The final candidacy file “The Mediterranean Alps” for UNESCO World Heritage was signed before being submitted to the UNESCO permanent secretariat at the end of January 2018.
By affixing their signatures, Charles Ange Ginésy, President of the Alpes-Maritimes Department and Vice-President of the EGTC (European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation: European Park Alpi Marittime-Mercantour), and Paolo Salsotto, President of the same EGTC and President of the Alpi Marittime Park in Italy, sealed the achievement of a cross-border project of more than 10 years, bringing together three neighboring states (France, Italy, and the Principality of Monaco).
It should be noted that this document had been signed the day before by the Monegasque representative, His Excellency, Mr. Bernard Fautrier, Minister Plenipotentiary for Missions to the Minister of State and Managing Director of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
The Department is a co-applicant of this project led by the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation “Parco Alpi-Marittime / Mercantour”. Italy is the leading country, thus the official administrative reference for the candidacy.
Nearly eighty municipalities are concerned by this project, which relies on the exceptional universal value of the site spanning approximately 200,000 hectares.
