Fort back in business ... for tourists

THE RESTORATION of a major part of #Malta’s Fort St Angelo – re-built in the 16th and 17th centuries – has been completed, just in time for it to be used as the venue for the 2015 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting at the end of November.

The fort, on Valletta’s Grand Harbour, will be open to tourists after the meeting of 53 Commonwealth prime ministers and presidents.

The €14.5 million (£10.35 million) restoration project – funded in the main by the European Union – began in 2007. 


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Heritage list updated

THESE are some of the world’s historic or significant cultural sites given UNESCO World Heritage status this year:

• Christiansfeld, Moravian Church Settlement (Denmark)

• Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars (France)

• Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus district, Hamburg (Germany)

• Cultural landscape of Maymand (Iran)

• Necropolis of Beth She’arim—a landmark of Jewish Revival (Israel)

• Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalú and Monreale (Italy)

• Sites of Japan’s Meiji industrial revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

• Rjukan-Notodden industrial heritage site (Norway)

• Singapore Botanical Gardens (Singapore)

• Ephesus (Turkey)

• Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial landscape (Uruguay)

• The Forth Bridge (Scotland)

• San Antonio Missions (US)

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