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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... kilometres ( about 8 square miles ) , still evident today thanks to the ruins of the foundations of the buildings , and a population of 125,000 inhabitants . The col- lapse of the system of government and the invasion by warrior peoples ...
... kilometres ( about 8 square miles ) , still evident today thanks to the ruins of the foundations of the buildings , and a population of 125,000 inhabitants . The col- lapse of the system of government and the invasion by warrior peoples ...
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... kilometres ( 17 miles ) south of the city , with its network of canals and artificial islands , is an ex- ceptional testimony of the efforts of the Aztec people to build a habitat amid an unfavourable environment . Historic Centre of ...
... kilometres ( 17 miles ) south of the city , with its network of canals and artificial islands , is an ex- ceptional testimony of the efforts of the Aztec people to build a habitat amid an unfavourable environment . Historic Centre of ...
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... kilometres ( 84 miles ) around the city of Amsterdam , this defence line , built between 1883 and 1920 , is the only example of a fortification based on the control of water . Since the sixteenth century , the people of the Netherlands ...
... kilometres ( 84 miles ) around the city of Amsterdam , this defence line , built between 1883 and 1920 , is the only example of a fortification based on the control of water . Since the sixteenth century , the people of the Netherlands ...
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Contents Vatican City 90 | 2 |
Germany | 26 |
Bamberg Cracow | 32 |
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