International Prize for the Conservation of the Canary sky

Rafael Rebolo, director of the IAC, receives the CICOP prize for the Conservation and Protection of the Astronomical Quality of the Canarian Sky. Credit: Cabildo de La Palma
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Last Saturday the International Centre for Heritage Conservation (CICOP, the initials of its name in Spanish) awarded the International Prize for the Conservation and Protection of the astronomical quality of the Canary sky to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) for its contribution to the preservation of the darkness and transparency of the sky over the Islands via the Canary Observatories and the Technical Office for the Protection of the Sky (OTPC), which offer protection against light and radio wave pollution atmospheric contamination: a contribution which is exceptional, relevant, and  exemplary, to the environmental protection of the Canaries. Rafael Rebolo López, the Director of the IAC, received the prize.

Rafael Rebolo, premios CICOP
Rafael Rebolo, director of the IAC, at the CICOP International Awards ceremony. Credit: Cabildo de La Palma

The event, which was celebrated in the framework of the XXI Symposium of Historic Centres, and Cultural Heritage of the Canaries, and which is supported by the Department of Culture and Heritage of the Cabildo of La Palma, took place in the Circo de Marte Theatre. As well as giving the prize to the IAC, the CICOP presented prizes to other entities and institutions of La Palma, such as the Real Sociedad Cosmológica, the Restoration workshop of Graphic Documentation of the Cabildo of La Palma, the Festival of Corpus Christi of the town of Mazo, the National Park of the Caldera of Taburiente, and the Cultural Heritage Unit of the Cabildo of La Palma.

The International Centre for Heritage Conservation (CICOP) with its headquarters in La Laguna in the Canaries, in collaboration with the institutions forming the Board of Trustees of the CICOP foundation, bestows these prizes on organizations, institutions or persones whose intellectual work and creative technical, or humanistic inputs contribute in an exemplary and outstanding manner the communication, maintenance, conservation, restoration, or rehabilitation of the Cultural Heritage in any of its aspects.

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