The highlight of the festival is an art programmethat opens up the festival at the Ngo Mon Square on June 25 night.
The opening ceremony is intended to introduce culturalvalues and identities of the Hue ancient capital city, and Thua Thien-Hueprovince at large, which is striving to grow further, according to ViceChairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Binh.
The provincial Department of Tourism said about200,000 tourists are expected to join activities within the festival.
Hue is home to five UNESCO-recognisedworld cultural heritages, namely the Complex of Hue Monuments (a world heritagesite), “Nha nhac” or Vietnamese court music (Intangible Cultural Heritage ofHumanity), the woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty (part of the Memory of theWorld Programme), the imperial archives of the Nguyen Dynasty (part of theMemory of the World Programme), and the Literature on Hue Royal Architecture(part of Documentary Heritage in the Memory of the World Programme)./.