(CTN News) – A total of five cultural sites in Thailand have been added to a preliminary Unesco list of potential new world heritage sites, a government spokesperson said Sunday.
The fifth entry was a historic cluster of cities and surrounding sites associated to Songkhla Lake in the southern province of Songkhla.
The Songkhla town clusters were approved during the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee in New Delhi on Saturday, the same day Unesco inscribed Phu Phra Bat Historical Park in the northeastern province of Udon Thani as a World Heritage Site, according to Chai Wacharonke.
The “tentative” list is a collection of properties that a country proposes to add to Unesco’s World Heritage List. Inclusion on the tentative list is not a guarantee of World Heritage designation.
Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat (listed on Aug 28, 2012); Chiang Mai’s historical and cultural sites (Feb 9, 2015); Wat Phra Tat Phanom in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom (Feb 2, 2017); and Phimai, its “cultural route” and the associated temples of Phanomroong and Muangtam (Apr 11, 2019).
On a related issue, Mr Chai said that the government has eliminated admission prices to the Phu Phra Bat Historical Park from today until August 12 to commemorate the country’s fifth Unesco World Heritage site.
“Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin encourages the people to congratulate and celebrate the recognition of Phu Phra Bat as Thailand’s new World Heritage site. This is another accomplishment in the implementation of a policy aimed at increasing the country’s cultural competitiveness, as well as conservation and development efforts,” the spokesman said.
Source: Bangkok Post
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