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L'origine de l'usine Menier remonte au début du XIXe siècle, avec Jean Antoine Brutus Menier, de souche angevine. Puis sous l'impulsion de quatre générations successives va se développer à Noisiel, en liaison avec les plantations de cacaoyers que possédait au Nicaragua cette dynastie un ensemble industriel de première importance tant dans sa conception que dans sa ...
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After a successful first workshop held on 29 September, the second of a series of training workshops for Jet tours guides is to be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 27 October 2005.
Organized in the context of the recently signed agreement between Laurence Berman-Clement, Director-General of Jet tours and Francesco Bandarin, Director of the World Heritage Centre, the ...
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In an ongoing commitment to sustainable tourism, Jet tours will support two safeguarding projects scheduled for implementation early 2007. The projects are part of a joint endeavour through the World Heritage Centre-Jet Tours partnership to promote preservation and awareness through responsible tourism. On 9 November 2006, the Centre's director, Francesco Bandarin, and ...
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Aggtelek National Park (ANP) was established in 1985 to protect the uniquely rich natural and cultural heritage in the region, and in particular the Gomor-Torna karst aquifer and geologic formations. The first of Hungary's national parks, it later added equestrian tourism and environmental education programmes to its already popular cave tours and surface tours. In 2007, ...
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,Comoros National Center of Documentation and Scientific Research (CNDRS), with the support of UNESCO, organized a two-day capacity-building workshop entitled “Training of Tour Guides for the Heritage of Comoros” on 1 and 2 September 2021. The hybrid workshop was held online with the physical participation of 25 youth participants (over a third of which were females), from ...
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Le nom roumain « coules » emprunte au turc tKula signifie tour, designe un tour-habitation avec trois on meme quatre niveaux, utilise par la grande ou la petite noblesse du pays. Habituellement les coulas sont situees dans les points dominants pour surveilles les passages. Sur des plans carres, avec escalier interiour, des meurtrieres,le dernier etage etant prevue d'un « ...
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UNESCO House, Pas perdus hall,Baroque through the Eyes of children
Playful Architect is artistic project for children between 8 and 12 years old during which they receive dedicated classes and guided tours by professional architects and are encouraged to draw or paint their local cultural heritage from their own perspective.
The best works are selected by the ...
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Thanks to the generous financing of a Japan Funds-in-Trust project to UNESCO for ‘Technical and financial assistance for the reconstruction of Muzibu-Azaala-Mpanga, architectural masterpiece of the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi, Uganda, World Heritage property in Danger,’ an illustrated tour guidebook entitled ‘KASUBI: Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi Tour Guiding ...
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L'office national d'études et de recherches aérospatiales (O.N.E.R.A.), qui a succédé en 1940 à l'établissement d'Aéronautique militaire de Chalais-Meudon, occupe un terrain d'une dizaine d'hectares, en bordure Est de la grande perspective du domaine national de Meudon, à proximité de l'étang de Chalais, vaste bassin hexagonal dessiné au XVIIe ...
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Tours , France,The Val de Loire World Heritage cultural landscape (France) is organizing a one-day workshop on Economy, Heritage and Landscape, to be held 12th December 2013 in Tours.
The workshop will focus mainly on policies and politics, and assessing the economic, environmental and cultural current and future returns on investments in the economic, ...
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Albreda, Kunta Kinteh Island,This event will be held in Albreda, Kunta Kinteh Island, with community, schools and tour guides. The goal is to elicit from them ideas on how the World Heritage sites can further empower communities, especially young people.
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At Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the Institute of Anthropology and History, part of the culture ministry, is working to protect one of the world's most important ancient Mayan sites and part of the largest contiguous tropical rainforest in Central America, the Maya Biosphere Reserve.Find sustainable economic alternatives to illegal hunting and the extraction of xate (a ...
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France,Factors identified at the time of inscription of the property: N/A,Following exchanges between the World Heritage Centre and the State Party since 2019 regarding a high-rise building project within the World Heritage property, a report on its state of conservation was requested in November 2022 by 1 February 2023 and an Advisory mission encouraged by the end of ...
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From 17 to 23 September 2017, UNESCO welcomed representatives from Georgia to discuss protection of World Heritage properties. The tour was part of a Technical Assistance project by UNESCO to Georgia within the framework of the Agreement signed between UNESCO and Georgia in 2015. This Cultural heritage advisory service by UNESCO is implemented with financial support from ...
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,La Noche del Patrimonio is an unprecedented world-class cultural and artistic event taking placesimultaneously in the 15 Spanish World Heritage Cities. For one special night every September, the best of international contemporary dance, UNESCO World Heritage sites and local culture expressions light up the cityscape of the 15 Spanish cities with a celebration that is open ...
