Essay: Is it a good thing that countries spend a lot of money on their heritage? Thousands of millions of dollars were spend every year from different nations to persevere their national heritage. Therefore somebody should ask, if that makes sense or if the money could be used in a better way. In the first place, a very strong argument of investing these sums in preserving national hermitage is that, once it disrepaired, we won’t ever be able to reconstruct it again. It also attracts a lot of tourists, which improves the national economical situation, which consequently allows the countrys to gain more tax-income and therefore paying for her hermitage. Nevertheless there a many better ways to spend all this money, for example by offering some of the underprivileged citizen a better education or by raising spending for researches. To conclude, I personally agree whit George Bernard Shaw in “tradition is like a candle, the stupid hold tight on it, while at the intelligent one she is illuminating the way”. Of course we should preserve our hermitage, but we shouldn’t overdo it and provide more money for investments we really need.