World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage SitesUpdated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009. Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:
The new sites added to this edition are:
Featuring gorgeous photographs and updated maps, World Heritage Sites is uniquely comprehensive. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication. |
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... Gothic portal and inner yard is to the left . To the right , in Papaliceva Street , is the Papalic Palace ( fifteenth century ) , the most important example of Gothic architecture in Split . Kresimir Street leads from the peristyle to ...
... Gothic castle of Buda , which have had a considerable influence on the architecture . Within the unified perspective of an immense urban panorama , the Danube is the dividing line between what were originally two cities : Buda on the ...
... Gothic style , had a major influence in the spread of Gothic architecture over much of northern and central Europe . Its original wooden beams were replaced by Gothic vaulting in 1424 , incorporating Romanesque traditions into the ...