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Historic Center of Vienna Remains on the UNESCO Red List
The historic center of Vienna remains on UNESCO's red list of endangered World Heritage Sites despite recent changes to the Heumarkt project. This was decided by UNESCO. Now it is being examined whether the project is compatible with World Heritage in this way.
The historic center of Vienna remains on the red list of endangered world heritage sites. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; Ogre, CC BY 3.0
This decision was announced during the 45th meeting of the committee in Riyadh. The center's inclusion on the list in 2017 is mainly due to a planned construction project on the Haymarket, which has been the subject of controversy for years. Since then, the project has been amended again and again. As recently as the end of June, plans had been published that included a 56.5-meter-high…
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