Only a few days ago we published Alessandro Di Nuzzo and Fulvio Iannucci’s report on the Submerged Park of Baia, a true jewel (still little known to most people) of the Gulf of Naples.
The news today is that the Park is the first Italian submerged site to receive UNESCO recognition as a ‘good practice’ for the conservation of underwater cultural heritage.
The Ministry of Culture announced it in a statement: “At the meeting of the States Parties to the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, held in recent weeks at the Paris headquarters, the Italian site was recognised among the world’s ‘good practices’, as a model not only of protection but also of management and enhancement of such a particular heritage as the submerged Roman-era remains preserved between Baia and Pozzuoli.
The application was coordinated by the UNESCO Office of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Culture, with the important support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and of the Permanent Delegation of Italy to UNESCO.”
