Construction of Acropolis New Museum Destruction of Archaeological Area beyond Acropolis of Athens

ACROPOLIS NEW MUSEUM: THE HOOK

ELGIN 2007 ACROPOLIS NEW MUSEUM

ΝΕΟ ΜΟΥΣΕΙΟ ΑΚΡΟΠΟΛΗΣ

Μάρω Καρδαμίτση-Αδάμη : «Φοβάμαι ότι ο διάλογος του Μουσείου με τον Ιερό Βράχο δεν θα είναι τίποτε παραπάνω από μια αντιπαράθεση όγκων, μια στομφώδης και θρασεία αντιπαράθεση χωρίς σεβασμό» και ότι εν γένει το «Μουσείο ως τόπος ύπαρξης δεν έρχεται να παράξει πολιτισμό, αλλά για να στεγάσει πολιτισμό».

Ερχεται να στεγάσει αποσπασματα απο πολιτισμό, ολίγο από πολιτισμό....ενω εχει καταστρέψει πολιτισμό χιλιετιών

Acropolis New Museum, the monster and the Beauty

VOTE Were do you believe is the proper place for Parthenon Marbles?

VOTE

Were do you believe is the proper place for marbles of Parthenon?
	1. Back on the monument according UNESCO decision 1982 ? (Reincorporation of the Monument)
	2. Housed in modern giant Acropolis New Museum that destroyed important archaeological findings? ( Removal, Disfiguration of the Monument )
	3. Remain housed at British Museum? (Removal, Disfiguration of the Monument )
	4. Don't know
	5. Don't care, not interrested
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World Heritage Committee Mexico 1982 Recomendation No 55

Motiono by Acropolis

Acropolis Athens 1955 the monument as you will never see it again!

Giant cranes to relay Acropolis marbles to new museumATHENS (AFP) - Sculptures considered masterpieces of Greek Classical art -- such as the Parthenon friezes and the Erechtheion's renowned Caryatids -- are to be lifted by a relay of three cranes from their current location, a small museum dug into the Acropolis rock in the late 19th century.

"This is a historic undertaking, never before attempted in the world," Culture Minister George Voulgarakis told a news conference.

The cranes will deposit the fifth century BC pieces -- some of whom weigh over two tonnes -- onto the roof of the new museum, a distance of 300 metres (yards) downhill.

The operation is expected to cost around eight million euros (10.7 million dollars) and last between three and four months.

"Our criterion was the safety of the fragmnets and the protection of the site, not the cost," Voulgarakis said.

Before leaving the Acropolis rock for the first time in their history, the pieces will be carefully packaged in 17 iron containers of various types and sizes, Voulgarakis said...

Acropolis Museum an intensional destruction

ANCIENT MONUMENTS They gain the battle against pollution

ANCIENT MONUMENTS They gain the battle against pollution
(ΤΑ ΝΕΑ 20/01/2005) P.Katimeritzi

The pollutants-murderer that offend the persons and the old ancient monuments have receded perceptibly from the Acropolis of Athens, thanksto pedestrians streets.
In Acropolis after decades of researches and experimentation, is prepared very carefully the big step for the covering of monuments that finds in the countryside with thin unvisible cloak of protection that can be removed and it is renewed without to destroys the marble with which he is compatible.
"For the protection of surface of marble we found a material ours and we applied in real conditions in a column of Propylaia for eight years and in a sign. The results were very good. It is to be approved for all the monuments and is extended the use , says in" ΤΑ ΝΕΑ " the professor chemical mechanic Theodoros Skoulikidis.
"It is semiconductor, that constitutes our own invention, a patent for which interest itself a lot of scientists. It enters with spreying. It resulted from researches of many years. The semiconductors are oxides of metals, aluminium, magnesium etc.', that acquires the attributes of semiconductor when they are prepared electrolytic. Their action is based on the suspension of plasterization ".
They will finish sometimes the work?
"This process will need to be repeated after twenty years".
Does not exist life without combustions. Even the breathing of person makes dioxide of coal. One of the a lot of gases that hover in atmosphere and when they are mixed with water of rain they are changed in acids capable they offend not only the person, but also the Stone. The combustion of crude oil of industries, oil of bad quality for the heating and the movement vehicles rise up in level of alarm the atmospheric pollution of Athens in one decade from 1955 - 1965.
The mesures that were taken by the state at the pollution did not aim at direct the protection of monuments, but people protection. Helped however the removal of industries that burned crude oil, the improvement of quality of fuels, mainly the desulfurization of petrol, the imposition of ring, the renewal of fleet of cars, the removal of tourist buses from the Acropolis in 1992, the unleaded petrol and more recently the metro underground, the tram, pedestrian ways round Acropolis. All these led to vertical fall of certain pollutants and more important to stabilisation of prices in level acceptable from the European Union.

However the pollutants of cars resist vigorously."Indeed, exist some improvement, but the things are not white-black", say the chemical engineer Evi Papakonstantinou, head of Sector of Maintainance of Service of Maintainance of Monuments of Acropolis. Sulfidization is continued with slower rythm. The cloud comes and go, hovering particles in atmosphere are increased and their prices the last years exceeds often the limits of European Union. The profit from the mesures of anti-pollution and the replacement of the cars fleet with new technology has evaporated almost because the doubling of number of vehicles that circulates ". The scientists and conservers tried they stop the deterioration of monuments and stabilise the surfaces. the sculptures that could be transported they took the street for the museum. Ready know-how it did not exist.

In order to is found the treatment it should first are studied the mechanisms that cause the deteriorations and in this sector Greece created know-how when the professor Thodoros Skoulikidis discover the mechanism of plasterization of marbles and it achieved to reverses with natural way, adding grains calcium with tens sprayings of light calciumwater on the surface.

Acropolis Athens split

Acropolis New Museum Greece's Colossal New Guilt Trip

The New York Times
By FRED A. BERNSTEIN
Published: January 18, 2004

NEW MUSEUM ACROPOLIS DESTROYING ANTIQUITIES



AFTER almost two centuries of frustration, Greece had a new plan: to use the 2004 Summer Olympics, during which the eyes of the world will be on Athens, to pressure England into returning the missing sculptures that once adorned the Parthenon.

Known as the Elgin Marbles by those who say they belong to Britain (which acquired them from the Ottoman Turks, in 1806), and as the Parthenon Marbles by those who say they were stolen, they have become the world's most famously contested works of art. But so far, all the diplomacy has not succeeded in getting them back to Athens, even for a short-term loan. Among the many reasons British officials give for not relinquishing the marbles: Greece doesn't even have a suitable museum to contain them.

So the Greek government sponsored an international competition from which Bernard Tschumi, the celebrated New York architect, was chosen to build a new museum at the foot of the Acropolis. With the start of the Olympics, every television set in the world would broadcast its image, and announce the triumphant return of Greece's lost icons. And if they weren't returned, the building would stand as a gleaming reproach to Britain's intransigence.

