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These places in Saxony-Anhalt are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and his fellow-reformer Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house in Wittenberg, the houses in Eisleben where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546, his room in Wittenberg, the local church and the castle church where, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted his famous '95 Theses', which ...
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The Birka archaeological site is located on Bjorko Island in Lake Malar and was occupied in the 9th and 10th centuries. Hovgården is situated on the neighbouring island of Adelso. Together, they make up an archaeological complex which illustrates the elaborate trading networks of Viking-Age Europe and their influence on the subsequent history of Scandinavia. Birka was also ...
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Essaouira is an exceptional example of a late-18th-century fortified town, built according to the principles of contemporary European military architecture in a North African context. Since its foundation, it has been a major international trading seaport, linking Morocco and its Saharan hinterland with Europe and the rest of the world. 753Medina of Essaouira (formerly ...
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Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns, smallholdings, ports and harbours, and their ancillary industries together reflect prolific innovation which, in the early 19th century, ...
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The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, are spread along routes linking them to the Mediterranean end of the incense and spice route. Together they reflect the hugely profitable trade in frankincense and myrrh from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from ...
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WHC-13/37.COM/7A État de conservation des biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril
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WHC-14/38.COM/7A État de conservation des biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial en péril
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The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of ...
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Kroměřiž stands on the site of an earlier ford across the River Morava, at the foot of the Chriby mountain range which dominates the central part of Moravia. The gardens and castle of Kroměřiž are an exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a European Baroque princely residence and its gardens. 860Gardens and Castle at KroměřižJardins et chateau de ...
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The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18th and 19th centuries. The sites are spread across Australia, from Fremantle in Western Australia to Kingston and Arthur's Vale on Norfolk Island in the east; and from areas around Sydney in New South Wales in the north, to sites ...
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Mantua and Sabbioneta represent two aspects of Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows the renewal and extension of an existing city, while some 30 km away, Sabbioneta represents the implementation of the period’s theories about planning the ideal city. Typically, Mantua’s layout is irregular with regular parts showing different stages of its growth since the Roman period ...
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Important établissement monastique du Moyen Age, L'un des plus anciens de la Moldavie (fin du XIVe siecle), dont l'église principale, placée sous le vocable de l'Ascension,(1497), constitue l'exemplaire le plus représentatif du style moldave du temps d'Etienne le Grand (1457-1504) dans l'architecture religieuse, remarcable par les solutions planimetriques et spatiales que ...
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Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible. With its government buildings, churches, squares and ...
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Riversleigh and Naracoorte, situated in the north and south respectively of eastern Australia, are among the world’s 10 greatest fossil sites. They are a superb illustration of the key stages of evolution of Australia’s unique fauna. 698Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)Sites fossiliferes de mammiferes d'Australie (Riversleigh / Naracoorte)Sitios ...
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En Basse-Casamance, région africaine considérée comme un des “berceaux primaires” de la riziculture, se sont développées des formes d’habitat remarquables, aussi sophistiquées que les types d’aménagements agricoles réalisés dans une vaste zone de mangrove estuarienne. Dans toute cette zone, les grandes maisons en banco, aux charpentes solides et ...
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The Centre cooperates closely with the biodiversity related Conventions, individually and also through the mechanism of the Biodiversity Liaison Group (BLG). The BLG is composed of the Heads of the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Ramsar Convention, the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), the Convention on International Trade in ...
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The cultural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley is illustrated by seven groups of monuments and buildings which display the full range of historic and artistic achievements for which the Kathmandu Valley is world famous. The seven include the Durbar Squares of Hanuman Dhoka (Kathmandu), Patan and Bhaktapur, the Buddhist stupas of Swayambhu and Bauddhanath and the Hindu ...
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This national park, located in the extreme south-western tip of Java on the Sunda shelf, includes the Ujung Kulon peninsula and several offshore islands and encompasses the natural reserve of Krakatoa. In addition to its natural beauty and geological interest – particularly for the study of inland volcanoes – it contains the largest remaining area of lowland rainforests in ...
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The eight towns in south-eastern Sicily: Caltagirone, Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli, were all rebuilt after 1693 on or beside towns existing at the time of the earthquake which took place in that year. They represent a considerable collective undertaking, successfully carried out at a high level of architectural and artistic ...
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The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania. The well-preserved remains of the old city include, in particular, a large bridge over the Guadiana, an amphitheatre, a theatre, a vast circus and an exceptional water-supply system. It is an ...
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These two castles represent the most significant examples illustrating the exchange of influences and documenting the evolution of fortified architecture in the Near East during the time of the Crusades (11th - 13th centuries). The Crac des Chevaliers was built by the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem from 1142 to 1271. With further construction by the Mamluks ...
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Le parc national de Bouhedma est situé dans les gouvernorats de Sidi Bouzid et de Gafsa. 11 se trouve à 85 km à l'Est de Gafsa, à 100 km au Sud de Sidi Bouzid, à 105 km à l'Ouest de Sfax, à 100 km au Nord-Ouest de Gabès, à 30 km de Maknassy et à 27 km de Mezzouna. II a été créé en 1980 et couvre une superficie de 16488 hectares dont 8804 sont sous protection intégrale. Le ...
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The 987-ha site on the volcanic island of Pico, the second largest in the Azores archipelago, consists of a remarkable pattern of spaced-out, long linear walls running inland from, and parallel to, the rocky shore. The walls were built to protect the thousands of small, contiguous, rectangular plots (currais) from wind and seawater. Evidence of this viniculture, whose ...
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