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World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
3 minutes. Museums and monuments. Ducal Palace of Mantua. The Ducal Palace of Mantua - The largest late-Mediaeval court in Europe The largest architectural museum complex in Italy and a UNESCO World Heritage Site The Ducal Palace Museum Complex in Mantua extends over an area of 35,000 sq. m. and has about 1000 different rooms.
Ilya Burlak. 3.00 USA - 04-Feb-19 - . The towns of Mantua (Mantova in Italian) and Sabbioneta are paired into a single World Heritage site on the basis of representing two different facets of Renaissance city planning: the former an example of an existing city rebuilt and renewed, the latter a completely new town built according to the prevailing concepts of the ideal town of the time.
In 2008, thanks to the universal value of the rich legacy of the Gonzagas, the site of Mantua and Sabbioneta became part of the UNESCO World Heritage List.. The registration occurred because Mantua and Sabbioneta offer an exceptional testimony of urban, architectural and artistic realization of the Renaissance, connected to each other through the ideas and ambitions of the ruling family, the ...
- Fabrizio Mariani
The term heritage covers both the cultural and natural heritage with which the local community identifies, inherited from the past and passed down to future generations. Mantua and Sabbioneta were inscribed in 2008 as a single site on the UNESCO World Heritage List, representing a tangible and intangible legacy of ideas, values and traditions stretching back centuries, belonging to all and ...
In 2008, Mantua's centro storico (old town) and the nearby comune of Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family between 1328 and 1708 made it one of the main artistic, cultural , and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and of Italy as a whole.
Criteria: Date of Inscription: 2008 Latitude: 45.1594444444 Longitude: 10.7944444444 Region: Europe and North America Heritage Countries Italy
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