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The cultural landscape of the Loire Valley (France) has launched a new promotion and interpretation tool: a geo localized application for Smartphones on the landscape of the Loire valley: "The Loire valley: view from the train “.
This application is a Mission Val de Loire’s initiative with the Centre and Pays de la Loire regions’, in partnership with ...
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Fourteen young people, with common interests in marine biodiversity and climate change, developed two tourist guides for the Coiba National Park in Panama, in the framework of the World Heritage Youth Project on Marine Biodiversity and Climate Change that was organized in January 2016 by the World Heritage Centre in cooperation with MarViva Foundation.
The creation of ...
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The official ceremony to mark the inscription of the Old Town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof on the World Heritage List took place at the historical Reichssaal on 24 November 2007 in the presence of 300 invited guests. Thousands of local residents and tourists took part in celebrations including guided city tours, performances of music, theatre and historical dance ...
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,This year’s edition of the Singapore Botanic Gardens Heritage Festival is held in conjunction with the Singapore Garden Festival. From 30 July to 7 August 2022, the Gardens will bring you through a heritage journey with activities such as concerts, guided tours, DIY trails, and virtual activities! Join for fun-filled programmes curated to celebrate the Gardens' rich ...
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La tour de Goto-Goulfey se présente comme un monticule de construction en terre ayant une forme cubique d’une hauteur de 12 mètres et d’une largeur de 9 mètres. Elle est plus large à sa base et sa forme se rétrécit au fur et à mesure que l’on évolue vers le sommet où on retrouve un espace rectangulaire de 7,50m de long et de 6,5mètres de large, soit une superficie de ...
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The Bonerate National Park is home to the third biggest atoll in the world after Kwajifein in the Marshall Isles and Suvadiva in the Moldiva Isles. The total area of the atoll is about 220,000 hectares with coral reefs spreading over 500km2. The national park includes an area of 530,765 ha.
Taka Bonerate is a Bugis’s name that somewhat has a meaning ‘Coral Piled Up On ...
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Tongariro National Park, New Zealand,Leaders from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Palau will visit Tongariro National Park in New Zealand. The intention of the study tour is to demonstrate to traditional and elected leaders the benefits of the World Heritage Convention as well as its application in a real context. As a follow-up ...
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,On the occasion of the European Museum Night, UNESCO will open its doors on Saturday 13 May from 6 pm to midnight. In addition to its rich architectural and artistic heritage, the Organization will offer a series of cultural activities dedicated to Africa. In the second half of the evening, visitors will be able to attend an artistic performance by DJ Michael Canitrot, ...
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In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global tourism industry faced significant setbacks, particularly affecting economies heavily reliant on tourism, like Seychelles. The pandemic showed the vulnerability of tourism, leading to a drastic decline of over 70% in foreign visitors to Seychelles in 2020. This downturn highlighted the nation's dependence on tourism ...
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The World Heritage Centre has learned with great sadness of the recent passing of Luc Hoffmann, a pioneer in nature conservation whose impact touched all the corners of the globe.
An ornithologist, conservationist and philanthropist, Mr Hoffmann co-founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and helped establish the Ramsar Convention for the protection of Wetlands. He set up the ...
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Gateshead and Newcastle (U.K.),This Conference offers an opportunity to show how cultural and heritage assets can be used to regenerate historic towns and cities.
In Gateshead and Newcastle, the assets of the past and the aspirations of the present have contributed to remarkable changes in the fortunes of the two places. The restoration and re-use of historic buildings, ...
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Barcelona, Spain,Monographic topic: Art and technology in the work of Antoni Gaudi Gaudi's architecture tends to be approached from one of two viewpoints, one stressing its artistic aspects and the other its technical innovations. However, as study deepens on the subject it becomes clear that in Gaudi the two concepts are indivisible; the mechanical, geometric and ...
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On 6th May 2013, the creation of a “Rivers and heritage” UNESCO Chair was approved by UNESCO.
This project stems from a partnership between the University François Rabelais in Tours (France), the University of Angers (France) and the Mission Val de Loire which is the management body of the Val de Loire site World Heritage site. The creation of a UNESCO ...
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Tourist guides from World Heritage Sites in Iran participated in the “World Heritage Specialist Guide Training Program” in Kermanshah from 04 to 08 August 2019 to upgrade their knowledge of World Heritage Sites and acquire new skills needed to become a specialized World Heritage tour guide.The participants composed a mixed group coming from the Iranian Cultural Heritage, ...
