UNESCO World Heritage SITES Journal
A quarterly current affairs and cultural policy journal
We are delighted to be launching the web portal www.rivistasitiunesco.it to join the new SITI Journal and its important mission to safeguard and promote the Italian sites on the World Heritage List. This portal offers a wealth of images and contents, providing information and itineraries to enable all our citizens, institutions, agencies, schools and the associations working in the field of cultural and environmental heritage to fully enjoy an historical, artistic and landscape heritage, wihout equal anywhere in the world. It is an extremely valuable tool for an Association which for over 10 years has been interpreting the demands and supporting the initiatives taken by Italy's outstanding heritage sites: small villages and hamlets, large cities and magnificent landscapes which have heightened their authenticity by adopting conservation and sustainable development policies, and for which UNESCO has awarded the prized Doric Temple. A heritage of priceless artistic, cultural and natural assets, whose value is often underestimated. For in times of serious economic difficulties as we are experiencing at present, people's sensitivities to and perception of the value of cultural heritage tends to weaken. This is a misjudgement which our Association has never committed, but which it has always sought to combat, in the knowledge that it is not sufficient to possess outstanding cultural goods and sites of extraordinary beauty to guarantee growth and development, without adequate strategies to promote and value them. The relaunching of our quarterly journal, SITI, and the implementation of its online version are a tangible means of giving substance to an approach based on co-operation, networking and the dissemination of knowledge, in which our association is a firm believer. This is a field in which we have successfully been the fore for many years, a field we intend to continue improving and in which we are detemined to assert our organisational and advocacy competence and skills.
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Editor
Fausto Natali
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