Lviv will be entered in UNESCO's World Heritage Register. This decision
was made in the ancient capital of Japan, Kyoto, The Day's Oleksandr
SYRTSOV was told by Oleksiy Semianyshyn, head of the Lviv Mayor's community
service. Mr. Semianyshyn added that this successful culmination of two
years of effort was made possible, among other things, due to support from
the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. According to Roman Dats, director of Lviv's
Historical-Architectural Preserve, the main argument for entering Lviv
in the list was preserving its historic downtown and the presence there
of practically every architectural style from the fourteenth to early twentieth
century and their blending with local construction and architectural traditions.
UNESCO will give no direct financing to sustain the city's 2,000 architectural
sites, but from now on Lviv will be featured in all travelogues. Simultaneously,
the central and local authorities will undertake to preserve Lviv's architectural
legacy.
Lviv Entered in World Heritage
8 December, 1998 - 00:00
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