IV Editathon of the Landscape of Light #22E

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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, along with Medialab Slaughterhouse and in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage of Madrid City Council, organised an editathon on Saturday 22 January, to promote the care and improvement of heritage in its digital dimension in Wikipedia. This is the fourth and last of a series of editathons and training activities that have been aimed at form a permanent working group on this matter and help to make visible fundamental elements of the Landscape of Light in Wikipedia.

Thus, from 10:00 am, participants from different institutions belonging to the Civic and Social Council of the Prado-Retiro candidacy and citizens interested in the heritage of Madrid gathered in The Terrarium Intermediae 's Madrid Slaughterhouse to create items from unique locations, buildings, institutions and trees; and also translate articles by painters related to the Landscape of Light. Several articles that had been produced in recent weeks were also published.

> Results

  • Number of participants: 13
  • Number of articles created: 15
    1. Madrid Gate
    2. Dante Gate
    3. Gardens of Cecilio Rodríguez
    4. La Chopera del Retiro
    5. Garden of Plantels
    6. School-Institute Retirement Section
    7. House-Palace of Don Juan Manuel González-Longoria
    8. Antonio Maura House-Museum
    9. Casa de Vacas Cultural Center
    10. the Antonio Maura Foundation
    11. ICO Foundation
    12. Silver Maple of Cecilio Rodríguez Gardens
    13. Bald Cypress of the Crystal Palace Pond
    14. Caucasian Elm in the Royal Botanical Garden
    15. Canary palm tree in the Royal Botanical Gardens
  • Number of articles translated: 2
    1. Marcel Junca (1818-1878), French painter
    2. Francesc Torras Armengol (1832-1878), Spanish painter

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