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Trang An heritage festival in Ninh Binh closes

The Trang An heritage festival 2022, the first of its kind, closed in the northern province of Ninh Binh on November 19 with a vibrant artistic programme, attracting thousands of local resident and tourists.
Trang An heritage festival in Ninh Binh closes ảnh 1A performance at the closing ceremony of the event. (Photo: VNA)
Ninh Binh (VNA) - The Trang Anheritage festival 2022, the first of its kind, closed in the northern provinceof Ninh Binh on November 19 with a vibrant artistic programme, attractingthousands of local resident and tourists.

The Trang An heritage festival ran from November 17-19 withthe participation of 14 provinces and cities from across the country,along with Udomxay province of Laos. Contestants in the Tourism WorldPageant World, which is taking place in Vietnam, also attended thefestival.

The festival featured a wide range of activities, with themost prominent ones the opening ceremony, an exhibition on cultural heritage,traditions, and history, a street festival and a concert highlighting culturalheritage and contemporary sound.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tong QuangThin, who is head of the festival’s organising board, said the success of theevent will be an important basis for Ninh Binh to turn it into a major biennialcultural event at the national level, and later international one.

Ninh Binh is home to the Trang An Landscape Complex –a mixed cultural and natural heritage site of the world that earned therecognition in 2014./.
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