About Empty Streets and Innovative Places
Stories of innovation and inspiration to revitalize heritage. Apolda – a little-forgotten town in Thuringia, Germany, awaits its visitors.
Why we need to share the idea of European Cultural Heritage
Brainstorming for European elections and European Cultural Heritage
Apolda
Coming from two countries in the south of Europe, we were intrigued as soon as we heard about Apolda, a small German town that, despite its great industrial history, is nowadays faced with the effects of economic crisis.
Rijeka
I visited Rijeka (and Croatia) for the first time 3 years ago. I was surprised by two characteristics of the city…
Tivoli
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Water, Beauty, Progress
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It is everywhere, impossible not to notice it, not to hear it. Water is certainly the most present element in the …
Monfalcone
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One of Europe’s Last Living Company Towns
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The most striking feature about industrial heritage is the coexistence of contrasts and contradic…
Villa Smeraldi, the Peasant and Farming Culture Museum
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Today, Bologna and the Emilia Plain is one of the most modern, advanced and industrialized areas in Italy. But the region’s roots are agricultural, a kind of work that has mostl…
San Petronio: a church against the Church
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Every day I take a walk through the center of my home city, Bologna, and pass in front of our big basilica, San Petronio. It proudly dominates the iconic main square, Piazza Mag…
A Night Walk in Leipzig
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Heritage Times was launched one year ago, during the 2016 edition of “Denkmal”, the largest European fair for monument restoration. It was also the occasion, for me as an enthus…
Rieth, Erfurt and the heritage of Plattenbauten
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Rieth is a northern neighborhood of Erfurt built between 1971 and 1978, the second in the Thuringian city following the Plattenbauten scheme. This German word hints at how the b…