Projects Planned for the Protection of the Treskavec Monastery in Macedonia
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The projects are expected to be ready by the end of August, Elizabeta Kancheska-Milevska, the State Secretary for Culture, told the daily newspaper Dnevnik, and work is to begin in September. According to Kancheska-Milevska, the project for the water supply and the protection and conservation is ready.
The treatment of the monastery will be from all aspects, Pasko Kuzman, head of the Cultural Heritage Protection Bureau, told media, because the thirteenth-century complex is significantly ruined.
Experts agree that the monastery has a large historical significance not only for Macedonia, but for the whole world, which has unfortunately been undermined because it has been insufficiently researched and protected.
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