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The Belgian Federal Science Policy Office was previously known as the 'Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs' (OSTC). This name change follows the Copernic reform of Belgium's federal administration. The department's interventions cover a very broad area. It manages an annual budget of about 513 million euro. Today, it has some 2.800 staff, 33% of ...
Partners Score 3.858261 Date 02/2013
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Caractéristiques paysagères générales :Les marais salants de Guérande forment avec les traicts, un ensemble d'environ 2278 hectares et constituent un patrimoine exceptionnel et unique. En raison même des spécificités qui les caractérisent, c'est-à-dire la combinaison historique de facteurs écologiques et humains, ils sont sans doute le bassin salicole le plus ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8575275 Date 01/2002
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The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world's cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the Timurid period from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The major monuments include the Registan Mosque and madrasas, Bibi-Khanum Mosque, the Shakhi-Zinda compound and the Gur-Emir ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.8568344 Date 12/2001
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The Churches of Chiloe represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture. They represent a tradition initiated by the Jesuit Peripatetic Mission in the 17th and 18th centuries, continued and enriched by the Franciscans during the 19th century and still prevailing today. These churches embody the intangible richness of ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.8538985 Date 07/2019
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Le royaume d'Ugrarit florissait au IIe millénaire sur la côte méditerranéenne. Les fouilles commencées en 1929 par la découverte fortuite d'une tombe ont mis au jour en soixante ans de recherches, les quartiers d'une capitale, des temples, les restes d'une fortification, un vaste palais royal et de nombreuses demeures. Elles n'ont cependant encore touché que le 1/6 du ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8537788 Date 08/1999
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Les escales sur le Fleuve Sénégal constituaient l’arrière pays naturel de Saint-Louis du Sénégal déjà classée sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial. Les escales étaient, à l’origine, perçues comme des adaptations des échelles qui elles étaient dotées de consuls et de commissionnaires, de magasins et de bureaux à l’usage des Européens. Au Sénégal on leur préféra l’appellation ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.852645 Date 11/2005
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Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city. The original plan and many of the buildings have survived intact, along with installations that illustrate its subsequent development up to the present day. 871Naval Port of KarlskronaPort naval de KarlskronaPuerto naval de KarlskronaВоенно-морской порт Карлскруна مرفأ كارلسكرونا ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.8520288 Date 12/1998
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Founded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarias Dávila, Panamá Viejo is the oldest European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. It was laid out on a rectilinear grid and marks the transference from Europe of the idea of a planned town. Abandoned in the mid-17th century, it was replaced by a ‘new town’ (the ‘Historic District’), which has also preserved its ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.8508308 Date 07/2003
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Les îles Ehotilé ont été érigées en Parc National par le décret N074-1 79 du 25 avril 1974 sur l'initiative des Communautés locales (cas unique en Côte d'lvoire et même en Afrique de l'Ouest).Milieu naturelLe Parc National des Iles Ehotilé est un ensemble de 6 îles (Assokomonobaha, Balouaté, Meha, Nyamouan, Elouamin et I'île sacrée Bosson Assoun) situées en ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8489587 Date 03/2006
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This is a protected part of the Atlantic tropical forest situated on the coast between the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The area, of unusual beauty, is half-way between two of the largest cities in Brazil: São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The national park covers100000 hectares, is a fine example of protected oceanic forest, and has a rich variety of fauna, ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8476064 Date 06/1996
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The urban morphology of the two small cities of Ubeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates back to the Moorish 9th century and to the Reconquista in the 13th century. An important development took place in the 16th century, when the cities were subject to renovation along the lines of the emerging Renaissance. This planning intervention was part of the introduction into Spain ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.846346 Date 07/2003
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Spišský Hrad has one of the largest ensembles of 13th and 14th century military, political and religious buildings in eastern Europe, and its Romanesque and Gothic architecture has remained remarkably intact. The extended site features the addition of the historic town-centre of Levoča founded in the 13th and 14th centuries within fortifications. Most of the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.845713 Date 06/2009
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El Jadida, Morocco,[in French only] Le XIVeme congres international sur la pierre seche « Maroc carrefour euro-africain de la pierre seche » se tiendra du 22 au 24 septembre 2014 a El Jadida, au Maroc. Il est organise par la Societe scientifique internationale pour l’etude pluridisciplinaire de la pierre seche (SPS), la province d’El Jadida et la faculte des sciences d'El ...
Events Score 3.8453903 Date 09/2014
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Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was Russia's first capital in the 9th century. Surrounded by churches and monasteries, it was a centre for Orthodox spirituality as well as Russian architecture. Its medieval monuments and the 14th-century frescoes of Theophanes the Greek (Andrei Rublev's teacher) illustrate the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.8447104 Date 12/1992
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