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“Take your car off the beaten
track to meet our monuments
and their stories”
ORANJESTAD — The mix that apply for monuments
of cultures in Aruba is very decide whether it will be
visible in its architecture as a protected monument or
-like in all cultures-, monu- not. “The building or ob-
ments reflect your history ject needs to be at least 50
and your people. If you years old, a special value
take the chance to leave in architecture or to history
the beach for a little while or to the people of Aruba
and take your car off the is required and there has to
beaten track you will be be a certain uniqueness. If
surprised what you see. it was changed too much
Anne Witsenburg is direc- throughout time or there
tor of the Monument Fund are already any of the
Aruba and points out pre- same kind it is a no go.”
cisely why a monumental
trip should not lack in your Useless islands
vacation’s itinerary. There is a difference be-
tween the islands when it
The fund owns 12 monu- comes to monuments, as
ments, out of the 36 pro- Witsenburg explains. “That
tected monuments in the goes back to their history.
island. “But there are over Curacao used to be a very certain areas nowadays. and Bonaire were called typical small houses scat-
300 more monuments on wealthy island where many They are celebrating more the useless islands in the tered around the island.
the list to be protected -mainly Dutch- merchants than 20 years of Unesco colonial time, so any Indian We actually have the same
and of course we dream lived close together and heritage. Than scattered willing to live here was giv- amount of monuments
to see that become real- that is the reason you find around the rest of the is- en a small piece of land to as Curacao though way
ity as soon as possible.” this typical colonial Dutch land you will see the small- build his home. “That is the smaller.”
The international guidelines style buildings packed in er country houses.” Aruba reason you find all these Continued on Page 10
