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Do You Know That 18 April Is World Heritage Day?

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3 min readApr 18, 2020

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World Heritage Day is celebrated every year on 18 April to raise awareness about preserving human heritage, diversity, and vulnerability of the world’s built monuments and heritage sites. Also, the efforts required to protect and conserve it and to draw attention towards it.

The genesis of the World Heritage Day

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On 18 April 1982 on the occasion of a symposium organized by ICOMOS in Tunisia, it was suggested to observe the “International Day for Monuments and Sites” simultaneously throughout the world.

UNESCO passed a resolution at its 22nd session in November 1983 approving the idea and recommended the member states to examine the possibility of declaring 18 April each year “International Monuments and Sites Day”.This has been referred to as the World Heritage Day.

Importance Of World Heritage Day

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The World Heritage Day 2019 theme was rural landscapes. Protecting and preserving…

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