‘Muharraq Talks’ to focus on ways to preserve iconic city’s heritage features

Manama, May 5 (BNA): City planners, architects, local, regional and international sociologists are meeting in Muharraq as part of the “Muharraq Talks” to discuss ways to preserve the urban components of the distinctive city and ensure the continuity of urban renewal. In it, in a way that preserves the features of its historical identity as the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The talks will take place on Saturday between 4:30 and 5:30 pm at the Pearling Path car park, and then between 6:00 and 7:00 pm at Yusuf Fakhro Building 2 (Yusuf Fakhro Building) in Muharraq.

This event comes within the framework of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) efforts to develop the urban environment in the historic city of Muharraq.

The city includes cultural infrastructure and urban components of high exceptional value, and the “Pearling Path, Testimony to the Island Economy” site that Muharraq embraces is one of the most important historical evidences related to the heritage of the pearling economy in Bahrain.

As of 2012, “Pearls, Testimony to an Island Economy” has become Bahrain’s second World Heritage Site as a testament to the millennia-old pearl-collecting tradition and the economy and social system of the globally important single-product island. produced.

The site consists of a series of heritage buildings that give Muharraq the features of the authentic Bahraini cultural identity, as well as the ancient culture and human knowledge derived from the civilizations that inhabited its lands thousands of years ago.

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