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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... capital of al - Fustat ; this was the first capital in Egypt under Arab rule . Over the following centuries of factional battles for supremacy the capital was moved , first in 870 to al Qatai to the north east , where the Great Mosque ...
... capital . It has the remains of monuments from various periods , such as the Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic castle of Buda , which have had a considerable influence on the architecture . Within the unified perspective of an ...
... capital of unified Viet Nam in 1802 , Hué was not only the political but also the cultural and religious centre under the Nguyen dynasty until 1945. The integrity of the town layout and building design make it an exceptional specimen of ...