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World Heritage Properties 178
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The Ensemble of Karim Khani Buildings is considered as the fundamental structure of the old Shiraz from Zandiyeh up to the present time. As it has been constructed in different periods or one can see a footprint of urban elements from each period, it is ofparamount importance. Hence, it can be recognized as one of the comprehensive models of Iranian current architecture.
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The Decisions adopted at the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Durban, South Africa from 10 to 17 July 2005, are now available online at the following address:htpp://whc.unesco.org/archive/2005/whc05-29com-22e.pdf
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The Decisions adopted at the 30th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 8 to 16 July 2006, are now available online, in English and French.Decisions adopted at the 30 th session of the World Heritage ...
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The final version of the Decisions adopted at the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee, which was held at UNESCO Headquarters from 19 to 29 June 2011, is also available in English and French at the following Web ...
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Canada,Gas exploitation (issue resolved); Need for an increase of the park boundaries,The World Heritage Centre has informed the Canadian authorities that the Bureau recommended the Committee to register the report and the map provided by them as a description of the revised boundaries of the Dinosaur Provincial ...
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Tunisia,
Construction of dams;
Hunting;
Grazing,
Air pollution
,The site was included on the World Heritage List in 1980. IUCN informed the Bureau that it will present a report at the extraordinary session of the Bureau on threats to the site which was prepared in cooperation with the Ramsar Convention Secretariat.
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Dominican Republic,
Need for the adoption of a Master Plan
Housing rehabilitation programme
Tourism development programme
Lack of maintenance
Hurricane in 1999 (issue resolved)
,
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Montreal, Canada,The Archaeological Institute of America will hold its 107th Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, January 5-8, 2006. The AIA/APA Annual Meeting will be held at the Palais des Congres Convention center in the heart of Montreal. As part of this meeting, a Workshop on Statistical Indicators for Site Management and Conservation has been organised with ...
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Aranjuez, Spain,This workshop, conducted in English, will discuss the theme of integrity and authenticity of cultural landscapes with a view to contributing to the future revision of the Operational Guidelines. The aim is to produce recommendations and draft texts that provide guidance in the ongoing process of defining the integrity and authenticity of cultural ...
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Sokcho, Korea,The Korean National Association for Interpretation (NAI) will host the third annual international conference on the subject of heritage interpretation. The conference will bring together 150 to 200 delegates from 30 to 40 nations in an effort to create opportunities for professional development for attendees and establish a network for professional ...
11627.
Kagoshima (Japan),On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the Ministry of the Environment and the Forestry Agency in Japan organize a symposium on the World Natural Heritage of Japan.
The objective of this event is to discuss the achievements and issues regarding sustainable use of natural resources, protection and management, and the role ...
11628.
Berne,In the framework of the World Heritage Convention's 40th anniversary, the Culture Federal Office, in collaboration with the Environmental Federal Office and the Swiss Commission for UNESCO, organize a ceremony on Novembre 13th 2012 from 6.15 p.m. in the Dampfzentrale, in Bern, in the presence of Mr. Alain Berset, Federal Councillor.
Dampfzentrale Berne, ...
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Nepal, Lumbini,The second meeting of the International Scientific Committee (ISC) on the development of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha is taking place in Lumbini from 23 to 25 January 2015.
The meeting is a part of the project "Strengthening the Conservation and Management of Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha (Phase II)” funded by Japanese government and ...
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Austria,BASEhabitat, the partener of UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture, is a Studio within the Department Architecture at the University of Art and Design in Linz.The Summer School 2016 on modern earthen architecture and bamboo constrcutions will take place in Austria from 18th July - 1st August 2016.For more details on the progamme and application of the summer school, ...
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Damascus, Syria 8-10 January 2002
A World Heritage Education Kit and ASPnet Workshop was organized by the Syrian National Commission.
Topics of the workshop included an overview of UNESCO's goals and programs; ASPnet's background, objectives, and schools; the World Heritage Convention on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage; and WHE Kit teacher training.National ...
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The site consists of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary concentration of over 1,000 monuments in a band 100 km wide along some 350 km of the River Gambia. The four groups, Sine Ngayene, Wanar, Wassu and Kerbatch, cover 93 stone circles and numerous tumuli, burial mounds, some of which have been excavated to reveal material that suggest dates ...
