VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages

Abstract

The aim of the paper is a case study of the protection and preservation of the architectural and urban heritage of the city of Toruń in Poland, signed on the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997 as a historic medieval town. Within 25 years of the recognition of outstanding universal value, many changes have taken place, including renovations of medieval tenement houses, implementation of revitalization projects, which more or less interfered with the preserved historical substance, e.g. quay’s. On the other hand, a series of structural, architectural, urban and archaeological studies allowed to discover new preserved relicts from the past. Therefore, managing changes – unavoidable in the city, taking into account new discoveries is a great challenge for local conservation services and city authorities, and shows the mechanisms of the polish national system of monument protection and heritage monitoring.