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Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (RPH) Nomination statement
(iv) Visitor/Tourism Pressures
Damage caused by high numbers of tourists is not characteristic of the excavated and exhibited sites of the
Ripa. The institutional management is able to see to the upkeep of the ruins.
Today the Ripa does not represent a significant tourist attraction by itself, but it does represent a favorable
expansion of opportunities for the existing, primarily recreational, tourist activities. The sites do not
cause a greater burden than is customary. Rising above this general state is the independent civilian town
museum of Aquincum that is a cultural attraction of international note, and which operates within an
enclosed framework with museum conditions, and serves 50,000 visitors annually. The system of visitor
traffic serving to safeguard the ruins provides sufficient protection for the preservation of the excavated
and exhibited finds.
(v) Number of Inhabitants Within the Property and the Buffer Zone – Inhabitants’ Pressure
The sites being nominated for the World Heritage – aside from the areas with development that covers the
remains – do not in general have any inhabitants. There are occasions where an individual site has 10-30
inhabitants in its buffer zone, though. Of the 121 individual sites contained within the nomination only
13 have inhabitants within the nominated property. The exposed, rehabilitated ruins can be safeguarded
from damage by the inhabitants through the general public safety measures.
Total population of the nominated sites 120,400
Total population of the nominated property 25,025
Total population of the buffer zones 95,375
The relatively high total population does not represent a serious pressure from inhabitants. Only a total
of three individual sites have a population of over 1,000 in the nominated property and buffer zone. All
three sites are intensively developed urban areas:
RPH 40. Aquincum – III camp and vicus, Budapest 2 nd and 3 rd Districts – Víziváros
population: nominated property – 12,000, buffer zone – 29,000
RPH 41. Aquincum fortress and canabae, Budapest 2 nd and 3 rd Districts – Óbuda
population: nominated property – 9,500, buffer zone – 63,000
RPH 108. Arrabona fort and vicus, Győr – Káptalandomb
population: nominated property – 2,400, buffer zone –
Population Data for the Individual Sites:
The population numbers indicated in the table below has been determined on the basis of the size of
the site and the general population density data related to the area, together with the analysis of aerial
photographs.
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