EUROPE'S CULTURAL HERITAGE

 Europe's cultural heritage is a rich and diverse mosaic of cultural and creative expressions, a blessed inheritance from previous generations of Europeans and a legacy for those to come.

 It includes natural, built and archaeological sites, museums, monuments, artworks, historic cities, literary, musical and audiovisual works and the knowledge, practices and traditions of European citizens.

While policy, in this area,  is primarily the responsibility of Member States, the European Union is committed to safeguarding and enhancing Europe's cultural heritage through a number of policies and programmes. 

                                                       The Parthenon
    

                                          The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion

                                            The Temple of Aphaia in Aegina

                                                 The Colosseum in Rome

               

                                                       A Temple in Sicily

                                                        Magna Grecia 

                                            

                                            The Amphitheatre in Arles, France

                                              Roman Monuments. Germany

                                          
       

                                         Bruges UNESCO World Heritage City

                                                       

                                                       Saltsburg Austria

                      

I must say a few words about the renowned Altamura cave multicoloured paintings and charcoal drawings of animals and a few with human hands. They were painted in Calabria, Spain,  The earliest were created during the Upper Palaeolithic Age, around 36.000 years ago.