• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Sziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended listSziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended listSziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended listSziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended list
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Kata Fónai Kata Fónai · 23/05/2019
· Culture

Sziget festival’s island in Budapest taken off World Heritage recommended list

Budapest Hungary Sziget Festival UNESCO
sziget fesztival

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/SzigetFestival/

Not long before the UNESCO voted about World Heritage, the government took Hajógyári Island off the list of recommended places to earn World Heritage status, revealed Magyar Közlöny on Friday.

The decree signed by Viktor Orbán does not account for why out of the borders of the Roman Empire’s — the part on the Danubian Limes in Hungary — sites recommended for UNESCO protection the onetime lower-Pannonia province’s centre’s — Aquincums’ — most important location, the Hajógyári Island (in Óbuda) is getting taken off the list, reports Népszava.

The 32 hectare island is under archaeological protection. The most valuable relic of the island is a still 1.5-2 meters deep in the ground; an enormous 8,000-10,000 square metres palace, which — according to some opinions — was built at the beginning of the 2nd century, at the time of Emperor Hadrianus’s reign.

In 2014 the government was for revealing the palace — which they had gotten back from Israeli investors wanting to build a casino there — and create a national park.

In 2016 the Orbán-government decided that the Island in Óbuda should also be a part of the World Heritage. In 2018 they applied accordingly. The case got a separate Ministerial Commissioner, Zsolt Visy.

The application submitted on January 31, includes 98 sites in 15 kilometres, 65 of which can be found in Hungary. UNESCO will decide about the joint application in June.

Magyar Nemzet has since reported that the island was taken off the list because getting the World Heritage status would make is impossible to reconstruct the relics of Hadrianus’s palace.

See Hungarian World Heritage sites HERE.

Featured image: https://www.facebook.com/SzigetFestival/

Source: https://nepszava.hu/

Budapest Hungary Sziget Festival UNESCO
Share
Kata Fónai
Kata Fónai

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.

Latest news
  • PHOTOS: Delhi Hungarian Cultural Centre commemorated famous Hungarian-Indian painter
  • Snowstorm: Lufthansa plane almost ran out of fuel over Hungary, passengers in shock
  • What happened today in Hungary? – 3 February, 2023
  • Court: Hungary responsible for the death of a 22-year-old Syrian migrant
  • 510 EUR/month – would you work for that in Hungary as a university teacher?
  • Wizz Air considerably changed its summer schedule, ticket prices expected to grow
  • PHOTOS: you can meet with Hungarian international chess grandmaster here
  • Hungarians living in Ukraine in danger? Anti-Hungarian mood, enforced military conscriptions, atrocities

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V