Euromediterranean Master in Culture and Tourism. Heritage Tourism, Unesco sites: The Mediterranean. Prof. Rossana Bonadei Dr.

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1 Euromediterranean Master in Culture and Tourism Heritage Tourism, Unesco sites: The Mediterranean challenge Bari, January 2009 Prof. Rossana Bonadei Dr. Federica Frediani Fonte:

2 UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization, founded on 16 November

3 GOALS Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal: to build peace in the minds of men.

4 GOALS UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its 193 (October 2007) Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication.

5 The UNESCO World Heritage

6 GOALS One of UNESCO's mandates is to pay special attention to new global threats that may affect the natural and cultural heritage and ensure that the conservation of sites and monuments contributes to social cohesion.

7 Reflecting the natural and cultural wealth that belongs to all of humanity, World Heritage sites and monuments constitute crucial landmarks of our world. They symbolize the conciousness of States and pepoles of the significance of these places and reflect their attachment to collective ownership and to the trasmission of this heritage to future generations.

8 Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the Baroque cathedrals of Latin America make up our world s heritage.

9 What makes the concept of World Heritage exceptional is its universal application. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located.

10 The Convention concerning the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage was adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO on 16 November 1972.

11 The Convention sets out the duties of States Parties in identifying potential sites and their role in protecting and preserving them. By signing the Convention, each country pledges to conserve not only the World Heritage sites situated on its territory, but also to protect its national heritage. The States Parties are encouraged to integrate the protection of the cultural and natural heritage into regional planning programmes, set up staff and services at their sites, undertake scientific and technical conservation research and adopt measures which give this heritage a function in the day-to-day life of the community

12 UNESCO World Heritage Mission is to:

13 encourage countries to sign the World Heritage Convention and to ensure the protection of their natural and cultural heritage; ;

14 encourage States Parties to the Convention to nominate sites within their national territory for inclusion on the World Heritage List;

15 encourage States Parties to establish management plans and set up reporting systems on the state of conservation of their World Heritage sites;

16 help States Parties safeguard World Heritage properties by providing technical assistance and professional training;

17 provide emergency assistance for World Heritage sites in immediate danger;

18 support States Parties' public awarenessbuilding activities for World Heritage conservation;

19 encourage participation of the local encourage participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage

20 The Convention Committee Fund

21 The World Heritage Committee meets once a year, and consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention elected by their General Assembly

22 The World Heritage Committee has four essential fonctions :

23 The Committee is responsible for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention

24 Advisory Bodies ICCROM International Centre for the Study of Preservetion and Restoration of Cultural Property

25 Advisory Bodies ICOMOS The Intenational Council on Monuments and Sites

26 The World Conservation Union (IUCN)

27 The World Heritage Committee Cultural Heritage Natural Heritage

28 Cultural Heritage MONUMENTS GROUPS OF BUILDING SITES

29 Oustanding Universal Value HISTORICAL AESTHETIC SCIENTIFC ANTHROPOLOGICAL

30 NATURAL HERITAGE: natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view; geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation; natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty

31 Selection Criteria Authencity

32 Selection Criteria to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius

33 Selection Criteria To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared; to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history

34 Selection Criteria to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change

35 to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria

36 Selection Criteria to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance

37 to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features

38 to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals;

39 Integrity

40 to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.

41 The World Heritage

42 The World Heritage includes 878 Sites

43 The World Heritage 679 Cultural properties 174 Natural properties 25 Mixed properties In 145 States 185 States Parties have ratified the World 185 States Parties have ratified the World Heritage Convention

44 List of World Heritage in Danger 30 properties

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE

UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION CONVENTION CONCERNING THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE Adopted by the General Conference at its seventeenth session