World Heritage: Archaeological Sites and Urban CentresFirst volume of three that Skira and UNESCO are launching to illustrate and describe world heritage places. This volume, devoted specifically to archaeological areas and urban centres, focuses on forty-six emblematic instances of diverse geographic, cultural, and historic sites, distant in time and space, but presented together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection. With this instrument for learning and understanding, and through a particularly rich array of images, places of all sorts, distant in time and space, can be found together in a single, clear, and fascinating collection devoted to the complex paths of human history and culture: a true heritage of every nation and every individual. |
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Archaeological Sites and Urban Centres Unesco. Opposite page The view of the Old City from the sea shows the enclosure walls still intact . They were built from the eighth century and renovated on several occasions up to the seventeenth ...
Archaeological Sites and Urban Centres Unesco. Opposite page The view of the Old City from the sea shows the enclosure walls still intact . They were built from the eighth century and renovated on several occasions up to the seventeenth ...
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... Old City of Havana is the free - form association of typological models of all sorts , from the Arab horseshoe arch to Indian columns , while the array of colours selected for the plasters follows the whims of the population . הרד ...
... Old City of Havana is the free - form association of typological models of all sorts , from the Arab horseshoe arch to Indian columns , while the array of colours selected for the plasters follows the whims of the population . הרד ...
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... Old City of Berne Founded in the twelfth century on a hill site sur- rounded by the Aar River , Berne became the Swiss capital in 1848. The buildings in the Old City , from a variety of periods , include sixteenth - century ar- cades ...
... Old City of Berne Founded in the twelfth century on a hill site sur- rounded by the Aar River , Berne became the Swiss capital in 1848. The buildings in the Old City , from a variety of periods , include sixteenth - century ar- cades ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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adorned Aerial view ancient Angkor archaeological arches architect architecture artistic Baalbek Baroque basilica buildings built Bukhara Campo dei Miracoli capital carved cathedral century B.C. Church city's columns complex construction Convention Copán courtyard cultural and natural Cuzco date back decorated dedicated depicting developed dome dynasty Emperor Empire enclosure walls façade Fatimid fifteenth fortified Forum founded frescoes Galla Placidia Gothic Greek Heian period Historic Centre houses Imperial Forums important Inca interior Islamic kilometres King layout Leptis Magna masterpieces medieval metres monasteries monumental Mosque Museum Nabataean natural heritage Old City Omayyad outstanding paintings Palace Palazzo period plaza portico preserved protection Pyramid religious Renaissance River Roman Romanesque Rome ruins sacred Saint San'a sculpture Septimius Severus settlement side sixteenth century sixth century square statues stone structure style Suzdal Temple tenth century tion tombs towers town tradition Trajan tury twelfth century urban Vatican World Heritage World Heritage Site