Included in the UNESCO list of properties under enhanced protection Villa Adriana

Hadrian’s Villa, a UNESCO heritage site since 1999, has been inscribed on the list of cultural property subject to enhanced protection in the event of armed conflict, provided for in the 1999 Second Protocol to the 1954 UNESCO Hague Convention.

The decision on the inclusion was made during the work of the 13th Committee for the Protection of Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which took place in Paris at UNESCO headquarters on December 6 and 7, 2018. The Florence National Library, the Geghard Monastery and Upper Azat Valley in Armenia, and the Tugehghat Villa in the Czech Republic were included in the same list.
Inclusion on the list entailsimmunity: in the event of armed conflict, sites duly marked with the Convention’s blue shield cannot be attacked or used for military purposes.

“The recognition of immunity is significant of the enormous importance of our heritage and its deep symbolic value. It is for us, who live in an era and geographical context of relative tranquility, an opportunity to reaffirm the values of peace and civil coexistence, recalling how war, in addition to reaping sometimes helpless victims, often produces a further evil, the destruction of memory and history, the heritage not of individual peoples, but of’entire humanity,” said Villa Adriana and Villa d’Este Institute director Andrea Bruciati.

Included in the UNESCO list of properties under enhanced protection Villa Adriana

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