Worldheritage Forum

European Heritage Days 2006

Posted on 19. February 2006 um 12:36 Uhr
» International Preservation Built Heritage

The European Heritage Days will be held coming autumn.

The many aims of EHD go beyond the basic idea of promoting access to monuments and sites, and include:

• bringing European citizens closer to their cultural heritage to help them get to know and understand each other better despite the diversity of cultures and languages;
  
• safeguarding a heritage constantly under threat. This is something, which concerns public authorities (State, regions and cities), but also private organisations and individuals. The increasing success of this awareness-raising activity enhances the image of public and private institutions responsible for protecting and promoting the heritage, making public officials and individuals more aware of the work they do;
  
• promoting a more open attitude to others, as a means of effectively combating racism, xenophobia and intolerance, while also playing a key role in the search for identity and the affirmation of our collective memory;
  
• preparing for the future by re-appropriating, re-interpreting and re-positioning the cultural vestiges of the past in their political, social and economic implications.

reference: http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operation/Heritage/Ehd/EHD.asp#TopOfPage

In germany this yeay the so-called Tag des offenen Denkmals (Day of open Monuments) will concentrate on gardens and horticultural heritage.

Information on events in other european countries will be published soon on this website of the Council of Europe.

Chinese Teahouse in the UNESCO-World Heritage Site , Potsdam reference: WIKIPEDIA, GNU