History has been created today as the old capital Levuka is now listed as a World Heritage site.
The message was relayed to the Minister for Education and National Heritage Filipe Bole after the World Heritage Committee meeting in Cambodia.
Bole said this will see developments for Levuka and will also attract tourists.
He said the application was made to UNESCO in 2011 to make Levuka as a heritage site for Fiji.
Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said the listing was bound to generate more international interest for the town.
The Committee described Levuka - with “its low line of buildings set among coconut and mango trees along the beach front” - as a “rare” and “outstanding example of late 19th century Pacific port settlements”.
It said the combination of “development by the indigenous community” and “integration of local building traditions by a supreme naval power” - Britain - had led to ‘the emergence of a unique landscape’.
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