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Year Name of the property Country Type Region Property (ha) ID
1978 City of Quito EC C LAC 70 2
1978 Historic Centre of Kraków PL C EUR 150 29
1979 Ancient City of Damascus SY C ARB 86 20
1979 Historic Cairo EG C ARB 524 89
1979 Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian HR C EUR 21 97
1979 Medina of Tunis TN C ARB 296 36
1979 Meidan Emam, Esfahan IR C APA 0 115
1979 Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor ME C EUR 14,600 125
1980 Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 1 VA C EUR 1,470 91
1980 Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 2 IT C EUR 1,470 91
1980 Historic Centre of Warsaw PL C EUR 26 30
1982 Historic Centre of Florence IT C EUR 532 174
1982 Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda BR C LAC 191 189
1982 Old Havana and its Fortification System CU C LAC 239 204
1984 Historic Centre of Cordoba 3 ES C EUR 80 313
1984 Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena CO C LAC 0 285
1985 Historic Areas of Istanbul TR C EUR 766 356
1985 Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia BR C LAC 200 309
1985 Historic District of Old Québec CA C EUR 135 300
1985 Medina of Marrakesh MA C ARB 1,107 331
1985 Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct ES C EUR 134 311
1985 Santiago de Compostela (Old Town) ES C EUR 108 347
1986 Ancient City of Aleppo SY C ARB 364 21
1986 Historic Centre of Évora PT C EUR 0 361
1987 Hanseatic City of Lübeck DE C EUR 81 272
1987 Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco MX C LAC 3,011 412
1987 Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán MX C LAC 4,375 415
1987 Historic Centre of Puebla MX C LAC 690 416
1987 Venice and its Lagoon IT C EUR 70,176 394
1988 Historic Centre of Lima 4 PE C LAC 278 500
1988 Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines MX C LAC 2,168 482
1988 Medina of Sousse TN C ARB 32 498
1988 Old City of Salamanca ES C EUR 51 381
1988 Old Towns of Djenné ML C AFR 0 116
1988 Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt FR C EUR 183 495
1988 Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios CU C LAC 0 460
1990 Colonial City of Santo Domingo DO C LAC 106 526
1990 Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments RU C EUR 3,934 540
1990 Historic Centre of San Gimignano IT C EUR 14 550
1990 Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow RU C EUR 42 545
1990 Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra UA C EUR 29 527
1991 Historic Centre of Morelia MX C LAC 390 585
1991 Historic City of Sucre BO C LAC 0 566
1991 Paris, Banks of the Seine FR C EUR 365 600
1992 Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands RU C EUR 28,834 632
1992 Historic Centre of Český Krumlov CZ C EUR 52 617
1992 Historic Centre of Prague CZ C EUR 1,106 616
1992 Historic Centre of Telč CZ C EUR 36 621
1992 Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System # DE C EUR 1,010 623
1993 Historic Centre of Bukhara UZ C APA 216 602
1993 Historic Centre of Zacatecas MX C LAC 208 676
1993 Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity SK C EUR 20,632 618
1993 Historic Town of Zabid YE C ARB 0 611
1993 The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera IT C EUR 1,016 670
1994 City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto IT C EUR 334 712
1994 Vilnius Historic Centre LT C EUR 352 541
1995 Crespi d'Adda IT C EUR 0 730
1995 Cultural Landscape of Sintra PT C EUR 946 723
1995 Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge FR C EUR 8 228
1995 Historic Centre of Naples IT C EUR 1,021 726
1995 Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox CO C LAC 54 742
1995 Historic Centre of Siena IT C EUR 170 717
1995 Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento UY C LAC 19 747
1995 Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec CZ C EUR 62 732
1996 Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar PT C EUR 0 755
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Pienza IT C EUR 4 789
1996 Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg AT C EUR 236 784
1996 Historic City of Meknes MA C ARB 0 793
1996 Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro MX C LAC 258 792
1996 La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia ES C EUR 0 782
1997 Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá PA C LAC 57 790
1997 Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč HR C EUR 1 809
1997 Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn EE C EUR 113 822
1997 Historic Centre of Riga LV C EUR 438 852
1997 Historic Centre of São Luís BR C LAC 67 821
1997 Historic City of Trogir HR C EUR 6 810
1997 Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne FR C EUR 11 345
1997 Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) IT C EUR 4,689 826
1998 Flemish Béguinages BE C EUR 60 855
1998 Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž CZ C EUR 75 860
1998 Historic Centre of Urbino IT C EUR 29 828
1998 Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan MX C LAC 75 862
