Property: The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
Id. N°: 963
State Party: Croatia
Criteria: C (i) (ii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property be on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (i): The structural characteristics of the Cathedral of St James in Šibenik make it a unique and outstanding building in which Gothic and Renaissance forms have been successfully blended.
Criterion (ii): The Cathedral of St James is the fruitful outcome of considerable interchanges of influences between the three culturally ...
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Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba (Cuba)
Property: Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the Southeast of Cuba
Id. N°: 1008
State Party: Cuba
Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii) The remains of the 19th and early 20th century coffee plantations in eastern Cuba are unique and eloquent testimony to a form of agricultural exploitation of virgin forest, the traces of which have disappeared elsewhere in the world.
Criterion (iv) The production of coffee in eastern Cuba during the 19th and ...
Property: The Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
Id. N°: 859 Rev
State Party: Czech Republic
Criteria: C (i) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iv):
Criterion (i): The Olomouc Holy Trinity Column is one of the most exceptional examples of the apogee of central European Baroque artistic expression.
Criterion (iv): The Holy Trinity Column constituted a unique material demonstration of religious faith in central Europe during the Baroque period, and the Olomouc example represents its most outstanding ...
Property: Kronborg Castle
Id. N°: 696 Rev
State Party: Denmark
Criteria: C (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv):
Criterion (iv): Kronborg Castle is an outstanding example of the Renaissance castle, and one that played a highly significant role in the history of this region of northern Europe.
Sites: Kronborg Castle
Property: The Loire Valley between Sully-sur- Loire and Chalonnes
Id. N°: 933
State Party: France
Criteria: C (i) (ii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape along a major river which bears witness to an interchange of human values and to a harmonious development of interactions between human beings and their environment over two millennia.
Criterion (iv): The landscape of the Loire Valley, and more particularly its many cultural ...
Property: The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Id. N°: 534 Rev
State Party: Germany
Criteria: C (ii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an outstanding example of the application of the philosophical principles of the Age of the Enlightenment to the design of a landscape that integrates art, education, and economy in a harmonious whole.
Criterion (iv): The 18th century was a seminal period for landscape design, of which the Garden ...
Property: The Monastic Island of Reichenau
Id. N°: 974
State Party: Germany
Criteria: C (iii) (iv) (vi)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii), (iv) and (vi):
Criterion (iii): The remains of the Reichenau foundation bear outstanding witness to the religious and cultural role of a great Benedictine monastery in the early Middle Ages.
Criterion (iv): The churches on the island of Reichenau retain remarkable elements of several stages of construction and thus offer outstanding examples of monastic architecture in ...
Sites: Monastic Island of Reichenau
Property: The Pécs (Sopianae) Early Christian Cemetery
Id. N°: 853 Rev
State Party: Hungary
Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii): The burial chambers and memorial chapels of the Sopianae cemetery bear outstanding testimony to the strength and faith of the Christian communities of Late Roman Europe.
Criterion (iv): The unique Early Christian sepulchral art and architecture of the northern and western Roman provinces is exceptionally well and fully illustrated by ...
Property: The City of Verona
Id. N°: 797 Rev
State Party: Italy
Criteria: C (ii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): In its urban structure and its architecture, Verona is an outstanding example of a town that has developed progressively and uninterruptedly over two thousand years, incorporating artistic elements of the highest quality from each succeeding period.
Criterion (iv): Verona represents in an exceptional way the concept of the fortified town at several seminal stages of ...
Sites: City of Verona
Property: Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other Franciscan sites
Id. N°: 990
State Party: Italy
Criteria: C (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (vi)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (vi):
Criterion (i): Assisi represents an ensemble of masterpieces of human creative genius such as the Basilica of San Francesco, which have it a deep fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the world.
Criterion (ii): The interchange of artistic and spiritual message of the Franciscan Order has ...
Property: Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
Id. N°: 972
State Party: Japan
Criteria: C (ii) (iii) (vi)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii), and (vi):
Criterion (ii): For several centuries the Ryukyu Islands served as a centre of economic and cultural interchange between south-east Asia, China, Korea, and Japan, and this is vividly demonstrated by the surviving monuments.
