At it's 30th session in Vilnius the UNESCO World Heritage Committee selected 16 cultural and 2 natural sites to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, that is holding it's anual conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, has already decided some issues on the agenda. The cultural site Hampi in India together with other sites was removed from the red list of World Heritage in Danger, while the Dresden Elbe Valley was added.
At the 30th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, that will take place from 8th to 16th of July in Vilnius, among other subjects the inscription of 37 new World Heritage Sites will be discussed.
From May 31st to 3rd of June Prague will host the seventh European Commission Conference 'SAUVEUR' Safeguarded Cultural Heritage -
Understanding & Vialbility for the Enlarged Europe.
The 30th session of the World Heritage Committee will take place in Vilnius (Lithuania) from 8th to 16th of July 2006. On the agenda are some exciting topics.
The International Committee on Cultural Routes of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) now tries to agree upon a charter on Cultural Routes.
ICOMOS already published 1999 a document dealing with Railways as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The special character of this type of monument is described there.
A joint programme, supported by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS, and Docomomo, aims at the the identification, documentation and promotion of the built heritage of the 19th and 20th centuries. One objective is to raise awareness concerning the heritage of architecture, town planning and landscape design of the modern era.
Next Saturday, 25 March at 20:40, the French-German television chain ARTE will broadcast a documentary by Halil Gülbeyaz (Germany, 2006) on the archaeological site of Allianoi in Turkey and the dangers it presently faces.
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