webfact Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Chiang Mai might be listed as world heritage site next year CHIANG MAI, 26th November 2018 (NNT) - Chiang Mai World Heritage Listing Project’s working group disclosed that it is revising the complete document after receiving suggestions from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) working group. Asst. Prof. Dr. Channarong Srisuwan, the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Chiang Mai University, a member of the working, said the working group is expediting revision of the document so that the complete proposal for listing Chiang Mai as a world heritage site can be submitted to the World Heritage Center in Paris in February 2019. The working group has also organized Chiang Mai Heritage Walk, which offers people a tour to observe the proposed World Heritage Site. The UNESCO will convene a meeting to consider whether or not to list Chiang Mai as a world heritage site in June 2019. -- nnt 2018-11-26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammieuk1 Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Welcome to the world heritage listing projects working group Mars division???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmsally Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 What piece qualifies? Even most of the temples have irrelevant new buildings and renovations that do not fit in with appropriate specifications. Most of the wall and gates are not really old and you will be hard pressed to find a building over 60 years old. Is it year of the goat ... or did I miss something? I suppose that is a rhetorical question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 Oh nifty. Then the city is placed under another layer of bureaucracy. What could go wrong. The city already does a great job protecting ancient walls built in 1960 from vandals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worgeordie Posted November 26, 2018 Share Posted November 26, 2018 With all the Condos,shopping malls ! ,they are much too late. regards worgeordie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loaded Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 If Georgetown, Penang got it, I don't see why Chiang Mai can't get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanista Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 I'm not a builder but if you take a close look at a lot of these 'ancient sites' in Bangkok and elsewhere it looks like modern bricks and mortar has been applied. Are they really several hundred years old ?? Obviously not in Bangkok . Alot of old Siam was trashed by Burmese armies not long ago which is why they moved the capital down to BKK. Alot of sites are falling to bits not because they're so old but because theyre pooly built with crusty little red bricks. Some so called 'ancient sites' have the same decay as modern Thai houses and soi buildings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill97 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Welcome all steps to put the breaks on development.Sent from my iPod touch using Thaivisa Connect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poohy Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 On 11/26/2018 at 12:49 PM, cmsally said: What piece qualifies? Even most of the temples have irrelevant new buildings and renovations that do not fit in with appropriate specifications. Most of the wall and gates are not really old and you will be hard pressed to find a building over 60 years old. Is it year of the goat ... or did I miss something? I suppose that is a rhetorical question! Agree There is a few old birds in loi kroi (howsoever its spelt) who o might qualify ...anyway i hate the place, ex wife lives there not set foot in it or will again since 2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 there a few weeks ago, and see they had a team trying to rebuild one of the corners of the Old City... looks like a bigger effort needed than repainting the sydney harbour bridge i.e. the job needs to repeated every year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMHomeboy78 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 On 11/27/2018 at 10:21 AM, Loaded said: If Georgetown, Penang got it, I don't see why Chiang Mai can't get it. That's for sure. Chiang Mai had been in existence for almost 500 years when Georgetown was founded in 1786. It's a shame that so much of Chiang Mai's past has been lost, neglected or destroyed. But there is a lot that still remains. Chedi Luang is a good example. Begun in 1391 during the reign of King Saenmuangma, it was completed in 1481 by King Tilokarat. According to the Chiang Mai Chronicle it was 41 fathoms [91 metres] high and 27 fathoms [54 metres] square at its base. The famous Emerald Buddha, now to be seen in Wat Phra Kaew, was brought to Chiang Mai in 1470 and placed in Chedi Luang's eastern alcove even before the chedi was fully completed. It remained there until 1547 when, during a period of turmoil it was taken to Luang Prabang and subsequently Wiengchan [Vientiane] until 1779 when King Rama I took it as a spoil of war to Bangkok. Chedi Luang lost its upper and southern part during an earthquake in 1545. It underwent a controversial restoration in 1991-92 that encased some of it in concrete and added decorative elements in Central Thai style. The history of Chiang Mai has been recorded in local sources - notably the Chiang Mai Chronicle - and by Europeans since 1587 when the Englishman Ralph Fitch came overland from Pegu to "Jamahey" - variant spellings are numerous, some beginning with an "X" or "Z". Fitch's remarkable travels as related in Purchas' His Pilgrims and Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries are generally accepted as fact. From England he went through Europe and the Middle East, then by ship from Basra to Goa where he was imprisoned by the Portuguese as an heretic and probable spy for the government of their arch-enemy, the English Jezabel. He was freed after about a year and continued his journey across India to Bengal, then took ship to Pegu where he attached himself to a Burmese army that besieged and entered the city of Chiang Mai. Fitch's life is a fascinating study and he can be regarded as the first farang on record to visit Chiang Mai. His description of "property, riches, and women, has a somewhat contemporary ring to it" according to Ian Bushell in a recent talk on local history. Maybe Chiang Mai hasn't changed that much after all, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRToMRT Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 20 years ago I would have agreed but its just a disorganized sh++t hole with million crapy buildings covered in garish advertising and branding like every other Thai city these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfokevin Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Tha Pae Gate has definitely been redone... Originally it was a dual gate entry.... http://bytelife.altervista.org/history.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill97 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 20 years ago I would have agreed but its just a disorganized sh++t hole with million crapy buildings covered in garish advertising and branding like every other Thai city these days. Now that is a well considered comment. Sent from my iPod touch using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill97 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 20 years ago I would have agreed but its just a disorganized sh++t hole with million crapy buildings covered in garish advertising and branding like every other Thai city these days. Now that is a well considered comment. Sent from my iPod touch using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRToMRT Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 17 hours ago, Bill97 said: Now that is a well considered comment. Sent from my iPod touch using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app It is bit strong isn't it. I just spent a week in CM after not going for many years, I was hugely disappointed to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkles Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 Based on the number of 7/11's or illuminated billboards ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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