More than 70 World Heritage managers share experiences at the XVIII World Heritage Managers Meeting in Antequera

Territorio Mudéjar travels to Antequera (Málaga) to attend the 18th Meeting of World Heritage Managers. The director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participates in this technical forum that the Ministry of Culture organises annually to promote the meeting, analysis and discussion of the problems that managers of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List encounter on a daily basis.

Its aim is to improve the conservation of these assets and to create a network of contacts between all the managers working on these assets, in order to share experiences, address challenges and find common solutions.

The meeting will be held until 26 June with activities both in the Museum of the City of Antequera and in the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Noble Arts, as well as in Antequera Town Hall, where the official reception was held this afternoon.

The meeting was opened by the Mayor of Antequera, Manolo Barón; the Deputy Mayor for Tourism and World Heritage, Ana Cebrián; the Councillor for Culture and Heritage, José Medina; the Deputy Director General for the Management and Coordination of Cultural Heritage, María Agúndez; Miriam Ugarte, from the UNESCO Conventions Department of the Ministry of Culture; Carmen Mora, Director of the Dólmenes de Antequera Archaeological Site; Alicia Castillo, lecturer at the Complutense University of Madrid;

During their stay, participants have the opportunity to visit the main monuments of the city such as the Dolmens, the Torcal, the Alcazaba and the Royal Collegiate Church of Santa Maria.

In total, more than 70 World Heritage managers are sharing experiences in this XVIII Meeting of World Heritage Managers in Antequera.

In the first workshop on social participation and world heritage we exchanged ideas on how to work on the uses of the space between the dolmens and the polygon.

We continued with a visit to the Museo de la Ciudad (MVCA), the Museo Sitio Dólmenes de Antequera and the Alcazaba.

The World Heritage Managers Meeting ended after a session on the evaluation of visitors to the Antequera Dolmens World Heritage Site and the presentation of the conclusions on social participation as the key to a management focused on people, on the inhabitants of the heritage.

On the last day, the director of Territorio Mudéjar, Victoria Trasobares, participated as coordinator of the working group “Dolmen Museum, inhabitants and visitors. Analysis and diagnosis of needs” together with the directors and managers of the sites: Menorca Talayotica (Consell de Menorca), Colonia Guell (Consortium), Risco Caido and the sacred mountains of Gran Canaria and the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Pichu in Cuzco (Peru).