1998 L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre UA C EUR 120 865
1998 University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares ES C EUR 78 876
1999 City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg AT C EUR 0 931
1999 Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca EC C LAC 224 863
1999 Historic Centre of Sighişoara RO C EUR 33 902
1999 Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina BR C LAC 29 890
1999 Historic City of Vigan PH C APA 17 502
1999 Historic Fortified Town of Campeche MX C LAC 181 895
1999 Litomyšl Castle CZ C EUR 4 901
1999 The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos GR C EUR 0 942
2000 Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites IT C EUR 14,563 990
2000 Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve SK C EUR 24 973
2000 City of Verona IT C EUR 444 797
2000 Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae) HU C EUR 4 853
2000 Historic Centre of Brugge BE C EUR 410 996
2000 Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz UZ C APA 240 885
2000 Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa PE C LAC 167 1016
2000 Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc CZ C EUR 0 859
2001 Aranjuez Cultural Landscape ES C EUR 2,048 1044
2001 Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape * AT C EUR 68,369 772
2001 Fertö / Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape * HU C EUR 68,369 772
2001 Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone PT C EUR 38 1031
2001 Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás BR C LAC 40 993
2001 Historic Centre of Vienna AT C EUR 371 1033
2002 Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar DE C EUR 168 1067
2002 Historic Inner City of Paramaribo SR C LAC 30 940
2002 Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily) IT C EUR 113 1024
2003 Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza ES C EUR 9 522
2003 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew GB C EUR 132 1084
2004 Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City Delisted 2021 GB C EUR 136 1150
2005 Historic Centre of Macao CN C APA 16 1110
2005 Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra AL C EUR 59 569
2005 Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl RU C EUR 110 1170
2005 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica IT C EUR 898 1200
2005 Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos CU C LAC 70 1202
2006 Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli IT C EUR 16 1211
2006 Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof DE C EUR 183 1155
2007 Bordeaux, Port of the Moon FR C EUR 1,731 1256
2007 Old Town of Corfu GR C EUR 70 978
2008 Historic Centre of Camagüey CU C LAC 54 1270
2008 Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca MY C APA 155 1223
2008 Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco MX C LAC 47 1274
2008 San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano SM C EUR 55 1245
2009 Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande CV C AFR 209 1310
2010 At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah SA C ARB 29 1329
2010 Camino Real de Tierra Adentro MX C LAC 3,102 1351
2010 São Francisco Square in the Town of São Cristóvão BR C LAC 3 1272
2011 Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana ES C EUR 30,745 1371
2011 León Cathedral NI C LAC 1 1236
2012 Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications PT C EUR 179 1367
2012 Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan IR C APA 2 1397
2013 Historic Centre of Agadez NE C AFR 78 1268
2014 Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire TR C EUR 27 1452
2015 Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System MX C LAC 6,540 1463
2015 The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy FR C EUR 13,219 1425
2017 Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo AO C AFR 89 1511
2018 Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape SA C ARB 8,544 1563
2019 Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace AZ C EUR 121 1549
2019 Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity BR M LAC 173,164 1308
2021 As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality JO C ARB 25 689
2023 Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker NL C EUR 0 1683
2023 Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt DE C EUR 0 1656
2023 Old town of Kuldīga LV C EUR 84 1658
2023 Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli LB C ARB 72 1702
2023 The Historic Centre of Odesa UA C EUR 619 1703
2023 Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops CZ C EUR 592 1558
Notes

  1. At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

  2. At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

  3. Extension of the "Mosque of Cordoba".

  4. The "Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Historic Centre of Lima".

*: transboundary property

#: As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

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Cultural Natural Mixed

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