UNESCO is creating a local commission to implement a ten-year plan to safeguard the city of Marrakech. The initiative is part of UNESCO's protection plan of action at the international, national and sub-regional levels, the French daily Le Figaro reported on Thursday (22 December). Since1997, UNESCO has been preserving threatened cultural languages, traditions, and monuments such as Jamaâ El Fna Square. Surrounded by small shops, the vast area teems with salesmen, acrobats, storytellers, snake charmers and fortunetellers. UNESCO proclaimed Jamaâ El Fna Square a masterpiece of the human oral and immaterial heritage in 2001. It is, of course, a major tourist attraction, but not ( in my opinion ) as sensational as the old medina in Fès.
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