2016 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage

The winners of the 2016 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards.

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The winners of the 2016 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards, Europe’s top honour in the field, were celebrated yesterday evening during a high-profile event at the Zarzuela Theatre in Madrid. Maestro Plácido Domingo, President of Europa Nostra, the leading heritage organisation in Europe, and Tibor Navracsics, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, co-hosted the European Heritage Awards Ceremony and presented the 7 Grand Prix and the Public Choice Award, chosen from among the 28 winning projects of this year.

 
The 7 Grand Prix laureates, selected by independent expert juries and entitled to receive €10,000 each, are:
Category Conservation
▪ Traditional Watermill in Agios Germanos, Prespes, Greece
▪ The King’s Little Pathway in El Chorro gorge, Malaga, Spain
▪ Wimpole Hall’s Gothic Tower in Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Category Research
▪ Conservation study of the village Gostuša in Pirot district, Serbia Category Dedicated Service
▪ Employees and Activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, BiH
▪ Mrs. Giulia Maria Crespi, Milan, Italy Category Education, Training and Awareness-Raising
▪ ‘Adopt a Monument’, Tampere, Finland


 
The rehabilitation of The King’s Little Pathway is the big winner of this year: the expert jury granted it a Grand Prix while the general public selected it as their favourite heritage project in Europe. Some 8,000 people voted for the Public Choice Award. The online vote, which is in its fifth edition, was conducted via the Europa Nostra website.

During the ceremony, the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards were presented to 28 winners from 16 countries taking part in the EU’s Creative Europe programme. A Europa Nostra Award was also given to an achievement from Belarus, a European country not taking part in the programme.

source: press release