Criterion (iii): The culture of the Ryukyuan Kingdom evolved and flourished in a special political and ...
Property: Curonian Spit
Id. N°: 994
State Party: Lithuania/Russian Federation
Criteria: C (v)
The Committee inscribed the Curonian Spit as a cultural landscape on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (v):
Criterion (v) The Curonian Spit is an outstanding example of a landscape of sand dunes that is under constant threat from natural forces (wind and tide). After disastrous human interventions that menaced its survival the Spit was reclaimed by massive protection and stabilization works begun in the 19th century and still continuing to the present day.
Concerning ...
Sites: Curonian Spit
Property: Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
Id. N°: 965
State Party: Netherlands
Criteria: C (i) (ii)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (ii):
Criterion (i): The Rietveld Schröderhuis in Utrecht is an icon of the Modern Movement in architecture and an outstanding expression of human creative genius in its purity of ideas and concepts as developed by the De Stijl movement.
Criterion (ii): With its radical approach to design and the use of space, the Rietveld Schröderhuis ...
Property: Ruins of León Viejo
Id. N°: 613 rev
State Party: Nicaragua
Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (iii) The ruined town of León Viejo provides exceptional testimony to the material culture of one of the earliest Spanish colonial settlements.
Criterion (iv) The form and nature of early Spanish settlement in the New World, adapting European architectural and planning concepts to the material potential of another region, are uniquely preserved in the ...
Sites: Ruins of León Viejo
Property: The Frankincense Trail
Id. N°: 1010
State Party: Oman
Criteria: C (iii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv).
Criterion (iii): The group of archaeological sites in Oman represent the production and distribution of frankincense, one of the most important luxury items of trade in the Old World in antiquity.
Criterion (iv): The Oasis of Shisr and the entrepots of Khor Rori and Al-Balid are outstanding examples of medieval fortified settlements in the Persian Gulf region.
At the initiative ...
Sites: Land of Frankincense
Property: The Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
Id. N°: 1016
State Party: Peru
Criteria: C (i) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe the site on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iv):
Criterion (i): The ornamented architecture in the historic centre of Arequipa represents a masterpiece of the creative integration of European and native characteristics, crucial for the cultural expression of the entire region.
Criterion (iv): The historic centre of Arequipa is an outstanding example of a colonial settlement, challenged by the natural conditions, ...
Property: The Kyongju Historic Areas
Id. N°: 976
State Party: Republic of Korea
Criteria: C (ii) and (iii)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iii):
Criterion (ii): The Kyongju Historic Areas contain a number of sites and monuments of exceptional significance in the development of Buddhist and secular architecture in Korea.
Criterion (iii): The Korean peninsula was ruled for nearly a thousand years by the Shilla Dynasty, and the sites and monuments in and around Kyongju (including the holy mountain of ...
Sites: Gyeongju Historic Areas
Property: The Koch'ang, Hwasun, and Kanghwa Dolmen Sites
Id. N°: 977
State Party: Republic of Korea
Criteria: C (iii)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii):
Criterion (iii): The global prehistoric technological and social phenomenon that resulted in the appearance in the 2nd and 3rd millennia BCE of funerary and ritual monuments constructed of large stones (the "Megalithic Culture") is nowhere more vividly illustrated than in the dolmen cemeteries of Koch'ang, Hwasun, and Kangwha.
Supporting the nomination, ...
Property: The Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
Id. N°: 980
State Party: Russian Federation
Criteria: C (ii) (iii) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv):
Criterion (ii): The Kazan Kremlin complex represents exceptional testimony of historical continuity and cultural diversity over a long period of time, resulting in an important interchange of values generated by the different cultures.
Criterion (iii): The historic citadel represents an exceptional testimony of the ...
Property: The Ensemble of Ferrapontov Monastery
Id. N°: 982
State Party: Russian Federation
Criteria: C (i) (iv)
The Committee decided to inscribe this property on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iv):
Criterion (i): The wall paintings of Dionisy in the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin at Ferrapontov Monastery are the highest expression of Russian mural art in the 15th-16th centuries.
Criterion (iv): The complex of Ferrapontov Monastery is the purest and most complete example of an Orthodox monastic community from the 15th-17th centuries, a ...