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.
Created in 1948, IUCN has evolved ...
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The World Heritage Convention, adopted in 1972, is a legally binding instrument providing an intergovernmental framework for international cooperation for the identification and conservation of the world's most outstanding natural and cultural properties. The document developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural ...
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The World Heritage emblem represents the interdependence of the world’s natural and cultural diversity. It is used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention and inscribed on the official World Heritage List, and represents the universal values for which the Convention stands.
Designed by Belgian artist Michel Olyff, it was adopted as the official ...
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WHC-15/39.COM/13B
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WHC-14/1EXT.GA/3
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Soleymanieh Spring in Fin (Kashan) is the origin of life in this region and generated civilizations like Sialk that belong to 6th millennium BC and other instances onward. This spring generated Garden of Fin, the most prominent Iranian garden. The historical region of Kashan is an especial example of civilization from early Islamic period onward. This region contains ...
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19th session of the World Heritage Committee Berlin, Germany 19COM 04 December - 04 December 1995
Committee Members
Australia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Niger, Philippines, Spain, United States of America
Bureau Members
Chairperson:
...
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15th session of the World Heritage Committee Carthage, Tunisia 15COM 09 December - 13 December 1991
Committee Members
Brazil, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, United States of America
Bureau Members
...
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14th session of the World Heritage Committee Banff, Canada 14COM 07 December - 12 December 1990
Committee Members
Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Yemen
Bureau Members
...
11643.
Seven properties built by the architect Antoni Gaudi (1852–1926) in or near Barcelona testify to Gaudi’s exceptional creative contribution to the development of architecture and building technology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These monuments represent an eclectic, as well as a very personal, style which was given free reign in the design of gardens, ...
11644.
The Archaeological Landscape of Arpauzen is situated in the foothills of the eastern slope of Prisyrdarya Karatau Mountains. It is located in 30 km west from the station of Sholakkorgan (centre of the district) and 3 km south-west from the village of Abai.
Arpauzen is a complex of around 130 archaeological sites (20 ancient settlements, more than 80 burial grounds and 30 ...
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De style architecturale soudanais, la grande mosquée de Mopti, communément appelée mosquée de Komoguel, a une superficie de 12 a 76 ca. La construction de la mosquée remonte entre 1933 et 1935. Elle est construite à la place d'une autre qui datait de 1908.
La Mosquée s'étend sur près de 100m² et mesure 15m de haut. Elle se compose de deux parties : la première ...
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Le bien proposé à l’inscription est un exceptionnel laboratoire expérimental d’architecture et d’urbanisme du XXème siècle. Casablanca a permis la promotion de nouvelles réflexions architecturales et la diffusion d’une nouvelle science, propre à l’Europe : l’urbanisme. Comparée aux autres villes du Maroc, Casablanca présente ...
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Arab States
The Arab States region consists of 19 States Parties that have ratified the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, with a total of 88 properties currently inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The Arab States region is rich in its cultural and natural heritage, reflecting a diversity of values and features, ...
11648.
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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La ville de Nova Sintra, sur la petite île de Brava, de 64km2, reste vivante dans le temps comme un vestige d'un mode de vie traditionnel semi-rural, caractérisé par des maisons du XIXe siècle imprégnés de jardins cultivés ayant comme but la subsistance et un tracé urbain acclimatés aux jardins et paysagé arboré.
La découverte de l'île a eu lieu en 1462 par l’écuyer Diego ...
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WHC/17/41.COM/13
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WHC-10/34.COM/14
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WHC-13/37.COM/6
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WHC-14/38.COM/6
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WHC/17/21.GA/9
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WHC/19/22.GA/9
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11658.
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WHC/19/43.COM/8
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WHC-98/CONF.203/INF.17
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WHC-2000/CONF.204/INF.14
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WHC-13/19.GA/4
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WHC/17/41.COM/5C
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Aztec Ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987 as part of the Chaco Culture designation, celebrated the 25th anniversary of its inscription on February 24 2012, joining the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention.
More information about the event, organized in collaboration with the National Parks Service (NPS), can ...
