It has been 30 years since the historic center of Prague joined the prestigious club of monuments included on the World Heritage List. Prague City Hall’s Department of Monument Conservation Prague commemorated this key milestone with a professional conference with international participation.

The conference was held on November 24 in cooperation with the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital City of Prague at the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP).

At the opening ceremony of the conference, Anna Sidorenko, Head of Cultural Heritage Protection Treaties Unit, Culture and Emergencies Entity, UNESCO, and Head of the Secretariat of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two Protocols (1954 and 1999), presented the Blue Shield flag to the representatives of the capital city. This was meant as a symbolic gesture to celebrate the round anniversary and to thank Prague for its response to current events in the world. The Blue Shield Flag is a designation that serves to prevent damage, mitigate risks and assist in the rescue of cultural heritage threatened by natural disaster, human failure or armed conflict.

A recording of the conference is available on YouTube in the Czech version [here] and in the English version [here].

You can find more details about the activities of the Czech Blue Shield Committee [here].