The World Heritage Committee has held its 33rd session and inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, none that I have visited though... A more disturbing news is that for the second time in the history of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage adopted by UNESCO in 1972, a site was removed from the World Heritage List when the Committee decided that Germany’s Dresden Elbe Valley could no longer retain its status as a World Heritage site of outstanding universal value! The decision was due to the construction underway of a four-lane bridge in the heart of the cultural landscape.
We had the good fortune to visit the Elbe Valley in the summer of 2006, and the site is included in my list of visited world heritages. Today's question is of course whether or not I can still count Elbe as a visited world heritage or not. For now, I will.
visited by Maria, Mattias, Isabella and Dennis in June 2006
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