Nájera (La Rioja), Feb 28 (EFE).- The Spanish delegation of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the Association of Municipalities of the Camino de Santiago have signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen the defense of monumental heritage and cultural, in addition to promoting its economic repercussion, in the towns and cities of the Jacobean Route.
The president of ICOMOS Spain, Jordi Tresserras, and the president of the Association of Municipalities, Enrique Maya, who is the mayor of Pamplona, signed the agreement this Tuesday at the premises of the Heritage School of the Ministry of Culture, located in the Monastery of Santa María La Real de Nájera.
The president of ICOMOS Spain, Jordi Tresserras, and the president of the Association of Municipalities, Enrique Maya, sign a collaboration agreement to strengthen the defense of monumental and cultural heritage, in addition to promoting its economic impact, in the towns and cities of the Jacobean route. EFE/Fernando Diaz
The alliance between these two entities seeks, especially, that the small municipalities through which the Camino de Santiago passes have specialized advice both regarding possible interventions in heritage and in the development of renewable energy projects that may affect them or in the fundraising and grants for resource management.
They claim that this collaboration agreement between both institutions will serve as a general framework for carrying out future joint actions that contribute to the conservation and management of the Camino de Santiago, in addition to carrying out different studies on its situation.
In addition, through this agreement, which has an initial validity of 4 years, the two entities want to promote joint actions on the occasion of International Monuments Day, on April 18, or World Heritage Day, on November 16.
The Association of Municipalities of the Camino de Santiago is currently made up of 109 municipalities of the French Way, from the autonomous communities of Navarra, La Rioja, Castilla León and Galicia.
For many of them, especially the smaller ones, it is “very complex” to adequately manage everything related to heritage “and adapt it to the needs of today’s society”, has admitted the president of the Association of Municipalities and mayor of Pamplona, Enrique Maya. EFE
