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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... stone monolithic sculptures were artfully carved without the benefit of metal tools ; stone chisels , driven by other stones or wooden mallets , were the only tools available . They include the largest known quarried stone in the Maya ...
... stone statues ; the Fuente de Lavapatas , a religious monument carved in the stone bed of a stream ; and the Bosque de Las Estatuas , where there are examples of stone statues from the whole region . * 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 ...
... stone forest in Yunnan province . Four types of karst Pacific The South China Karst region extends over a surface of 500,000 km2 lying mainly in Yunnan , Guizhou and Guangxi provinces . The region displays a series of karst landforms in ...