China copia un pueblo de Austria casa a casa y calle a calle
Hallstatt
Hallstatt, en Austria. (WIKIPEDIA)
El pueblo es Hallstatt y tiene apenas 1.000 habitantes.
El proyecto lo lleva a cabo la compañía metalúrgica china Minmetals.
Algunos habitantes del pueblo austríaco han reaccionado con indignación; otros lo ven un reclamo publicitario.
EFE. 19.06.2011 - 23.00h
El país que ha transformado en un arte el plagio de productos ajenos quiere ahora reproducir casa a casa y calle a calle parte de la pintoresca villa austríaca de Hallstatt, ubicada a la orilla de un lago que, por su puesto, también será copiado.
El diario vienés Die Presse aseguraba esta semana que la compañía metalúrgica china Minmetals trabaja en un proyecto inmobiliario en la rica provincia de Guangdong, que tiene como base una reproducción de este pueblo de apenas 1.000 habitantes.
En la propia página web de la empresa china, se describe el proyecto como "un sofisticado residencial basado en el estilo europeo. La calle comercial representa una característica localidad en Austria".
Según Die Presse, arquitectos e ingenieros chinos visitan desde hace años Hallstatt para levantar planos y apuntar detalles de cada rincón de este pueblo, que desde 1999 ostenta el título de Patrimonio de la Humanidad.
La plaza del mercado y las casas que la rodean, la iglesia evangélica de 1863, un hotel, varios edificios emblemáticos e incluso el lago, aunque no a escala, estarán en el centro de un complejo de viviendas y centros comerciales y de ocio que ocuparán un millón de metros cuadrados en la ciudad de Huizhou.
Los habitantes de Hallstatt han reaccionado entre la sorpresa, la indignación y la alegría a la noticia de que su pueblo tendrá copia china. "No vamos a permitir que simplemente imiten nuestro pueblo", ha declarado el alcalde Alexander Scheutz, quien asegura que tenía noticias de que la empresa china quería construir casas al estilo de Hallstatt pero no una reproducción exacta del pueblo.
Más optimista es Pamela Binder, gerente de la oficina de turismo de la región donde está Hallstatt, y que ha calificado la noticia como "un regalo" y una "estupenda publicidad".
Eso sí, para que no se diga que los chinos sólo copian, las casas del Hallstatt asiático tendrán las ventanas más grandes, algo que a los vecinos del original no les permiten modificar para no alterar estos edificios protegidos.
http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1085132/0/china/copia/pueblo/
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Hallstatt, Upper Austria is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. It is located at the south-western shore of the Hallstätter See. The town lies in the geographical region of Salzkammergut, on the national road linking Salzburg and Graz. Salt was a valuable resource, so the region was historically very wealthy. The village also gave its name to the early Iron Age Hallstatt Culture and is a World Heritage Site for Cultural Heritage. Hallstatt is a popular tourist attraction owing to its small-town appeal and can be toured on foot in ten minutes. The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries BC (European Early Iron Age), developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC (Late Bronze Age) and followed in much of Central Europe by the La Tène culture.
By the 6th century BC, the Halstatt culture extended for some 1000 km, from the Champagne-Ardenne in the west, through the Upper Rhine and the upper Danube, as far as the Vienna Basin and the Danubian Lowland in the east, from the Main, Bohemia and the Little Carpathians in the north, to the Swiss plateau, the Salzkammergut and to Lower Styria. The culture is commonly linked to Proto-Celtic and Celtic populations in its western zone and with (pre-)Illyrians in its eastern zone. This secluded and utterly captivating landscape counts as one of the first places of human settlement due to the rich sources of natural salt, which have been mined for thousands of years. It is possible to tour the world's first known salt mine, located above downtown Hallstatt.
Hallstatt, an Austrian Hamlet in Communist China
by Andrew Burmon Subscribe to Andrew Burmon's postsPosted Jun 17th 2011 04:00 PM
Chinese architects know a good thing when they see one, so when they saw Hallstatt, Austria, they got to thinking and concluded, logically, that it would be a great idea to rebuild an exact copy of the town back in the middle kingdom.
Unfortunately, no one asked the residents of the scenic hamlet, which clings to the side of an alpine lake, whether they would be okay with their homes being replicated.
Now they're pretty pissed.
"I don't like the idea of knowing that a team was present here for years measuring, and photographing and studying us," Monika Wenger, who owns a hotel in the UNESCO-recognized town, told the AP.
The Chinese Hallstatt is already being constructed by China Minmetals Corporation, a state-run company, in Guandong province, but Der Spiegel reports that lawyers have been deployed.
The catch is that there may not be a clear legal precedent for a motion to stop construction. Though the bootleg DVDs for sale in Beijing are definitely illegal, an entire bootleg town might not be.
Strangely, the replication of Hallstatt is not unprecedented: The German town of Anting and a small corner of London (with a statue of Harry Potter) have already been recreated near Shanghai and scaled-down versions of Barcelona, Venice and Dorchester, England have also been erected.
All this reconstruction clearly says something about the complicated relationship between China and the west. Chinese tourists apparently like visiting Western-style towns denuded of their history and context. A similar thing could be said, I suppose, of people who go to Epcot Center, but Epcot seems much more innocent, presenting tamed ideas of different countries rather than simulations of specific places.
One is a bowl of marzipan fruit, the other is a tofurkey.
An interesting addendum to this particular story is that tourism representatives of Hallstatt have embraced the Chinese project, which they conclude will increase revenue from Asian travelers. I can't decide whether this is cynical or enlightened. Probably it's both.
http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/06/17/hallstatt-an-austrian-hamlet-in-communist-china/
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