But the structure intended to settle a controversy has become an object of controversy itself. The design clashes with the setting, some critics say. It jeopardizes an archaeological site, others claim. And perhaps most dispiritingly, the Olympic deadline is hopelessly out of reach. Like an athlete who trains for a lifetime and then sprains her ankle the week before the games, the New Acropolis Museum may have missed its best chance to make an impression. When the Olympic torch is lighted on Aug. 13, the museum will look like something that Athens already has plenty of: a giant excavation.

THE marbles, carved more than 2,500 years ago, depict a procession of hundreds of ancient Athenians to the Acropolis. Lord Elgin (pronounced with a hard ''g''), who served as Great Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Turks, claimed that by carting the marbles back to England in the early 19th century, he was ''saving them from destruction'' at the hands of ''malevolent Turks who mutilated them for a senseless pleasure.''

But many art historians have decried the British Museum's stewardship of the sculptures, which it displays out of sequence. Legal scholars have also joined in the dispute, contesting the legitimacy of Lord Elgin's claim. David Rudenstine, the dean of Cardozo Law School in New York, said the British parliament ''committed fraud'' when it claimed title to the marbles. And diplomats have argued that the statues are so important to the culture that created them -- ''the essence of Greece,'' in the words of Melina Mercouri, that nation's former minister of culture -- that they constitute a special case, distinct from any other debates about art and ownership.

Because of the poor air quality in Athens, the marbles cannot be reinstalled on the Parthenon itself. The new museum is meant to be the next best thing.

Mr. Tschumi, in partnership with the Athens architect Michael Photiadis, won the design competition with a smoothly modern, light-suffused entry. Mr. Tschumi beat out Daniel Libeskind, whose plan was composed of triangular forms, and Japan's Arata Isozaki, who proposed an egg-shaped building. ''It came at one moment,'' Mr. Tschumi said of his scheme, ''and nothing ever changed.''

The museum will have room for hundreds of antiquities, but its true reason for being is the glass-walled gallery on the upper floor, where the marbles would reside. Twisted 23 degrees from the floors below, it will match the precise orientation of the Parthenon some 300 yards away. Arranged in an outward-facing rectangle, 21 by 58 meters, the sculptures would stand as they did 2,500 years ago, and their original home -- which Mr. Tschumi says ''has had a greater influence on Western civilization than any other building'' -- would be visible behind them.

To some Athenians, the site deserved a truly classical building. Mr. Tschumi says an engineer working on the building's seismic protections wanted the museum to be symmetrical, like the Parthenon itself. ''But how can you compete with a building that has reached a state of perfection?'' Mr. Tschumi asked.
''We had a fight,'' the soft-spoken architect recalled, and eventually he had the engineer fired. ''It became too unpleasant.''

With floors made of the same marble as the Parthenon, and slender concrete columns recalling that building's massive Doric supports, Mr. Tschumi's design echoes Greece's heritage without stooping to imitation. Mr. Tschumi says of the museum's style: ''The argument of the building is that you can address the past while being totally contemporary, totally unsentimental. The way to address a complex problem is with total clarity. There was a mathematical precision in the work of the ancient Greeks. I'm trying for an equivalent precision in this building.''

A more significant challenge came from a faction of Greek archaeologists, who viewed the building not as cementing Greece's heritage -- but as cementing over it. The museum's site contains ruins of a seventh-century A.D. village that, according to Ismini Trianti, the Acropolis's chief archaeologist, ''could shed light on the dark ages of Athens's late antiquity.''

Mr. Tschumi's design calls for a ground floor raised on stilts above the excavation, allowing work on the dig to continue. Much of the first level will be made of glass; museum visitors will be able to survey the excavation beneath them.

The idea of building while leaving the dig mostly undisturbed ''should excite the archaeologists,'' he said. ''There will be no remnants in the world displayed more beautifully.'' Mr. Tschumi said the group fighting the museum is ''out of the mainstream of Greek archaeologists.''

Nonetheless, last year, a group of scholars working with the Greek chapter of the International Council for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites convinced the Council of State, Greece's top administrative court, to stop work on the most sensitive part of the site, nicknamed the ''red zone.''

The building's prospective neighbors had their own concerns. The site is in the Makryianni district, full of drab 70's apartment buildings whose inhabitants didn't like the idea of a 200,000-square-foot building going up in their midst. They complained on the conservation and restoration council's Web site that ''for the price of a ticket visitors will be able to peer into'' their homes.

MR. TSCHUMI, the debonair former dean of Columbia University's architecture school, is no stranger to politically charged architecture. His first built project was the Parc de la Villette in Paris, one of the ''grand projets'' of Francois Mitterrand. It took 15 years to complete, and required him to lobby five successive prime ministers. ''What I learned is, you have to give time to time,'' he says. The maxim '' sounds better in French,'' the Swiss-born Mr. Tschumi added. He vows to fly to Athens every six weeks for as many years as it takes to get the museum built.

Last March, Mr. Tschumi spent three days in Athens with concerned archaeologists, walking the building's intended site and, as he said, ''negotiating the location of every column.'' Large concrete pipes were installed where the columns will be erected, and the site was filled with sand. When the museum is complete, the sand will be removed and, according to Mr. Tschumi, the dig will be just as the archaeologists left it.

As for those who don't like the design of the building, he says, ''when I built Lerner Hall'' -- a student center at Columbia University, surrounded by beaux-arts structures -- ''I got the same letters and e-mails, many with sketches showing me how it should look.'' After Lerner Hall, he built a 7,000-seat concert hall in Rouen, France, and an architecture school in Miami, a series of boxes made (in deference to the school's tight budget) from unadorned concrete panels intended for parking garages. In 2002, Mr. Tschumi won a startling five major architectural competitions.

Meanwhile, with the Olympics approaching, the Greek government has grown increasingly heavy-handed in its efforts to move the project forward. Last December, it passed a law that doubled as the museum's building permit -- an unprecedented move to override local authorities and pesky judges. (The Council of State is preparing to rule on the remaining legal claims.) Then last July, police units were ordered into the Makryianni district to empty flats that were condemned to make room for the new building. According to news reports, residents were barely given time to collect their personal belongings. One protest leader, Eleni Gika, was reportedly carried off in a head lock after refusing to leave her apartment.Mr. Tschumi says the residents were ''paid handsomely to move,'' and adds: ''It's history. The Acropolis itself was built on the site of a smaller temple.'' Mr. Tschumi added: ''Cities are built in layers. Otherwise, we'd be living in an Indian village in New York.''

Still, Mr. Tschumi doesn't think of himself as siding with the establishment against protesters. The architect -- who describes himself as ''sympathetic to the left'' -- still has a scar from his arrest during the Paris protests of 1968.

