How a pie factory in South America is taking on the world - Telegraph Uruguay How a pie factory in South America is taking on the world Fray Bentos - the town in Uruguay famous for its pies - could be named a World Heritage Site alongside the Forth Bridge, Sicilian churches and Genghis Khan's birthplace at the end of this year's Unesco meeting The town of Fray Bentos, in Uruguay, could be declared a Unesco World Heritage Site Photo: Hector Gomez Why has a Fray Bentos factory been given World Heritage status? - Telegraph Telegraph Why has a Fray Bentos factory been given World Heritage status? Does a meatpacking plant deserve World Heritage status? Chris Moss , Destination expert 6 July 2015 • 12:00am I never planned to go to Fray Bentos. It just happened to be on the way as I travelled overland from Argentina’s central wetlands to the Uruguayan coast. Still, having been raised on boil-in-the-tin pies and baby’s heads – the Lancashire name for steak and kidney puddings – I made a pitstop to see the old meatpacking factory.

• New Unesco World Heritage sites for 2015 My first impression was one of desiccated dilapidation. I’ve always liked industrial ruins, and the assemblage of broken gates, windowless frames, empty workers’ canteens and collapsing cattle corrals didn’t disappoint. The eeriness was helped by the location – it stands all alone on the east bank of the River Uruguay – and a backdrop of flat, fertile pampas and pretty palm trees. The factory was opened in 1859 by the German firm Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, which invented the Oxo cube and fed the country's troops during the First World War. In 1924, the plant passed into British hands and started to export frozen beef; those who live in Fray Bentos – the nearest town – still call it the Frigorífico Anglo. A local guide led me up a rickety wooden ramp and gleefully informed me: "You English were so ingenious in your use of gravity.

The cow would walk up here, to the very top of the factory, and then would be killed [in view of other cows] and turned into leather hides, meat and corned beef, which was processed on lower floors. “There was no need to mechanise anything – the cow did all the work by climbing to the top of the production line.” If ever Morrissey needed a physical site to flag up his meat-hating message, Fray Bentos is probably it. But does the site merit the Unesco World Heritage status that it was awarded over the weekend? The awarding committee labelled the ruin a “Cultural-Industrial Landscape”, claiming it “illustrates the whole process of meat sourcing, processing, packing and dispatching”. In fact, it doesn’t illustrate anything. The singular – and simple - appeal of Fray Bentos lies in its emptiness, its gloominess, the feeling that you’re in a Graham Greene novel. Unesco status probably means infographics, entrance tickets, health and safety, and tourist groups on buses. It will become another dull half-museum of the kind British holidaymakers know so well.

My main memory of Fray Bentos pies was scraping out the bottom of the tin to get at least one morsel of meat to accompany the towering dome of flaky pastry. It now seems Unesco, at risk of eroding the cultural-cum-commercial brand it devised to protect genuine marvels such as the Taj Mahal, is scraping the bottom of the barrel merely to expand its list of World Heritage Sites - and justify its costly committees. Three more worthy heritage sites in southern South America Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires One of the city’s few remaining characterful, low-slung neighbourhoods, permanently under threat from encroaching development. Most of the cobbled streets and old bars and steakhouses are already gone, but external pressure could help conserve what’s left. Atlantic coast, Uruguay Development has already gobbled up much of this small country’s coast, but Unesco should ensure that the marine life and coastal flora and fauna are placed under a conservation order; the alternative is exclusive resorts all the way from Punta del Este to the Brazilian border.

La Trochita, Argentina Patagonia’s famous narrow-gauge railway line - the southernmost leg of the continental network - from Ingeniero Jacobacci to Esquel currently operates a sporadic and partial service. It needs a higher profile to encourage maintenance and needs visitor numbers to draw tourism investors. Explore great destinations with inspiring itineraries and knowledgeable guides See Europe with Telegraph Travel From £ 249 per person What is Uruguay's Latest UNESCO World Heritage Site? | dare2go LiveJournal x The Fray Bentos industrial landscape, a UNESCO world heritage site since 2015, as seen from the south-west. From left to right: part of the massive freezer, an old iron shed, the covered walkway and transport chain into the freezer, fuel tanks for diesel powered ships (a later addition), the slaughterhouse with the tall chimney behind. Uruguay has a new site on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape was added in July 2015. The listing brings Uruguay’s total on the list to two. But they couldn’t be more different. This site “stands out as an example of early 20th century industrial development”.

The Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento is an urban landscape which “illustrates the successful fusion of the Portuguese, Spanish and post-colonial styles.” Some journalists have suggested that the Fray Bentos site has no place on a list next to grand structures like the Taj Majal and Hagia Sofia. But UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee considered this meat processing plant to be of Outstanding Universal Value. We visited the site recently and learned that the factory was set up in Fray Bentos for 3 reasons: the abundant supply of beef in the region the shippable river, making global exportation convenient the sloping nature of the landscape, allowing gravity to be used along the production line to bring the final products to the wharf UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE since 2015, recognising the historical importance of the unique industrial landscape of FRAY BENTOS in Uruguay. View into the freezer building. I inserted a close-up of the crumbling cork insulation which sits inside all walls. Through its 117 year history this industrialised slaughterhouse became well-known as La Gran Cocina del Mundo (the great kitchen of the world). Famous brands such as Oxo and Fray Bentos were originally produced here.

The export of frozen beef from South America to Europe was also pioneered from this site. But it wasn’t only the unique history of the factory which earned its World Heritage listing. It was also the cosmopolitan community of immigrants that were brought in to work in the factory. The workforce was made up of “immigrant workers who arrived from more than 55 nations”. [UNESCO] Original workers’ housing and social institutions are part of the site. From 1865 the Liebig Extract of Meat Company (LEMCO) produced the famous precursor to stock cubes, and exported it to Europe. This company was the brainchild of Georg Giebert, who worked with the inventor of the extract, Justus von Liebig, to produce it more cheaply, and in greater quantity, in South America. Fray Bentos canned corned beef soon joined the meat extract on the ships. The corned beef was created using the meat remains from the extract, with added fat and salt.

Reproductions of old Liebig products including the famous OXO stock Some of the the ANGLO labels on various old cans The old and current labels of Fray Bentos products In 1924 the complex changed hands and the Anglo Meat Packing Plant built a huge freezer and began exporting frozen meat to Europe. The freezer was original technology and had a floor area 100 x 40 metres, 5 storeys high, and could store 18000 tons of frozen meat. 70km of pipes distributed the ammonia gas around the building. Workers were brought in from the colder regions of Europe to work in the freezer because they should be acclimatised to the severe temperatures. Even so they could only stay in the freezers for very short periods. At the height of production there were 3 shifts per day of 1500 workers. The canned meat production continued and expanded, as other products were developed and sold under a variety of brands alongside Fray Bentos. This factory was largely responsible for feeding the soldiers in both World Wars of the 20th Century. In 1943, 16 million cans of Fray Bentos corned beef were shipped to Europe.

After WW2, as the economy in Europe improved and the equipment in the factory became out-dated, the production was gradually moved away from Fray Bentos. Ultimately the Uruguayan government was given the complex in 1971. They kept it going on a smaller scale until it was closed on October 15, 1979. (Fortunately construction on the international bridge connecting Fray Bentos to Argentina was started that year, so not all workers had to leave the area.) The original administration building with much of the outdated office equipment still in place Our English-speaking guide, Nicolas, met us in the original administration office of the factory. It remains almost exactly as it was on that day in 1979 when business stopped. It’s like stepping into the past. He took us to various parts of the complex: Along the way we walked an interesting path. It was paved with thick steel plates, which had served as ballast in the empty ships on their way from Europe to collect the export products from the factory. The original steam engines in the machine room of Fray Bentos. Later two large diesel generators were added (not in photo).

Machine room where they produced their own electricity with steam turbines, 3 years before Montevideo had electricity for its population. The old power control room of the Fray Bentos industrial complex. Marble panels were used for all fronts as marble doesn’t conduct electricity. Main control room, with its huge, marble-fronted switchboard. The old Corned Beef production line. This hall is not accessible to visitors (photographed through a window). Corned beef processing section, but only to peek through the window. It’s closed to visitors because the roof isn’t structurally safe. A row of boilers in the room where the original meat extract was produced. Meat extract production area, where the meat was boiled in huge vats. It was then pressed to release the liquid, which was heated under pressure to form a concentrate with a molasses-like texture. Inside the slaughterhouse of Fray Bentos Slaughterhouse – the organisation of the production line meant that it took only 30 minutes to process a cow from death to freezer. It couldn’t have been a pleasant place to work. Nicolas told us that the workers from the slaughterhouse had to see a company psychologist regularly before they were paid.

The massive freezer building as seen from port side, with very faded ANGLO writing on top Freezer – a sloping, open walkway connects the slaughterhouse to the top floor of the huge freezer. There is a chain pulley system hanging above the walkway which utilised gravity to take the meat from the slaughterhouse to the freezer. Each floor of the freezer is divided into rooms. It was possible to maintain a different temperature in each room, depending on the grade of meat being stored. The temperature also had to match the freezers on the ships transporting the meat across the sea, to avoid compromising its preservation. The freezer is one of the most vulnerable parts of the World Heritage site. The insulation of the freezer is all natural cork. Unfortunately the cork takes up moisture, contributing to the deterioration of the building. They haven’t yet worked out how to solve this. The outside of the administration block with the museum downstairs The tour ended back at the administration building, on the ground floor. This is where the Museum of Industrial Revolution is housed. You could spend a very long time in this section. It’s full of information, photos and relics of the pioneering history of the site.

