Editathons of the Landscape of Light #JUN2022

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Since July 2021, Madrid is part of the UNESCO World Heritage List, which lists sites of exceptional universal value. In this way, the Paseo del Prado and the Buen Retiro are in the category of Cultural Landscape and with the particularity of being in an extraordinary urban environment where culture, science and nature coexist since the mid-16th century. This Landscape of Light is the first good to hold such a distinction in the city of Madrid, and the fifth in the Community.

Wikisphere, in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage of Madrid City Council, organized two editathons and two virtual meetings last June, to promote the care and improvement of heritage in its digital dimension in Wikipedia. These new calls are in addition to the previous editathons and training activities aimed at create a permanent working group on this subject and help to make visible fundamental elements of the Landscape of Light in Wikipedia.

In these days of the June 2022, participants from different institutions, some belonging to the Civic and Social Council of the Prado-Retiro candidacy, as well as citizens interested in the heritage of Madrid gathered in a room of the Madrid City Council to publish articles on Wikipedia from unique locations, buildings, institutions and trees, and also translate articles related to the Landscape of Light.

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  • Number of participants: 22
  • Number of articles created: 15
    1. Navy Headquarters Building
    2. Fort and Landecho Building
    3. Old Flour Factory of Getafe (headquarters of the Getafe-Madrid UNESCO Centre)
    4. Mapfre Foundation
    5. the Tatiana Pérez Foundation of Guzmán el Bueno
    6. Cedar in the Retiro Park
    7. Cypress of the Royal Botanical Garden
    8. Himalayan spruce in Plaza de Murillo
    9. La Rosaleda pine
    10. Carrasco pine of the Royal Botanical Gardens
    11. Himalayan weeping pine
    12. Yew of the Royal Botanical Garden
    13. Blue Eucalyptus of the Retiro Park
    14. Yew of the Palace of Velázquez del Retiro
    15. Luis Ortega Cruz

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