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'[[File:Kulturdenkmal 4 Sprachen.jpg|thumb|Plague of the [[Bundesdenkmalamt]] on a building in [[Salzburg]] indicating "Cultural property" in four languages; German: ''Kulturdenkmal'', English, French: ''Bien culturel'', and Russian: ''Культурное Достояние''.]] '''Cultural property''' are the physical constituents of the [[cultural heritage]] of a group or society. ==Definition== Article 1 of the [[Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict]] of 1954 defines cultural property as follows:<ref>[http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention 1954] at the UNESCO website</ref> :"The term 'cultural property' shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership: :(a) movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above; :(b) buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended to shelter, in the event of armsfjdnfaewrbvygrehy.ezweuesotiuseitueuae.htueryghrutvenwintutvweynwutyruwh.sjfhdjvghjfhdbfkjgvbdsjfbsfkjgdbgdkfgsjkgfdgfbfhdfggdfed conflict, the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a); :(c) centers containing a large amount of cultural property as defined in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), to be known as 'centers containing monuments'." ==Emblem== Article 16 of the Convention describes the internationally recognized mark for cultural property as follows: :(1) The distinctive emblem of the Convention shall take the form of a shield, pointed below, persaltire blue and white (a shield consisting of a royal-blue square, one of the angles of which forms the point of the shield, and of a royal-blue triangle above the square, the space on either side being taken up by a white triangle). ==See also== * [[Heritage site]] * [[World Heritage Site]] * [[National Heritage Site]] * [[National Monument]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Culture}} [[Category:International law]] [[Category:Cultural heritage]] '