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CITY OF PRAGUE BUILDS RING-ROAD BLANKA TUNNEL UNDER ITS HISTORIC CITY WALLS

oct 13

Europa Nostra calls for protection of the historic city fabric.

Europa Nostra helped local activists make sure that their concerns about work underway to construct the Blanka Tunnel complex, a ring-road highway under the historic walls of Prague, were put on the agenda of the World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville during the last week of June 2009. Europa Nostra Scientific Council member, Dr Tomás Durdík, lent his expertise to the Prague-based campaign. The WHC noted the threats to the ancient city walls and to the urban fabric of the historic city, and agreed to monitor this project, including the quality of the tunnel access and exit points close to the city walls, to ensure that the finely tuned street pattern is not damaged by the extra traffic which will be generated.