Στέγη Τέχνης & Πολιτισμού του Ιδρύματος Λεωνίδα Κ.Μακρή-ιατρού

The "Leonidas K. Makris - Doctor" Foundation is a charitable, social and cultural charitable foundation in the area of ​​N. Trikala and especially in the area of ​​Aspropotamos, where the founder's home is Athamania.

The founder Leonidas Makris, a doctor, was a multifaceted personality with multifaceted activity in the city of Trikala. Leonidas Makris's lively and lusty desire to offer to society and his fellow human beings even after his death led him to deliberately dispose of all his remarkable fortune for the establishment of a Foundation for charitable and philanthropic purposes .

Executives of his will and lifelong members of the Council who run the Foundation chose, by giving them the particular honor, the nephews of the doctors, Athanasios and George Trigonis. The Foundation is run by a three-member board of directors. His current members are Athanasios Trigonis, physician, former Mayor of Trikkaion, Stephania Trigoni - Tiga lawyer and Elias Kefalas writer, writer. The Foundation supports people, Letters, Arts and Culture. In order to fulfill his aims, he grants financial aid to poor people in the prefecture of Trikala, strengthens the action of prominent and young people of the arts and of the letters that derive their origin from the prefecture of Trikala and mainly from the home of the Founder Athamania. Initiatives related to the history, literature, archeology and folklore of N. Trikalon. At the same time it collaborates with the local authorities on issues of wider social interest and assists charitable and charitable associations, disabled people's associations, the Trikala branch of the Red Cross, and the Holy Metropolis of Trikke for the uninterrupted continuation of its common work. Care is also given to the founder's home country, Athamania, where projects have already been implemented and are being implemented in order to address the problems of the inhabitants of this mountainous region and its emergence, with the most important construction of the bridge in 2011 for its connection River mosquito. Following the decision of the Foundation's Board of Directors and for the sole purpose of creating a culture cradle in the prefecture of Trikala, the neoclassical building of the Foundation, located in the center of the city of Trikala, which was the residence of the founder and the place of practicing its medical function, In the Municipality of Trikkai in order to operate with him and with the Foundation's support exclusively as a multi-cultural site in the role of an active nucleus around which will take place pafi with culture and the arts and to host "Art and Civilization" Foundation.

More specifically, the aim of creating the "Art and Culture Center" is to act as a gallery for the hosting of permanent or periodical exhibitions of paintings and sculptures of well-known artists. The original objectives of the Municipality of Trikkaion and the Foundation include and have already created the creation of a fully equipped exhibition space that can accommodate exhibitions of important artists and attract visitors from other parts of Greece, To develop cultural actions and educational programs in collaboration with other museums in Greece (Benaki Museum etc.), the National Gallery and galleries of other cities in Greece.

The "Art and Culture Roof" was inaugurated and welcomed its first visitors in October 2009 with the Exhibition by Trikalai painter Christos Kara, titled: "Christos Karas: Painting 1960-1980". Then there were exhibitions and tributes to other two of the most important and most acclaimed contemporary Greek artists: Sotiris Sorogas (2010) and Dimosthenis Kokkinidis (2011), as well as this exhibition Greater Greek Art Painters from the GI Collection. Katsigra of the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa Thematic Options (2012).