Europa Nostra has announced 12 candidates for its 2021 list of Europe's seven most endangered sites
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Europa Nostra, Europe’s most prominent heritage lobbying organisation, has announced 12 candidates for its 2021 Seven Most Endangered Sites list. They make for interesting reading because each encapsulates aspects of major trends and events facing our society.
The church of Saint Denis in the Pas de Calais region of France, near the English Channel, is falling to pieces because of the general European decline in congregations and the consequent lack of money to maintain religious buildings.
The late 17th-century Ca’ Zenobio, one of the finest baroque palazzi in Venice, has been without support since 1997, when the Armenian monastic order that used to send students withdrew after 120 years due to the problems facing Christians in the Middle East.