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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... Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley France Criteria Human creative genius ; Testimony to cultural tradition The Vézère Valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and twenty - five decorated caves . It is ...
... decorated Manueline architecture . During the second half of the twelfth century , the Knights Templar came to Tomar to assist in the Reconquista . Their original church , built at the end of the twelfth century by the first great ...
... decorated with deep , sharp karren ( see photo on the right ) . They formed over some 270 million years during four major geological time periods from the Permian to present , illustrating the episodic nature of the evolution of these ...