But even from the left, there's more than one way to view the marbles conflict. In October, Mr. Tschumi met Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, at a symposium in Brighton, England. Over dinner, ''he implied that to keep the marbles in London was the leftist position,'' Mr. Tschumi recalls with amazement. ''He reminded me that Karl Marx wrote 'Das Kapital' in the British Museum.'' Mr. MacGregor could not be reached for comment. But Hannah Boulton, a spokesperson for the British Museum, said that with more than 5 million visitors a year, and no admission charge, it is ''a museum for the masses.''

Despite an offer to send loads of other antiquities to Britain in exchange for the marbles, and, reportedly, to make the New Acropolis Museum a branch of the British Museum, its official policy is unyielding. Mr. MacGregor's latest public statement, posted on the Internet this month, insists, ''Only here can the worldwide significance of the Parthenon sculptures be fully grasped.'' Ms. Boulton confirmed that the building of the Athens museum will not change the director's position.

But for the New Acropolis Museum to change anyone's position, it has to be built. Dimitris Pandermalis, a prominent archaeologist and president of the Organization for the Construction of the New Acropolis Museum, predicts that construction will gear up next month. Currently, a single crane is working on the uncontested portion of the site.

Evangelos Venizelos, Greece's minister of culture, says that if the new museum is finished but the marbles are not returned, that gallery will sit empty, ''as a constant reminder of this unfulfilled debt to world heritage.''

Hugh Pearman, the architecture critic of London's Sunday Times, reports that unofficially ''there is a shift of mood. The old worries about correct museological conditions in Greece may start to fade.''

As for Mr. Tschumi, he is optimistic that the building will serve its purpose.''I truly believe that the day the museum is finished, the marbles will return,'' he said


Fred A. Bernstein contributes to a number of architecture magazines. Anthee Carassava, in Athens, contributed reporting for this article

Acropolis New Museum

Archeological Site of Makrigianni

Very important findings for the history of Athens were recently found in the construction area of the New Museum of the Acropolis. This development has led the Hellenic Section of ICOMOS to decide to ask for alternative sites for the construction of the museum. The selection of another site is imperative not only because of city planning reasons but, mainly, because of the need to protect the Acropolis -a monument of world heritage- and the archaeological findings that are endangered because of the programmed New Museum (multi-function building).

WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE , 30 November 2004
DOCUMENT WHC/74/508/NT/MR,

...Furthermore, I would like to recall that according to the Operational Guidelines
of the World Heritage Convention, para 56:
"The World Heritage Committee invites the States Parties to the Convention Concerning
the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage to inform the Committee,
through the UNESCO Secretariat, of their intention to undertake or to authorize in an area
protected under the Convention major restorations or new constructions which may affect
the World Heritage value of the property. Notice should be given as soon as possible
(for instance, before drafting basic documents for specific projects) and before making
any decisions that would be difficult to reverse, so that the Committee may assist
in seeking appropriate solutions to ensure that the world heritage value of the site
is fully preserved."
" Document: WHC -03/27.COM/7B

The world Heritage Committee,

1. Regrets that the Greek authorities did not provide the report requested
by 1 February 2003 until 2 July 2003;
2. Recalls its request (26 COM 21 (b) 49) that the State Party give
urgent consideration to a redefinition of the buffer zone in order
to better protect the visual setting of the monument;
3. Further recalls its request (26 COM 21 (b) 49) that the State Party
provide information on any development projects, which may impact upon
the visual integrity of the World Heritage site and undertake a visual
impact study, notably concerning the site of the Acropolis;
4. Urges the State Party to prevent any irreversible damage;
5. Requests the State Party to submit a report by 1 February 2004
for review by the Committee at its 28th Session (June/July 2004). "








Archaeological Site Makrigianni (100m far from Akropolis Athens)

The long use of Athens during the centuries is a very important element of culture for the promotion of the historical consciousness

1. According to the well known tactic that is implemented during the last years since the planning for the major public works for infrastructure in Greece, because the archaeological service don't have any available resources for the confrontation of the high costs related to excavations of extensive areas, there is the aspiration for the financial cover of the expenses in case of excavation, maintenance and publication of the antiquities on behalf of the contractor of the public works. In all big public works for transports and for the infrastructure of the Olympic Games that are today in progress was requested the financial cover in case of the revelation of antiquities and the excavation method of salvation. During this method while the financial burdain is transferred to the contractor, the scientific part of the excavation operation lies exclusively on the archaeological service. During the above the contractor except of the obligation for the availability of resources for the rhythmical coordination of the work the desicion for the performance of the excavation and the possible preservation or not of the antiquities in place is upon to the archaeological service. From the above even if is presumed that OANMA (Organization for the Construction of the new Museum of acropolis) is responsible for the funding of the research and for the practical details of the business relations, is not possible to coordinate excavation works and not of course to decide for the preservation or not of the antiquities, or in this particular case -in which the worst of all happens- to decide for entire monumental complexes. So the low responsibility for the legal or not perform of the works - or for the legal or not destruction of antiquities- is a responsibility of the A EPKA (1st ephorate for the inspection of antiquities) The interference of OANMA in issues of excavation and mainly in the destruction of antiquities is illegal.

2. After the found of a very important, organized archaeological complex in the area of Makrigianni which was the result of the reactivation of exchavations from 1997 and on, the authorities had the obligation to turn to the immediate solution of the systematically definition of space to obtain a suitable area for the construction of the new museum. In the 15th meeting of the KAS (Cental Archaological Counsil) in 09.05.2000 arise the ascertainment the archaeological site has a unique importance for the history of Athens through the centuries (e.a s3,4 Konstantios) and some of the buildings of the complex have unique characterization. (e.s 2 Mpouras) In the false and scientifically inexpert solution of the immediate dissolution of the newer phases the A EPKA has consented after an instigation about that issue (A EPKA AR.PR. 4567/16.9.1997) and Central Archaeological Council decided to proceed with the illegal decision for the dissolution not only of the archaeological remnants of the Byzantine and Post Byzantine period but indiscreetly to any remnants of the same period "wherever" they appear inside the exchavations area. While the Greek constitution instructs the salvation of the culture inheritage from a special team of the Ministry of Culture, the Central Archaeological Council decided the non reversible dissolution of the antiquities in the area of Makrigianni and of whatever antiquities also there might being discovered later, without distinction and without evaluation.

3. The operation for the dissolution of the antiquities for the construction of the new museum of acropolis needed the systematically, full and assiduous exploration of the area. It's now even imaginable the begin of excavation works for the foundation because at that time was not even the architecture plans for the new museum yet known (position, accuracy, dimensions etc.) but not even the final shape or the width of the foundation. A permition for excavation was given from the authorities without following the previous procedure and that makes the permition given by the Central Archaeological Council illegal.

