Once the centre of a mighty trading empire that dominated the eastern Mediterranean, the “Queen of the Adriatic’s” population has been dropping for years and has just dipped beneath the psychologically crucial threshold of 60,000.
The calamitous population decline, due to a lack of jobs and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UNESCO’
15 Nov
Venice stages its own ‘funeral’
23 Sep
Bulgarian chosen to head UNESCO
Irina Bokova, Bulgaria’s representative to UNESCO and ambassador in Paris, won Tuesday’s final round of voting to become the next head of the organisation.
Bokova defeated Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni in the fifth round, gathering 31 votes in favour against Hosni’s 27 in the Unesco council. Ranked as an outsider at the start of the [...]
10 Sep
Venice in peril
Italian authorities plan to expand Venice’s port into a bustling shipping hub with a new terminal, further “endangering” the fragile lagoon and contributing to the sinking of the city, it has been claimed.
Venice in Peril, a British conservation group that works to preserve the treasured city, [...]
4 Sep
Angkor and The Khmer Empire
National Geographic recently featured an article by Richard Stone on the Angkor and the Khmer Empire.
[...Angkor is the scene of one of the greatest vanishing acts of all time. The Khmer kingdom lasted from the 9th to the 15th centuries, and at its height dominated a wide swath of Southeast Asia, from Myanmar (Burma) in [...]
2 Jul
2009 New World Heritage Sites
The World Heritage Committee holding its 33rd session chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Since it also withdrew one site – from the List, Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany), the List now [...]
