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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 ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.882507 Date 12/1991
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On 13 November 2024, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre hosted the online launch of Phase 3 of the Mentorship Programme for African Heritage Professionals. The event was opened by Mr Lazare Eloundou-Assomo, Director of World Heritage, who announced the engagement of a further 20 mentees as part of Phase 3 and invited the new generation of African heritage experts to World ...
News Score 8.880732 Date 12/2024
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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 ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.876921 Date 07/2006
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The island of St Vincent is one of a chain of volcanic islands known as the Lesser Antilles that forms part of an island arc where there is active volcanism.  The volcanic activity is caused by the subduction (underthrusting) of the Atlantic Ocean floor below the Caribbean Sea floor.  La Soufriere volcano located in the northern part of the island is the only ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.8685465 Date 06/2012
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The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the place where in 1924 the celebrated Taung Skull – a specimen of the species Australopithecus africanus – was found. Makapan Valley, also in the site, features in its many archaeological caves traces of human occupation and evolution dating back some 3.3 million years. The area contains ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.848246 Date 07/2005
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France,Spain,a) Impacts of Festival de Gavarnie ; b) Lack of transboundary cooperation,The State Party of France had been requested to report on the situation of the Festival de Gavarnie and transboundary cooperation by 1 February 2006. Following a reminder of the Chairperson of the Committee, the State Party submitted a letter on the situation of the Festival de ...
State of Conservation Score 8.846008 Date 06/2006
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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 ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.842983 Date 12/1998
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Canyon kastique avec une soixantaine de sites d'occupation préhistorique et d'art rupestre spectaculaire, concentrés dans une région de 12 km2 Une végétation relicte et des espèces animales menacées d'extinction, dans une région naturelle de paysages grandioses, proche de la Réserve des Indians Xacriaba. Les sites archéologiques contiennent des vestiges ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.841551 Date 11/1998
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The Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee are inscribed for their profound spiritual meaning and the testimony they bear to the strong tradition of pilgrimage in the Bahá’i faith. The property includes the two most holy places in the Bahá’i religion associated with the founders, the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh in Acre and the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, together with ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.828657 Date 07/2008
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Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a spectacular tunnel-aqueduct, as well as the Heraion, temple of the Samian Hera, can still be seen. 595Pythagoreion and Heraion of SamosPythagoreion et Heraion de ...
World Heritage Properties Score 8.81455 Date 12/1992
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De hautes falaises, dont les parois sont orientées au nord, dominent de leur à-pic la savane de cette partie septentrionale du Togo. Elles sont les derniers reliefs élevés avant cette immense étendue de savane qui se prolonge au Burkina. Cette formation appelée communément grès de Boumbouaka présente des escarpements de falaises d’âge protérozoïque supérieur d’une rare ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.796048 Date 12/2021
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Pobé-Mengao   N13. 87864 W 001.74810 Aribinda N14.22036 E 000.86329 Markoye  N14 39.822 E00 03.515   Sorbaia  (Nord)        Markoye  N14 36.068 E00 04.458Tondo Banda (Sud) Ces ensembles de sites se situent dans le Sahel burkinabè, zone frontalière au Mali ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.792194 Date 01/2012
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