The World's Heritage: A Complete Guide to the Most Extraordinary PlacesA guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage sites, this publication is illustrated with over 650 full-color photographs. Location maps for every site are also included.--Publisher's description. |
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... buildings , Itsukushima - jinja lost many of them after the rejection of Buddhism with the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ... buildings here were probably erected in the sixth century . The present shrine dates from the twelfth century . The ...
... buildings , Itsukushima - jinja lost many of them after the rejection of Buddhism with the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ... buildings here were probably erected in the sixth century . The present shrine dates from the twelfth century . The ...
Page 544
... buildings , notable for their interior decorations and fittings and for their impressive façades . The boulevards are lined with many important public buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; they include the ...
... buildings , notable for their interior decorations and fittings and for their impressive façades . The boulevards are lined with many important public buildings from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; they include the ...
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... buildings in a style known as South Bohemian Folk Baroque , and preserves a ground plan dating from the Middle Ages . The village consists at the present time of 120 buildings North Sea EUROPE Black Sea arranged round an elongated ...
... buildings in a style known as South Bohemian Folk Baroque , and preserves a ground plan dating from the Middle Ages . The village consists at the present time of 120 buildings North Sea EUROPE Black Sea arranged round an elongated ...
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Adriatic Sea ancient archaeological architecture associated with events Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean AFRICA Baltic Sea Baroque biological processes Black Sea buildings built Caribbean Sea castle cathedral caves Church complex Criteria Interchange Criteria Significance Cultural Landscape cultural tradition decorated Earth's history ecological and biological ensemble EUROPE Mediterranean Sea events of universal forest fortified habitat for biodiversity Heritage associated Historic Centre houses Human creative genius human history important Indian Ocean Interchange of values island km² Major stages medieval Mediterranean Sea Mediterranean Sea AFRICA Monastery monuments Mosque mountain National Park Natural phenomena North Sea Ocean NORTH AMERICA outstanding example Pacific Ocean Palace phenomena or beauty preserved region river Roman Sea ASIA Significance in human Significant ecological Significant natural habitat sixteenth century SOUTH AMERICA species stages of Earth's stone temples Testimony to cultural tombs towers Traditional human settlement universal significance urban valley walls World Heritage World Heritage site