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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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The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world from the 15th to the 12th century B.C. and played a vital role in the development of classical Greek culture. These two cities are indissolubly linked to the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey ...
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Founded in the 14th-15th centuries, Hahoe and Yangdong are seen as the two most representative historic clan villages in the Republic of Korea. Their layout and location - sheltered by forested mountains and facing out onto a river and open agricultural fields – reflect the distinctive aristocratic Confucian culture of the early part of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The ...
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Palais de la Porte Doree, 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris, France,The exhibition Shared Holy Places, organized under the patronage of UNESCO by the National Museum of the History of Immigration, will be held in Paris from 24 October 2017 to 21 January 2018, at the Palais de la Porte Doree.
To highlight and relate what brings together the three monotheistic religions, ...
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The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. They conserve the unexcavated remains of an ancient civilization which skilfully combined its own traditional cultural elements with those of ...
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The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built using the horizontal log technique, common in eastern and northern Europe since the Middle Ages, these churches were sponsored by noble families and became status symbols. They offered an alternative ...
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Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems. The dense prairies of oceanic Posidonia (seagrass), an important endemic species found only in the Mediterranean basin, contain and support a diversity of marine life. Ibiza preserves considerable evidence of its long history. The archaeological sites at Sa Caleta (settlement) ...
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D’une superficie d’environ 176 469 ha, la Réserve de biodiversité du Parc du Bafing Makana a été créée en 1990. Il se situe dans la région de Kayes, à cheval sur les cercles de Kéniéba, Bafoulabé et Kita. En 2002, pour mieux circonscrire l’aire protégée du Parc, des réserves de biotopes ont été créées en son sein. Il s’agit des réserves de Kouroufing et de Wongo et le ...
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Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites – Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan – linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean ...
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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 ...
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Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long period of time, these villages with their Gassho-style houses subsisted on the cultivation of mulberry trees and the rearing of silkworms. The large houses with their steeply pitched thatched roofs are the only examples of their kind in Japan. Despite economic upheavals, the villages of ...
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The cultural landscape of the Loire Valley (France) has launched a new promotion and interpretation tool: a geo localized application for Smartphones on the landscape of the Loire valley: "The Loire valley: view from the train “.
This application is a Mission Val de Loire’s initiative with the Centre and Pays de la Loire regions’, in partnership with ...
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Mount Songshang is considered to be the central sacred mountain of China. At the foot of this 1500 metre high mountain, close to the city of Dengfeng in Henan province and spread over a 40 square-kilometre circle, stand eight clusters of buildings and sites, including three Han Que gates - remains of the oldest religious edifices in China -, temples, the Zhougong Sundial ...
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The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the Byzantine-Romanesque ecclesiastical culture, with its distinct style of wall painting, which developed in the Balkans between the 13th and 17th centuries. The Dečani Monastery was built in the mid-14th century for the Serbian king Stefan Dečanski and is also his mausoleum. The Patriarchate of Peć Monastery is a ...
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Le paysage culturel Priorat-Montsant-Siurana est une petite région montagneuse de la Méditerranée Occidentale, d’une étendue de 51.562,40 Ha, située dans un vaste bassin versant au cœur de la Cordillère pré-littorale catalane, en contact avec la plaine côtière et la dépression continentale de l’Ebre, desquelles elle est séparée par des chaînes de ...
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Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was the Royal Inland Road, also known as the Silver Route. The inscribed property consists of 55 sites and five existing World Heritage sites lying along a 1400 km section of this 2600 km route, that extends north from Mexico City to Texas and New Mexico, United States of America. The route was actively used as a trade route for 300 years, ...
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Créé en 1961, le Centre d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme (CEST) est devenu en 1989 l'Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes Supérieures du Tourisme (IREST).
L'IREST est un institut pluridisciplinaire rattaché à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne qui offre une large gamme de Masters et de Licences Professionnels dans ...
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There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several date from the late 7th or early 8th century, making them some of the oldest surviving wooden buildings in the world. These masterpieces of wooden architecture are important not only for the history of art, since they illustrate the adaptation of Chinese Buddhist architecture and layout ...
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The narrow Vall de Boi is situated in the high Pyrenees, in the Alta Ribagorca region and is surrounded by steep mountains. Each village in the valley contains a Romanesque church, and is surrounded by a pattern of enclosed fields. There are extensive seasonally-used grazing lands on the higher slopes. 988Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de BoiEglises romanes ...
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Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that evolved between the 12th and 16th centuries. Typically, houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret. They illustrate a ...