4. The area around acropolis is an archaeological area of highest archaeological importance, since it constitutes a zone of worldwide cultural importance. The excuse that we cannon speak for the automatic protection of the archaeological area of Makrigianni because "Not even the acropolis is declared protected area" is an outrageous claim and dangerous for the preservation of out cultural inheritage. Ancient monuments like Acropolis, Parthenon, the temple of Afaea in Aegina, the Temple of Figalia in Arcadia, will have been destroyed by now if they were needing the confirmation of the authorities to be preserved. In all the other countries the important monuments like the Colloseum they don't need the protection of the law for the preservation of their integrity. In opposite case, if in Greece was enforced for the above monuments the archaeological declaration as protected area, the archaeological law will have been weakened in a dangerous point and as a result the rest of the antiquities and monuments especially those with secondary importance would have been under the danger to be totally destroyed.

5. In the yellow zone of the excavation in the area of Makrigianni below the sequence of layers from Post Roman and Byzantine antiquities there are traces of a non excavated layer of an older period which is indicated from a floor and surrounded walls, extended in a lower level at the South West of the archaeological area. Because the procedure for the foundation of the building of the new museum with pole support is applied only after exhaustive excavation until the rock, in the particular case there is danger of destroying antiquities because this procedure is "blind" and the drill will enter into non excavated layers.

6. The sequence of layers of Post Roman and Byzantine period that have been destroyed completely in the south edge of the archaeological area in a zone of length 60m and width 15m were not only ancient layers of ground but sequence phases buildings with important archaeological foundlings and architectural remnants that represent an important archaeological complex. The rushed destruction of the buildings even with the permition of the KAS (Central Archaeological Council) was definitely illegal because was made in a rush and without the evaluation of their importance, the understanding of their relation compared with the founding's of the red zone and the publication of the discovered founding's as it's defined by the archaeological law.

7. Organized archaeological areas with sequence phases of buildings and monumental architectural monuments like in the archaeological area of Makrigianni (included the important architectural findings that have been recently destroyed in the yellow zone) need special care and protection. Generally in the archaeological science the importance of the archaeological are in defined by the preservation of sequence phases of buildings that are showing the continuous usage of the area in the centuries. According to the exchavations in the area of Makrigianni during the opening of the metro tunel and recently from the exchavations of A EPKA, the area was an important section of ancient Athens with continuous usage from the prehistoric ages until the 19th century. The scientific importance of the area is based on the discover of well preserved architectural remnants of the Post Roman and Byzantine period for which in older exchavations in athens there were not found satisfied information. Except the sequence of architectural phases particular importance has also the unique shape and the importance of the buildings that have be discovered. (as it's stated from the members of KAS (Central Archaeological Council) at their meeting (47 27/11/2000) The above architectural phases constitute an unquestionable exchibit of the long historical usage of Athens. They constitute the proof of the historical identity and the specific difference of Athens from capitals of other European countries.

The long usage of Athens during the centuries it's a very importance cultural element for the promotion of the historical consciousness and for that reason is an exhibit of outstanding importance that needs absolute preservation and protection. The destruction and the insult of symbols like the marathon an in particular case the are of Makrigianni they not only insulting the character and the physical environment of the monument but they are also mainly turned against history and civilization.

WELCOME MESSAGE OF THE OPEN DISCUSSION 19/6/2002

The construction of the new museum of acropolis, in a place filled with ancient buildings is an intentional destruction.

Everyone that participates in the procedures for the success of this purpose (the construction of the museum) if they are archaeologists they prooving that they don't possess the moral, that it is needed, for the refinements and teaching of archaeology. Whoever is not an archaeologist, only the lack of education can justify them. The new museum of acropolis is a dream of generations. It's contruction will have disappear the ugliness that exist on the rock of acropolis which in years ago we could see it from Faliro. When it was a dream, becomes a nightmare because for it's contruction in a dense populated area must be destroyed an extensive ancient architectural complex, well preserved and not publicated. What ever is said about it is based on speculations. One thing is certain, the antiquities that they will be destroyed they constitute a source for an almost unknown period of the history of athens. Scientificaly this action cannot be interpreted. Someone could to blame it to expediency. The destruction that will happen, constitutes consequent policy after the destruction of marathon, that removed from the area the moral importance that had and replaced it with the importance of profit, amusement and recreation. Here in this area they will construct a trade centre for ancient ideas. The teachers of the modern archaeologists, with the artificial manufactured authority, if they were still alive they will have turned away their glance from their students.

B.Petrakos,Member of the Academy of Athens, General Secretary of the Archaeological Company

G.Dontas,Honorary Inspector of Antiquities, President of the Archaeological Company

ΑΓΕΛΑΣΤΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΑ Ελευσίνα

ΑΓΕΛΑΣΤΟΣ ΠΕΤΡΑ
Σκηνοθεσία, Κείμενα, Φωτογραφία Φ.Κουτσαυτής.
Μουσική Κ.Βήτα

"Δες τι προιστορία κατατρόπωσε μια σταλιά παρόν".
"Κατωτέρα τάξις" από την εφηβεία της λήθης της Κικής Δημουλά.

Στην Ελευσίνα που μας αφηγείται η αγέλαστος πέτρα διατρανώνεται ένας ιερός τόπος. Φωτίζονται θεμελιώδεις αξίες που τις έχει συνθλίψει η παράλογη και καταστροφική καθημερινότητα και ότι διασώζεται από το ανθρώπινο μέτρο, την αρμονία της φύσης, το μεγαλείο της ζωής, το προσλαμβάνουμε σχεδόν ως επαιτεία.
Βαρύ σύμπτωμα αυτής της καθημερινότητας στην Ελευσίνα και η βιομηχανία. Αλλά δεν είναι πάντα στη φύση της βιομηχανίας η καταστροφή τοπων και μάλιστα ευλογημένων και εύθραυστων σαν την Ελευσίνα. Εδώ που σύμφωνα με τον μύθο πρωτοκαλλιεργήθηκαν τα δώρα της θεάς τα δημητριακά εδώ αναπτύχθηκαν οι μεγαλύτερες βιομηχανίες της Ελλάδας με καταστροφικές συνέπειες για την περιοχή και το ιερό.

Τι έχει γράψει ο τύπος ...

Τόνοι μελάνι χύθηκαν για τη καταστροφή δεν υπάρχει έντυπο ανεξαρτητα από σε ποιο ιδεολογικό και πολιτικό χώρο ανήκει που να μην έχει ασχοληθεί με τη καταστροφή του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Μακρυγιάννη.

