Jested TV tower, Vysehrad Codex listed among national heritage
Jested TV tower, Vysehrad Codex listed among national heritage
PRAGUE, Sept 29 (CTK) - The television tower with a hotel on
Jested Mountain (1012 m) and the 11th-century Vysehrad Codex, a
Latin illuminated manuscript, along with another eight items will
be listed among the national cultural heritage, the governmentdecided today.
Culture Minister Vitezslav Jandak also proposed to grant the
national heritage status to another two valuable manuscripts, as
well as to the series of 417 archaeological findings from
Mikulcice, south Moravia, a collection of Czech Gothic statues,
the bells and cymbalon from St Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle,
and a series of altar paintings by Czech Baroque artists Karel
Skreta and Peter Brandl.
Among other listed items are the unique predecessor of
photograph called "Kynzvart daguerreotype" from 1839 and fiveTatra vintage cars.
The Culture Ministry said that this decision should balance
the proportion between movables and real estate among the
national heritage in the Czech Republic.
However, the proportion will not change a lot as according to
the National Heritage Institute, now there are 196 real estate
and only five movable items, including the coronation jewels,
among the national culture heritage.
The Liberec Region, north Bohemia, has been striving for the
Jested hotel's listing among the national heritage for several
years as it is the necessary precondition for contesting the
entry into the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage.
Local conservationists recall that the author of the mountain
hotel and the Liberec dominant, Karel Hubacek, received the
Perret Award of the International Architects' Union for the
building in 1969. The Czech Architekt journal also named the
Hotel Jested "the building of the 20th century."
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