Category Archives: Cultural landscapes

Cultural landscapes, the result of interaction between Nature and Humankind, have become one of the key elements of our world’s heritage, one in which the reciprocate relationship between culture and the environment is more fully realised. Islamic culture has always generated a rich variety of ways to exploit and preserve land and resources, with intangible spiritual values attached to them.

The agricultural landscape of Al-Andalus

The period of Al-Andalus (8th-15th century) meant a great advance in the sciences of agronomy, [...]

08
May
The Hima Well, a historical trade route

Tarq al-Thaqafi MAKKAH: Hima Well, one of the most ancient and significant stops along the [...]

26
Apr
Al-Ula, Saudi Arabia’s Petra, and sustainable tourism

Hidden in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia, we find this wonder, the [...]

18
May
Participate in ICOMOS’ General Assembly and Symposium

ICOMOS (International Council for Monuments and Sites), in collaboration with ICOMOS Morocco, organizes the 19th [...]

19
Jul
Middle East and Mediterranean Landscape Convention

In Med-O-Med we are working in four inter-connected areas: landscape, education and awareness, research and, [...]

12
Mar
Al-Shaheed Park in Kuwait: a new environmental project

The exhibition “Gardens of Al-Andalus“, showed in Kuwait from the 8th to the 20th April, [...]

12
May
Video ‘l’Agdal par un temps d’hiver’

This winter is being particularly cold in Morocco, and the snow in the Atlas mountains [...]

05
Jan
Descriptions of Agdal of Marrakech from History

For the comprehensive restoration of the royal estate Agdal of Marrakech, the team of FUNCI [...]

12
Sep
Taste Paradise 2014 on Persian Gardens

Last year we informed you about the tour and workshop on the Persian Garden in [...]

30
Jan