" Document: WHC -03/27.COM/7B The world Heritage Committee,

" Document: WHC -03/27.COM/7B The world Heritage Committee,
1. Regrets that the Greek authorities did not provide the report requested by 1 February 2003 until 2 July 2003;
2. Recalls its request (26 COM 21 (b) 49) that the State Party give urgent consideration to a redefinition of the buffer zone in order to better protect the visual setting of the monument;
3. Further recalls its request (26 COM 21 (b) 49) that the State Party provide information on any development projects, which may impact upon the visual integrity of the World Heritage site and undertake a visual impact study, notably concerning the site of the Acropolis;
4. Urges the State Party to prevent any irreversible damage;
5. Requests the State Party to submit a report by 1 February 2004 for review by the Committee at its 28th Session (June/July 2004). " http://www.icomoshellenic.gr/en/b/01/b/01/10_mouseio_00.htm

The construction of the new museum of acropolis, in a place filled with ancient buildings is an intentional destruction.

The construction of the new museum of acropolis, in a place filled with ancient buildings is an intentional destruction.

Everyone that participates in the procedures for the success of this purpose (the construction of the museum) if they are archaeologists they prooving that they don't possess the moral, that it is needed, for the refinements and teaching of archaeology. Whoever is not an archaeologist, only the lack of education can justify them. The new museum of acropolis is a dream of generations. It's contruction will have disappear the ugliness that exist on the rock of acropolis which in years ago we could see it from Faliro. When it was a dream, becomes a nightmare because for it's contruction in a dense populated area must be destroyed an extensive ancient architectural complex, well preserved and not publicated. What ever is said about it is based on speculations. One thing is certain, the antiquities that they will be destroyed they constitute a source for an almost unknown period of the history of athens. Scientificaly this action cannot be interpreted. Someone could to blame it to expediency. The destruction that will happen, constitutes consequent policy after the destruction of marathon, that removed from the area the moral importance that had and replaced it with the importance of profit, amusement and recreation. Here in this area they will construct a trade centre for ancient ideas. The teachers of the modern archaeologists, with the artificial manufactured authority, if they were still alive they will have turned away their glance from their students.

B.Petrakos,Member of the Academy of Athens, General Secretary of the Archaeological Company

G.Dontas,Honorary Inspector of Antiquities, President of the Archaeological Company
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ACROPOLIS NEW MUSEUM CATASTROPHIES



The Ministry of Culture and the Organization for the Construction of the New Museum of the Acropolis of Athens (OANMA), adhering to the Greek Government's earlier decision concerning the location of the Museum for its construction, are in the process for the same site "Macriyannis" at the South slope of the Acropolis Rock.
This decision, made some years ago arbitrarily, without any previous research for the most suitable location, has been strongly criticized by various professional organizations, such as the Architects' Association, as well as by distinguished archeologists and other specialists. This criticism, based on documented arguments, has been ignored by the Ministry of Culture and collaborating archaeological institutions.

1. This site is considered unsuitable from an archaeological point of view because:

a) Significant archaeological findings have been unearthed in the field intended for the Museum as verified by the Organization for the Construction of the New Museum itself. These antiquities date back to the mesohelladic and late neolithic periods down to the 7th century BC. As mentioned by OANMA itself (July 2000), "The antiquities found in the piece of land intended for the Museum have been proven more significant than originally anticipated. The new finds have changed radically previous agreements concerning the availability of the site, which had resulted from test excavations". Nevertheless, radical change in estimates did not lead to a reconsideration of the choice. The competent Ministry and its archaeological services are going on with their plans to construct the Museum on the location decided originally, thus committing an act of inconceivable vandalism, building on important archaeological finds, which essentially are destroyed, a Museum whose purpose is to preserve and reveal antiquities.
b) The installation of the Museum in this space will prevent the possibility of an extension and unification of the field of excavation in the southern belt of the Rock. Such excavations in the same belt would, probably, offer significant information about the city and its relationship to the Acropolis. It must be noted here that, despite the opposite assertions of the competent body which declared the archaeological research finished in May 2000, the excavation of the field intended for the Museum has not been concluded and it is most probable that the scheduled demolition of the buildings, existing in it, will reveal important archaeological findings. In any case, it is obvious that this will create a gap on the history of the city and its relation to the Acropolis. Today's residential area neighboring the Sacred Rock separates it from the ancient urban environment, while it diminishes the vital space which
is necessary in order to put on value the monuments crowing it. The objective here should be to decongest the area surrounding the Acropolis rather than add more buildings to it.

2. The site in question is entirely unacceptable from an aesthetic point of view;

It is obvious that the construction of whatever building, and especially the voluminous Museum, in the immediate environment of the Rock, on the edge of it -- only a few dozen meters from its southern wall-- is a vulgar, aesthetically unacceptable act that alters drastically the morphology of the archaeological landscape, upsetting its scale and contributing to the downgrading of the image of the Acropolis and its adjacent Monuments.
We are not, of course, aware of the particulars of the building to be approved, since the competition is still in progress, but some features of the structural program are enlightening. According to the proclamation of the competition, the building will occupy a total mixed area of approximately 14000 m2; from which, 8000 will be used for the display of the antiquities. However, along with already existing in the space of the Museum buildings to be assigned to it, its total area will be over 20000 square meters. The height of the southern wall may approach 40 m. It is worth mentioning that the floor area at the stylobates level of Parthenon is 2145 m2 and the total height of 17 m. without its pediments. Its height is diminished drastically during the visual perception not only because of the damages it has sustained, but also because of the fact that in viewing the southern side from the level of the ground, the lower part of the colonnade is hidden.
After the erection of the intended building, the visual field of the spectator will be overwhelmed by the image of the Museum, which is going to be projected oppressively over that of the Acropolis and the Parthenon.
The Museum will also dominate the landscape of Acropolis when viewed from the West, "merging" with the Propylaea and the entire image of the Monuments, while its presence will be strongly noticeable from an eastern sighting of the Rock as well (more)

Η σημαντικότητα του αρχαιολογικού χώρου Μακρυγιάννη που καταστράφηκε με πρόσχημα το "μουσείο"

Η έκθεση Καλλιγά εφόρου Ακρόπολης, παλαιότερα υπεύθυνου της ανασκαφής αναφέρει: «Τα κατάλοιπα θα ανήκαν σε αριθμό μεγάλων κτιριακών συγκροτημάτων (επαύλεων, φιλοσοφικών σχολών»

