A new exhibition which has just opened in Gozo is a voyage through maps, made up of several maps of the European continent, each a cartographic treasure.

Europe: 12 Maps, one Project, which is being held at the Xewkija Windmill and will go on till the 2nd of June, was inaugurated by Europe Direct Gozo in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy for Malta and Cultural Heritage Directorate within the Ministry for Gozo and Planning

His Excellency Mr. José María Muriel, Ambassador and Mr Pedro Santamaria Cultural Section, Embassy of Spain in Malta, Mr Joseph Theuma, officer Cultural Heritage Directorate, Mr Daniel Borg CEO the Gozo Business Chamber and Mr Jesmond Buttigieg Manager Europe Direct Gozo were present for the inauguration.

Europe: 12 Maps and a Project. Questions such as, What is Europe, a continent, a geographical reality, a political community, must be answered. Europe is all that and much more. Europe is the result of a historical process that reaches ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Christianity, the Enlightenment, the expansion of the West, the world wars and a thousand other events.

The maps, eyes of history, show scenes and figures of what their battles, their pacts, their populations, their cities have been. Maps are like portraits of countries, their territories and their inhabitants.

It was explained that there is no definitive map, just as there is no definitive portrait. Each describes a series of phenomena or relates a succession of events, but none exhausts them. Maps express what their authors were looking for in space and how they represented it. ”They tell us about what we were or what we thought we were.”

The exhibition is open daily, 8.30am until 8pm.

Photo: Europe Direct Gozo

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