Venice, Unesco wants to encompass it in the listing of web sites in chance

Venice, a global historical past website online considering 1987, might be included by way of UNESCO inside the listing of websites in risk. In view of the assembly of the 21 member states of the agency’s World Heritage Committee, UNESCO experts recommend to “inscribe Venice and its lagoon within the listing of global history at threat”, reviews Le Figaro citing a document posted by way of the organisation based in Paris.

At the coronary heart of the specialists’ advice is the control of mass tourism, city development performed with out effect evaluation, motor boats and, greater normally, the environmental problems of the lagoon. As early as 2021, Unesco experts had proposed declaring the lagoon town in threat, which Italy had averted by banning the access of large cruise ships into the San Marco basin and canal or the Giudecca canal.

Unesco acknowledges the paintings performed with the aid of Italy to “higher shield the lagoon”, but considers it inadequate. For the specialists, “tremendous progress” still desires to be made, mainly to make MOSE “absolutely operational”. More commonly, a “lengthy-time period approach” is wanted to avoid “irreversible changes” and “the loss of historic authenticity”. In the historical past, professionals agree with that sure urban improvement tasks and uncontrolled traveller development could endanger the integrity of the lagoon city.

UNESCO does now not plan, at least for now, to withdraw Venice from the listing of 900 global cultural historical past websites: the inclusion of a assets inside the listing of sites at hazard must be an incentive to act. “Unesco has duties closer to labeled web sites”, they inform Le Figaro from the agency’s Paris workplace. If the advice have been to be authorized, Italy might discover itself on a listing that includes fifty five “endangered” web sites in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Lebanon and Ukraine, all international locations  by way of struggle or lack of assets.

If Venice had been covered inside the list, notes the Parisian newspaper, it might be “humiliating” for Italy, as it is for the other ‘indexed’ nations. The committee to be able to vote on the recommendation will meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 10 to twenty-five September subsequent. The case of Venice, which hosted the party of the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention in 2002, need to create “a wave of surprise”, aimed toward urging the authorities to act, is the desire they nurture in the UNESCO headquarters consistent with Le Figaro.

THE NOTE OF THE MUNICIPALITY

“Regarding Unesco’s recommendation to feature Venice to the listing of global background sites deemed to be in hazard, Ca’ Farsetti informs that it'll carefully read the proposed decision posted these days by means of the Center for Unesco’s World Heritage Committee and will confront the authorities, which is the State Party with which UNESCO relates”. This is what we study in a be aware from the Municipality of Venice.

CACCIARI: “UNESCO DON’T TALK ABOUT”

“Unesco is one of the maximum luxurious vain bodies on the face of the Earth… They difficulty judgments without knowing and with out knowing, they continue by way of decreeing evaluations left and right, which it is right to disregard: they're a shack of ‘treacher’s bread-eaters’, they don’t make a penny, they don’t supply investment for real interventions, they most effective understand the way to decree… As if Venice needed Unesco to be an asset of humanity!”. Massimo Cacciari, truth seeker and previous mayor of Venice, does not mince words when he remarks to AdnKronos on the notion made by way of UNESCO specialists.

Cacciari wonders: “Is Venice at risk? The threat of Venice is linked to herbal and climatic screw ups that could reason the ocean level to upward thrust. After that, there may be honestly a wonderful traveler strain, as certainly in Florence or in Rome. But what will we want to do? The Italian economy is supported by means of 20% on tourism and luckily there is tourism: what can we want to do, lose even that once dropping chemistry, electronics, mechanics, the automobile enterprise? Do we additionally want to lose tourism due to the fact UNESCO tells us it's miles dangerous? Rather, you're taking out the cash to do the works which might be wanted as opposed to speaking nonsense… extra information and less phrases!”, concludes Cacciari.