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 ‘World Heritage List’
15 Nov
Venice stages its own ‘funeral’
16 Oct
Neues Museum finally opens in Berlin!
For seven decades Berlin’s Neues Museum was a derelict, bomb-scarred shell — but finally it is back, boasting a star-studded cast including the 3,400-year-old bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti. German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially opens the restored museum on Friday.
It’s a day that took decades to arrive. One of the jewels of Berlin’s Museum [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
