OSIJEK-Politika CROATIA TO ENTER 18TH CENTURY OSIJEK FORTRESS FOR UNESCO LIST OSIJEK, Feb 17 (Hina) - Croatian Ambassador to the UNESCO, Vesna Girardi-Jurkic, was on Wednesday handed a survey on the 18th century "Tvrdja" fortress in
the eastern Croatian town of Osijek by the town mayor, Zlatko Kramaric, to be entered on UNESCO's world heritage list. Jurkic will submit the survey to the World Heritage director on March 6. She expressed hope the other ambassadors to the UNESCO would endorse Tvrdja being entered among the 550 world heritage monuments. The survey was drafted by Osijek's State Cultural Heritage Bureau's Conservationist Department, and financed by the Croatian Culture Ministry. Head of the Conservationist Department, Zvonko Bojcic, stressed the Osijek fortress was a baroque unit dating from the 18th century. Tvrdja was damaged during the Serb aggression, but the damage has been largely reconstructed with resources from the state budget.(hina) lml jn
OSIJEK, Feb 17 (Hina) - Croatian Ambassador to the UNESCO, Vesna
Girardi-Jurkic, was on Wednesday handed a survey on the 18th
century "Tvrdja" fortress in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek by
the town mayor, Zlatko Kramaric, to be entered on UNESCO's world
heritage list.
Jurkic will submit the survey to the World Heritage director on
March 6.
She expressed hope the other ambassadors to the UNESCO would
endorse Tvrdja being entered among the 550 world heritage
monuments.
The survey was drafted by Osijek's State Cultural Heritage Bureau's
Conservationist Department, and financed by the Croatian Culture
Ministry.
Head of the Conservationist Department, Zvonko Bojcic, stressed
the Osijek fortress was a baroque unit dating from the 18th century.
Tvrdja was damaged during the Serb aggression, but the damage has
been largely reconstructed with resources from the state budget.
(hina) lml jn