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- THE CASE OF MODENA -- THE CASE OF MODENA - Francesca Piccinini

Coordinator of the Steering Committee of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Modena

Bruxelles, September 7, 2011

The World Heritage List

The UNESCO sites in ItalyOf the 47 Italian sites:

• 43 are cultural sites;• 3 are natural sites (the Aeolian

Islands, The Dolomites and Monte San Giorgio);

• 1 is mixed (Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the

Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula).

Two more are in the list ofIntangible Cultural Heritage: the Opera dei Pupi (Sicilian Puppet

Theatre) and the Canto a tenore (Sardinian

Pastoral Songs), besides the Mediterranean diet (uniting Greece, Italy, Morocco

and Spain)

Cultural landscape

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Plamaria, Tino and Tinetto)

Costiera Amalfitana

Val d’Orcia

Serial sitesMantua andSabbioneta

Early Christian Monuments of

Ravenna

Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D.)

Cross – border sites and archaeological industryPrehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps (2011)

Monte San Giorgio (2010) Crespi d’Adda (1995)

Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Berniina

Landscapes (2008)

European cultural routesRoute of Santiago de Compostela1987

Via Francigena – 2004

Via Francigena

Budapest declaration (2002)

Management planThis is why in Italy, since 2002:

1. each request for membership in the World Heritage List must be accompanied by a management plan describing how the exceptional value of the site will be protected;

2. guidelines were developed for the preparation and implementation of management plans;

3. a specific methodology and a model for the implementation of management plans were defined;

4. the debate on management plans, promoted and coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture, was accompanied by a series of national conferences (Noto 2003; Paestum 2004, Torino 2005, Firenze 2007)

Management plan

In order to provide a solid help to the sites which are planning to adopt the Management Plan, a law has been published.

It is called “Special measures for protection and fruition of the Italian sites of cultural, scenic and environmental sites part of

the Unesco World Heritage List (n.77/2006) aiming at:

a)encouraging the drafting and the implementation of management plans;

b) raise the awareness of Unesco World Heritage sites, especially within schools;

c) qualify parking areas and mobility systems;

d) strengthen cultural services and reception facilities for the public

Management plan

Among the sites registered in the list after 2002, therefore having a management plan, we find:

• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica;• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei

Rolli

Among previously registered sites that produced a management plan we find:

• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica• Archaeological Area of Agrigento

Published on the website www.unesco.beniculturali.it

Modena Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande“The joint creation of Lanfranco and Wiligelmo is a masterpiece of human creative genius in which a new dialectical relationship between architecture and sculpture was created in Romanesque art.

The Modena complex bears exceptional witness to the cultural traditions of the 12th century and is

one of the best examples of an architectural complex where religious and civic values are

combined in a medieval Christian town.”

(1997)

CriteriaI. Modena Cathedral, with its extraordinary

sculptural set, is a witness of human genius of creation;

II. At the beginning of the XII Century, Modena was one of the main places

where a new figurative language, destined to affect all of local Romanesque art, was

being created. In a European context, Modena Cathedral represents a special

testimony within the rebirth of stone monumental sculpture;

III. Its construction is one of the most important proofs of the urban society

existing in Northern Italy in the XII and XIII centuries;

IV. The monumental set offers an example of urban development in a tight connection with civic values, particularly through the relationships between economy, religion, as well as the socio-political life of the city

it highlights.

Lanfranco and Wiligelmo

Enoch and Elia supporting the tablet with the inscription recording the foundation of the

Cathedral and the sculptor Wiligelmus(Facade of Modena Cathedral)

Miniatures of manuscript codex Relatio de innovatione ecclesie Sancti Geminiani with architect Lanfrancus ( Capitulary Archive of Modena Cathedral)

Management plan 2008 – 09 / Law n. 77/2006

Maps of different lithotypes employed on the walls of Ghirlandina tower and Cathedral

Management plan 2008 – 09Law n. 77/2006

Ghirlandina tower.

Left: diagnostic tests

Right: restoration works

Management plan 2008 – 09Law n. 77/2006

Guided tours on scaffoldings Quick guide of the Unesco site

Tourist road sign for pedestrians

www.unesco.mo.it

Ideas for the future

Modena Cathedral, Doorway of the Princes Archivolt. Details of a sculptor and a blacksmith

• Virtual tour of the cathedral and the tower• new forms of collaboration at European level

• exchange of experiences among young people coming from different Unesco sites