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February 25, 2013

New Set of Tourist Literature for Delhi Heritage Route

Over the last two years, as part of the process of nominating the city of Delhi to the UNESCO World Heritage list, various activities have been initiated to generate awareness among the citizens of Delhi and the public at large. Publishing a set of tourist literature consisting of 20 booklets and 18 walking maps that cover the entire gamut of heritage sites in Delhi is one such initiative.
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February 21, 2013

Restoring Traditional Houses in Desa Lingga, Indonesia

In the Karo Highlands, about 100 kilometers from Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, there is a village called Desa Lingga (Lingga Village) where the residents still retain the same customs of Karo culture as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago.
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February 07, 2013

Three Months in Arica, Part I

We, Yadira and María Esther, are members of the Grupo Patrimonio Qoriorqo, a civil non-profit organization made up of young men and women from Andahuaylillas, Peru. The group was created in 2009 with the support of World Monuments Fund and the parish of Andahuaylillas, as a side project to the restoration of the Church of San Pedro Apóstol.
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January 24, 2013

Stobi’s Long History and Today’s Opportunities

The archaeological site of Stobi has a history of habitation dating back to the late Bronze Age. Livy recorded Stobi as urbs vetus (old city) in the Hellenistic period, and later, during the early Roman Empire, it developed into a municipium and the largest town in the north of the province of Macedonia.
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January 14, 2013

Watch Day in Jacmel Historic District, Haiti

As I flew over Port au Prince last September, almost three years after the devastating earthquake that killed a quarter of a million people in 2010, I tried to find the blue tents that used to be everywhere in and around the city signaling the location of the homeless camps, and I saw with relief that they were mostly gone, although empty patches of recently cleared rubble filled the landscape instead.
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January 14, 2013

Watch Day in Remedios, Cuba

I arrived in Havana on a hot day last September and stayed overnight at the postmodernist Telégrafo Hotel, located at the corner of Prado and Neptuno streets, a place known as the birthplace of the cha-cha-cha, a style of Cuban music that became popular in the 1950s. Early the next morning, I left for the town of Remedios, located in the middle of the country, 320 kilometers east of the capital.
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January 14, 2013

Work Begins at the New York Studio School

WMF’s project in collaboration with the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University launched this week. Students from the Conservation Center will analyze paint finishes on the spectacular fireplace and chimney of the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney studio at the New York Studio School.
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December 10, 2012

Everybody Wants to Visit Todosantos

A few years ago, before the inclusion of the religious complex of Todosantos in the 2010 World Monuments Watch “nobody knew Todosantos, but now everybody wants to visit it,” says Ramiro Endara, Executive Director of Conservartecuador, the preservation group that nominated the site.
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November 29, 2012

WMF in Cuenca

Located in the Tomebamba Valley in Cuenca, Ecuador, the religious complex of Todosantos has a deeply rooted history and traditions that continue today.
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November 16, 2012

2012 Hadrian Award Gala

On October 23, a distinguished group of guests gathered at the Plaza to honor Kenneth I. Chenault, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Express and the Duke of Devonshire KCVO CBE DL. Henry Kissinger's tribute to Kenneth Chenault upon his receipt of WMF's Hadrian Award illustrated Mr. Chenault's tremendous commitment to preserving irreplaceable historic sites around the world.
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