Property: The Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
Id. N°: 880
State Party: China
Criteria: C(i)(ii)(iii)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), and (iii):
Criterion (i): The Summer Palace in Beijing is an outstanding expression of the creative art of Chinese landscape garden design, incorporating the works of humankind and nature in a harmonious whole.
Criterion (ii): The Summer Palace epitomizes the philosophy and practice of Chinese garden design, which played a key role in the development of this cultural form ...
Property: The Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
Id. N°: 881
State Party: China
Criteria: C(i)(ii)(iii)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), and (iii):
Criterion (i): The Temple of Heaven is a masterpiece of architecture and landscape design which simply and graphically illustrates a cosmogony of great importance for the evolution of one of the world's great civilizations.
Criterion (ii): The symbolic layout and design of the Temple of Heaven had a profound influence on architecture and planning ...
Property: Choirokoitia
Id. N°: 848
State Party: Cyprus
Criteria: C (ii)(iii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): In the prehistoric period, Cyprus played a key role in the transmission of culture from the Near East to the European world.
Criterion (iii): Choirokhoitia is an exceptionally well preserved archaeological site that has provided, and will continue to provide, scientific data of great importance relating to the spread of civilization from Asia to the Mediterranean ...
Sites: Choirokoitia
Property: The Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz
Id. N°: 860
State Party: Czech Republic
Criteria: C (ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The ensemble at Kromeríz, and in particular the Pleasure Garden, played a significant role in the development of Baroque garden and palace design in central Europe.
Criterion (iv): The Gardens and Castle at Kromeríz are an exceptionally complete and well preserved example of a princely residence and its associated landscape of the 17th ...
Property: Holašovice Historical Village Reservation
Id. N°: 861
State Party: Czech Republic
Criteria: C(ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): Holašovice is of special significance in that it represents the fusion of two vernacular building traditions to create an exceptional and enduring style, known as South Bohemian Folk Baroque.
Criterion (iv): The exceptional completeness and excellent preservation of Holašovice and its buildings make it an outstanding example of ...
Sites: Holašovice Historic Village
Property: The Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
Id. N°: 868
State Party: France
Criteria: C(ii)(iv)(vi)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iv), and (vi):
Criterion (ii): The Pilgrimage Route of Santiago de Compostela played a key role in religious and cultural exchange and development during the later Middle Ages, and this is admirably illustrated by the carefully selected monuments on the routes followed by pilgrims in France.
Criterion (iv): The spiritual and physical needs of pilgrims travelling to Santiago ...
Property: The Historic Site of Lyon
Id. N°: 872
State Party: France
Criteria: C (ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): Lyon bears exceptional testimony to the continuity of urban settlement over more than two millennia on a site of great commercial and strategic significance, where cultural traditions from many parts of Europe have come together to create a coherent and vigorous continuing community.
Criterion (iv): By virtue of the special way in which it has developed spatially, Lyon ...
Sites: Historic Site of Lyon
Property: Classical Weimar
Id. N°: 846
State Party: Germany
Criteria: C(iii)(vi)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (vi):
Criterion (iii): The high artistic quality of the public and private buildings and parks in and around the town testify to the remarkable cultural flowering of the Weimar Classical Period.
Criterion (vi): Enlightened ducal patronage attracted many of the leading writers and thinkers in Germany, such as Goethe, Schiller, and Herder to Weimar in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, making it ...
Sites: Classical Weimar
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Inscription: The Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia (Italy)
Property: The Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
Id. N°: 825
State Party: Italy
Criteria: C (iii)(iv)(vi)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii), (iv), and (vi):
Criterion (iii): Aquileia was one of the largest and most wealthy cities of the Early Roman Empire.
Criterion (iv): By virtue of the fact that most of ancient Aquileia survives intact and unexcavated, it is the most complete example of an Early Roman city in the Mediterranean world.
Criterion (vi): The Patriarchal Basilican Complex in ...
Property: The Historic Centre of Urbino
Id. N°: 828
State Party: Italy
Criteria: C(ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): During its short cultural pre-eminence, Urbino attracted some of the most outstanding humanist scholars and artists of the Renaissance, who created there an exceptional urban complex of remarkable homogeneity, the influence of which carried far into the rest of Europe.
Criterion (iv): Urbino represents a pinnacle of Renaissance art and architecture, harmoniously adapted ...
