Culture as a concept, the definitions that people have given it according to the circumstances, its relationship with the historical continuity of nations along the timeline, as well as the perceptions of cultural heritage and the role it plays in the history of culture and the identity of a people are issues that have always concerned Greeks and the respective leadership of the country.

This book is a testimony of thoughts, reflections, visions, but also of anxiety and hope for this timelessly significant aspect of the political life of the place. It aspires to make its readers participants in the effort to shape and implement a cultural policy.

A policy that is based, on one hand, on the balanced development between cultural heritage and contemporary culture, and on the other hand, connects the cultural phenomenon with society, the economy, creativity, that is, life itself. A policy that has a beginning and a middle, but no end, as culture is a malleable, evolving idea, a dynamic concept.

Engaging with this subject is a long-term process, simultaneously creative and laborious, requiring constant vigilance, it cannot be executed mechanically, it does not conform to norms and does not always obey the same rules.