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La période d'implantation des Roças à Sao Tomé et Principe a commencé avec l'introduction de la monoculture du cacao et du café au 19ème siècle. Elle est apparue comme un centre de production agricole historico-colonial, similaire au système féodal (fermé), dont le processus de production se faisait par le biais du travail forcé, où la main-d'œuvre (les serviteurs) ...
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Parc de la Vanoise, France,The expert meeting on "Evaluation of general principles and criteria for nominations of natural World Heritage sites" was held from 22 to 24 March 1996 at the Parc National de la Vanoise (France) at the kind invitation of the French Ministry for the Environment. Twenty experts representing natural and cultural heritage disciplines participated in ...
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The United Nations Foundation (UNF) is a public charity supporting the goals and objectives of the Charter of United Nations by building and implementing public-private partnerships and promoting various actions.
Since 1998, UNF has had a cooperation agreement with the United Nations to achieve the objectives of the Charter of United Nations through innovative, ...
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NetherlandsFunds-in-Trust
The UNESCO/Netherlands Funds-in-Trust (NFiT) co-operation to support the World Heritage Centre was established in 2001 by the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Sciences with the aim of reinforcing the implementation of the 1972 "Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage".
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The World Heritage Torch Run Association is partner of UNESCO since August 2009. Its objective is to transmit the messages of UNESCO through the music and the actions of the UNESCO Artist for Peace, Missa JOHNOUCHI, in the form of joint project with the World Heritage Centre.
The label " World Heritage Torch-Run Concert " makes it possible to better understand the approach ...
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L’île de Fogo ou l'île de São Filipe tel qu’elle était connue lors de sa découverte en 1460 par les Portugais, a été la deuxième île à être peuplée au Cabo Verde, entre 1470 et 1490. Son occupation a été initiée par des riches propriétaires de Ribeira Grande (Cidade Velha) et ses esclaves, suite à la lettre de limitation des privilèges de 1472 qui exigeait aux habitants de ...
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Mount Wuyi is the most outstanding area for biodiversity conservation in south-east China and a refuge for a large number of ancient, relict species, many of them endemic to China. The serene beauty of the dramatic gorges of the Nine Bend River, with its numerous temples and monasteries, many now in ruins, provided the setting for the development and spread of ...
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The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value. The layout and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, overcoming the disadvantages of a steep, uneven terrain, encapsulate the continuous history of human settlement in this region over the past millennium. ...
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Le Haraz est sans conteste la région la plus pelle et la plus accueillante du Yémen. De par sa position entre la plaine côtière de la Tihama et Sanaa, le massif montagneux a toujours été stratégique. Etape caravanière du royaume Himyarite, le Haraz fut aussi le bastion de la dynastie des Sulayhides qui s'établit au Yémen en 1037. La renommée du Haraz tient autant à la ...
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The late prehistoric rock-art sites of the Mediterranean seaboard of the Iberian peninsula form an exceptionally large group. Here the way of life during a critical phase of human development is vividly and graphically depicted in paintings whose style and subject matter are unique. 874Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian PeninsulaArt rupestre du bassin ...
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Musee de Bibracte, Saint-Leger-sous-Beuvray (Saone-et-Loire), France,[in French only] Du 29 juin au 10 juillet 2015, 13 gestionnaires de sites patrimoniaux issus de 11 pays (Burkina Faso, Colombie, Comores, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Irak, RDP Lao, Mali, Moldavie, Senegal, Togo) participeront a la 5eme edition de la formation internationale intensive "Construire ensemble ...
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The ensemble of the Jewish Quarter, the old Jewish cemetery and the Basilica of St Procopius in Třebič are reminders of the co-existence of Jewish and Christian cultures from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The Jewish Quarter bears outstanding testimony to the different aspects of the life of this community. St Procopius' Basilica, built as part of the Benedictine ...
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La partie Nigérienne du Lac Tchad, couvre une superficie de 340 423 ha avec une altitude moyenne de 286 m et d'une profondeur estimée à 4 m.Située en zone aride et semi-aride, la zone reçoit très peu de précipitations avec une moyenne annuelle de 1889,58 mm (environ vingt deux jours de pluies par an pour une saison hivernale qui dure trois mois de juillet à Septembre). ...
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La médina de Sfax a été fondée en 849 après J.-C. sur ordre des émirs aghlabides de Kairouan, la capitale de l'Ifrikiya. Morphologiquement, elle se distingue par son plan orthogonal régulier et par l'absence presque totale d'impasses. Elle est organisée en quatre grands ilots où l'axe principal est doublé reliant les deux uniques portes originales qui ouvrent l'une ...