Greek Art Park: A worth seeing place in Rhodes Island

Rhodes Island is known to be the core for Greek festivities and cultural events. The visitors that come to the island for Rhodes holidays attend and take part in different cultural events and celebrations. The Art Park is one of the cultural programs organized every year at Rhodes Island since May 2006.

The Art Park of Rhodes, Greece has now become an important institution that attracts the Greek as well as foreign artists to show their artistic abilities and talent. This non-profit organization is provides a multi art cultural platform especially meant for actors, artists and musicians.

The Art Park on Rhodes Island showcases works of different kinds of Art from the month of May to the month of October. Therefore, for your Rhodes Holidays you can easily visit this wonderful attraction.

Location:
You can find a number of art galleries in Rhodes Island but it is one of the unique places in the centre of Rhodes with highly amusing natural settings . It is located in the beautiful region of Archipolis. The Archipolis is located on the road to Eleousa at a distanced of about thirty kilometres from the Rhodes town.

Also the beach of Kolympia and Afandou are the nearest ones and it just takes about ten minutes on a car or bus to reach there. Art Park of Rhodes is located just ten kilometres past the Seven Springs in Rhodes.

History:
Rhodes’ Art Park is primarily an institution founded by a renowned musician, sculptor maker, and artist named ‘Damon Papakiriakou’ and his wife Emily in May 2006. Initially the institute organised a small multicultural integration. As the place was located in the centre of many tourists spots the event slowly started gaining popularity and eventually became an informal art feast.

In January 2007, the event was recognised when the Art Park of Rhodes won a large scale competition in Greece of the private art institute’s and galleries. The European Program Leader later on, started granting funds to the Art Park of Rhodes.

Today this art park is being operated as a non-profit organization. The art lovers and artists (also known as the ‘Friends of the Art Park’) from across the Europe are the key supporters of Art Park’Friends of the Art Park’ whose members are art lovers and artists from different countries across Europe.

Purpose of the Park:
The basic purpose of this Art Park is to encourage and support different forms of art and music. It encourages young artists and musicians to show off their talent and provides them with a platform.

Attraction of the park:
The Art Park is very interesting place and holds many attractions for the tourists and visitors. It has no entrance or participation fee so you can come here as many times as you want.

It is an environment friendly park. The whole park uses photovoltaic cells that utilize renewable solar energy for electricity generation.

Its location is very pretty and there are many small wooden kiosks used for exhibitions. You can also find some outdoor workshops for artists in this area where they can work without paying anything. All kinds of music equipment and systems are available in the park.

To encourage and appreciate the amazing art of the young people, you are recommended to visit this place at least once during your Rhodes holidays.

Finding Rhodes accommodation in Rhodes town is a great idea for Rhodes Holidays. In both Old and New town a number of Rhodes Town Hotels, rooms and lodges are available that provide good quality services