Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

[sillydoll]

Cantabria and Asturias will ask UNESCO to include the Jacobean Camino de la Costa and the Lebaniego within the statement as a World Heritage Site which is already the Camino de Santiago, and to this end, both communities are already working on the record to suggest this new joint initiative.
This has been announced today the presidents of Cantabria, Miguel Angel Revilla, and Asturias, Vicente Alvarez Areces, on the occasion of the third meeting of institutional both regions, which took place in the Parque de la Nature of Cabárceno and in which the two governments have adopted a joint statement that contains the proposed declaration of World Heritage Site.
As indicated in the statement, the file of the proposal is likely to be evaluated in 2010, coinciding with the celebration of Holy Year Jacobean.

It is hoped that the new statement will be achieved for the Camino de Santiago de Norte. "We will achieve this, what you will see, because if we work with the same intelligence and with the same vocation will be an element of a special attraction," he asserted.
The joint declaration signed by Cantabria and Asturias also includes a commitment of the two autonomous regions to continue the work of conservation, preservation and commissioning of the value of cultural interest, especially for the caves World Heritage Site, which "will promoted under a common image. "


Full story:

http://www.elcomerciodigital.com/gijon/ ... 01436.html