The ICOMOS International Committee on Cultural Routes
One of the International Committees of ICOMOS is dealing with Cultural Routes:
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Article 2 - ObjectiveThe objective of the Committee is to promote, consistent with the aims of ICOMOS international cooperation, the identification, study and enhancement of cultural routes and their significance in relation to their main value as a whole, and in connection with the protection, maintenance and conservation of their monuments, groups of buildings, archaeological remains, cultural landscapes and sites, as they are connected through cultural values and historical links.
Article 3 - Activities
The activities to accomplish its objective shall be conducted in accordance with a triennial programme and shall include in particular but are not limited to
scientific conferences and workshops in conjunction with the meetings of the
Committee, study visits, publications.(...)
reference:http://www.icomos-ciic.org/CIIC/ESTATUTOS_ingl.htm
One of the next objectives is to agree upon an International Charter on Cultural Routes:
(...)the specialists of the CIIC have worked hard throughout the last decade for the drafting of a project aiming at the adoption of an International Charter on Cultural Routes, which have been recognised as a new category of WH by the UNESCO (February 2005). The text was submitted to the international Bureau of ICOMOS (Havana, June 2005) and the Executive Committee (Xi’an, October of the same year) and, after obtaining their necessary acceptance, the draft was handed to the participants at the last World General Assembly held in Xi’an (October, 2005) who adopted a Resolution for this project to be distributed to the national and IS committees of ICOMOS for their study in the next three years.
reference:http://www.icomos-ciic.org/INDEX_ingl.htm
I already reported earlier on cultural routes:
Cultural Tourism: the challenge of European integration
Viastoria
St.James' shell, symbol of the Saint and the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela photo:WIKIPEDIA, GNU
