Development vs. Heritage: UNESCO punishes Dresden

With its 20 kilometers of pristine valley, Dresden owned the famous UNESCO label since 2004. It was a crowning reward of years of meticulous reconstruction work of its Baroque gems that were reduced to a pile of stones in 1945 by the Allied bombings. Now, the Dresden Elbe Valley has to take the bitter pill. UNESCO recently dropped the place from its list of UN World Heritage Sites. The reason: the construction of ‘a four-lane bridge in the heart of the cultural landscape.’ According to UNESCO,

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