TV programme calls for cultural monuments

For months the Romanian public television station TVR has dedicated a programme to spotlighting dilapidated cultural monuments. Audiences will choose their favourite out of 30 monuments and then donate money for renovations. The weekly newspaper Dilema Veche welcomes the action: "State subsidies aren't sufficient, local authorities are no help, local companies prefer to finance major public events, and these cultural monuments and ruins are threatened with disappearance as a result of public indifference. Even if at the end of the day only one monument is repaired with the money donated, the programme ... will still have been a success. Because it has allowed many other monuments to be registered and presented, because ... it has given succour to these dedicated preservationists, because the fate of these heritage sites is shown and talked about on television. ... Even if they aren't restored in the strict sense, their image will be rehabilitated."

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