From May 16 to 27, Santiago de Cuba will take in the Foundational Course about Handling and Protection of the Underwater Cultural Patrimony conducted by UNESCO, which will have the submerged fleet of Admiral Pascual Cervera as study case.
The course will qualify 14 young people from six Cuban provinces about the efficient protection of Cuban underwater cultural patrimony through the appropriate application and articulation of UNESCO’s regulations related with an especially vulnerable type of patrimony.
Those instruments are the conventions to take care of those cultural treasures through measures that ban the importation, exportation and transference of illegal properties of cultural goods.
Cuba has adopted a strategy to provide the country with a more multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach in relation to the underwater patrimony handling to make an increasingly sustainable use of the submerged cultural resources for the benefit of the people.
The course’s practical exercises will use some of the shipwreck of the Underwater Archeological Park linked to the 1898 Naval Battle of Santiago de Cuba de 1898, which was declared National Monument in 2015.
This park is formed by seven archeological sites (Playa Siboney, Las Cuatro Bocas, Playa Mar Verde, Rancho Cruz - Buey Cabón, Ensenada de Juan González, Aserradero and Playa La Mula), where are located the remains of five Spanish and two American ships related to the mentioned naval conflict and landing.
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