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Honorary distinction for Giorgos Galanakis, Founder of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, from the University of Bucharest. Within the framework of the anniversary conference held on October 23-24, 2026, marking 25 years since the establishment of

Is Siteia becoming impoverished? No new productive activities are being created. There are no jobs for young people. What should and can be done? What can and should change? The development conference organized by the Municipality

“Poetry and dramaturgy in late Renaissance Crete: Georgios Chortatsis and his work” Our conference in Venice begins in three days. You can watch it live on the Hellenic Institute’s YouTube channel, via this link (note: please

Kazarma as it deserves: Proposals for the monument’s safety and enhancement The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center intends to approach the Ephorate of Antiquities next week to submit for approval two significant intervention proposals for the Kazarma

The 2nd International Conference “With Knowledge and Method: Issues of Poetics and Reception of Erotokritos,” held from July 18-20, 2025, at the Sitia Municipal Cultural Center and organized by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center with the

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center is organizing an international academic conference titled: With Knowledge and Style: Issues of Poetics and Reception of Erotokritos. This meeting, the fourth in a series of specialized conferences focusing on the

Giorgos Galanakis, co-founder with Aliki Galanaki of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center: We intend, in cooperation with the Municipality, to establish the celebration of the birthday of our town’s poet as a regular two-day event, held

This book, recently published by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, contains 25 texts that share the personal opinions, stories, experiences, and insights of their authors from their multifaceted encounters with Erotokritos.“A strange and beautiful feeling at

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, the Sitia Theatre and Style 100 collect, read and publish in podcast form literary texts inspired by this place and its culture. Enjoy listening! LINK

In the fifth podcast, released today, we present the text “Farewell” by Manolis Kanavakis. Introduction by Fani Syrpou. Read by Eleftheria Panagiotaki. The recording was made at the studio of the radio station Style100, which we

On the occasion of the catastrophic flood in Sitia Those of us from Sitia who thought the lyrics of Michalis Ganas in the song “Ships Came Ashore…” were surreal changed our minds on October 15, 2022,

In a particularly moving atmosphere, the cycle of seminar meetings organized by the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center for the teachers of Sitia on the Erotokritos of Vitsentzos Kornaros, which ran from October to May, has come

You can view the 2020-2021 review in detail here

G. Galanakis on the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center: “I am looking for the way to get close to people” At the link below you can see the related article published on the website of the radio

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre publish the 3rd podcast in the series “Sitia and Local Tradition: Literary Readings of My Place”. Today we present the text “Thoughts in the Shadow of a

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre present the 2nd podcast in the series “Sitia and Local Tradition: Literary Readings of My Place”. With his short story “The Distribution of the ‘Distribution’” and his

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center and the Sitia Theatre are delighted to begin a collaboration that will include the production of podcasts with a series of literary readings of texts related to the tradition and culture

The calendar in electronic form: 2021_Hmerologio_Stegi

In the last 10 minutes, an interview with Giorgos Galanakis, founder of the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center, alongside the trailer for the 2018 Sitia production of Erotokritos. To remember the old days and dream of new

The VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center aims to highlight the importance and relevance of Vitsentzos Kornaros and the Cretan Renaissance, placing Sitia high on the cultural map. It is a non-profit company and aspires to evolve into

Getting to Know the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center Notebook, 2020 In October 2020 the VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center printed 2,000 copies of a notebook aimed at introducing itself to the local students and to the public.

The newly founded VITSENTZOS KORNAROS Cultural Center had planned, as its first event, to invite to Sitia the distinguished contemporary scholars of Seferis, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Giannis Kiourtsakis and Vasilis Papadopoulos, to renew the bond between the