LONDON, July 28 — The UN’s cultural agency Unesco today added a Welsh slate mining landscape to its list of world heritage sites, making it the 32nd location in the UK to be awarded the status.
“The quarrying and mining of slate has left a unique legacy in Gwynedd which the communities are rightly proud of,” said Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford. Unesco’s heritage list features more than 1,100 sites, which must meet at least one of its 10 criteria and demonstrate “outstanding universal value” to be included.
The northwest Wales slate landscape is the fourth Welsh site to receive Unesco recognition alongside the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape in south Wales, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, plus four 13th-century castles and two town walls in Gwynedd. Welsh slate was used to build landmarks including Westminster Hall in London’s parliament building, Copenhagen City Hall in Denmark and Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building.
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