Rural heritage in Poland. Asset or Burden?Paulina FlorjanowiczDirector of the National Heritage Board of PolandEHHF meeting, Amsterdam 2011

NOWADAYS:73% area of Poland is rural40% population lives in rural areas, 26% employed in agriculture (producing only 6% GDP)

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RURAL HERITAGE

RURAL HERITAGE

RURAL HERITAGE

• 51% listed monuments are located in rural areas;

• c. 90% of them are however palaces, castles and manor houses.

• 89 listed rural areas (most of them entered in 1980s)

• It constitutes 8% of all listed areas (92% are urban areas)

RURAL LANDSCAPEŹródło www.polskaniezwykla.pl

OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS

THE 1990s

NOWADAYS…

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POSITIVE EXAMPLE

PROBLEMS

SOLUTIONS?

Spatial planning !!! EU funding with experts’ advice Effective heritage management Heritage awareness raising programmes Intangible heritage protection

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