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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... Cathedral France Criteria - Human creative genius , Interchange of values EUROPE Atlantic Ocean Amiens Cathedral , in the heart of Picardy , is one of the largest classic thirteenth - century Gothic churches . It is notable for the ...
... cathedral reflects a chequered history in its complex structure . The capitals of several columns in one area date from the time of the Visigoths ; these represent the last vestiges of the original cathedral which Seville's Arab ...
... Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the witness to an exchange of architectural influence between the Île de ... CATHEDRAL IN TOURNAI | ECHMIATSIN AND ZVARTNOTS 655 DORSET AND EAST DEVON COAST 671. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 ...