Europa Nostra: Culture and heritage are essential for long-term socio-economic recovery

Europa Nostra Secretary General Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic believes in the role of culture in Europe’s socio-economic recovery when the Covid-19 health emergency is over. Indeed, she said in a video message to AgCult that “culture and cultural heritage are essential for European communities and should be duly included both in the immediate response of the European Union and individual countries to the crisis and in long-term recovery plans.”

“History has taught us that the restoration, reconstruction and securing of our heritage can be an act of social and economic rebirth,” he added, recalling the Italian winners of the European Heritage Awards, namely the restoration of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio, the Tramontana III network (a European collaboration between Italy, France, Poland, Portugal and Spain to safeguard the intangible heritage of the rural and mountain communities in Europe) and the Turin Papyrus Online platform of the Egyptian Museum in Turin, which makes the rich collection of papyri accessible in digital form. With the hope of seeing Sammezzano Castle, which recently entered the 7 Most Endangered, the EU program aimed at identifying the seven most endangered cultural sites in Europe, also included.

Pictured is the Basilica of Collemaggio.

Europa Nostra: Culture and heritage are essential for long-term socio-economic recovery

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