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Hanoi exhibition spotlights French, Vietnamese cultural heritage sites

Some 200 photos, documents, and objects featuring the ancient urban area of Provins in France and Hanoi’s Thang Long Imperial Citadel are on display at an exhibition that opened in the capital on November 23.
Hanoi exhibition spotlights French, Vietnamese cultural heritage sites ảnh 1A corner of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Some 200 photos, documents, and objectsfeaturing the ancient urban area of Provins in France and Hanoi’s Thang Long Imperial Citadel are on display at an exhibition thatopened in the capital on November 23.

The exhibition is being hosted by the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Conservation Centre on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day.

Provins, which was placed on the list of world cultural heritage sites in December2001, was at one time a major centre of trade in Europe.

TheThang Long Imperial Citadel, which was placed on the list in August 2010, was a power centre for over a thousand yearsof Vietnamese history and unique evidence of Vietnamese civilization during thedevelopment of monarchies in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Both sites are located in the heart of important thousand-year-old cities.

The exhibition also introduces other unique world cultural heritage sites in thetwo countries, enhancing the exchange of experience in preserving such sites andpromoting heritage tourism.

It forms part of an action programme between the Hanoi People’s Committee and theIle de France Regional Council for the 2018-2021 period and is under a cooperationagreement on cultural heritage between the Thang Long Imperial Citadel ConservationCentre and Provins City in 2019-2021.

The exhibition will last until the end of 2020./.
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