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Dunhuang, Gansu Province, The People’s Republic of China,Preparations are underway for the conference organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Dunhuang Academy, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China. Originally scheduled for summer 2003, the conference was postponed due to the SARS epidemic.
Ninety papers from ...
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Project Publication on Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites of Portuguese Origin and Influence
In January 2013, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal (the Portuguese Tourism Authority) concluded their joint project on capacity-building for tourism management in World Heritage sites of Portuguese origin and influence. The project culminated in a final event at the School of Tourism in Lisbon, Portugal, where were showcased the project’s ...
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IRONBRIDGE, UK,The Association of Independent Museums will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 1997. Joint hosts for this special anniversary conference will be the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and the Ironbridge Institute (University of Birmingham). The historic Ironbridge Gorge provides a fitting venue for this year's theme of 'Spirit of Time and Place'. ...
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Visitors to Sukhothai, Si Satchanalai and Kamphaeng Phet will now be able to click onto a new website to get information about historic monuments, nearby attractions and visitor facilities at this World Heritage site.
The official launch took place on 27 March 2008 from 9-10 am at the 5th floor conference room of the UNESCO Bangkok office on Sukhumvit Road chaired by the ...
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Hiroshima, Japan,The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World Heritage Conservation Monitoring, the Session will focus on issues surrounding the monitoring of World Heritage sites as required by the ...
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At Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, reserve staff and local partners, such as Amigos de Sian Ka'an, are developing strategies to mitigate the pressures from mass tourism on the site's tropical forests, mangrove canals and coral barrier reef, the second largest in the world.Increase the quality of existing ecotourism services; Reduce the impact of ...
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The Val de Loire World Heritage cultural landscape (France) is organizing a one-day workshop on Economy, Heritage and Landscape, to be held 12th December 2013 in Tours.
The workshop will focus mainly on policies and politics, and assessing the economic, environmental and cultural current and future returns on investments in the economic, landscape and heritage ...
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Istanbul, Turkey,The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to explore sustainable strategies for the conservation of historic timber structures in an era where the mismanagement of forest resources, the increasing cost of traditional constructional materials and the loss of traditional craft skills necessitates a radical rethinking of the means by which wooden ...
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Belgium,,In February 2008, information was received by the World Heritage Centre from a foundation raising concerns about interventions and new constructions at the World Heritage property which could have an impact on its authenticity and integrity, as well as the state of conservation of some of the historic buildings. Subsequently, on 17 July 2008 the World Heritage ...
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Since January 2006, the Malian authorities have been developing a management and conservation plan for Timbuktu, a World Heritage site since 1988. In March 2006, a management committee made up of the imams of the three mosques, representatives of all local areas, tour guides, and municipal and administrative authorities was officially created by municipal decree.
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,Celebrate International Archaeology Day in 2014!
The Archaeological Institute of America invites you to join us this year on 18 October (although events can be scheduled throughout the month of October) by hosting an archaeologically themed event in your community. Participation is open to all archaeological and historical organizations and institutions around the ...
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Presentations will be made everyday at 10am, 1pm and 3pm on issues such as World Heritage destinations, sustainable tourism at World Heritage sites, the effects of tourism on the conservation of World Heritage sites, individual conservation efforts, the trade's role in site conservation, and World Heritage tours as new markets. World Heritage Site Managers will be on ...
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17th ICOMOS General Assembly and Scientific Symposium on the theme “Heritage: Driver of Development”
The most important triennial gathering of ICOMOS will take place from 27 November to 2 December 2011 for the first time in Paris at UNESCO Headquarters.
The General Assembly is accompanied by a Scientific Symposium on the theme "Heritage: Driver of Development". Both events are open to ICOMOS members and non-members alike.
Visit the special website www.icomos-paris2011.com ...
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,The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Seventh Session in its Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites, with a deadline of 19 February, for the session that will take place from 18-23 April 2010 in Hiroshima, Japan. Entitled Conservation for Peace: World ...
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From June to October 2021, over Gambian 300 secondary school students have attended at least one discovery and training session at one of the two Stone Circles of Senegambia World Heritage sites in the country (two more are located in Senegal). Wassu and Kerbatch sites have been visited under the guidance of trained tour guides and teachers as well as staff from the ...
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Italy,,The World Heritage Centre has received the Management Plan from the State Party by letter dated 1 February 2005. The State Party also provided on 30 March 2005 revised maps of the property that do not include the two museums.
ICOMOS studied the Management Plan for the World Heritage property. It noted that the chapter on visitor management provides ...