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         <title>Heritage Heals in Hiraizumi</title>
         <description><![CDATA[It is rare for a Director-General to present a certificate of World Heritage in person, but the temples, gardens and archaeological site of Hiraizumi, inscribed on the List in 2011, marked an exception.

Located in north-east Japan, the 12th-century site, representing the Buddhist Pure Land gained its world heritage status three months after the earthquake and tsunami devastated the surrounding region.
&amp;ldquo;I am here to show solidarity with the people of Japan, especially here, where  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/837</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Barbados enters World Heritage List with Bridgetown and its Garrison; Hiraizumi (Japan) and Germany&apos;s Beech Forests also inscribed</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee has inscribed three new sites on UNESCO&amp;rsquo;s World Heritage List so far today: the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany as an extension to the World Heritage site of Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians (Slovakia, Ukraine), Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, the first heritage site of Barbados to enter the World Heritage List; and Hiraizumi &amp;ndash; Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land (Japan).
The Ancient Beech  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/770</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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