Armenia to mark World Heritage Day 

ArmInfo.  A series of events will be held in Yerevan and different regions  to mark April  18,  International Day of Monuments and Sites.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science,  Culture, and Sports, there will be information campaigns, excursions,  hiking trips, educational visits to monuments, educational programs  for schoolchildren in the form of open lessons, quizzes, lectures, as  well as cleanup work at monuments and adjacent areas.

The program aims to popularize monuments, raise public awareness of  cultural heritage and its vulnerability, and emphasize the need for  measures to protect and preserve it. According to the source,  schoolchildren are expected to actively participate in the planned  events, as the preservation and promotion of monuments are seen as   additional components of the educational process.

Every year on 18 April, ICOMOS celebrates the "International Day for  Monuments and Sites", whose establishment was approved by the 22nd  UNESCO General Conference in 1983. The aim of the International Day  for Monuments and Sites is to encourage local communities and  individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of  cultural heritage to their lives, identities and communities, and to  promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts  required to protect and conserve it.