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Masterpieces of architecture perish in Athens |
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In Athens, there are thousands of beautiful conserved neoclassical buildings of the 19th century which remind its modern history and give a certain character to the city, but there are also many which are abandoned even though they consist a masterpiece of architecture. Some of these buildings are about to collapse. Our government protects those buildings, and characterizes them as ?preservable?, and as a result, their demolition is forbidden. However, the government doesn?t help financially their owners, in order to maintain them. Those owners, as expected, feel unlucky because they offer a cultural object to the society at their own cost. The high cost of the maintaining of those buildings, all along with the limited use of them, due to the low exploitation of the space used, force many owners, who cant afford it, to abandon and let them fall down, in order to be allowed to use those plots to construct blocks. In my opinion, the government has the responsibility to help the maintaining of those lovely buildings so they wont turn into blocks. However, this aid is rarely offered guiding to catastrophic results. Even more, the last 2 years, the tax of the ownership of real estate has been increased a lot. Many organizations and citizens have reacted to it, without any result. Unfortunately, more and more of those structures will perish. This happens despite the participation of Greece in the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe signed in Granada in 1985, where all states decided that they had to provide financial support to the owners of those buildings and save the architectural heritage as well as to resort, if necessary, to fiscal measures to facilitate the conservation of this heritage. http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/en/Treaties/Html/121.htm Here are some pictures |
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31 Comments
nice report.
Posted 31-12-2013 15:49
good share
Posted 30-12-2013 14:12
good artistic buildings
Posted 30-12-2013 00:19
great to know this
Posted 29-12-2013 23:10
Nice sharing.
Posted 28-12-2013 15:09
thanks for sharing.
Posted 27-12-2013 23:15
very much artistic
Posted 27-12-2013 00:13
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 24-12-2013 17:45
nice article.
Posted 23-12-2013 21:41
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 23-12-2013 17:21
Great report
Posted 22-12-2013 23:00
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 22-12-2013 18:19
Thank you for sharing.
Posted 21-12-2013 23:35
good report
Posted 20-12-2013 02:42
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 19-12-2013 18:25
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 19-12-2013 15:37
thanks for the report
Posted 14-12-2013 23:00
Thank you for the article.
Posted 13-12-2013 15:09
Thanks for the article.
Posted 11-12-2013 17:23
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 10-12-2013 17:15
Thanks for the report.
Posted 10-12-2013 01:13
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 08-12-2013 01:55
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 08-12-2013 01:55
Thanks for sharing this.
Posted 06-12-2013 15:22
thanks for the information...
Posted 05-12-2013 19:01
Thanks for sharing.
Posted 04-12-2013 20:28
Thank you so much for sharing.
Posted 04-12-2013 18:50
Thanks for the report.
Posted 03-12-2013 06:15
Thanks for the report.
Posted 03-12-2013 00:38
Thanks for sharing!
Posted 02-12-2013 16:44
Thank you so much for this informative article! Well, it's surprising there's been such unreasonable situation in conservation of historical art pieces.
More worrisome thing is that the situation can go worse due to the recent sovereign crisis.
Posted 29-11-2013 09:23