Σύμφωνα με την έκθεση του αρχαιολόγου, εφόρου Ακρόπολης και σύμβουλου της Μ.Μερκούρη, κου Γιώργου Παπαθανασόπουλου, ο αρχαιολογικός χώρος Μακρυγιάννη περιβάλλεται από το Ιερό και το Θέατρο Διονύσου, το ωδείο του Περικλή, στα ανατολικά και νοτιοανατολικά του όρια τοποθετούνται το ιερό του Κόδρου, το «επί Παλλαδίω δικαστήριον», το εν «λίμναις Διονύσιον», η Παλαίστρα του Ταυρέα. Γειτονεύει με τα γνωστά παριλίσια ιερά του Πύθιου Απόλλων, το ιερό του Κρόνου και της Ρέας, του Δελφίνιου Απόλλωνος, του ιερού της Ολυμπίας Γης, του ναού της Ήρας και του Διος, το δικαστήριο παρά τω Δελφίνειο. Με αυτά τα δεδομένα ούτε και απλή σκέψη θα μπορούσε να γίνει για χωροθέτηση μουσείου στου Μακρυγιάννη.
Ο Παπαθανασόπουλος υπογραμίζει ότι η έκθεση Καλλιγά αναφέρεται μεταξύ άλλων (ασχολίαστα) και σε εύρεση «αξιόλογης μαρμάρινης ανδρικής κεφαλής του Πλάτωνος, αντίγραφο του γνωστού παλαιότερου καθιστού αγάλματος του φιλόσοφου, έργο του γλύπτη Συλανίωνα του 4ου ΠΧ αιώνα» και προσθέτει, «μήπως θα πρέπει να αναρωτηθούμε τι να σημαίνει άραγε σε αυτή τη θέση άγαλμα του Πλάτωνος και μήπως θα μπορούσε να συσχετιστεί το σπουδαίο αυτό εύρημα με εγκατάσταση η δραστηριότητα της Νεοπλατωνικής σχολής; η πληροφορία για τη θέση της Νεοπλατωνικής σχολής φαίνεται να ανταποκρίνεται περισσότερο εδώ στο κτήριο «Κ» του αρχαιολογικού χώρου του Μακρυγιάννη ως πλησιέστερη προς το Ασκληπιείο και το θέατρο Διονύσου» και ο Παπαθανασόπουλος καταλήγει
«Άλλωστε η εικονιστική κεφαλή νεοπλατωνικού φιλοσόφου αρ.1313 του Μουσείου Ακροπόλεως που αόριστα είναι γνωστό ότι έχει βρεθεί «νοτίως της Ακροπόλεως» θεωρώ ότι είναι πιθανότερο να σχετίζεται με το κτήριο «Κ»...»

Από την έκθεση Τριάντη προς το ΚΑΣ επιλέγονται:
«Στα ανατολικά του παλαιοχριστιανικού λουτρού, κάτω από τις επιχώσεις των παλαιοχριστιανικών χρόνων, εντοπίσθηκε αίθουσα και επιμήκης στενός διάδρομος...που ενδεχομένως ανήκουν στο ίδιο κτήριο με αυτά που αποκαλύφθηκαν τα έτη ’85,’86 στο υπόγειο του κτηρίου Βάιλερ»
«Έχει αποκαλυφθεί ένα μεγάλο κτιριακό συγκρότημα με ιδιότυπη κάτοψη. Αποτελείται από χώρους που αναπτύσσονται σε δύο επίπεδα ενώ επαναχρησιμοποιεί δωμάτια πρωιμότερων οικιών...»
«Γενικά έχει διαπιστωθεί ότι οι οικίες ρωμαϊκών, υστερορωμαικών και παλαιοχριστιανικών χρόνων έχουν κατασκευαστεί πάνω σε αρχαιότερα οικοδομικά κατάλοιπα, τα οποία χρησιμοποιούν για την θεμελίωσή τους».
«Η ανασκαφή του οικοπέδου Μακρυγιάννη επιβεβαιώνει την άνθηση που γνώρισε η Αθήνα από τον 4ο έως τον 6ο αιώμα με την ανάδειξή της σε ένα από τα σημαντικότερα πνευματικά κέντρα της εποχής.»
«Το μεγάλο οικοδομικό συγκρότημα είναι ανάλογο και εξίσου σημαντικό με αυτά της αρχαίας αγοράς, όπως το Γυμνάσιο των Γιγάντων κλπ Η χρονολόγηση του κτιρίου στον 7ο ΜΧ αιώνα το καθιστά μοναδικό στην Αθήνα...»
«Ο μαρασμός ολοκληρώνεται με την επιδρομή των Σλάβων το 582 όποτε η Αθήνα φαίνεται ότι καταστρέφεται. Μια μικρή ανάκαμψη που παρατηρήθηκε στην Αρχαία αγορά κατα τον 7ο αιώνα συνδέθηκε με την εγκατάσταση στην Αθήνα του αυτοκράτορα Κωνστάντιο Β’ το χειμώνα 662-663ΜΧ. Δεν θα ήταν παντελώς άσκοπο να στραφεί η αναζήτηση της ερμηνείας του κτηρίου Ε και προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση.»

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Μετά τον εντοπισμό σημαντικότατου οργανωμένου αρχαιολογικού συνόλου στο οικόπεδο Μακρυγιάννη που ήταν αποτέλεσμα της επαναδραστηριοποίησης των ανασκαφών από το 1997 και ύστερα θα όφειλαν οι υπεύθυνοι να στραφούν στην άμεση λύση της συστηματικής χωροθέτησης για την εξασφάλιση καταλλήλου χώρου για το έργο. Στην συνεδρίαση του ΚΑΣ 15/9.5.2000 προκύπτει εναργέστατα η διαπίστωση ότι ο αρχαιολογικός χώρος έχει μοναδική σημασία για την μακραίωνη ιστορία της Αθήνας (ε.α, σ3,4 Κωνστάντιος) ότι κάποια από τα κτήρια του συνόλου έχουν μοναδικό χαρακτηρισμό (ε.σ 2 Μπούρας). Στην λανθασμένη και επιστημονικώς αδόκιμη λύση της εσπευσμένης διάλυσης των νεωτέρων φάσεων συναίνεσε και η Α'ΕΠΚΑ μετά από σχετική της εισήγηση (Α'ΕΠΚΑ ΑΡ.ΠΡ. 4567/16.9.1997) το ΚΑΣ κατέληξε στην παράνομη απόφαση διάλυσης όχι μόνο των αρχαιολογικών λειψάνων της βυζαντινής και μεταβυζαντινής περιόδου αλλά αδιακρίτως και "αυτών (της ίδιας πάντα περιόδου) που αναμένεται να εμφανισθούν. .. όπου επεκτείνεται η ανασκαφή…". Ενώ το Σύνταγμα της χώρας προβλέπει την διάσωση της πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς ομάδα ειδικών του ΥΠΠΟ υπό αδιευκρίνιστες συνθήκες αποφάσισε την μη αναστρέψιμη καθαίρεση αρχαίων της περιοχής Μακρυγιάννη , όσων μελλοντικώς θα ήρχοντο στο φως εν προκειμένω χωρίς διάκριση και αξιολόγηση.

