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Itsukushima Shinto Shrine The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present shrine dates from the 12th century and the harmoniously arranged buildings reveal great artistic and technical skill. The shrine plays on the contrasts in colour and form between mountains and sea and illustrates the Japanese concept of scenic beauty, which combines nature and human creativity. Description is available under license Sanctuaire shinto d'Itsukushima Lieu saint du shintoïsme depuis les temps les plus reculés, l'île d'Itsukushima, dans la mer intérieure de Seto, aurait accueilli ses premiers sanctuaires au VI e siècle. Le sanctuaire actuel date du XII e siècle et ses bâtiments harmonieusement disposés témoignent d'une grande qualité artistique et technique. Composition jouant, entre mer et montagne, sur les contrastes de couleurs et de masses, le sanctuaire d'Itsukushima illustre parfaitement le concept japonais de la beauté d'un panorama unissant paysage naturel et création humaine. Description is available under license مزار الشنتو في ايتسوكوشيما استقبلت جزيرة ايتسوكوشيما التي تقع في بحر سيتو الداخلي، وهي مكانٌ مقدّسٌ للديانة الشنتويّة منذ العصور القديمة، المزارات الأولى في القرن الرابع. وقد تمّ إنشاء المزار الحالي في القرن الثاني عشر. وتشهد أبنيته المصفوفة بطريقةٍ متناسقةٍ على نوعيّةٍ فنيّةٍ وتقنيّةٍ رائعة. ومزار ايتسوكوشيما الذي يلعب من...

The International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) under the Auspices of UNESCO is calling for case studies on best practices of digital technologies for the conservation and sustainable development of UNESCO-designated sites. Objective The HIST Award on Sustainable Development of UNESCO-designated sites aims at recognizing exemplary efforts by site management institutions, and heritage-related research institutes and other organizations from UNESCO Member States on best practices of digital technologies for the conservation and sustainable development of UNESCO-designated sites. Eligibility criteria Entries should demonstrate on-going initiatives that use digital technologies to improve environmental, social and economic sustainable development of UNESCO-designated sites. Digital technologies include but are not limited to: big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G, block chain, digital twins, the Internet of Things (IoT), as well as spatial information technologies such as digital Earth, satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, global satellite navigation systems, etc. Award HIST will organize a panel of experts to select best case studies, which will be awarded at the 4th Huangshan Dialogue on UNESCO-designated sites and Sustainable Development in Huangshan City, Anhui Province China from June 29 to 30, 2023. HIST will issue a certificate to the awardee and cover the travel expenses and local accommodati...

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QUIVICÁN, Cuba — When Julio César Núñez was a child, he helped his grandmother make casabe from scratch, using artisanal tools — and an ancient cooking method — to turn grated yuca root into a thin, white, crispy flatbread. Today, Núñez, 80, and a younger generation of family members in this town south of Havana, continue the tradition of harvesting and preparing casabe the ancestral way, but it’s no longer just for their own consumption. They sell it to small businesses and restaurants in the capital. “Casabe is an Amerindian tradition that came from northern South America and made its way to the Antilles,” Sonia Virgen Pérez, president of Cuba’s National Heritage Council, told The Associated Press. “It arrived through the eastern part of Cuba and became an important food that has been passed down from generation to generation.” In March, Pérez led a delegation of countries including Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Honduras and Haiti, to formally request that UNESCO include the tradition of harvesting yuca, and preparing and consuming casabe to its cultural heritage list. Casabe was a key part of the diet of Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean. It was also among the first native products embraced by the Spaniards upon their arrival. They incorporated it into their diet, partly because of its durability. It can last months once baked. Less popular than its Latin American cousins — the Mexican tortilla, traditionally made of corn, or the Venezuelan arepa, which tends t...

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World Heritage site, any of various areas or objects inscribed on the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. This document was adopted by UNESCO in 1972 and formally took effect in 1975 after having been ratified by 20 countries. It provides a framework for international cooperation in preserving and protecting Designating World Heritage sites There are three types of sites: cultural, natural, and mixed. Cultural heritage sites include hundreds of historic buildings and town sites, important archaeological sites, and works of monumental Natural heritage sites are restricted to those natural areas that (1) furnish outstanding examples of Mixed heritage sites contain elements of both natural and cultural significance. The ratio of cultural to natural sites on the World Heritage List is roughly 3 to 1. Several new sites are added to the list at the middle of each year (until 2002, sites were added in December). Origins of the World Heritage Convention While these efforts represented a remarkable international undertaking, the preservation and relocation of the temples of Nubia posed a challenge of a much greater magnitude. UNESCO’s Executive Committee of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia undertook a massive fund-raising effort, and so generous was the world’s response that virtually all the significant temples and shrines of Nubia were preserved. The Fifteen other temples were salvaged in Egyptian Nubia, includ...