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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9508140, member: 2844"]Exactly. Our Gothic cathedrals have very few original Gothic period carvings, and restoration/reconstruction work is a regular thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unesco is very finnicky about their list. They don't seem to accept that their heritage list consists of many evolving landscapes and townscapes.</p><p>The Dresden-Elbe cultural region was struck off the list because the Waldschlösschen Bridge was constructed over the Elbe to alleviate traffic congestion in the monumental city of Dresden.</p><p>I think the design of the bridge is a delicate design, taking the landscape and view of the city into consideration. But Unesco decided Dresden with its countless monuments and museums was no longer Unesco-worthy, they would rather have traffic jams between the monuments and exhaust fumes damaging the historic buildings.</p><p>The Elbe with the Waldschlösschen bridge, in the background naughty, non-compliant Dresden:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]450441[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there is the mind-boggling story of Georgia's 11th century Bagrati Cathedral, also struck off the Unesco list. I guess they'd rather see a pile of rubble:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrati_Cathedral" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrati_Cathedral" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrati_Cathedral</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9508140, member: 2844"]Exactly. Our Gothic cathedrals have very few original Gothic period carvings, and restoration/reconstruction work is a regular thing. Unesco is very finnicky about their list. They don't seem to accept that their heritage list consists of many evolving landscapes and townscapes. The Dresden-Elbe cultural region was struck off the list because the Waldschlösschen Bridge was constructed over the Elbe to alleviate traffic congestion in the monumental city of Dresden. I think the design of the bridge is a delicate design, taking the landscape and view of the city into consideration. But Unesco decided Dresden with its countless monuments and museums was no longer Unesco-worthy, they would rather have traffic jams between the monuments and exhaust fumes damaging the historic buildings. The Elbe with the Waldschlösschen bridge, in the background naughty, non-compliant Dresden: [ATTACH=full]450441[/ATTACH] And then there is the mind-boggling story of Georgia's 11th century Bagrati Cathedral, also struck off the Unesco list. I guess they'd rather see a pile of rubble: [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrati_Cathedral[/URL][/QUOTE]
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