3. Η διαδικασία καθαίρεσης αρχαίων για την κατασκευή του Νέου Μουσείου Ακροπόλεως προϋποθέτει την συστηματική πλήρη και ενδελεχή διερεύνηση του χώρου. Δεν νοείται η έναρξη εργασιών εκσκαφής για την θεμελίωση καθήν στιγμή δεν ήταν γνωστά τα τελικά σχέδια (θέση ακρίβεια, διαστάσεις κλπ.) του κτιρίου αλλά και ούτε η τελική μορφή η μέθοδος και το εύρος της θεμελίωσης. Η χορήγηση αδείας εκσκαφής χωρίς να έχει προηγουμένως ολοκληρωθεί η παραπάνω διαδικασία καθιστά την άδεια προώθησης εκσκαφών του ΚΑΣ ευάλωτη και μη σύννομη.

4. Ο περί την Ακρόπολη χώρος είναι αρχαιολογικός χώρος υψίστης αρχαιολογικής σημασίας, καθόσον αποτελεί ζώνη παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής σημασίας. Η δικαιολογία ότι δεν δυνάμεθα να ομιλούμε περί αυτομάτου αρχαιολογικής προστασίας του χώρου Μακρυγιάννη "γιατί δεν έχει κηρυχθεί η Ακρόπολη" αποτελεί εξοργιστικό ισχυρισμό επικίνδυνο για την διατήρηση της πολιτιστικής μας κληρονομιάς. Αρχαιότητες όπως η Ακρόπολη, ο Παρθενώνας , ο ναός της Αφαίας στην Αίγινα, ο ναός της Φιγαλίας στην Αρκαδία, αλίμονο εάν θα χρειάζοντο την διαβεβαίωση της Πολιτείας για την διατήρησή τους. Στο εξωτερικό σημαντικά μνημεία όπως το Κολοσσαίο δεν χρειάζονται την εγγύηση του νόμου για την διατήρηση της ακεραιότητάς τους. Σε αντίθετη περίπτωση εάν στην Ελλάδα επιβάλετο η αρχαιολογική κήρυξη των παραπάνω θέσεων ο αρχαιολογικός χώρος θα αποδυναμωνόταν σε επικίνδυνο σημείο με αποτέλεσμα οι λοιπές αρχαιότητες και ιδίως οι δευτερεύουσας σημασίας αρχαιότητες να διατρέχουν κίνδυνο άμεσου και ολοκληρωτικού αφανισμού.

5. Στην κίτρινη ζώνη της ανασκαφής Μακρυγιάννη κάτω από τις επάλληλες στρώσεις της υστερορωμαικής και βυζαντινής περιόδου διακρίνονται ενδείξεις μη ανασκαμμένου στρώματος παλαιότερης περιόδου όπως δείχνουν δάπεδο και περιβάλλοντες τοίχοι τα οποία εκτείνονται σε χαμηλότερο επίπεδο στα ΝΔ του γηπέδου. Επειδή η διαδικασία θεμελίωσης με πασσαλόπηξη είναι διαδικασία που εφαρμόζεται μόνο μετά από εξαντλητική ανασκαφή μέχρι τον βράχο στην συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση υπάρχει κίνδυνος καταστροφής αρχαίων διότι η μέθοδος είναι "τυφλή" και το γεωτρητικό θα εισχωρεί σε στρώματα μη ανασκαμμένα.

6. Οι επάλληλες στρώσεις της υστερορωμαικής και βυζαντινής περιόδου που καταστράφηκαν ολοσχερώς στην νότια παρυφή του οικοπέδου σε ζώνη μήκους 60 μ και πλάτους 15 μ δεν αποτελούσαν απλώς αρχαίες στρώσεις συσσωρευμένου χώματος αλλά επάλληλες οικοδομικές φάσεις με σημαντικά αρχαιολογικά ευρήματα και αρχιτεκτονικά κατάλοιπα που αντιπροσωπεύουν σπουδαίο αρχαιολογικό σύνολο. Η εσπευσμένη καταστροφή των κτιρίων έστω και με άδεια του ΚΑΣ υπήρξε σαφώς παράνομη γιατί έγινε με τρόπο εσπευσμένο και πριν την εκτίμηση της σημασίας τους την κατανόηση της σχέσης τους προς τα ευρήματα της κόκκινης ζώνης και την δημοσίευση των ανακαλύψεων όπως ορίζει ο αρχαιολογικός νόμος.

7. Οργανωμένοι αρχαιολογικοί χώροι με επάλληλες οικιστικές φάσεις και μνημειώδη αρχιτεκτονικά κατάλοιπα όπως στην περίπτωση των αρχαιοτήτων του οικοπέδου Μακρυγιάννη (συμπεριλαμβανομένων των σπουδαίων αρχιτεκτονικών ευρημάτων που προσφάτως καταστράφηκαν στην κίτρινη ζώνη) χρήζουν ειδικής φροντίδας και προστασίας. Γενικά στην αρχαιολογική επιστήμη η σημασία αρχαιολογικής θέσης κρίνεται από την διατήρηση επαλληλίας οικιστικών φάσεων που υποδηλώνουν την συνεχή χρήση του χώρου δια μέσου των αιώνων. Όπως δείχνουν οι ανασκαφές που έγιναν στον χώρο Μακρυγιάννη τόσο κατά τα έργα της αττικό μετρό όσο και πιο πρόσφατα από την Α'ΕΠΚΑ η θέση αποτέλεσε σπουδαίο οικιστικό χώρο της Αθήνας με χρήση από τους προϊστορικούς χρόνους έως τον 19ο αιώνα. Η επιστημονική σπουδαιότητα του χώρου έγκειται στην ανακάλυψη καλώς διατηρημένων αρχιτεκτονικών καταλοίπων της υστερορωμαικής και βυζαντινής περιόδου για τους οποίους παλαιότερες έρευνες στην Αθήνα δεν είχαν φέρει στο φώς ικανοποιητικά στοιχειά. Πέρα από την επαλληλία φάσεων ιδιαίτερη σημασία έχει και η μοναδική μορφή όπως και η σημασία των κτιρίων που αποκαλύφθηκαν (όπως δηλώνεται από τα ίδια τα μέλη του ΚΑΣ Συνεδρίαση 47/27.11.2000). Οι παραπάνω οικιστικές φάσεις αποτελούν αδιαμφισβήτητο τεκμήριο της μακράς ιστορικής χρήσης της Αθήνας. Αποτελούν απόδειξη της ιστορικής ταυτότητας και της ειδοποιού διαφοράς της Αθήνας από πρωτεύουσες άλλων ευρωπαϊκών χωρών.

