Good Practice - Project
Melitzazz - Promoting the Tsakonian heritage
An example of a LEADER financed local festival that became a tool to promote cultural heritage and create the conditions necessary for sustainable local development.
General information
RDP Priority
- P6. Social inclusion and local development
RDP Focus Area
- 6B: Local development
RDP Measure
- M19: LEADER/CLLD
Summary
Melitzazz Festival started as an initiative to promote the local gastronomy of the Tsakonian region in the Eastern Peloponnese. The success of the LEADER funded festival became a driver for sustainable local development for the area.
Over the years the festival gradually established its identity, enriching its content and selecting different themes each year: ‘Folk songs and dances’ (2010); ‘Exhibition of local products’ (2011); ‘Mediterranean cuisine’, ‘Musical adaptations’ (2012); ‘Tsakonian carpets’, ‘Melitzazz junior’ (2013); ‘Cine-Melitzazz’ (2014); ‘Jazz Liquor - Entering old mansions of Leonidio’ (2015); ‘On the road’, ‘Child climbing wall’ (2016); ‘Loving Melitzazz’ (as in Loving Vincent), (2017); ‘Labyrinth dance’ (2018).
Results
The Melitzazz strategy has helped to:
- highlight the value and uniqueness of the Tsakonian heritage in order to strengthen its regional identity.
- attract tourists.
- improve the quality of life of the local population and boost the local economy.
In 2018 approximately 6 000 people attended the festival.
Promoter
Civil non-profit organization “Short Mediterranean Stories”
Funding
Total budget 61 179.12 (EUR)
EAFRD 58 120.16 (EUR)
National/Regional 3 058.96 (EUR)
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Resources
gp_gr_metlitazz_421_web_dl.pdf
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