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Archive Footage: Municipal building, Statue of Leonidas, Neoclassical buildings, National Gallery/ Koumantarios Gallery of Sparti, Statue of Lycurgus, Gardens of Archaeological Museum, Konstantinos Palaiologos Avenue, Ancient Sparta, Menelaion, Byzantine Baths of Sparta, Hellenistic Bridge – Xirokambi, Vaulted Tomb of Vafeio, Cenotaph of Leonidas, Monument of Karyatides-Karyes, Mystras, Mystras, Archaeological Museum, Museum of Religious Art, Museum of the Olive Oil and Greek Olive Oil, Museum of Modern Sparta, Manousakeion Museum of Urban and Folk Life, Camera Museum-Mystras, Panagia Chrysafitissa, Panagia Lagadiotissa, Monastery Agion Tessarakonta Martyron, Monastery Agioi Anargyroi, Monastery Panagia Zerbitsa, Monastery Golas, Church of Evangelistria, Church of Osios Nikon, Knakion Springs, Mount Taygetos, Maganiari Springs, Vasiloneri-Trypi, Anakolo Canyon, Evrotas River, Kastor Canyon, Mount Parnonas, Plane Trees of Menelaos, Keramos Springs, Karyes, Agios Mamas Springs, Spartathlon, Spartan Race, Palaiologeia, Running, Olive Oil Festival, Mountain Bike Races, Folk Festivals, Motorsports, City Cycling, Cultural Summer Festival, Local Products, Everyday life
Learning through the art of teaching | Koumantaros Gallery | Georgia Kakourou Chroni | TEDxSparta
Georgia Kakourou Chroni personifies the culture and civilization of Sparta.
The woman who constituted the operation of Koumantarios Gallery for 20 years, founded cultural organizations, walked through the paths of Taygetus mountain with the Spartan poet Nikiforos Vrettakos, is inscribed as the heart of the city in the minds of its people.
A teacher, an inspirational figure and an ambassador of values.
Georgia Kakourou Chroni hold the position of the official curator at the Koumantaros Gallery, National Gallery Annex,Sparta till 2015. She studied and completed her doctoral thesis at the NKUA Filosophy dept. Her postgraduate studies at the University of Leicester were concentrated on the field of museology, leading her steps at the History of Art dept. University of Cambridge. Her career is based on art teaching techniques for elementary school, a domain she involved with at the University of Missouri Columbia. Mrs.Chroni has taught at the University of Peloponnese and the Hellenic Open University dept.Postgraduate Department of Cultural Management and was a member of the Fulbright Foundation. Her scientific interest focuses on modern Greek literature and museology. She has also published various papers in international magazines, as well as a number of books.
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