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European Heritage Label
Kuldiga historic center has been awarded European Heritage Label in 2008. The plague was officially unvailed by Minister of Culture of Latvia Helena Demakova, Minister for Regional Development and Local Authorities Edgars Zalans, State Inspection for Heritage Protection, and Kuldiga Town Council in Town Hall Square of Kuldiga on June 4, 2008.
Minister of Culture of Latvia Helena Demakova and Head of State Inspection for Heritage Protection Juris Dambis participating introduced the Committee of European Heritage Label to application of Kuldiga town for Europen Heritage Label in Paris on April 18, 2008 and the Committee granted the award.
Kuldiga was awarded as a place where diverse European culture heritage values concentrate. The State Inspection for Heritage Protection together with Kuldiga Town Council prepared the application for the Committee of European Heritage Label, that revealed values of Kuldiga in the context of Europe: medieval street planning, wooden buildings from 18th and 19th centuries, one of the longest brick bridges in Europe and the widest waterfall in Europe. Kuldiga was characterized as an urban environment where historic evolution of styles of Europe intervene together with local building traditions and
The European Heritage Label has been an initiative of Ministry of Culture and Communication of France together with European Commission since 2005. The European Heritage Label is designed to promote the transnational European dimension of cultural property, monuments, natural or urban sites, tangible and intangible, contemporary and traditional heritage and sites that have played a key role in building and uniting Europe. It aims to strengthen the support of European citizens for a shared European identity and to foster a sense of belonging to a common cultural space. The heritage label, which is based on European cultural history, has a different specifically European function to UNESCO's World Heritage list, which aims to promote the protection of monuments and sites based on their universal value. The European Heritage Label, whose ultimate objective is to become a community action, is open to any Member State of the European Union that wishes to take part in the scheme and through a cooperation system to other European states. The European Heritage Label is designed to encourage people's understanding of, and respect and support for, their heritage. It represents means of protecting and promoting cultural heritage, with the aim of identifying and passing on that heritage to future generations, while strengthening cooperation among European states.
Among the most representative sites on the list of European heritage are the Cluny Abbey; the house where Robert Schuman, a founding member of the EU, was born; the Honour Court of the Popes' Palace of Avignon (France); the Acropolis (Greece); the Goethe House of Frankfurt (Germany) and the memorial church of the Holy Spirit (Sv. Duh) from Javorca, (Slovenia).
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