““Heritage Care through Heritage Care through Active Citizenship”Active Citizenship”

Historic Revivals and their influence on local

communities

Showcasing the Medieval Festival of Rhodes

Historic RevivalsHistoric Revivals Can take the form of a

huge event or festival which has the dynamic to

interact with the local communities and become very important for civil societies with a great number of impacts

Historic RevivalsHistoric Revivals

Based on living history, Include re-enactments and

Exploit tangible heritage

Living history describes attempts to bring history to life

Re-enactment is a type of role- play which attempts to recreate some aspects of a historical event or period

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Gets 1997Gets 1997 Festivals are identified as one of the

fastest growing forms of leisure, business, and tourism related phenomena. The economic role of events is to act as a catalyst for attracting visitors and increasing their average spend and length of stay. They are also seen as image-makers for the destination, creating a profile for destinations, positioning them in the market and providing a competitive marketing advantage

Historic festivalsHistoric festivals

Intersectorial, recreational projects with an educational

function, transmitting knowledge through

historical reproductions of

a high level authenticity

Non Profit Heritage Non Profit Heritage OrganizationsOrganizations

Organize living history actions etc Enhance active citizenship Supported by volunteerism Offer tourists an intangible amalgam of services and experiences

Heritage CultureHeritage Culture When demonstrated in

historic festivals:Can be reproduced by residents, who carry historical memory Attracts Cultural tourists Enhances dynamic relationship with the tourists and entrepreneurs Helps development of intercultural dialogue

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Historic revivals when take a form of such a huge event as a festival, have the dynamic to

interact with the local communities, become very

important for civil societies and have a number of impacts arose

on the host city.

The Cultural SectorThe Cultural SectorCulture Intercultural Dialogue

The Social SectorThe Social SectorImage making EducationVoluntarism

The Environmental SectorThe Environmental SectorThe Economy SectorThe Economy Sector

Cultural Tourism Entrepreneurship & Financial Development

Culture Culture Historic festivals have the dynamic to identify a city through its culture and contribute to it in various ways, such as:

Exploit history and old local traditions through themed events which become major attractions for cultural tourists.Contribute to the conservation and promotion of heritage culture and monuments.Distinguish historical and other heritage monuments such as castles, palaces, temples etc and connect lifestyle to the host context (milieu). Bring peoples of different cultures closer and help them in the discovery of common recreational interests.

Intercultural DialogueIntercultural DialogueHistoric recreational events help the development of intercultural relations and dialogue with the following benefits:

Help communities to explore common cultural heritage routes through their different cultural backgroundsImprove civil society’s ability to deal with a more open, complex, cultural environmentStrengthen the coexistence of different cultural identities and beliefs, to highlight their common heritageAcknowledge and look respectfully at the differences of individual and local experiences.

Image MakingImage Making

Historic festivals can function as hallmark events which can shape the image of the host community and its physical

location in the mind of potential visitors and assist in the

development or maintenance of community or regional identity, local pride

and profile.

EducationEducationLiving History events can be educational for local community and instructive for foreign visitors.Give cultural tourists the chance to get to know the way a community celebrates according to its tradition and how that influences local people.

VoluntarismVoluntarismHistoric revivals give the possibility to the local people: Accessing active citizenship and enhance voluntarism Have a good time Dominating their motivation for personal enrichment and helping their city Volunteers and residents, are the life and soul of the event

EnvironmentEnvironmentRecreational historic events can vitalize the stone-dead heritage landscape and be of benefit in different ways, such as: Encourage further use of that space at the end of the event and create new horizons into new perspectives. Enhance the necessity for maintenance of the heritage monuments Link landscape to lifestyles in simple and complex ways by introducing the human dimension to static spaces that become animated

Cultural TourismCultural TourismThe effects of major living history events on the touristic sector can be summarized mainly, as following:Reduce of mass tourism and improve the host – guest relation, by making it more effective and sustainableIn low touristic periods, they can stimulate the economy of local societies and lengthen the touristic season, thus reducing seasonality which can have a positive impact on national level.Draw publicity and boost local community’s economyEnhance the development of various touristic enterprises and industryRecreational activity in and out of season for visitors and residents

Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship and Financial DevelopmentFinancial DevelopmentMajor historic recreational events have the

dynamic to:Support major industrial sectors and

manufacturers, especially related to traditional products

Confluence to the development of local society, investment and entrepreneurship in sectors relative to history, tradition, culture and heritage

Contribute to employment generation, create business opportunities for organizers and local enterprises by broaden horizons

Attract new investors

The Medieval The Medieval FestivalFestival

The “Medieval Rose” The “Medieval Rose” FestivalFestival

Recreational historical event, with international cultural

participations, inspired of the historic period between 1309 – 1522 when the Knights of St.

John of Jerusalem administrated the island of Rhodes. It is an

effort which started 4 years ago from a group of volunteers who

founded the Medieval Rose Association.

The “Medieval Rose” The “Medieval Rose” AssociationAssociation

Is the first and only NGO in Greece not only organizing an Event at a Castle but also focusing on the

History of the Castle and brought closer, the Eastern with the Western

part of Europe, which is Greece & Portugal and for 2009 intents to

spread the event to other Fortresses and Castles of the island of Rhodes.

Arts & CraftsArts & Crafts

Traditional ProductsTraditional Products

Customs & PracticesCustoms & Practices

ArchitectureArchitecture

HistoryHistory

Old Sports & GamesOld Sports & Games

GastronomyGastronomy

Costumery & Costumery & Furnishing Furnishing