A living, evolving cultural landscape
The Mining Basin is a industrial landscape bearing witness to how humankind shaped the environment while mining a natural resource, coal. This is why it fits into the "cultural"...
France and UNESCO
26 février 2015
admin2015-04-22T09:07:51+01:00The French National Commission for UNESCO (CNFU) was created in April 1946 to liaise between France and UNESCO. It comprises 50 personalities from the worlds of education, science or...
Ten years of persuasion
26 février 2015
admin2015-04-22T09:08:12+01:00First, muster local support. Prior to inscription in 2012, France needed to be persuaded to commit to the Mining Basin and uphold the merits of this candidature in the...
Hearing loud and clear!
26 février 2015
admin2015-04-22T09:08:31+01:00To be listed as UNESCO World Heritage, a site must demonstrate its universal, outstanding value. This outstanding universal value is assessed in light of the ten criteria determined by...
Variety underground
26 février 2015
admin2015-04-22T09:09:00+01:00Schematically speaking, in the southern half of the concessions, the great concentration of pits proves the French term "gruyère" is a fitting definition. In and around Lens, Denain and...
Governance to manage the label
15 décembre 2014
admin2015-04-24T21:01:51+01:00Tableau synthétique de la gouvernance The World Heritage Mining Basin Territorial Conference The Territorial Conference is the political body managing the listed sites across the board, chaired jointly by the Regional...
Benefits to boost lifestyle
15 décembre 2014
admin2015-04-22T09:12:57+01:00Being listed as World Heritage paves the way to large-scale modernisation of the miners' housing developments and environment. The housing is being made comfortable and luminous, with insulation and restored...
Public facilities
8 décembre 2014
admin2015-04-22T09:11:01+01:00Since mining first began, controlling territory was an issue between towns and companies. Mining law stipulated that companies could dispose of the land as they saw fit without local...
A territory shared among mining companies
8 décembre 2014
admin2015-04-22T09:11:57+01:00From 1720 to 1944, the Nord-Pas de Calais seam was mined by private companies which had each been allocated a portion of territory by the state. The first concession...
The scope of the inscription
8 décembre 2014
admin2015-04-22T09:10:20+01:00Nominated sites all have to have their scope defined in order to be considered. Choices were made based on strict criteria, logically demonstrating the outstanding universal value of the...