International World Heritage Day is celebrated at World Heritage Sites across the world every year on 18th April, to raise awareness of the diversity of the world’s cultural and natural heritage and the steps that are being made to protect it, conserve it and promote understanding of it. ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) [...]
ICOMOS Documentation Centre, Paris- World Heritage News
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- UNESCO and Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock launch 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
- Statement of the United Nations Foundation in Support of the World Heritage Convention's 40th Anniversary
World Heritage Sites: Their Value, Nomination and Management
Course/Professional Development 22 March 2010, Oxford Cultural World Heritage Sites are incredibly diverse, ranging from individual monuments and sites, such as Stonehenge and Avebury, to historic areas and cities such as Bath, Liverpool and Edinburgh. The defining characteristic that links all cultural World Heritage Sites is that the asset or property must be recognised as [...]
Planning and World Heritage
Wednesday 24 February 2010 – Museum of Iron, Coalbrookdale, Telford Tuesday 2 March 2010 – Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne A 1-day event aimed at people involved in the planning system within World Heritage Sites, including Planners, Conservation Officers, WHS Co-ordinators and Councillors. The event, which is being held at two alternative venues, has been [...]
