UNESCO Places Historic Center of Paramaribo on the List of Endangered World Heritage Sites.
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The World Heritage organization has “serious concerns” about the protection of the eighteenth-century wooden buildings in the Surinamese capital. Further deterioration of the area could lead to the inner city losing its World Heritage status.
The historic center of Paramaribo has been placed on the UNESCO list of endangered World Heritage. Fire hazards and two controversial construction projects are the main reasons for this. It concerns the city's largely wooden city center. This is of great cultural importance to the population and is also a tourist attraction. The center was placed on the World Heritage List in 2002. The UNESCO list of endangered World Heritage is intended as a w…
The historic heart of the Surinamese capital Paramaribo has been added to the list of endangered World Heritage sites by UNESCO, site manager Stephen Fokké confirmed to the ANP. The largely wooden city center, a tourist attraction, had been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2002.
By Audry Wajwakana PARAMARIBO — The die is cast. The 21 member states of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided on Thursday (today) in the South Korean city of Busan to place the historic inner city of Paramaribo on the list of World Heritage in Threatened status. With this, what heritage experts have been warning about for months has become a reality. De Ware Tijd already reported last month that a draft decision by the World Heritage Comm…
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