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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Cities of Caral-Supe (Peru) and Levoča (Slovakia) added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The Sacred City of Caral-Supe (Peru), the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas, was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and ...

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Georgia’s Historical Monuments of Mtskheta inscribed on Danger List
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, inscribed the Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (Georgia) on the List of World Heritage in Danger because of ...

Sunday, June 28, 2009
13 new sites have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List which lost one site while three were placed on the Danger List
The World Heritage Committee holding its 33rd session chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on UNESCO’s World ...

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Tower of Hercules (Spain) inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List alongside two Swiss watch-making towns
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed a Spanish lighthouse dating back to antiquity, The Tower of Hercules in La Coruña, ...

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System and Colombia’s Los Katios National Park enter UNESCO’s Danger List
The World Heritage Committee meeting in Seville, under the chair of María Jesús San Segundo, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has decided to inscribe Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System and Colombia's Los Katios ...

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Stoclet House (Belgium) inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed the Stoclet House, a private residence in the Belgian capital Brussels, on the World Heritage ...

Saturday, June 27, 2009
British Aqueduct and Canal inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, French Saltworks extended
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (United Kingdom) on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
China’s sacred Buddhist Mount Wutai inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed China's Mount Wutai on UNESCO's World Heritage List as a cultural landscape. With its five ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Maps of World Heritage sites in Democratic Republic of the Congo presented by Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
On 13 March 2009 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the latest maps of World Heritage sites produced by the Belgian universities of Louvain (UCL) and Gand (UGent), with the financial support of the Belgian Federal Science ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Wadden Sea, Italy’s Dolomites and Philippines’s Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, has inscribed the Wadden Sea on the World Heritage List as a transboundary property for Germany and the ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Jaeger-LeCoultre and the International Herald Tribune continue to support the World Heritage Marine Programme
The Tides of Time programme, initiated in 2008 through a partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre and the International Herald Tribune, has entered its second year. The year began with coverage of sites such as Sian Kaan in Mexico and the Everglades ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Cidade Velha becomes Cape Verde's first World Heritage site
Cidade Velha has been inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, marking Cape Verde's entry to the international community's inventory of properties of outstanding universal value. The World Heritage Committee, chaired by María ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Ruins of Loropéni (Burkina Faso) inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List
Burkina Faso joined the rank of countries that have World Heritage properties on their territory with the inscription of the Ruins of Loropéni on UNESCO’s List on Friday. The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the ...

Friday, June 26, 2009
Sacred mountain in Kyrgyzstan enters List along with Iran’s Shushtar water system and Royal tombs in Republic of Korea
Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain of Kyrgyzstan has become the country’s first site to be inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, Bridges, dams, canals, buildings and watermills from ancient time ...

Thursday, June 25, 2009
10th Weimar Summer Courses, “Milestones of Democracy – European Memories 2009”
The Weimar Jena Akademie in partnership with the Bauhaus Universität Weimar and co-financed by the European Union, is organizing its 10th edition of the Weimar Summer Courses. The Weimar Summer Courses will offer around 80 participants ...

Thursday, June 25, 2009
World Heritage Committee removes Baku from Danger List welcoming improvements in the ancient city´s preservation
The World Heritage Committee has welcomed the success of the authorities of Azerbaijan in preserving the Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshahs' Palace and Maiden Tower (Azerbaijan), and decided to remove the property from UNESCO's List of ...

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Dresden is deleted from UNESCO’s World Heritage List
"Every time we fail to preserve a site, we share the pain of the State Party," declared María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO who is chairing the 33rd session of the World Heritage ...

Monday, June 22, 2009
Twenty-seven new sites up for inscription on UNESCO World Heritage List as Committee opens session in Seville
The 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee, chaired by María Jesús San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Spain to UNESCO, opened today in Seville, Spain. During the session, which ends on June 30, the ...

Friday, June 19, 2009
José Maria Abecasis Soares & José Tavares begin their journey to five World Heritage glaciers
José Maria and José, founders of the ICE CARE project, left UNESCO Headquaters in Paris this morning following a meeting with Mr Kishore Rao, Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre, to begin their 4 year project at five of ...

Thursday, June 18, 2009
First Ibero-American World Heritage Youth Forum
Spain, host of the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee, is organizing the first Ibero-American World Heritage Youth Forum. Participants will be young people between 12 and 15 years old who attend in their country of origin a secondary ...