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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... Sanctuary Senegal Criteria - Natural phenomena or beauty ; Significant natural habitat for biodiversity Situated in the Senegal River delta , the Djoudj Sanctuary is a wetland of 160 km2 , comprising a large lake surrounded by streams ...
... sanctuary of Delphi , standing in a magnificent natural setting on Mount Parnassus , was the site of the Delphic Oracle through which the god Apollo spoke . Blending harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred meaning ...
... sanctuaries in the Hellenic and Roman world . The emergence of modern medicine in a sanctuary originally based on the miraculous healing of supposedly incurable patients is strikingly described in the engraved inscriptions on the ...