After the fourteenth-century pictorial cycle of Padua and Montecatini Terme, in the list of UNESCO protected sites also enter the Porticoes of Bologna, more than 8000 hectares of Italian forests between Calabria and Puglia, an even larger area than the historic center of Florence: this was just announced by the UN Agency Committee meeting in Fuzhou, in China. With the new entries Italy boasts 59 inscriptions among the World Heritage Sites, the first country in the world followed by China (56 sites) and Germany (50).
«Still a beautiful day for the national cultural heritage», Said the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini. «This is an extraordinary result, the result of an intense and constant action of cultural diplomacy and of the close collaboration between the Government, local authorities and associations; good news on the eve of the G20 Culture that Italy is preparing to host for the first time “, continued the minister.
The result of a long candidacy work that involved the Municipality of Bologna, associations, the Emilia Romagna Region, as well as the Ministry, the arcades have deserved registration because the Unesco Committee recognized the exceptional worldwide value of this site as an “extraordinary example of private space for public use”. 62 kilometers long, of which about 40 that cross the historic center alone, the arcades were born in the Middle Ages, initially to gain space for the houses, and then they became a distinctive feature of the Bolognese building but also of the sociability in the city. In some cases they are real works of art, like the portico of San Luca, the longest in the world, which connects the city with the Colle della Guardia where the sanctuary is located, or that of Isolani house, which still has the original oak structure (the others are in masonry).
“The Fuzhou Committee – said the Ministry of Culture – has shown that it wants to further deepen the knowledge of the peculiarities of this site, fully understanding itsand values as a model of civic administration and sociality, a source of inspiration for other European cities».
The forest area entered in the list of protected heritage concerns then the ancient beech woods of the Aspromonte and Pollino national parks (the first Calabrian sites that become part of the heritages) e the forest in the Sfilzi state reserve in Puglia: two areas where trees with unique characteristics are concentrated (in the case of Pollino, for example, they are the oldest beeches in Europe) for the protection of biodiversity and to mitigate climate change. The beech woods are part of a newly extended transnational site – Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe – which includes 77 forests in 12 countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine).
In the case of Florence, it is not about adding a new site to the Heritage, but ratification of the extension of the historic center area (protected since 1984): now the list also includes the Abbey of San Miniato, the Church of San Salvatore al Monete, the Rampe, Piazzale Michelangelo, the Rose Garden and the Iris Garden. “In all, Florence will boast over 530 hectares of areas of inestimable artistic, historical and environmental value»Said Mayor Dario Nardella. In the gallery above the Unesco sites in Italy
Among the recent additions to the World Heritage List of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) 13 sites across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. Among these stand out the ancient city of Dholavira, center of the Harappan civilization in India which flourished between 3000 and 1500 BC, the prehistoric archaeological sites of the Jomon era in northern Japan, 8 Sudanese-style mosques in the north of the Ivory Coast.
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