Part of Anglo Corned Beef production in Fray Bentos Old TOLEDO scales in the slaughterhouse Some of the workers’ cottages behind the meat works of Fray Bentos Old barns for fodder and supplies, located to the north-east of the slaughterhouse Some of the path paved with old iron plates, which were used for ballast on ships picking up freight. On the right hand side, part of the production hall for corned beef. Vista across the roofs of the Fray Bentos industrial complex with the slaughterhouse to the far right Clearly, Fray Bentos has earned its place on the World Heritage list for a number of reasons, which are set out on the UNESCO website. Primarily the pioneering aspects stand out. The factory brought the industrial revolution to the region. It also created and supported a cohesive multi-racial community around it. Through its physical location, industrial and residential buildings as well as social institutions, the site presents an illustration of the entire process of meat production on a global scale.

[UNESCO] Two old cranes on the wharf in front of the Fray Bentos freezer building UNESCO's newest World Heritage Sites - CNN.com UNESCO's newest World Heritage Sites By Katia Hetter , CNN Updated 4:18 PM ET, Thu July 9, 2015 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has added 24 new spots and 3 significant extensions to the UNESCO World Heritage List and three spots to its List of World Heritage in Danger. Click through the gallery to see some new members of both lists, including the only U.S. site added in 2015 (shown here). Hide Caption 1 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 San Antonio Missions, Texas. The new San Antonio Missions World Heritage site includes a group of five 18th-century frontier mission complexes along the San Antonio River basin in southern Texas -- the most famous of which is the Alamo -- and a ranch south of the missions.

Built by Franciscan missionaries in the 18th century as part of Spain's efforts to colonize the region, the site includes churches, farmland, homes and water distribution systems. Shown here is the Mission Espada complex. Hide Caption Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Blue and John Crow Mountains, Jamaica. Jamaica's first UNESCO World Heritage Site is a mixed cultural and natural site. In the southeastern mountainous region of the country, this site was a refuge for indigenous Tainos escaping slavery and then Maroons (fleeing African slaves) escaping after them. They formed what is now the Nanny Town Heritage Route, "a network of trails, hiding places and settlements" that allowed them to survive and develop a spiritual practice connected to the mountains. The site also offers a lovely constellation of endemic plant species. Hide Caption 3 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Tusi sites, China: The Tusi governance system found in southwest China's mountainous region is represented in this new World Heritage site, which includes the remains of several tribal domains dating from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

The Chinese government appointed tribal leaders as "Tusi," hereditary rulers who allowed ethnic minorities to maintain their customs and ways of life, reaching back to the third century B.C., while centralizing governance. Hide Caption 4 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church settlement, Denmark. Founded in 1773, Christiansfeld is a world-renowned planned settlement of the Moravian Church, which was planned and constructed to represent the Protestant urban ideal of a town built around a central church square. (The church square is shown here.) The buildings are still used by the Moravian Church community. Hide Caption 5 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 The Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand, Denmark: Two hunting forests northeast of Copenhagen, called Store Dyrehave and Gribskov, and the hunting park of Jægersborg Hegn/Jægersborg Dyrehave make up one of two new Danish UNESCO sites. Danish royalty hunted with hounds on land designed according to Baroque landscaping principles. It was popular in the Middle Ages through the end of the 16th century.

Hide Caption 6 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 The climats, terroirs of Burgundy, France. The Burgundy designation includes the town of Dijon, whose political system gave rise to the region's climate production system and the villages and vineyards that are the commercial aspect of the production system. Hide Caption 7 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars, France. France's historic hillsides and properties where the sparkling wines of Champagne are produced, shown here. The Champagne region's secondary bottle fermentation method of producing sparkling wines dates to the early 17th century. Hide Caption 8 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus, Germany: The port city of Hamburg is home to two dense urban districts, Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district, that demonstrate the effects of the international trade in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Originally built on islands in the Elbe River between 1885 and 1927, the large warehouse blocks of Speicherstadt were partially rebuilt starting in 1949. Next to the Chilehaus modernist building, Kontorhaus features six enormous port-focused office complexes dating from the 1920s to the 1940s. Hide Caption 9 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Susa, Iran: One of two Iranian sites named to the World Heritage List this year, Susa (shown here) includes Ardeshir's palace on one site of the Shavur River in the lower Zagros Mountains and a group of archaeological mounds on the river's eastern side. The site contains several lawyers of urban settlements from the fifth millennium B.C. until the 13th century. Hide Caption 10 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 The Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Iran. on the southern end of Iran's central mountains, is home to seminomadic villagers who live in temporary settlements in the spring and fall and in the valley in cave dwellings during the winter.

