The ‘Landscape of Light’ of the Paseo del Prado and the Retreat has finally managed to be inscribed in 2021 as a World Heritage Site by Unesco. A culmination of a work started in 2014 by the former mayor of Madrid Ana Botella and which has come with controversy on social networks.
Left-wing users, both anonymous and well-known, have celebrated that Madrid gets this recognition but they have given all the credit to Manuela Carmena. The reality is that the idea started in 2014 from the municipal government of Ana Botella, the dossier was finalized by Manuela Carmena and in October 2019, with José Luis Martínez-Almeida as mayor, the UNESCO evaluator visited the candidacy in situ.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, thanked the consensus reached “in times of pandemic” around “a city that has had a tremendously difficult time, that has suffered a lot over the last fifteen months, has for finally a reason for celebration, that Madrid finally has a space inscribed on the World Heritage list ».
It is the “culmination of a dream started in 2014” for a city that assumes “with respect, honor and responsibility” the inscription. “Madrid will be up to the task,” he assured.
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The decision to inscribe the ‘Landscape of Light’ as World Heritage by Unesco has been communicated at the 44th session of the Unesco World Heritage Committee from China and applauded from the Prado Museum, ‘headquarters of operations’ of the candidacy Spanish.
The ‘yes’ of the inscription of the ‘Landscape of Light’ as World Heritage by Unesco has gone ahead, despite the fact that the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) proposed that the candidacy be postponed although indicating the potential that could take into the tree-lined avenue criterion.
After a delay of more than two and a half hours with respect to the set calendar, the desired ‘yes’ has arrived after the organizing committee even proposed to leave the final vote for Monday, which has received protests from some countries participants.
It will be the first world asset registered in the capital of Spain and will join the assets already declared located in the Community: the Monastery of El Escorial, the university and the historic center of Alcalá de Henares, the cultural landscape of Aranjuez and the Hayedo de Montejo.
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