June 21, 2022 | 16:20 (GMT+7)
Hue Festival 2022 to take place from June 25-30
The Hue Festival 2022 is scheduled to take place from June 25-30 with eight major programs and many sidelines events, the People’s Committee of Thua Thien Hue province unveiled at a press conference on June 20.
The highlight of the festival is an art program that opens up the festival at Ngo Mon Square on June 25 night.
The opening ceremony is intended to introduce cultural values and identities of the Hue ancient capital city, and Thua Thien Hue province at large, which is striving to grow further, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh.
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An art program at Hue Festival |
The provincial Department of Tourism said about 200,000 tourists are expected to join activities within the festival.
Hue is home to five UNESCO-recognized world cultural heritages, namely the Complex of Hue Monuments (a world heritage site), “Nha nhac” or Vietnamese court music (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity), the woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty (part of the Memory of the World Program), the imperial archives of the Nguyen Dynasty (part of the Memory of the World Program), and the Literature on Hue Royal Architecture (part of Documentary Heritage in the Memory of the World Program).
Source: VNA