Heritage
By Ella IDE Florence (Italie) (AFP) - Orfèvre à Florence, Tommaso Pestelli a été évincé de son atelier pour faire place à un hôtel de luxe, énième victime d'un tourisme de masse dans la ville toscane qui, selon ses défenseurs, risque d'y perdre son âme. Les appels à une action urgente pour protéger le centre-ville, site classé de l'UNESCO, se sont intensifiés le mois dernier après les déclarations choc de la directrice allemande de la prestigieuse Galleria dell'Accademia selon qui Florence est devenue "une prostituée". Quelque 1,5 million de touristes ont visité ce joyau d'art et d'architectur...
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Washington (AFP) - The midwestern US state of Minnesota has unveiled a new flag after ditching its old one that depicted a farmer beside a rifle and a Native American on horseback. Criticized for years as racially insensitive, the old flag is being replaced by a light blue and dark blue design with a white star, based on an idea by local artist Andrew Prekker. Prekker said Tuesday that he hoped "that every Minnesotan of every background -- including the Indigenous communities and tribal nations who've been historically excluded -- can look up at our flag with pride and honor." The previous fla...
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Rochdale (United Kingdom) (AFP) - As a child, Hopwood DePree heard stories about the family owning an ancestral country home in England but always thought it was the stuff of legends. That was until the Hollywood producer tracked down a red-brick 15th century pile with 60 rooms in the countryside in northwest England. In 2017 the American quit California to live full-time near Manchester and restore the building, which had fallen into a state of disrepair, to its former glory. The unlikely chain of events began one evening in 2013 when DePree was looking on a genealogy website and found an ol...
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Jamestown (United States) (AFP) - The waters rose overnight and by morning formed a shallow pond over the grassy field covering a cemetery in Jamestown, one of the founding sites of the American nation. Curators -- their feet wet from the water -- say it is just the latest in a seemingly endless series of flooding at the first permanent English settlement in North America, a location that was also home to Native American tribes for thousands of years. Sandbags and tarps provide some protection from the elements, but curators warn that time is running out for Jamestown, which is increasingly un...
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Geneva (AFP) - Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia's Great Barrier Reef into "critical" condition, conservationists said Wednesday.The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed in a new report that shifts due to the changing climate now imperil a full third of the 252 UNESCO-listed natural sites around the globe.Overall, 94 of the sites are facing significant or critical risk from a wide range of factors -- including tourism, hunting, fire and water pollution -- marking ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US city of Charlottesville on Saturday dismantled a statue of a Confederate soldier just blocks from the site of a deadly white supremacist rally in 2017 -- Virginia's latest move to strip away tributes to the pro-slavery Civil War south.The "At Ready" statue, which depicts a Confederate soldier holding his rifle, was erected in front of the Albemarle County courthouse in Charlottesville in 1909 -- 44 years after the US Civil War ended.Albemarle is the first Virginia locality to use a process for removing Civil War statues that Governor Ralph Northam signed into law this...
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