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         <title>World Heritage sites participate in Earth Hour 2013</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Once again UNESCO will partner with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for Earth Hour,&amp;nbsp;one of the world&apos;s largest and most well-known environmental campaigns in the world. UNESCO has invited World Heritage sites to participate in this initiative by switching off the lights on the night of Earth Hour: Saturday,&amp;nbsp;23 March 2013, from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time.&amp;nbsp;
The Earth Hour campaign began in 2007, and has grown each year. In 2011, 1.8 billion people participated in 5251 cities in 135  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/993</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Project Publication on Tourism Management at World Heritage Sites of Portuguese Origin and Influence</title>
         <description><![CDATA[In January 2013, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Turismo de Portugal (the Portuguese Tourism Authority) concluded their joint project on capacity-building for tourism management in World Heritage sites of Portuguese origin and influence. The project culminated in a final event at the School of Tourism in Lisbon, Portugal, where were showcased the project&amp;rsquo;s publication and case studies.
As often stated World Heritage sites frequently face challenges concerning uncontrolled  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1008</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>World Heritage Committee also approves three extensions to World Heritage properties in Austria, Romania and Spain</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia has today approved extensions to three cultural sites in Austria, Romania and Spain.
The approved extensions include (in order of inscription):
City of Graz - Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg (Austria) (extension of &quot;City of Graz - Historic Centre&quot;)
Graz is an exemplary model of the living heritage of a central European urban complex influenced by the secular presence of the Habsburgs. The site was inscribed on the World Heritage List  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/644</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>Director-General visits four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in northern Portugal</title>
         <description><![CDATA[On 21 and 22 May 2009, the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr&amp;nbsp;Ko&amp;iuml;chiro Matsuura, visited four World Heritage Sites in northern Portugal. He was accompanied throughout his trip by the President of the Portuguese National Commission to UNESCO, Ambassador Fernando Andresen Guimar&amp;atilde;es.
The Director-General&apos;s first visit was to the Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites in the C&amp;ocirc;a Valley , an exceptional concentration of rock carvings from the upper Palaeolithic period (22,000 to 10,000  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/512</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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         <title>UNESCO World Heritage Committee Adds 30 Sites to World Heritage List</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Kyoto,Japan - UNESCO&apos;s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Kyoto since November 30, has added 30 new sites and one extension to its World Heritage List of cultural and natural sites, bringing the number of listed sites of &amp;quot;exceptional universal value&amp;quot; to 582 in 114 countries. For the first time, the List includes sites located in Belgium and the Solomon Islands. Among this year&apos;s additions, the Committee added the archaeological site of Troy, in Turkey, the Summer Palace in  ...]]></description>
         <link>http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/164</link>
         <author>wh-info@unesco.org (World Heritage Centre)</author>
         <pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 1998 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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