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Workshop seeks to promote Hue city's cultural landscapes

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in coordination with Japan’s Waseda University held a workshop on August 9 to exchange views on preserving cultural landscapes of the Hue heritage and surrounding areas so as to devise plans and policies to develop its cultural and historical values.
Workshop seeks to promote Hue city's cultural landscapes ảnh 1At the event co-organised by the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre and Japan’s Waseda University on August 9 to exchange views on preserving cultural landscapes of the Hue heritage and surrounding areas. (Photo: VNA)

Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre in coordination with Japan’s Waseda University held a workshop on August 9 toexchange views on preserving cultural landscapes of the Hue heritage and surrounding areas so as to devise plans and policies to develop its cultural and historicalvalues.

It also aims to improve the efficiency of heritage conservation andmanagement in association with sustainable tourism development of the Hue heritageurban area.

According to researchers, under the Nguyen Dynasty, importantarchitectural clusters were designed in line with feng shui elements such asmountains, hills, rivers and streams, especially lakes. These are the culturalcharacteristics that make up the outstanding value of the world culturalheritage in Hue Imperial Ancient Citadel, they said.

At the workshop, experts and researchers exchanged views relating to the managementof heritage buffer zones, the planning of building the Hue ancient citadel inhistory, the conservation of cultural landscapes in Hue Heritage urban area andfeng shui elements in the planning of the imperial tombs of kings of the Nguyen Dynasty.

Shigeru Satoh, Professor Emeritus of the Waseda University, said that inaddition to protecting the landscapes of relics in line with regulations, it isnecessary for the locality to develop community-based eco-tourism around the imperialtombs of Kings Gia Long and Thieu Tri to guide local citizens to live with the heritages andprotect them sustainably.

According to Director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre Hoang VietTrung, the workshop’s outcome will supplement the study of a master plan on the conservation and restoration of the Complex of Hue Monuments until 2030, with avision to 2050 and compile a dossier for re-nominating it as a World Heritage CulturalLandscape as recommended by the UNESCO and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism./.

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