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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... temples : the Brihadisvara Temple at Thanjavur ( Tanjore ) , the Brihadisvara Temple at Gangaikondacholisvaram and the Airavatesvara Temple at Darasuram . The Temple of Gangaikondacholisvaram , built by Rajendra I , was completed in ...
... temple complex in Java , built in the ninth century and designed as three concentric squares . In all there are 224 temples in the entire complex . The inner square contains sixteen temples , the most significant being the imposing 47 ...
... Temple of Angkor Wat ( see photo on the right ) and the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations at Angkor Thom . In total , there are over a hundred temples throughout the site . In the early ninth century , Jayavarman II ...