The World's Heritage: A Complete Guide to the Most Extraordinary PlacesA unique guide to every UNESCO World Heritage site. The global list has proved a valuable tool in the battle to preserve the world's heritage. Managed by the World Heritage Committee with strict criteria, only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the List. Major sites Details of all 878 UNESCO sites including - the remarkable Dazu Rock Carving of China; the last substantial expanse of monsoon forest in Thailand, the Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex; Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania which contains the highest mountain in Africa one of the largest volcanoes in the world; one of the greatest Mayan temples Tikal in Guatemala; the legendary Acropolis in Athens; the ancient Nabataean city of Petra in Jordan; the unique ecosystem of the Serengeti, Tanzania. The World Heritage List includes properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage. Since then 878 sites have been inscribed onto the List, 679 of which are cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 countries. |
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... built there was the most important sanctuary dedicated to this primary god of Creative Force , and its ruins are all that survive today of the grandeur of Memphis , as it was known to the ancient Greeks . Nearby Saqqara was the ...
... built there was the most important sanctuary dedicated to this primary god of Creative Force , and its ruins are all that survive today of the grandeur of Memphis , as it was known to the ancient Greeks . Nearby Saqqara was the ...
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... built by the Athenians after 478 BC to house the trophies taken in their naval victories over the Persians . Theatre : Originally built in the fourth century BC , its visible ruins actually date from the Roman imperial period . The ...
... built by the Athenians after 478 BC to house the trophies taken in their naval victories over the Persians . Theatre : Originally built in the fourth century BC , its visible ruins actually date from the Roman imperial period . The ...
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... built for Viennese society between Gloggnitz and the small market town of Schottwien in picturesque locations . It became one of the first artificially laid out Alpine resorts in the decades following the opening of the railway line ...
... built for Viennese society between Gloggnitz and the small market town of Schottwien in picturesque locations . It became one of the first artificially laid out Alpine resorts in the decades following the opening of the railway line ...
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
World Heritage sites mapped by continent | 8 |
World Heritage sites descriptions locations and photographs | 25 |
Copyright | |
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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 Caspian Sea castle cathedral caves Church complex Criteria Human creative Criteria Interchange 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 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