Η μακρά χρήση της Αθήνας δια των αιώνων αποτελεί σπουδαιότατο πολιτιστικό στοιχείο ανάδειξης της ιστορικής συνείδησης και για τον λόγο αυτό τεκμήριο εξέχουσας σπουδαιότητας που χρήζει απόλυτης διατήρησης και προστασίας. Η καταστροφή και η προσβολή συμβόλων όπως ο Μαραθώνας και στην συγκεκριμένη περίπτωση ο χώρος Μακρυγιάννη δεν προσβάλλουν μόνο τον χαρακτήρα και το φυσικό περιβάλλον του μνημείου αλλά στρέφονται κατά κύριο λόγο κατά της ιστορίας και του πολιτισμού

The construction of the new museum of Acropolis, in a place filled with ancient buildings is an intentional destruction

The construction of Acropolis new museum, in a place filled with ancient buildings is an intentional destruction.

Everyone that participates in the procedures for the success of this purpose (the construction of the museum) if they are archaeologists they prooving that they don't possess the moral, that it is needed, for the refinements and teaching of archaeology. Whoever is not an archaeologist, only the lack of education can justify them. The new museum of acropolis is a dream of generations. The contruction will have disappear the ugliness that exist on the rock of acropolis which in years ago we could see it from Faliro. When it was a dream, becomes a nightmare because for it's contruction in a dense populated area must be destroyed an extensive ancient architectural complex, well preserved and not publicated. What ever is said about it is based on speculations. One thing is certain, the antiquities that they will be destroyed they constitute a source for an almost unknown period of the history of athens. Scientificaly this action cannot be interpreted. Someone could to blame it to expediency. The destruction that will happen, constitutes consequent policy after the destruction of Marathon, that removed from the area the moral importance that had and replaced it with the importance of profit, amusement and recreation. Here in this area they will construct a trade centre for ancient ideas. The teachers of the modern archaeologists, with the artificial manufactured authority, if they were still alive they will have turned away their glance from their students. B.Petrakos,Member of the Academy of Athens, General Secretary of the Archaeological Company G.Dontas,Honorary Inspector of Antiquities, President of the Archaeological Company

Acropolis New Museum Interviews
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Η καταστροφή του Αρχαιολογικού Χώρου Μακρυγιάννη

Αθήνα, 22 Φεβρουαρίου 2005

ΨΗΦΙΣΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΝΙΚΗΣ ΣΥΝΕΛΕΥΣΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΥ ΤΜΗΜΑΤΟΣ ICOMOS

Η Γενική Συνέλευση του ICOMOS εμμένει στην αντίθεσή της ως προς την καταστροφή του Αρχαιολογικού Χώρου του κληροδοτήματος Μακρυγιάννη. Καταδικάζει την απόφαση της κυβέρνησης για την συνέχιση της καταστροφής κατά παράβαση Διεθνών Συμβάσεων και του Αρχαιολογικού Νόμου. Καλεί την κυβέρνηση να απαντήσει στις επιστολές της UNESCO. Ειδικότερα να σεβαστεί την παράγραφο 56 της συνθήκης των Παρισίων σύμφωνα με την οποία τα συμβαλλόμενα μέρη για την προστασία της πολιτιστικής παγκόσμιας κληρονομιάς υποχρεώνονται: «.Η Επιτροπή Παγκόσμιας Κληρονομιάς καλεί τα συμβαλλόμενα κράτη στη Συνθήκη σχετικά με την προστασία της παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής και φυσικής κληρονομιάς για να ενημερώσει την Επιτροπή, μέσω της γραμματείας της ΟΥΝΕΣΚΟ, της πρόθεσής τους να αναλάβουν ή να εγκρίνουν σε μια ζώνη προστατευόμενη κάτω από την Συνθήκη σημαντικές ή νέες κατασκευές που μπορούν να έχουν επιπτώσεις στην αξία της ιδιοκτησίας της Παγκόσμιας Κληρονομιάς . Προσοχή να δίνεται το νωρίτερο (για παράδειγμα πριν τον σχεδιασμό βασικών εγγράφων για συγκεκριμένα έργα ) και πριν να ληφθούν αποφάσεις που μπορεί να είναι δύσκολο να αντιστραφούν, ώστε το Συμβούλιο να μπορεί να προωθήσει τις κατάλληλες λύσεις ώστε να είναι βέβαιο ότι η αξία της παγκόσμιας κληρονομιάς του χώρου είναι πλήρως προστατευμένη». Η ΓΣ δεσμεύει το νέο ΔΣ του ICOMOS να προβεί στις απαραίτητες και ενδεικνυόμενες ενέργειες στην Ελλάδα και στο εξωτερικό προς όλους τους αρμόδιους οργανισμούς και φορείς για την διάσωση, προστασία και ανάδειξη του Αρχαιολογικού Χώρου του Μακρυγιάννη, περιβάλλοντος χώρου της Ακρόπολης. Ζητά την άμεση παύση όλων των οικοδομικών εργασιών στον Αρχαιολογικό Χώρο, την χωροθέτηση του ΝΜΑ μετά από ανοικτό αρχιτεκτονικό διαγωνισμό και την αποκατάσταση των μνημείων της Ακρόπολης βάσει του ψηφίσματος της UNESCO του Μεξικό 1982 με επανεγκατάσταση των αποσπασμένων μελών του με δεδομένο την μείωση των ρύπων και την δυνατότητα αντιμετώπισης της φθοράς των μνημείων από την μόλυνση
www.icomoshellenic.gr/gr/b/01/b/b01.htm

Athens, 22 February 2005

DEPARTMENT ICOMOS RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Assembly of ICOMOS persists in the opposition for the destruction of Archaeological Field of Makrigianni heritage. It condemns the decision of government on the continuation of the destruction at infringement of International Conventions and the Archaeological Law. Calls the government to answer in the letters of UNESCO. More specifically to respects the paragraph of 56 treaty of Paris according to which the contracting parts on the protection of cultural world heritage are compelled: “The World Heritage Committee invites the States Parties to the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage to inform the Committee, through the UNESCO Secretariat, of their intention to undertake or to authorize in an area protected under the Convention major restorations or new constructions which may affect the World Heritage value of the property. Notice should be given as soon as possible (for instance, before drafting basic documents for specific projects) and before making any decisions that would be difficult to reverse, so that the Committee may assist in seeking appropriate solutions to ensure that the world heritage value of the site is fully preserved.” The GA commits the new Board of ICOMOS to proceed in the essential and advised activities in Greece and abroad to all responsibles organizations and institutions for the rescue, protection and showing of the Archaeological Space of Makrigianni, surrounding space of Acropolis. Asks the direct pause of all building work in the Archaeological Space, the arrangement of NMA after open architectural competition and the re-establishment of monuments of Acropolis, according the resolution of UNESCO Mexico 1982 with re-establishment of the extracted members with datum the reduction of pollutants and the possibility of confrontation of deterioration of monuments from the pollution www.icomoshellenic.gr/en/b/01/b/b01.htm