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Originally published in 2007 in English, this publication has now been reprinted for the third time in English and translated into French, Spanish and Arabic. It presents twenty-six case studies from selected natural and cultural World Heritage sites in order to illustrate the impacts of climate change that have already been observed, and those that can be expected in the ...

Seminar at the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (France) on Tourism and World Heritage Sites

Call to produce additional innovative resource material on specific World Heritage sites The importance of preparing new multi-media educational material focused on specific World Heritage sites in respective countries was given emphasis by participants from twenty different countries at the International conference on World Heritage in Young Hands ‘A Dialogue among ...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are islands of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. They are some of the most beautiful places on Earth, with atolls of white sand beaches, mountain ranges covered in cloud forest, historic ports and towns, and agricultural landscapes. They are relatively remote, vulnerable to environmental challenges, such as ...

There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment.There exist a great variety of Landscapes that are representative of the different regions of the world. Combined works of nature and ...

Disaster Risk Management Plan for Quebrada de Humahuaca

Washing of the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

The First Foro Accesible de Patrimonio JovenQuinCarméla

Promoting field-based heritage education in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)

Technical assistance for the management of the Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site, El Salvador

Special plan for the protection and restoration of the historic city of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Rubem Braga Elevator Complex: connecting the favelas with the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

The Heritage Office of the Instituto Colombiano de Cultura, COLCULTURA, organized the Caribbean Fortification Experts Meeting, financed by the UNESCO World Heritage Fund, for purposes of encouraging the inclusion of Caribbean Fortifications as a whole within the World Heritage List. The meeting was held during July 31- August 2, 1996, in Cartagena de Indias.Caribbean ...

Ile d'Aix (Region Poitou-Charentes)25 august- 15 september 2008 Description Fort Liedot forms part of the Arsenal de Rochefort et fortifications de l'estuaire de la Charente (World Heritage Tentative List as cultural site, 2002). The site is in need for regular restoratiions and installations. The work camp will continue works of the restoration in the parhs of th ...

Note 3 – Identification des detenteurs de droits et autres parties prenantes, et outils d’engagement

The Comite francais pour la sauvegarde de Venise often sponsors the restoration of Venetian monuments that have a French connection. This is the case of the Cappella Clary in the Church of San Trovaso, the burial place of a French princess. The most important work in the chapel is the beautiful fifteenth-century relief carving of three Greek marble panels on the front of ...

The Comite francais pour la sauvegarde de Venise began the restoration and refurbishment of two frescoed rooms in the Querini Stampalia Foundation, once occupied by the Serenissima's last ambassador to France. The removal of crude nineteenth-century overpainting has revealed an almost complete original decorative scheme that quite transforms the rooms concerned. T hey will ...

The UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes has been awarded for its first edition in 1999 jointly to Valle de Vinales (Cuba), the Elishia's Park in Jericho (State of Palestine), and the Open-Air Art Museum at Pedvale (Latvia). Valle de VinalesCuba Valle de Vinales (Cuba) © UNESCO, Ron Van Oers The ...

The World Heritage Cities Programme is one of six thematic programmes formally approved and monitored by the World Heritage Committee. The programme concerns the development of a theoretical framework for urban heritage conservation, and the provision of technical assistance to States Parties for the implementation of new approaches and schemes. World Heritage Cities ...

The Comite francais financed the restoration of Lorenzo Bregno's sixteenth-century funeral monument to Alvise Pasqualigo in the Church of the Frari in memory of Ms Solange Gaussen. In November and December the Committee enabled the organ doors that Bonfacio de' Pitati painted for the Church of Sant'Alvise (restored in 1998) to be put on a temporary exhibition in the ...