Hide Caption 11 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Necropolis of Beth She'arim, a Landmark of Jewish Revival, Israel: Starting in the second century B.C., this Haifa necropolis evolved as the primary Jewish burial place outside Jerusalem under the leadership of Rabbi Judah the Patriarch after the second failed Jewish revolt against the Romans. The catacombs feature artwork and Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew inscriptions. Hide Caption 12 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale, Italy: Arab-Norman Palermo on the northern coast of Sicily has nine religious and civil structures dating to the Norman kingdom of Sicily era (1130-94): three churches, two palaces, a cathedral, a bridge and the Cefalú and Monreale cathedrals. They demonstrate the island's mix of Western, Islamic and Byzantine cultures on the island and are witness to "the fruitful coexistence of people of different origins and religions (Muslim, Byzantine, Latin, Jewish, Lombard and French)," UNESCO says.

Hide Caption 13 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. A monument to Japan's rapid 19th- and 20th-century industrialization, the country's newest UNESCO site contains 11 properties, mostly in the southwest Japan. Feudal Japan took technology from Europe and America to develop its own steel, shipbuilding and coal-mining industries. Hide Caption 14 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 "Bethany Beyond the Jordan" baptism site (Al-Maghtas), Jordan. This is where many believe Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist. Located on the eastern bank of the River Jordan north of the Dead Sea, Jordan's newest World Heritage site actually consists of two sites: Al-Kharrar, also known as Jabal Mar-Elias (Elijah's Hill), and the area of the churches of St. John the Baptist. A place of Christian pilgrimage, the archaeological site contains Roman and Byzantine remains, including churches and chapels, a monastery and hermits' caves.

The remains of the Church of the Arc site are shown here. Hide Caption 15 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Baekje Historic Areas, Republic of Korea. The Republic of Korea's mountainous mid-western region has eight significant archaeological sites dating from 475 to 660 B.C. They include the Gongsanseong fortress and royal tombs at Songsan-ri, Ungjin, the Busosanseong Fortress and Gwanbuk-ri administrative buildings, the royal palace at Wanggung-ri and the Mireuksa Temple in Iksan. Representing the later period of the Baekje Kingdom (18 B.C. to A.D. 660), this early kingdom was at "the crossroads of considerable technological, religious (Buddhist), cultural and artistic exchanges between the ancient East Asian kingdoms in Korea, China and Japan," UNESCO says. Hide Caption 16 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System, Mexico.

A 16th-century aqueduct between the states of Mexico and Hidalgo, this stunning canal system includes arcaded aqueduct bridges, canals, springs and distribution tanks, including the highest single-level arcade ever built in an aqueduct. UNESCO calls the hydraulic system, launched by the Franciscan friar Padre Tembleque, "an example of the exchange of influences between the European tradition of Roman hydraulics and traditional Mesoamerican construction techniques, including the use of adobe." Hide Caption 17 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape, Mongolia. Located in northeast Mongolia's Khentii mountain chain, Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain is where the Central Asian steppe meets the Siberian taiga coniferous forests and where Genghis Khan is believed to have been born and buried. Associated with the worship of sacred mountains, rivers and shamanic rock cairns, Burkhan Khaldun has ceremonies influenced by both ancient shamanic and Buddhist practices.

Hide Caption 18 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site, Norway. Norway's Rjukan-Notodden site exhibits "an exceptional combination of industrial assets and themes associated to the natural landscape," UNESCO says. The complex was designed to make artificial fertilizer from nitrogen in the air, while housing works and social institutions with links by rail and ferry to the country's ports. And it was built in a stunning landscape featuring valleys, waterfalls and mountains. Hide Caption 19 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia: This site includes two components situated in a desert landscape: Jabel Umm Sinman at Jubbah and the Jabal al-Manjor and Raat at Shuwaymis. A lake once situated at the foot of the Umm Sinman hill range that has now disappeared used to be a source of fresh water for people and animals in the southern part of the Great Narfoud Desert. The ancestors of today's Arab populations have left traces of their passages in numerous petroglyphs and inscriptions on the rock face.

Jabal al-Manjor and Raat form the rocky escarpment of a wadi now covered in sand. Hide Caption 20 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore. Located in the heart of Singapore, Singapore Botanical Gardens shows the evolution of a British tropical colonial botanic garden. Now a scientific institution focused on conservation and education, the site includes historic buildings and plants that have evolved since the gardens were created in 1859. The garden's Swan Lake is shown here. Hide Caption 21 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Ephesus, Turkey. Ephesus has hosted successive Hellenistic and Roman settlements in new locations as the River Kaystros coastline moved westward. Archaeological digs have uncovered the Library of Celsus and the Great Theatre and other Roman Imperial period structures. It's also home to the little bit that's left of the famous Temple of Artemis, one of the "Seven Wonders of the World." The nearby House of the Virgin Mary has become major Christian pilgrimage stop since the fifth century.

"The Ancient City of Ephesus is an outstanding example of a Roman port city, with sea channel and harbour basin," says UNESCO. Hide Caption 22 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape, Turkey. Diyarbakir, a fortified city located near the Upper Tigris River Basin, and the landscape around it have served as a strategic center from the Hellenistic period, through "Roman, Sassanid, Byzantine, Islamic and Ottoman times to the present," UNESCO says.

The site includes a treasure trove of history: the Amida Mound (also known as İçkale or inner castle); the 5.8-kilometer-long city walls of Diyarbakir and their numerous towers, gates and buttresses; and "63 inscriptions from different periods, as well as Hevsel Gardens, a green link between the city and the Tigris that supplied the city with food and water." Hide Caption 23 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 The Forth Bridge, United Kingdom: The world's longest multispan cantilever bridge, the Forth railway bridge spans the Forth River estuary in Scotland. Opened in 1890, it's still a working bridge, carrying passengers and freight. Known for its "forthright and unadorned display of its structural components," UNESCO calls it "Innovative in style, materials and scale ... (and) an important milestone in bridge design and construction during the period when railways came to dominate long-distance land travel." Hide Caption 24 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape, Uruguay.

The 1859 construction of a meat-processing factory started an industrial complex on land near the Uruguay River, west of the Uruguayan town of Fray Bentos. The site, which illustrates the full scope of meat processing, includes the buildings and equipment of two meat processors that exported meat to Europe. Hide Caption 25 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Endangered: Hatra, Iraq. A large fortified city in what is now northwest Iraq, Hatra is one of three sites named in 2015 to the List of World Heritage in Danger. The site was named to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1985. Hatra became powerful due to the Parthian Empire's influence and served as the capital of the first Arab Kingdom. Though Hatra survived Roman invasions in A.D. 116 and 198, the ancient city with its mix of Hellenistic and Roman architecture may not survive the current violence in Iraq. Hide Caption 26 of 27 Photos: UNESCO World Heritage picks for 2015 Endangered: Old City of Sana'a, Yemen.

Yemen's Old City of Sana'a (shown here) and the Old Walled City of Shibam were also named to the List of World Heritage in Danger. Sana'a, whose al-Mahdi Mosque dates to the 12th century, and its surrounding neighborhood have been seriously damaged in armed conflict. The Old Walled City of Shibam, which dates to the 16th century and is an excellent example of vertical construction, is also under threat from the current conflict. Hide Caption Lake District World Heritage Site | Langdale Blog Lake District World Heritage Site 2016 will see the Lake District bidding to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Cultural Heritage section. The merits of the status will be debated by many between now and the award (if successful) and the merits of any award will be dependant on ones circumstances. Now might be a good time to take a look at some other recent World Heritage Site awards and see how they compare culturally to the Lake District. in 2015 Fray Bentos was given the award.

I thought the same, how can a pie get the same cultural heritage award as the Lake District however this was for the town of Fray Bentos in Uruguay where the pie takes its name from and where the meat is processed. A fine example of industrial heritage with the factory dating from 1859. Fray Bentos World Heritage Site If reading about pies is making you thirsty how about some Tequila? Maybe unexpected here but the the area between the Tequila Volcano and the Rio Grande River in Mexico is part of an expansive landscape of Blue Agave, used since the 16th century to produce Tequila and for 2000 years to produce fermented drinks and cloth. The Agave is to the locals what Herdwick Sheep are to our locals and the industrial heritage surrounding the production of Tequila is an integral part on the shaping of the landscape in the same way that sheep farming has and continues to shape much of the Lake District Landscape.

World Heritage Tequila UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Sites in Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Uruguay inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, extension of Spanish site approved Latin America and the Caribbean Search Sites in Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Uruguay inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, extension of Spanish site approved Sunday, 5 July 2015 at 18:00 Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. Aerial view of the Hashima coal mine (09/06/2010) © Nagasaki Prefecture | Image Source: Nomination File The World Heritage Committee this afternoon approved the inscription of four cultural sites on the World Heritage List: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining in Japan, Ephesus in Turkey, Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System in Mexico, and Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape in Uruguay. The Committee also approved the extension of Spain’s Routes of Santiago de Compostela with the addition of the “Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain”.

The new sites are: Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan) —The site encompasses a series of twenty three component parts, mainly located in the southwest of Japan. It bears testimony to the rapid industrialization of the country from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century, through the development of the steel industry, shipbuilding and coal mining. The site illustrates the process by which feudal Japan sought technology transfer from Europe and America from the middle of the 19th century and how this technology was adapted to the country’s needs and social traditions. The site testifies to what is considered to be the first successful transfer of Western industrialization to a non-Western nation. Ephesus (Turkey) —Located within what was once the estuary of the River Kaystros, Ephesus comprises successive Hellenistic and Roman settlements founded on new locations, which followed the coastline as it retreated westward. Excavations have revealed grand monuments of the Roman Imperial period including the Library of Celsus and the Great Theatre.

Little remains of the famous Temple of Artemis, one of the “Seven Wonders of the World,” which drew pilgrims from all around the Mediterranean. Since the 5th century, the House of the Virgin Mary, a domed cruciform chapel seven kilometres from Ephesus, became a major place of Christian pilgrimage. The Ancient City of Ephesus is an outstanding example of a Roman port city, with sea channel and harbour basin. Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System (Mexico) —This 16th century aqueduct is located between the states of Mexico and Hidalgo, on the Central Mexican Plateau. This heritage canal system encompasses a water catchment area, springs, canals, distribution tanks and arcaded aqueduct bridges. The site incorporates the highest single-level arcade ever built in an aqueduct. Initiated by the Franciscan friar, Padre Tembleque, and built with support from the local indigenous communities, this hydraulic system is an example of the exchange of influences between the European tradition of Roman hydraulics and traditional Mesoamerican construction techniques, including the use of adobe.

Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape (Uruguay) —Located on land projecting into the Uruguay River west of the town of Fray Bentos, the industrial complex was built following the development of a factory founded in 1859 to process meat produced on the vast prairies nearby. The site illustrates the whole process of meat sourcing, processing, packing and dispatching. It includes buildings and equipment of the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, which exported meat extract and corned-beef to the European market from 1865 and the Anglo Meat Packing Plant, which exported frozen meat from 1924. Through its physical location, industrial and residential buildings as well as social institutions, the site presents an illustration of the entire process of meat production on a global scale. The Committee approved the following extension: Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain [an extension of the “Routes of Santiago de Compostela”]—A network of four Christian pilgrimage routes in northern Spain, the site is an extension of the Route of Santiago de Compostela, a serial site inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1993.

The extension represents a network of almost 1,500 km: coastal, interior of the Basque Country–La Rioja, Liébana and primitive routes. It includes a built heritage of historical importance created to meet the needs of pilgrims, including cathedrals, churches, hospitals, hostels and even bridges. The extension encompasses some of the earliest pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Compostela, following the discovery in the 9th century of a tomb believed to be that of St. James the Greater. This concludes the Committee’s consideration of new sites to the World Heritage List. The Committee will end its 39th session on 8 July. Learn and talk about Fray Bentos (food brand), Australian brands, Australian pies, British brands, British pie brands Fray Bentos steak and kidney pies , as currently sold in the UK. The original Fray Bentos trade mark, 1881 The Fray Bentos food brand is associated with tinned processed meat products, originally corned beef and, latterly, meat pies . The brand has been sold in the United Kingdom , other European countries, and Australia .

Created in the latter half of the 19th century, the name is derived from the port of Fray Bentos in Uruguay where the products were originally processed and packaged until the 1960s. The brand is now owned in the UK by Baxters , which manufactures the product range in Scotland . Additionally, the Campbell Soup Company manufactures and sells Fray Bentos branded steak and kidney pies in Australia. Contents 5 External links Current brand position[ edit ] The Fray Bentos brand is best known for the manufacture and sale in the United Kingdom of a range of tinned meat pies such as steak and kidney and minced beef and onion. [1] [2] Since 2011, the brand in the UK has been owned by Baxters , who manufacture Fray Bentos products at their site at Fochabers in Scotland. [3] In addition to meat pies, the range includes tinned meat puddings and tinned meatballs as well as microwaveable meat-based pasta and rice dishes.

[4] The popularity of Fray Bentos products, once a staple in the UK and some European countries, [1] has declined in recent decades and, in 2011, it was reported that sales had been flat at around £30 million per year for the previous ten years. [5] Tinned meat products, including Fray Bentos, now have a down-market image. [6] According to The Financial Times , Fray Bentos products "may engender sneers" but they also have a "cult following" in the UK. [5] Baxters describes Fray Bentos as "an iconic British brand". [4] Liebig: 1873–1924[ edit ] Advertisement for Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, c. 1900 In 1865, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company was founded in Britain by German chemist Justus von Liebig . The company established a factory in Uruguay to manufacture a beef extract product that would later be sold under the name Oxo .

[10] In 1873, the factory began manufacturing tinned corned beef , which was sold in Britain under the name Fray Bentos, the town in Uruguay where the factory was located. [10] Fray Bentos was trademarked by Liebig in 1881 for the purpose of marketing glue and "extract of meat", although, in practice, it was used principally for marketing corned beef. [11] In fact, Fray Bentos became synonymous with corned beef. [11] Fray Bentos corned beef was targeted at a working-class market. [1] The tins were also ideally suited as army rations as they weighed just one pound and were easily transportable. [10] With the outbreak of the Boer War , the company's profits were significantly boosted from supplying corned beef to the British Army in South Africa . [10] Fray Bentos corned beef was also supplied to the troops in World War I . [12] Its popularity was such that the term "Fray Bentos" was used as slang by soldiers to mean "good".

[1] One of the early British tanks that fought at the Battle of Passchendaele was given the nickname "Fray Bentos", [13] because the men inside felt like tinned meat. [1] Vestey: 1924–68[ edit ] The tinned corned beef packaging plant at the Anglo factory in Fray Bentos In 1924, Liebig Extract of Meat Company, together with the Fray Bentos brand, was acquired by the Vestey Group [14] who renamed the Uruguayan operation Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay , also known as the "Anglo Meatpacking Company". [1] Fray Bentos's heyday was in World War II . [15] As a supplier of meat to the Allies , [15] Fray Bentos shipped more than 16 million cans of corned beef to Europe in 1943 alone. [16] British soldiers serving in North Africa during the desert campaign called it Desert Chicken. The Anglo factory in Fray Bentos, at its height, employed over 5,000 workers from more than 50 countries to process 400 cows an hour.

[16] As a result of the demand for Fray Bentos products at this time the Uruguayan currency became more valuable than the US dollar. [16] In the immediate post-war years, the Fray Bentos products were a staple food in Britain. [5] The product range was expanded to include canned meat pies such as steak and kidney and minced beef and onion. [1] [2] In 1958, Vestey began manufacturing Fray Bentos pies in England, [17] and production was moved to a plant in the London Borough of Hackney . [5] In 1964, the use of the brand for corned beef was significantly damaged when an outbreak of typhoid in Aberdeen , in which three people died, was traced to a tin of Fray Bentos corned beef imported from South America. [11] [18] The corned beef had been contaminated as a result of the cooling process during manufacture. The untreated water used in the process had come, according to the BBC , "from a river into which an estimated 66 tonnes of human excrement and 250,000 gallons of urine entered every day".

[19] At the end of the 1960s, Vestey disposed of the Anglo factory to the Uruguayan government [20] [note 1] and, in 1968, sold Liebig to Brooke Bond to form the merged manufacturing business of Brooke Bond Liebig. [24] [25] The Anglo plant in Fray Bentos Since 1968[ edit ] Brooke Bond Liebig was acquired by Unilever in 1984. [17] [24] In 1993, Campbell Soup Company bought Fray Bentos from Unilever's Brooke Bond division. [26] The Hackney plant was closed in the same year and production moved to Campbell's own factory in King's Lynn . [26] [27] Campbell's subsequently transferred its rights to the brand in the UK to Premier Foods as part of the sale of Campbell's UK operations in 2006. [5] However, Campbell's continues to manufacture and sell steak and kidney pies in Australia under the Fray Bentos brand name.

[7] [8] [9] Premier Foods closed the King's Lynn factory in 2007 [28] and moved its Fray Bentos production to its factory in Long Sutton, Lincolnshire . [2] In 2011, the Premier Foods canning division, including Fray Bentos, was bought by Princes Group , but, following an Office of Fair Trading investigation, Princes were required to immediately sell off Fray Bentos on competition grounds. [5] [29] It was bought by Baxters , the current owners, [2] who announced that production would transfer to its site at Fochabers in Scotland. [12] The move was completed in 2013. [3] Baxters have extended the Fray Bentos range to include "deep fill" pies and microwaveable bowl products. [30] Notes[ edit ] ^ The Uruguayan government closed the factory down in 1979. [1] The Brazilian food manufacturer Marfrig re-opened the site in 2008 to produce corned beef, but without the rights to the Fray Bentos brand.

[21] [22] In 2015, the factory was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site . [23] This Uruguayan Meat Factory Made Britain’s Most Iconic Pies | MUNCHIES This Uruguayan Meat Factory Made Britain’s Most Iconic Pies By Follow @munchies Fray Bentos. For many British people, these words bring to mind meatballs in tomato sauce, the comforting aroma of pie, maybe corned beef sandwiches. The precursor to microwave dinners, Britain started cracking open the now legendary canned steak and kidney pies and meat products in the 1960s, and both celebrity chefs and time-poor cooks are still eating them today. The Fray Bentos story begins in 1863 in the eponymous town, located not in global beef powerhouse Argentina but in tiny neighbour Uruguay.

READ MORE: The UN Really Wants You to Vacation in an Abandoned Meat Factory Despite closing the business 116 years later, the Frigorífico Anglo Del Uruguay meatpacker—not just a factory but an entire complex nicknamed the “Anglo” neighbourhood—in its current guise as the Paisaje Industrial Fray Bentos (Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape) made the coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site list earlier this month. Frigorífico Anglo Del Uruguay meatpacking factory complex on the banks of the River Uruguay, nicknamed the the “Anglo” neighbourhood. Photo by the author. Victorian machinery and warehouses, dilapidated docks, a lofty red-brick chimney straight out of 19th century Manchester, and cottages that housed 4000 employees in its heyday still populate the banks of the River Uruguay. That’s why I crossed Libertador General San Martín Bridge from Argentina to check out the recently accoladed plant, whose numerous meaty wares fed tinkers, tailors, soldiers, and sailors, rich men, poor men—and probably some thieves by slaughtering up to 1600 heads of cattle or 4800 ovines a day for more than a century.

“The only thing we didn’t sell was the moo,” says René Boretto, who sits on Anglo’s international conservation committee. But the meat giant would have canned the bovine bellow if it could have, given that it used every other component. Blood was resurrected as organic fertiliser, offal made its way to the neighbourhood butcher, tongue and cheek were standalone delicacies, and everything else made it as beef extract. The Fray Bentos meat extraction warehouse. Photo by the author. And let’s not forget corned mutton and brined turkey. By the 1920s, the Frigorífico Anglo Del Uruguay sold around 200 products, including frozen wares from 1924. Goods were shipped all around the world from the meatpackers’ very own dock. I say “meatpacker” but in the early days before refrigeration was a thing, Liebig Extract of Meat Company, as it was known in 1863, produced exactly that. In a bid to create a meat substitute, Justus von Liebig , a savvy German chemist and the firm’s first director, boiled down average quality cuts in water to create a liquid extract.

He also had the foresight to patent it and voilà, liquid became solid and the Oxo cube was born. A decade on and business really started to boom when Liebig came up with another magical meat solution: corned beef. Referred to by Uruguayans as “corné beef,” this second product cemented Fray Bentos’ place in industrial history and once again, Liebig slapped a brand patent on the town’s name—a patent still used by Baxters (owner since 2011) on pies and and puddings today. Breeding its own livestock on 3 million hectares of prairie, the plant upped the breed quality to slaughter 1600 Hereford and Shorthorn a day, each cow offering up between 450 and 500 kilograms of meat. The Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape. Photo by Ian Kemp. That meant one head of cattle produced 1470 cans of corned beef totalling 2.35 million cans a day, with a single, 340-gram, trapezoidal-shaped tin feeding one Allied soldier four C-rations during World War II.

However, the circular flat pie we know today didn’t reach the market until 1961. While Germans initially ran Liebig Extract of Meat Company, British cash financed it and the first generation of employees was paid in pounds up until 1920: the firm also constructed London’s South Bank Oxo Tower that decade. The town of Fray Bentos bloomed and El Anglo was its oxygen: husbands herded cattle, brothers stirred enormous vats of meaty broth, sisters diligently labelled cans, and uncles manned the phone lines, selling wares as fast as the operator could connect them. When El Anglo whistle sounded, the whole town knew it was lunch time. This was very much a family show, and happy lucrative days for Anglo employees. Inside the Frigorífico Anglo Del Uruguay. Photo by Ian Kemp. “It was a wonderful time,” says Teresa Grasso, who worked in the labelling and tripery departments for four years until Anglo’s 1979 closure. “My dad worked on the cattle ranch while one of my uncles was an electrician. We lived in the Anglo neighbourhood and would watch games at the bowling green.

There was always a lot going on.” Her husband, Jorge Juanicotena, recalls the benefits of dating an Anglo girl. “I’d drop by in the morning and Teresa’s dad would be cooking offal for breakfast. Once, he gave me a side of beef for my birthday. It was as big as that,” he says, pointing at a rug adorning his living room floor. But the upside was followed by the down when Anglo’s 1968 Brooke Bond merger sounded the beginning of the end. “It was horrible when Anglo closed,” says Grasso. “People moved to other cities or to Argentina to find work. I really missed it.” Offices in the Frigorífico Anglo Del Uruguay factory complex, now a World Heritage Site. Photo by Ian Kemp. The intervening years showed the factory little love, with a stream of local mayors failing to find a cohesive afterlife for this white elephant. While workers may have considered a possible takeover, it never came to fruition. In addition, Uruguay, like other South American nations at the time, was subject to a 12-year military dictatorship until 1985 and resuscitating Anglo was never part of the game plan.

READ MORE: Argentina’s Best Restaurants Are Illegal While previous generations used to devour corned beef, consumption naturally dropped when El Anglo closed. Besides its physical presence occupying 263 hectares of now protected land whose crowning glory is a 43-metre-high chimney (a storm shaved off three of its original 46 metres), the trapezoidal-shaped cans served as a distant memory of more prosperous times. Until now. Photo by Ian Kemp. Besides the prestigious UNESCO status, local business chamber leader Nelson Rosas has kicked off an initiative to put Fray Bentos-produced corned beef back on the map. He has bought 1000 cans from local Brazilian-owned meatpacker Marfrig for self-branding and coerced local restaurateurs to put the wartime staple on menus. The cherry tomato, hard cheese, bell pepper, rocket and corned beef salad I try at local eatery La Juventud is most palatable. Grasso may wish for El Anglo to return to its glory days and her angler husband has high hopes for a fishing club, the truth is that corned beef and Oxo cube production really are more of a distant memory.

Question: The Frey Bentos factory of which nation was given UNESCO World Heritage status July 2015?
Answer: Uruguay