Tag: UNESCO
UNESCO: Traditional irrigation becomes intangible cultural heritage
UNESCO Traditional irrigation becomes intangible cultural heritage The waterer Jürgen Zwingel opens a sluice of a water ditch in the Reichelsdorf district: Traditional meadow irrigation has been declared an intangible…
Franconian water meadows should become UNESCO intangible cultural heritage – Bavaria
Farmers in Franconia have been irrigating their meadows for centuries using a sophisticated network of water scoops, ditches and small weirs. Now the knowledge of traditional meadow irrigation, passed down…
War memorials as UNESCO heritage: Here the Americans, there the British
… and Germans and French sometimes together: military cemeteries from the First World War are now world cultural heritage sites. A journey along the former Western Front brings insights for…
The State gives the green light to the application of the megaliths of Carnac to UNESCO
There is still a long way to go before global recognition. But a new stage has just been reached for the megaliths of Carnac (Morbihan), which dream of including their…
Video: K-Pop at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris
One of the world’s biggest K-pop bands played at the youth forum on November 14th and 15th with participants from around 150 countries. One of the world’s biggest K-pop bands…
Carnac defends its alignments of white cones
They learned the news on Friday, by a brief letter. Upon reading it, the elected officials of Carnac admit to having been “a little jaded”. Famous for its megalith alignments,…
The United Nations proposes for the first time to regulate platforms
12 moderators in Arabic, two in Hebrew, 20 in Spanish, 52 in French, compared to 2,294 in English… These are the moderation figures revealed Sunday by X (formerly Twitter). It…
Unesco World Heritage Site: Found in Messel Pit, very likely ancient horse
Unesco World Heritage Site Found in the Messel pit, most likely ancient horses This is what the ancient horse might have looked like. photo © Andreas Arnold/dpa The Messel Pit…
Environment: UNESCO warns against oil and gas production in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site
Environment UNESCO warns against oil and gas production in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site The UN cultural organization Unesco warns against oil and gas production in the Wadden Sea…
the Maison Carrée of Nîmes joins the UNESCO world heritage site
Welcome Culture Heritage This Roman temple, two thousand years old and perfectly preserved, has obtained the recognition hoped for for years in the former Roman colony in the south of…