Talayotic Menorca has participated today in the XVI Meeting of World Heritage Managers, an annual forum created in 2007 by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Sports to analyze and debate initiatives and projects for the managing of World Heritage sites. Although Talayotic Menorca is not yet on the Unesco World Heritage List, our candidacy has been invited because of its relevance and projection.
The vicepresident and conseller of Cultural Affairs, Miquel Angel Maria, intervened this morning, September 29, with the presentation "The Talayotic Agency Agency and the association of owners and managers: a shared management of the archaeological heritage". While waiting for the celebration of the 45th World Heritage Committee, Maria explained the candidacy’s path nowadays: “We didn’t wait for the Comitee’s outocome to start the Management Plan, the Talayotic Menorca Agency and the Owners Forum. We have already created them and put them to work.” The Talayotic Menorca technician and archaeologist, Joaquim Pons, has also participated in the meeting.
Under the slogan "In the next 50 years: world heritage as a source of resilience, humanity and innovation for future generations", the Managers' Meeting has revolved around the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention and the challenges it faces, such as sustainable development and tourism management tools.
50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention
On September 28, the
Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain and the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Sports organized an institutional event at the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention.
The Convention is an agreement adopted by countries in the UNESCO General Conference of 1972. The goal is to identify, protect, preserve, enhance and transmit to future generations the Outstanding Universal Value of natural and cultural heritage. Thanks to the ratification of the 194 States Parties (Spain included), it is currently the most recognised convention on earth dealing with heritage.
It is the most effective and outstanding tool of international cooperation dedicated to the protection of cultural and natural heritage that possesses outstanding value. Thanks to this agreement, it has been possible to protect sites with important value that otherwise would have deteriorated or disappeared due to lack of resources for their preservation.