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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... river has been cutting through the basalt , exploiting fissures and forming a series of retreating gorges . Seven previous waterfalls occupied the seven gorges below the present falls , and Devil's Cataract in Zimbabwe is the starting ...
... river has been cutting through the basalt , exploiting fissures and forming a series of retreating gorges . Seven previous waterfalls occupied the seven gorges below the present falls , and Devil's Cataract in Zimbabwe is the starting ...
Page 360
... river Seine . The Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces while Baron Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced late - nineteenth- and twentieth- century town planning the world over ...
... river Seine . The Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces while Baron Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced late - nineteenth- and twentieth- century town planning the world over ...
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... river valley . The terracing of its steep slopes in particular has shaped the landscape . However , this form of ... river breaks through the Rhenish Slate Mountains , connecting the broad floodplain of the Oberrheingraben with the ...
... river valley . The terracing of its steep slopes in particular has shaped the landscape . However , this form of ... river breaks through the Rhenish Slate Mountains , connecting the broad floodplain of the Oberrheingraben with the ...
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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 kmĀ² 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