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Adopting a more hands-on approach At skills development training courses, young people are actively involved in the preservation of World Heritage, while acquiring new skills that contribute to a better understanding of the importance of both their tangible (monuments, historical centres, natural reserves, etc.) and intangible heritage (traditional know-how, music, ...

Restoring Life to the Community in Lamu Old Town, Kenya

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Mount Kenya, Kenya, 19-23 April 2004 Event The 4-day program included, besides an official opening, thematic presentations by resource persons from the Kenya National Museums, the Kenya Wildlife Service, the Kenyan National Commission and by the World Heritage Centre. All thematic presentations were accompanied by skills development activities based on the various chapters ...

Promoting climate change adaptation and mitigation in Lamu Old Town (Kenya)

Graz, Austria, 7-12 October 2000 Interregional Seminar on World Heritage and Youth The workshop consisted of 3 working groups that focused on different aspects of the World Heritage Education. The first working group was "Challenges in Introducing World Heritage Education into classroom teaching and trough extra-curriculum activities"; the second group was working on the ...

Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania, 14-16 March 2005 Organizers The UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office, in collaboration with the UNESCO Harare Office and under guidance of UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Event The workshop was convened to familiarize the participating teachers from the sub-region with the World Heritage in young Hands Education Kit published in Swahili in ...

Earthen architecture is one of the most original and powerful expressions of our ability to create a built environment with readily available resources. It includes a great variety of structures, ranging from mosques, palaces and granaries, to historic city centres, cultural landscapes and archaeological sites. Its cultural importance throughout the world is evident and ...

The first Regional Meeting on Modern Heritage, for Latin America, took place from 11 to 13 December 2002 in Monterrey (Mexico) and was organised by the World Heritage Centre, ICOMOS, DOCOMOMO and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia of Mexico (INAH). Attended by more than 50 persons, two dozen experts who were selected for their professional work and ...

In 1954 the decision to build the Aswan High Dam was made. This dam would lead to the creation of a huge artificial lake covering the Upper Nile Valley from Aswan in Egypt to the Dal Cataract in Sudan - a culturally extremely rich area, which has been known as Nubia since antiquity. In 1959 the Egyptian and the Sudanese Governments requested UNESCO to assist their ...

Update of the Management Plan of the Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro (Mexico)

Restauration and revitalisation of the Complex of Hue Monuments and historical town, Viet Nam

Urban Heritage Atlas: Understanding attributes of historic cities and settlements| Historic Monuments Zone of Queretaro (Mexico)Ashraf AliMirna

The handbook "Cultural heritage and local development: A Guide for African local governments", co-edited by the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement and CRATerre-ENSAG in 2006, was designed as a tool for decision making, but also for sensitising the elected representatives to the challenges of the protection and valorisation of their heritage. It aims to create a new ...

The most famous of the monuments affected by the Aswan High Dam Project was the temple complex on the island of Philae. Sacred to the goddess Isis, the sanctuary dates mostly to the Graeco-Roman period and was later transformed into a church (540 AD). The following monuments were also threatened by the construction of the dam: The small temples of Debod, Qertassi and ...

The area of Africa that is present-day Ethiopia has a long history rich in tradition; its sites and monuments bear witness to the civilizations that have had their roots in this territory for more than 2,700 years. The buildings and monuments of Aksum, Gondar, Harar and Tiya reflect periods of great influence, growth and prosperity, while the churches and mosques of ...

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 ...

In December 1995, the Director-General of UNESCO and the representative of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Government signed a Cooperation Memorandum providing for the preparation of reconstruction and restoration projects in the fields of UNESCORegarding cultural heritage, the Memorandum refers to the restoration of historical centres (in particular in Sarajevo and Mostar) and ...

The project aims at the emergency consolidation, conservation and restoration of the Minaret of Jam and The Fifth Minaret in Herat. Expected results: Consolidated and rehabilitated Minaret of Jam and Fifth Minaret in Herat Increased national capacity in the conservation of cultural heritage Income generated and training provided for Afghans of various backgrounds, in ...

Three and a half centuries of neglect and maltreatment were finally reversed in October 1999 with the completion of the comprehensive restoration of the Ancient Jewish Cemetery on the Lido, first established in 1386. Unused since the end of the seventeenth century, when the "new" cemetery was opened, the old burial ground had become overgrown with vegetation and ...