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There was tension in Kozani, outside the Exhibition Center of Macedonia, before the speech of Alexis Tsipras at the Regional Congress, on Wednesday.

UNESCO has inscribed the centuries old custom of the “Momoeria” held annually in the wider Kozani region, northern Greece, on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity this week.

Farmers in the rural area of Kozani, northern Greece, started harvesting “Krokos”, the local saffron produced by the crocus flower, one of the most important products of the region which have been cultivated for decades. 
Hundreds of farmers in the regions of Agia Paraskevi, Kesaria, Ano and Kato Platania Voiou, are found bending over their crops, collecting one-by-one the prized stems of the purple flower.