Italia Nostra difende Venezia Exhibition

Resolution 232 (1962)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

Assembly debate on 22nd September 1962 (13th Sitting) (see Doc. 1503, Report of the Cultural and Scientific Committee). Text adopted by the Assembly on 25 January 2000 (2nd Sitting).

The Assembly,

Having regard to the terms of the Cultural Convention according to which "each Contracting Party shall take appropriate measures to safeguard its national contribution to the common cultural heritage of Europe" and "shall regard the objects of European cultural value placed under its control as integral parts of the common cultural heritage of Europe";

Having regard to the fact that the question of safeguarding centres containing monuments of recognised European interest was entered on the register of the Assembly, and referred to the Cultural and Scientific Committee in January 1962 (Reference No. 366);

Having regard to the lessons of the Italia Nostra difende Venezia Exhibition on view at the headquarters of the Council of Europe, during the second part of the 14th Session, at the instigation of the Cultural and Scientific Committee ;

Considering that Venice is one of the birthplaces of European culture and that its safeguarding calls for the support of the whole of Europe,

Resolves :

1 to congratulate the Italia Nostra Association on its generous action towards the preservation of Venice and to give every encouragement to persevere in this struggle by expressing its conviction that the Association will find the necessary support from the competent Italian authorities ;

2 to instruct its Cultural Committee :

to continue its study of the possibilities of establishing, within the framework of the Council of Europe, a system of European co-operation for the protection of centres containing cultural and historic monuments and to submit proposals as soon as possible;

to study ways and means whereby the Council of Europe might assist Italia Nostra in its efforts to preserve Venice.