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9 June 2020

Bratislava stresses the need for tools for protecting cultural heritage against climate change

The City of Bratislava invited ARCH partners and local stakeholders to a match-making meeting on 25 and 28 of May. Following a virtual visit to the cultural monuments of Bratislava most threatened by climate change, participants explored how to match...

19 May 2020

Bratislava discusses heritage preservation with local stakeholders

To present ARCH to local stakeholders, the City of Bratislava held an introductory meeting with them earlier this spring. The event marked the start of the work of its local partnership. The discussion revealed that the impact of pluvial flooding and...

18 May 2020

Camerino’s baseline report paves the way for improving the city’s resilience

In December 2019, ARCH partners from Fraunhofer IAIS and ENEA visited the municipality of Camerino in order to meet some of the key local stakeholders and collect preliminary data for the city’s baseline report. The report has been now...

16 April 2020

ARCH partners e-visited Valencia’s La Huerta and Albufera

Restrictions due to the virus outbreak have put Spanish cities in lockdown and resulted in the unprecedented cancellation of Valencia’s Las Fallas festival – but that didn’t stop ARCH scientific partners paying a ‘virtual...

27 November 2019

“Huerta de València” designated as Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System

The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) officially recognised the historic irrigation system of the Huerta de Valencia as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) at its...

19 November 2019

Hamburg to save its iconic quay walls

ICLEI Member Hamburg (Germany)'s Speicherstadt (‘City of Warehouses’) was originally developed on a group of narrow islands in the Elbe River; the buildings stand on wooden poles under water. This district is made up of former trade and...