Devoted Saint-Emilion
Saint-Emilion, registered at the UNESCO, yesterday, for the first time, a wine landscape with the world inheritance. Happiness and pride in all the jurisdiction.
| The 800 years year of Jurade is completed in apotheosis. UNESCO decided yesterday, at the time of its convention of Marrakech, to classify Saint-Emilion with the world inheritance, the accordance with the " cultural landscapes ". |
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Mr. Musitelli, ambassador of France near the institution, in informed, yesterday evening, the mayor of Saint-Emilion, Jacques Goudineau. He received this news like a " great happiness ", while his colleague mayor of Saint-Sulpice-of-Faleyrens and chair SIVOM, George Bonnefon, perceived like a " great honor ".
For it is not the commune of Saint-Emilion as such who is distinguished, but a whole of eight communes organized today in a SIVOM*. These are the same communes which formed in the Middle Ages the jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion and whose geographical extent recuts the current surface of wine name including a whole inheritance historical and architectural remarkable whose medieval city of Saint-Emilion is the floret. " It is the first time in the world which a wine landscape is classified ", underlined, yesterday evening, with pride, Jacques Goudineau.
| The classification is succeeds it lies of a step initiated in spring 1998. The label of cultural landscape is considered by its local councillors a formidable tool of communi- cation and development touristico - economic. The mayor of Saint-Emilion also sees in this label a tool of pressure likely to incite the local authorities with more co-operation. One apparently knows the brawl which currently opposes it to the area, not very eager of stupids tribuer to the large building site of restoration of the church monolith | |
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But for George Bonnefon, it is also a label which imposes " duties ". The first task of the elected officials of the SIVOM will be the development of a " patrimonial charter " and the mayors will meet in this respect as of tomorrow Friday. Indeed, put aside Saint-Emilion which has of a rural and urban POS and a safeguarded sector, few of other communes are thus structured. The step should lead to the constitution of a ZPPAU (zone of protection of the architectural, urban and landscape heritage).
While waiting for the jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion his distinction enjoys. A distinction which, according to the expression of the first assistant, Jean-François Carille, not seuleument honours those which assembled the file, but especially " the generations which worked the landscape " until doing of them one of the high places of humanity. .
* The communes which make the jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, are Saint-Emilion, Saint-Christophe-des-Bardes, Saint-Laurent-Of-Combes, Saint-Hippolyte, Saint-Etienne-de-Lisse, Saint-Pey-in Armens, Vignonet and Saint-Sulpice-of-Faleyrens..
Jacques Ripoche, "Sud-Ouest", 2/12/1999