| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Tiana Clarke | I will do anything it takes to save the beauty of this wonderful city. |
| 2 | Cristi Farrell | Unthinkable. |
| 3 | Vilo Ivanic | |
| 4 | Anonymous | We should save everyhting that is beautiful! |
| 5 | Anonymous | |
| 6 | Anonymous | |
| 7 | Federico Losada | I haven't had the privilige to visit your lovely town yet, so I hope this cause prospers so when I finally get there, I'll be able to enjoy it in all its splendor. Best luck! |
| 8 | lois Tarter | Save the beauty of Dubrovnik |
| 9 | Anonymous | I want to save the Dubrovnik's Landmarks. |
| 10 | Anonymous | The awarness of what i believe to be happening is a disgrace and forgetfulness of the natives and more so the goverment neglecting these walls that have served and stood through history as well with the thousands of people that come from all over the world to absorb and enjoy. |
| 11 | Dr. Peter Woon | Touring on the well preserved city wall and its connected structures was the highlight of our Mediterranean cruise. If the precious heritage were destroyed by commercialization, I doubt that we would ever have the motivation to visit your great city again! It would be not only an unforgivable wanton act, but financially, a most foolish thing to do for Dubrovnik! |
| 12 | Daniela Forster | May the powers that be, intervene,redirect the ugliness of destruction into a cooperation for beauty and peace- |
| 13 | susan miller | |
| 14 | James Reynolds | |
| 15 | Karolina Nunez | |
| 16 | Stephan J Wittmann MD | It would be as much a crime to desecrate Dubrovnik's historical sites as bombing the Parthenon, Topkapi, or murdering a nation and robbing the world of itslanguge and heritage. Stay away from historic Dubrovnik. |
| 17 | Mary O'Hara Smith | |
| 18 | Nike oda Kara-Pesic | help us please, to stop this "modernisation" of our beautiful unique old town |
| 19 | Anonymous | Yes, let's try to save this beautiful town and its wonderful landmarks |
| 20 | Alessandra Carnielli | |
| 21 | Amber Eden | I would like to join the fight to save Dubrovnik's landmarked buildings |
| 22 | masha perovic | save the old city |
| 23 | masha perovic | save the old city |
| 24 | Anonymous | |
| 25 | Anonymous | |
| 26 | Nina von Gayl | |
| 27 | Tanja Petovar | |
| 28 | Giorgio Mira | |
| 29 | J.M. van der Stelt | The inner city should be car-free. Plenty of room elswhere for parking. |
| 30 | Slobodan Karakasevic | |
| 31 | Elinor Glushak | |
| 32 | Anonymous | |
| 33 | Ajzinberg Aleksandar | As an architect and university professor, expert for styles in architecture, I am against bus stations and parkings in Dubrovnik. As a World Heritage Site and a real historical jewel, Dubrovnik MUST be saved of such stupidity. Please, do your best to prevent the lunatics to devastate the buildings and towns precious atmosphere. Stop changing historical cites! |
| 34 | Frans X. Plooij | |
| 35 | Lucia Bronzan | |
| 36 | Kathryn Bosi | Both as a staff member of Villa I Tatti: the Harvard University Institute for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and as a private individual who passed the summer months in the Dubrovnik area (on the island of Sipan) for five years before the war, and who deeply loved the old city, I wish to protest at the senseless and infinitely depressing degradation of the old city of Dubrovnik.
I have worked for the post-war restoration and reconstruction of the city, since destruction began in 1994. I raised money and organised outside support for both resoration projects, and training for young restorers, until 2003. With my colleagues in Italy and England, and with the suport of the prestigious Kress Foundation of New York, I facilitated the laboratory for restoration of paper at the Villa Stay. We sent money and vital equipment, and organised several workshops for paper restoration in Dubrovnik and in Zagreb .These workshops were so successful that they were eventually taken under the wing of Unesco. We all worked very hard for the preservation of Dubrovnik and its cultural history.
So I am very distressed to hear of this last misery inflicted on the city.
I must testify that I was infinitely saddened by seeing, on my last visit ,during the summer of 2006, the insensitive and dangerous exploitation of the city permitted by the local authorities who allow hundreds of tourists to daily pour off the revolting liners which throng the harbour and disgorge infinite quantities of refuse into the sea.
I saw no trace of the the old city life that I knew, with all its individual flavour and traditions. The whole walled city has become a degraded area for eating and shopping; every restaurant has the same uniinteresting menu, and every shop the same useless and tasteless objects made in the east which have no value or charm whatsoever. How much better to buy some dried figs or candided orange peel in the market!
How infinitely kinder was life when we took the old Perast to Sipan for the month of August!
Everything seems to have been compromised for that so-called modern 'progress' which represents no more than greed and ignorance. Frankly, I had better hopes of the intelligence of the Dalmatians.
Yours furiously,
Kathryn Bosi (Dr)
Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti: the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence
www.itatti.it
kbosi@itatti.it |
| 37 | Slobodan Perovic | |
| 38 | Erik Amkoff | I´m shocked that shortsighted traffic projects weigh heavier for local bureaucrats than the unique cultural and humanistic heritage of this gem of a city. A city that I fell in love with as a voluteer worker in 1993, clearing up in the ruins left by the JNA aggressors. But obviously, this recent destruction is done by a different kind of enemy, one from within. There must be another way! |
| 39 | Patricia | |
| 40 | Anonymous | |
| 41 | Helen Warhurst | We can't reconstruct a World Heritage Site - don't let our history be lost forever. |
| 42 | Ivo Kara-Pesic | It's scandalous what they are doing there. |
| 43 | Anonymous | |
| 44 | Simona Lombardelli | |
| 45 | giannicola | |
| 46 | Ines Vasiljevic | |
| 47 | Ines Vasiljevic | |
| 48 | chiara cremaschi | |
| 49 | Jasna Sakota MIMICA | |
| 50 | Davide Orsini | |