The regional director of the Office of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) for the Maghreb, the French Eric Falt, congratulates Tunisia for the registration of the Ile de Djerba on the UNESCO World Heritage List which has become the 9th Tunisian well -classified.
The Ile de Djerba is among 27 new goods, 24 cultural and 3 natural, which are added to the 1,157 sites in 167 countries already registered on the World Heritage List.
In a statement published in the end Monday afternoon and a copy of which has reached TAP, the UN official, congratulated Tunisia and all Tunisians, starting with the Djerbians “, who worked to ensure the inscription of the heritage of the island of Djerba in Tunisia on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Eric Falt highlighted the importance of this new crowning inscription of a “long and tortuous” path. The last registration was that of the Archaeological Site of Dougga in 1997, recalled the UN diplomat who had taken office at the head of the UNESCO office for the Maghreb, at his headquarters in Rabat (Morocco), since January 2023.
He still presented a serial property, made up of seven areas of the island and twenty-four monuments, which represents an exceptional testimony of a single settlement scheme and a remarkable human adaptation, through the centuries, to the constraints of an environment marked by the rarity of water and many threats from the sea. ”
