures, rare books and manuscripts, sculptures and paintings of
Manos Faltaits.
During the seminars, participants will have the chance to try traditional
products of the island such as dried figs, olives, local wine, pies
and tsipouro.
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