The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B.Add and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
Inscribes As-Salt – The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality, Jordan, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iii);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The city of As-Salt became the capital of Transjordan and a thriving trade centre during the late Ottoman period, experiencing a ‘Golden Age’ between the 1860s and the 1920s. The effects of the Ottoman ‘Tanzimat’ reforms brought enhanced security, ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B.Add and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
Inscribes Dholavira: a Harappan City, India, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Dholavira: a Harappan city, is one of the very few well preserved urban settlements in South Asia dating from the 3rd to mid-2nd millennium BCE. Being the 6th largest of more than 1,000 Harappan sites discovered so far, and occupied for over 1,500 years, Dholavira not only witnesses the ...
Sites: Dholavira: a Harappan City
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat, Islamic Republic of Iran, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (iii) and (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat is located at the heart of the Zagros Mountains in the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah along the western border of Iran. It is comprised of two component parts: the Central-Eastern Valley ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan, Japan, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (v);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan consists of 17 archaeological sites that represent the pre-agricultural lifeways and complex spiritual culture of a prehistoric people. Located on the southern part of Hokkaido Island and across the Tsugaru Strait on the northern part of ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera, France, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (ii);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
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Requests the State Party to revise the boundaries of the property to reflect the historical timeframe between 1760 and the 1930s, and the mapping of the key attributes that significantly express the interchange of influences, mainly in relation to ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes the ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz, Germany, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (vi);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz are located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a serial property of four component parts, which are located in the Upper Rhine cathedral cities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz: Speyer Jewry-Court, Worms Synagogue Compound, ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes, Germany and the Netherlands, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes ran for 400 km along the Lower Rhine, along the north-eastern boundary of the Roman frontier province of Germania Inferior (Lower Germany), from the Rhenish Massif south of Bonn ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes The Porticoes of Bologna, Italy, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
Takes noteof the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The serial property of The porticoes of Bologna is the one with the most representative porticoed system in the world. It is a catalogue representing all the historical and consequently architectural phases that have taken place, of which the selected 12 components are the most notable ...
Sites: The Porticoes of Bologna
The nomination of Grobiņa archaeological ensemble, Latvia, was withdrawn at the request of the State Party.
44 COM 8B.43
Gdańsk Shipyard – the birthplace of “Solidarity” and the symbol of the Fall of the Iron Curtain in Europe (Poland)
The World Heritage Committee,
Decides to adjourn the debate on this agenda item sine die.
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea, Russian Federation, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea are located in the north-west of Russia in the Republic of Karelia and include two component parts located 300 km from each other: the petroglyphs of Lake Onega in the south-east part of the Republic of ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design, Slovenia, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The urban design for Ljubljana was conceived by Architect Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) in the period between the two World Wars. Following World War I and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a desire to create independent nation states triggered ...
The nomination of Ribeira Sacra, Spain, was withdrawn at the request of the State Party.
44 COM 8B.47
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Inscribes The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales is located in the United Kingdom, in the mountains of Snowdon massif. Six areas together represent an exceptional example of an industrial landscape which was profoundly ...
44 COM 8B.48
Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region (Chile)
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B.Add and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
Inscribes the Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (v);
Takes note of the following provisional Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The northern coast of the Atacama Desert, an arid and hostile habitat in northernmost Chile, was home to the Chinchorro, a society of marine hunter-gatherers who lived here from ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B.Add and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
Approves the significant boundary modification of Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl, Mexico, to include the Franciscan Ensemble of the Monastery and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tlaxcala, on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv);
Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl is a serial property with 15 component parts located in the ...
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B2,
Recalling Decision 40 COM 8B.7 adopted at its 40th session (Istanbul/UNESCO Headquarters, 2016),
Approves the proposed minor boundary modification for Hubei Shennongjia, China;
Encourages the State Party to continue enhancing connectivity conservation measures, so as to fully implement Decision 40 COM 8B.7, and including in particular the connection between the two component parts of the property;
Recalling its request to the State Party on relocation from the property made in ...
Sites: Hubei Shennongjia
The minor boundary modification request Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation, was withdrawn at the request of the State Party.
Sites: Volcanoes of Kamchatka
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Approves the proposed minor boundary modification of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Canada.
Sites: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The World Heritage Committee,
Having examined Documents WHC/21/44.COM/8B and WHC/21/44.COM/INF.8B1,
Refers the proposed buffer zone for the Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe, France, back to the State Party in order to allow it to:
Provide a map of the revised buffer zone boundaries at a more appropriate scale, in accordance with the Operational Guidelines,
Provide a timetable for taking the enlarged buffer zone into account in the tools for planning and heritage / landscape protection,
Clarify the way in which the buffer zone will be managed and how coordination with the ...