Sites: Historic Centre of Urbino
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Inscription: The Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archealogical sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula (Italy)
Property: The Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archealogical sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula
Id. N°: 842
State Party: Italy
Criteria: C(iii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed this site as a cultural landscape on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii): During the prehistoric period, and again in the Middle Ages, the Cilento region served as a key route for cultural, political, and commercial communications in an exceptional manner, utilizing the crests of the mountain chains running east-west and thereby ...
Property: Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
Id. N°: 870
State Party: Japan
Criteria: C(ii)(iii)(iv)(vi)
The Committee inscribed the property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv) and added criterion (vi):
Criterion (ii): The historic monuments of ancient Nara bear exceptional witness to the evolution of Japanese architecture and art as a result of cultural links with China and Korea which were to have a profound influence on future developments.
Criterion (iii): The flowering of Japanese culture during the period when Nara was the capital ...
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Inscription: Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (Lebanon)
Property: Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)
Id. N°: 850
State Party: Lebanon
Criteria: C(iii)(iv)
Following clarification of the buffer zone by the State Party, the Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii): The Qadisha Valley has been the site of monastic communities continuously since the earliest years of Christianity. The trees in the Cedar Forest are survivors of a sacred forest and of one of the most highly prized building materials of the ancient ...
Property: The Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
Id. N°: 560rev
State Party: Mexico
Criteria: C (iii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii): Paquimé Casas Grandes bears eloquent and abundant testimony to an important element in the cultural evolution of North America, and in particular to prehispanic commercial and cultural links.
Criterion (iv): The extensive remains of the archaeological site of Paquimé Casas Grandes provide exceptional evidence of the development of adobe ...
Property: The Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
Id. N°: 862
State Party: Mexico
Criteria: C(ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed this site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The urban layout and architecture of Tlacotalpan represent a fusion of Spanish and Caribbean traditions of exceptional importance and quality.
Criterion (iv): Tlacotalpan is a Spanish colonial river port on the Gulf coast of Mexico that has preserved its original urban fabric to an exceptional degree. Its outstanding character lies in its townscape of wide ...
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Inscription: Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station) (The Netherlands)
Property: Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
Id. N°: 867
State Party: The Netherlands
Criteria: C (i)(ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), and (iv):
Criterion (i): The advent of steam as a source of energy provided the Dutch engineers with a powerful tool in their millennial task of water management, and the Wouda installation is the largest of its type ever built.
Criterion (ii): The Wouda Pumping Station represents the apogee of Dutch hydraulic engineering, which has provided the models ...
Property: Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley
Id. N°: 866
State Party: Portugal
Criteria: C (i)(iii)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iii):
Criterion (i): The Upper Palaeolithic rock-art of the Côa valley is an outstanding example of the sudden flowering of creative genius at the dawn of human cultural development.
Criterion (iii): The Côa Valley rock art throws light on the social, economic, and spiritual life on the life of the early ancestor of humankind in a wholly exceptional ...
Property: Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Id. N°: 874
State Party: Spain
Criteria: C (iii)
The Committee inscribed this property on the basis of criterion (iii).
Criterion (iii): The corpus of late prehistoric mural paintings in the Mediterranean basin of eastern Spain is the largest group of rock-art sites anywhere in Europe and provides an exceptional picture of human life in a seminal period of human cultural ...
Property: The University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
Id. N°: 876
State Party: Spain
Criteria: C (ii)(iv)(vi)
The Committee inscribed this property on the basis of criteria (ii), (iv) and (vi):
Criterion (ii): Alcalá de Henares was the first city to be designed and built solely as the seat of a university, and was to serve as the model for other centres of learning in Europe and the Americas.
Criterion (iv): The concept of the ideal city, the City of God (Civitas Dei), was first given material expression in Alcalá de Henares, from where it ...
Property: The Naval Port of Karlskrona
Id. N°: 871
State Party: Sweden
Criteria: C (ii)(iv)
The Committee inscribed the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): Karlskrona is an exceptionally well preserved example of a European planned naval town, which incorporates elements derived from earlier establishments in other countries and which was in its turn to serve as the model for subsequent towns with similar functions.
Criterion (iv): Naval bases played an important role in the centuries during which naval power was a ...
Sites: Naval Port of Karlskrona