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Newsgroups: alt.horology
From: "Jack Denver" <nunuv...@netscape.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:02:28 -0400
Local: Mon 29 June 2009 17:02
Subject: Re: La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle now Unesco World Heritage Sites in Europe
I have mixed feelings about this - I would rather see Le Locle as a vital
manufacturing center (and BTW, real working factories are rarely much to look at) than as a museum. I once went down into a former coal mine, where they had retired mine workers giving tours to tourists and it was a little heartbreaking that this was a museum of a mine and not a real mine. Likewise, Venice at this point is no longer a real living city but a giant tourist trap. In China today, they don't have factory museums, they have actual factories. I realize that Switz. does also, but this is a step in the wrong direction IMHO - too much of Europe is being preserved in amber. news:c9ba1e89-d089-4cc3-b29b-8a30ecb0e722@e21g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... > La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle since today have been listed as an
> Unesco World Heritage Site, as a whole industrial complex for the > watch making and precision industry as well as related cultural sites. > http://www.myswitzerland.com/en.cfm/home/citytrips/offer-Destinations... You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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