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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... religious building , that helped defend Sousse against Byzantine fleets . In 821 its fortifications were completed ... religious function . the Defenders of the Faith , the Mourabitin , and the austere architecture reflects its dual ...
... religious buildings in Europe , were built in former Silesia in the mid - seventeenth century , at a time of religious strife following the Peace of Westphalia . They are monuments not just to the skill of their designers , but also to ...
... religious and political upheaval in the Habsburg Empire . The landscape reflects continuing Pacific chiefly systems and respect for this authority through tapu ( tabu ) prohibitions on the use of Roi Mata's residence and burial that ...