Intangible Heritage in Historic Towns
Good news for those who are interested in the topic of intangible heritage.
On the ICOMOS Website the proceedings of the international symposium on »Place-Memory-Meaning: Preserving Intangible Values in Monuments and Sites« have been published.
The proceedings give a good impression of the current discussion of the subject »intangible heritage«.
Andras Roman from hungary hold a lecture on .
His first remark is, that human presence is typical and essential for historic cities.
There are differences between university cities, industial cities, spas, etc.
Elements of the intangible heritage in historic towns are for example: professions, commercial traditions and even typical local food.
Monument protection must concern itself with these
phenomena and in the same way it must deal with
material values. Society is to be initiated in this field
especially since these elements are part of their own life. http://www.international.icomos.org/victoriafalls2003/papers/A1-3%20-%20Roman.pdf
Friends of the famous smokey beer in one of the brewery pubs of bamberg.
