Himara, US Embassy supports cultural promotion
19/11/2011

Professors, citizen and Municipality employees participated at the international conference in Himara, with the topic “26 centuries of history”.

Himara is one of Albania’s regions with the highest tourism and cultural potentials, which must be exploited in the best possible way for helping economy. The US Embassy has financed this project through small grants from the Commission for Democracy.

The Public Relations Director of the US Embassy in Tirana, Elisabeth Lewis, spoke in Albanian and declared that it is very important to cooperate with the civil society and local or central representatives.

“This project is a very good example of how the civil society and local government could cooperate. We expect more cooperation in the next years to come, for strengthening the democratic capacities and for increasing the trust between civil organizations and their partners in government and private sectors”, Lewis declared.

The Coastline Association realized this project that aims to highlight Himiara’s historical and cultural values, and the high potentials of tourism development in this geographically important area of our country.