From earliest times, man has decorated his living space. First, it was simply painting the caves we took refuge in, then as we evolved into builders, we have gone from simple functional shelters, to magnificent castles and palaces, to modern skyscrapers and elaborate homes. Not only our living spaces, but also our houses of worship, museums and commerci...
Tour Host Review
For over 35 years the National Trust for Historic Preservation has been organizing study tours to destinations of historic significance worldwide. Their tour arm, National Trust Tours is this month's Pick due to its outstanding opportunities for travelers to experience the wealth of architectural masterpieces, ancient through to modern, that illustrate man's crea...
Host of the Month
Apulia, or Puglia in Italian, is hot and dry in the summer months when the scirocco blows in steadily from Africa, as it has done from time immemorial.
At the start of the 21st century, in the heat of an Italian summer, I boarded a throwback train in Venice that chugged and swayed and screeched its way down the Adriatic coast of Italy towards Puglia, a...
Museum Pick
2006 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites
Written By Heidi Beaumont Posted on Culinary
The World Monuments Fund (WMF), the foremost private, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage worldwide, has released its 2006 World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. The biennial Watch list is a call to action on behalf of threatened cultural heritage monuments worldwide. By bringing the sites to international attention, the list helps to raise the funds needed for their rescue and often spurs local governments and communities to take an active role in protecting cultural icons in their regions. For many landmarks, inclusion on the Watch list is the best—and perhaps the only—hope for survival.
This year—for the first time in the 10-year history of the World Monuments Watch— the list includes an entire country whose cultural heritage is at...
The World Monuments Fund (WMF), the foremost private, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the historic, artistic, and architectural heritage worldwide, has released its 2006 World Monuments Watch list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. The biennial Watch list is a call to action on behalf of threatened cultural heritage monuments worldwide. By bringing the sites to...
I had never heard of Lake Iseo before I visited the Bergamo area, in the Lombardy region of northern Italy in January 2004. I read about it in booklets I picked up at Bergamo airport tourist office on my return home. I resolved to visit soon as it sounded so lovely.
In April 2004 I was on the shores of Lake Iseo. I found it so enchanting that I...
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2006 World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites