Cultural heritage

Reducing negative impacts by developing adequate planning tools and follow up a national plan for the protection of roads, highways, bridges and cultural relics associated with roads and highways - for the years from 1537 until today.

The NPRA has in cooperation with The Directorate of Cultural Heritage produced a protection plan for all road related items of cultural importance from a national point of view.

The items on the protection list includes about 350 ancient roads, highways, bridges and other relics associated with roads, and 26 buildings and 104 items of machinery. The items on the list are distributed throughout the whole country. The period in question covers the years from about 1537 until today.

The principal purpose of the plan is to procure and provide information, and to safeguard – also for future generations – information about ancient highways and the environment regarding these. At the same time, the work will also add to the NPRA’s competence with regard to ancient monuments. The intention is to protect all governmentally owned items by law.