Feasible Management of Archaeological Heritage Sites Open to Tourism by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783319927565
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Stari Grad on Hvar

Let us end with a brief mention of another site, a World Heritage Site, and a project in the making. We are referring to the Stari Grad Plain UNESCO World Heritage Site on the island of Hvar (Fig. 8.4).

Fig. 8.4Satellite image of the Stari Grad Plain (Copyright: Archaeological Museum in Split)

One of the latest additions to the WH list, as of 2008, the plain is a cultural landscape with origins in the fourth century BC, when the Greek colonists from the island of Paros established a colony there. The plain demonstrates the comprehensive system of agriculture as used by the ancient Greeks. The land was divided into geometrical parcels (chora) bounded by drystone walls. The system included a rainwater recovery system involving the use of gutters and storage cisterns. The original field layout has been respected by the continuous maintenance of the boundary walls by successive generations. Agricultural activity in the chora has remained uninterrupted for 24 centuries up to the present day.

In terms of management, here a clean sheet was issued, so to speak, and unlike Salona, there does seem to exist the will to put the theoretical advances as regard the management of archaeological sites into practice. I expect the Stari Grad Plain WHS to become a training ground where it will be possible to combat the deeply ingrained predilections for sectoral entrenchment, as well as the unfortunate perception by many that archaeological tourism is a one- or—at best—a two-way alley. In my opinion, it might perhaps better be understood as a wide and open square, open to a number of other stakeholders whose opinions should matter and who ought to have a say in matters of heritage tourism.3

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