Prince Charles to visit Armenia May 28-30
24.05.2013,
18:03
His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales is the first member of the royal family to pay a private visit to Armenia on May 28, the UK Embassy in Armenia reported Friday.
YEREVAN, May 24./ARKA/. His Royal Highness, Prince of Wales is the first member of the royal family to pay a private visit to Armenia on May 28, the UK Embassy in Armenia reported Friday.
Prince Charles will arrive in Armenia as a guest of “Yerevan My Love” charity foundation and will stay here till May 30.
According to the source, Charles will visit the most famous historical monuments of Armenia, an ancient country that was first to adopt Christianity as its state religion, attend the gala concert and dinner in support of the charity’s work in preserving the cultural heritage of Armenian capital Yerevan.
Prince of Wales will visit Matenadaran, an ancient manuscript repository. Recognized by UNESCO as a center of global cultural significance, it holds the ancient manuscripts in Persian, Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Hebrew languages. Charles will also take a tour around Holy Echmiadzin, a spiritual and administrative center of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and visit Pontifical residence of Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.
Prince of Wales will also attend the concert to be held at Yerevan Opera House, afterwards joining the reception and gala dinner to honor the philanthropists as part of “Yerevan My Love” program.
Yerevan My Love is creating a “heritage oasis” close to the city’s St Sarkis Church that will provide arts and crafts workshops, computer classes, educational activities, a theatre and concert hall, an arts gallery, and an open-air amphitheatre for the benefit of disadvantaged families, particularly children.
Yerevan My Love also plans to establish a National Park in the city to unite Armenia’s worldwide diaspora with its homeland. The British landscape architect, Lord Randle Siddeley & Associates, has been commissioned to carry out the design development for the 101-hectare site, which will incorporate a Museum of Diaspora.
“London has Hyde Park and Yerevan will have “Hye Park”, with the name drawn from the Armenian-language word for “Armenian,” the source stated.—0-
