The Andalusian olive grove landscape aspires to be a World Heritage Site in 2023
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The Diputación de Jaén celebrates that the Olive Landscapes in Andalusia is the candidacy that Spain will present to be included in the World Heritage List of Unesco in 2023. The 88th meeting of the Historical Heritage Council (CPH), convened by the Ministry of Culture and Sport and which brings together the general directors of Cultural Heritage of the autonomous communities has approved that the candidacy promoted by the provincial administration of Jaén in 2014 will be taken to ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) in 2022 and finally, to the General Assembly of Unesco where the final declaration would be discussed at a meeting scheduled for summer 2023.

The second vice president of the Diputación de Jaén, Pilar Parra, has participated along with the deputy of Culture and Sports, Ángel Vera; the coordinator of the candidacy file, Marcelino Sánchez; and the general director of Historical and Documentary Heritage of the Junta de Andalucía, Miguel Ángel Araúz; in this meeting chaired by the general director of Fine Arts, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, in which the Council has unanimously approved that the Olive Landscapes in Andalusia will be the Spanish candidacy to the World Heritage List of Unesco. "Today we add a very important milestone for the achievement of the Andalusian Olive Landscapes to be declared World Heritage. It is a great joy the support received from the body that in the Spanish State decides which candidacy will present our country to the World Heritage List," said Parra, who recalled the long road so far, led by the Diputación de Jaén with the collaboration of the Junta de Andalucía, the deputations of Córdoba, Granada, Seville and Málaga, the universities of these provinces; as well as agricultural organizations and the Savia and Guillén foundations.

"Now begins the most demanding and decisive route of the candidacy, collecting the recommendations and comments of the group of experts of the Spanish Historical Heritage Council and with the desire to achieve even greater dissemination, dissemination and valuation through the Association Landscapes of the Olive Grove of Andalusia, among the owners of the property that are none other than farmers, agricultural associations and entities, social agents, citizens in general, decisively promoting the management and conservation plan," stressed the second vice president of the Diputación de Jaén that announces the intensification of accessions to the candidacy. "We will continue working convinced that the proposal is obviously a magnificent candidacy with undoubted possibilities although there is still much work to be done."

This dossier, which reinforces the idea of the Andalusian olive grove as a whole sea of olive trees, identifies ten large areas of cultural landscape. Thus, there are four linked to the olive-growing specialization of the 19th century: Campiñas de Jaén, Subbética Cordobesa, Sierra Mágina and Hacienda de La Laguna - Alto Guadalquivir. On the other hand, the olive grove of the Enlightenment is included, represented by Montoro and its surroundings, and the Haciendas of Seville and Cadiz, linked to the 16th to 18th centuries. Likewise, the olive grove of the medieval-Islamic period, in the Lecrín Valley (Granada); that of the 13th and 15th centuries, in the Segura Valley; and that of the Roman period, from the 1st to the 3rd century, with Astigi-Bajo Genil (Ecija). Finally, the area of Periana and Alora, in Malaga, is included as an area of the first cultivation of the crop.

The second vice president of the Diputación de Jaén has highlighted the exceptional universal value of "one of the great crops that remain to be included in the list of World Heritage". Pilar Parra has emphasized that "the landscape of the olive grove is a paradigmatic cultural landscape, which integrates perfectly the material and the immaterial. It has generated a prototypical landscape, the sea of olive trees, whose lines extend to infinity and includes an incredible and impressive architectural, artistic, historical, ethnographic, archaeological and industrial heritage. It is an exceptional witness of a form of exploitation that goes back millennia in the history of mankind, and is inextricably linked to the Greco-Roman culture that was born around the Mediterranean, of which it is perhaps its greatest sign of identity".

Finally, Pilar Parra has argued that the illusion of this nomination "will be a source of pride for the thousands of families who make, have made possible and will continue to do so, the creation and preservation of such an imposing cultural, economic and social reality".

In total, Spain has 48 properties included in the World Heritage list -being the third country with more properties- and the last one included by Unesco was the Fallen Crag and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria, in 2019. The nomination of Talayotic Menorca for World Heritage will be the next Spanish nomination to find out if it is a definitive part of this list, in 2022.

 

 

 

Source: Linares28.es

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