Twenty-seven
new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage this year
The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished
inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 8
July with the addition of 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites
to the List. The following countries have had sites inscribed on
UNESCO’s World Heritage List for the first time this year:
Papua New Guinea; San Marino and Saudi Arabia, Vanuatu. UNESCO’s
World Heritage List now numbers a total of 878 sites, 679 cultural
and 174 natural sites and 25 mixed in 145 countries.
UNESCO. Press Release n°2008-59. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 08-07-2008
Three
new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s
World Heritage List today, Tuesday, adding two new sites to the
List and approving a significant extension of one other site: the
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee (Israel),
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain is the first site to be inscribed
in Vanuatu, one extension was decided by the Committee, which inscribed
the Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra (Albania).
UNESCO. Press Release n°2008-58. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 08-07-2008
Canadian
fossil park, an Icelandic volcanic island and archipelago in Yemen
among sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Quebec City, Canada, 7 July – The World Heritage Committee,
meeting for its 32nd session, inscribed 13 new sites on UNESCO’s
World Heritage List in the afternoon and evening of 7 July. The
nomination of new sites for inscription on the World Heritage List
will continue tomorrow morning, 8 July.
UNESCO. Press Release n°2008-57. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 08-07-2008
Eight
new sites, from the Straits of Malacca, to Papua New Guinea and
San Marino, added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight
new cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the
morning of the 7 of July. With these inscriptions, Papua New Guinea
and San Marino enter the World Heritage List for the first time.
UNESCO. Press Release n°2008-56. UNESCOPRESS.
Publicated: 08-07-2008
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(221 kb) Internships:
Ethiopian cultural heritage project in Gondar
From July to September 2006, Neža Cebron Lipovec participated
as an intern in the Conservation and Site planning project in the
Royal Compound of Fasil Ghebbi in Gondar (Ethiopia). Collaborating
as a volunteer in the Ethiopian Cultural Heritage Project (ECHP),
she worked with the team of experts of the Italian company Hydea
s.r.l. .The project mainly consisted in the designing of a master
plan for site conservation for the royal compound “Fasil Ghebbi”...
RLICC. Newletter July 2008. Publicated:
7-7-2008
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(426 kb) Saint
John’s Hospital, Bruges
By Veronica Heras (architect, Ecuador), Dalia Nabil (interior architect,
Egypt), Thomas De Vos (archaeologist-art historian, Belgium), Giannis
Tsatsos (engineer architect, Greece), Ben De Vriendt (archaeologist,
Belgium). This integrated project work has tried to understand a
building – in this case the convent of the Sint-Janshospitaal
at Bruges – in all its dimensions. The principal aim of this
study is the rehabilitation of the chosen building in its urban
and historical context. After a while, we realized the complexity
of this subject. Not only the building but the whole site Oud Sint-Jan
is in a problematic situation. Different analyses were carried out
concerning the history, the typology, the structure, materials and
pathologies of the building; the circulation towards and inside
and the actual functions of the site...
RLICC. Newletter July 2008. Publicated:
7-7-2008
Armenian
monasteries in Iran added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Fortified Armenian monasteries in Iran were added to the new sites
inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 6 July. The Armenian
Monastic Ensembles in Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists
of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St
Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor.
UNESCOPRESS. Press Release Nº2008-54.
Publicated: 06-07-2008
Slave
hideout in Mauritius, Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia
and earthen houses in China inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage
List
The mountain of Le Morne, a former hideout of runaway slaves in
Mauritius, a Nabataean archaeological site in Saudi Arabia and earthen
houses in Fujian Province in China have been inscribed on UNESCO’s
World Heritage List.
UNESCOPRESS. UNESCO Press Release Nº2008-53.
Publicated: 05-07-2008
First
phase of Aksum Obelisk re-installation successfully completed
The first phase of the re-installation works of the Aksum Obelisk,
also known as Stele 2, in its original location at the World Heritage
site in Aksum, Ethiopia was completed on 12 June 2008. The first
of three blocks of the stele, which stands 24.3 metres high and
weighs 152 tons, was successfully and smoothly mounted.
World Heritage Centre. News. Publicated:
1-7-2008 |
