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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... decorated with bas- reliefs , carved friezes , statues in niches and columns . Their purpose was not purely decorative because the projections and cavities in the wall would have helped to eliminate the problem of echoes . The Triumphal ...
... decorated with bas- reliefs , carved friezes , statues in niches and columns . Their purpose was not purely decorative because the projections and cavities in the wall would have helped to eliminate the problem of echoes . The Triumphal ...
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... decorated internally between 1740 and 1770. The most renowned architects of the North Sea Baltic Sea EUROPE time - the Viennese Lukas von de Hildebrandt and the Parisians Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand- drew up plans that were ...
... decorated internally between 1740 and 1770. The most renowned architects of the North Sea Baltic Sea EUROPE time - the Viennese Lukas von de Hildebrandt and the Parisians Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand- drew up plans that were ...
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... decorated in reliefs sculpted in the stone . They illustrate the different phases of the soul's progression towards redemption and episodes from the life of Buddha . The circular terraces are decorated with seventy - two openwork stupas ...
... decorated in reliefs sculpted in the stone . They illustrate the different phases of the soul's progression towards redemption and episodes from the life of Buddha . The circular terraces are decorated with seventy - two openwork stupas ...
Contents
Foreword | 6 |
World Heritage sites mapped by continent | 8 |
World Heritage sites descriptions locations and photographs | 25 |
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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