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Square A European Heritage Public squares are an essential cultural heritage within the structure of European towns, designated for accommodating the various representative expressions of political and religious power, but also serving as a venue of participation, assembly and socialisation both nowadays as well as in the past. Key point of communal activity, venue of encounter and also of conflict, it is the most dynamic area within urban settlements. From the Agora to the Forum of classical antiquity, from the small medieval town squares to the subsequent so-called market squares, from the urban scenography of renaissance and baroque times to the public spaces of modern towns, the town square during the course of occidental history has been – and still is– identified with the town it is part of, as a specific historical, social, commercial as well as complex and dynamic area. In short: the bearer of urban identity. On exhibition are 60 squares within the following countries: Norway, Finland, Russia, Sweden, England, Wales, Germany,the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Ukraine, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Greece. |
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Study
Day Since
the previous century the transformations within the structures
and life stiles of our societies |
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Squares of Europe, The
exhibition was realized with the support of the European Community
and is the result -
Francia/France MSH Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, |
