On November 16, 1972, the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage was signed in Paris during the 17th UNESCO General Conference. For this reason, every November 16, World Heritage Day is celebrated.
ICOMOS is the advisory body of the World Heritage Committee that implements the Convention. Consequently, and with the aim of participating in the commemoration of World Heritage Day, a special session of the series of webinars "World Heritage Mondays" was organized. This ICOMOS-Spain initiative is dedicated to the dissemination of the Convention andthe World Heritage sites and, to encourage participation in the discussion on the main concepts and problems related to the conservation and management of the properties inscribed on the List.
Under the title "The (long) road to inscription as World Heritage", this special webinar presented three different cases to illustrate the long journey that the monuments and sites that aspire to be inscribed on the List must traverse. Among them, the case of Talayotic Menorca with the intervention of the Vice President and conseller of Cultural Affairs, Miquel Àngel Maria, as the person in charge of the candidacy.
The interventions were moderated by the Vice President of ICOMOS-Spain, Mónica Luengo. The other two speakers were:
- Jose Ramón Menéndez de Luarca Navia Osorio - coordinator of the Caliphal City of Medina Azahara’s file.
- Cipriano Marín Cabrera, who despite being the coordinator of the Talayotic Menorca file, on this occasion participated as coordinator of the Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria file.