essay on world heritage day
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World Heritage Day is celebrated to maintain the legacy and save the rich heritage given to us by our ancestors. ICOMOS – International Council of Monuments and Site’s primary purpose behind World Heritage Day is to ensure the protection of national and cultural heritage and provide any emergency assistance for the heritage sites in danger.
Every year ICOMOS gives a unique theme for the celebration of the World Heritage day. The theme of 2020 is “Shared Culture’, ‘Shared heritage’ and ‘Shared responsibility.” The theme has been given, taking into consideration the health crisis due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
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To be included among the World Heritage Site, the monuments/sites have to fulfill at least one of these criteria. These criteria are:
It must be a masterpiece of human creativity.
To show an important interchange of human values, on developments in technology, monumental arts, landscape design, or town-planning.
To show a unique exceptional to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared;
To be an epitome of a type of building, technological or architectural landscape which illustrates a significant stage in the history
To be an epitome of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which represents a culture, or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the effect of irreversible change;
To be directly or tangibly connected with events or living traditions, with beliefs, or with ideas, with literary& artistic
works of outstanding universal importance.
To contain exceptional natural phenomena or areas of incomparable natural beauty and aesthetic value
To be epitome representing significant stages of earth’s history, including the record of life, importance on-going geological processes in the evolution of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic aspects