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UNESCO has renewed its partnership with NTT Docomo, Dentsu and Evergreen (Japan), with the goal of educating elementary school pupils about World Heritage through dedicated apps for tablets and web content for teachers.
First launched in 2013, the current agreement is extended to spring 2015 with a focus on teaching children in Japanese schools about natural World Heritage ...
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France,,The Secretariat was informed on several occasions of a development project in the immediate neighbourhood of the Palace of Fontainebleau. Consultations with the French Delegation to UNESCO have been held and an ICOMOS mission was sent to the site. After this mission, ICOMOS informed the Secretariat that the project does not significantly impair the setting of the ...
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Indonesia,
Preparation of a zonation map of Komodo National Park (issue resolved)
Population pressure
Forest fires
Poaching (deer)
Coral blasting
Fish poisoning
Tourism pressures
,
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Hungary,Slovakia,
Agricultural activity in the catchments resulting in soil erosion and sediment being delivered into the caves (issue resolved)
Impact on the karst environment from communal sewage and from a quarry previously in operation (issue resolved)
Companies are seeking to open new limestone mines in the Slovak Karst
,
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,The aim of this meeting was to find possible ways to create a model format for the sub-regional synthesis (executive summaries) to facilitate the compilation of the different sub-regional reports into one for Europe. At the proposal of the NWHF, the discussion was structured along the lines of the "Table of Contents" of the Periodic Report: State of the World Heritage in ...
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,This workshop was organized as a follow-up to the meeting in Dublin, Ireland, in 2009. The meeting was hosted by the Dutch authorities and attended by representatives of States Parties, the Advisory Bodies and the World Heritage Centre. It focused on the second cycle of Periodic Reporting exercise, retrospective Statements of Outstanding Universal Value, drafting and ...
11673.
,On the occasion of the 40th anniversary World Heritage Convention The Dutch government, the Dutch World heritage sites and the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO will organize several meetings during the weekend of 15th-17th June:
An expert meeting for policymakers on the opportunities and restrictions of World Heritage in the Netherlands;
A public event in ...
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Kyoto, Japan,On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ritsumeikan University with the cooperation of UNESCO World Heritage Centre, organize a Youth Programme entitled "World Heritage: the roles of local communities and youth for the next decade".
Participants between 20 and 30 years old involved in the ...
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,The Ministry of Culture and Sport (Spain) will have a conference on the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention aimed at the general public, of an informative nature to bring the Convention closer to society. It will be taught by personnel from the Ministry of Culture, technicians specialized in the management of World Heritage.For more information, please ...
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Will contribute resources towards site management, capacity building, alternative livelihoods for communities, research and fundraising activities.
Objectives
In April 2004, the World Heritage Centre entered into a US$ 5 million, biodiversity programme to protect India's World Heritage sites, Manas and Kaziranga and their endangered species including the one-horned ...
11678.
Haci Bektas Veli is the great Turkish philosopher of the 13th century, the practitioner of Hoca Ahmed Yesevi’s doctrines in Anatolia and the eponym of the Bektashism, a religious order of Alevism. The base of his philosophy lies on humanity, human rights and social equality that he counsels for the man to be modest, to purify his soul, to mature, to abstain from show ...
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Varakhsha is one of the biggest cities located in 45 km from the West of Bukhara, in the bank of abounding in water Rometonrud an ancient stream of Zarafshon River. It was consisted of triangle shape small city- shakriston and fortress connected in the Eastern wall. Some times this city was surrounded by defense ditch filled with flowing water. The site is surrounded by ...
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The Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Ina Marčiulionytė, has sent a letter to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, concerning the state of conservation of the World Heritage site of Lake Baikal.The World Heritage Committee, the intergovernmental body established by the World Heritage Convention, regularly examines the state of conservation of ...
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36th Session of World Heritage Committee Youth Forum: Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan) 1 - 9 July, 2012
The Youth Model of the World Heritage Committee, to be held in Kazan from 1 to 9 July, is designed to attract the attention of young people of the States Parties to the World Heritage Convention to the problem of preservating natural and cultural heritage and to raise awareness of youth activities related to the Convention, its role and its international importance ...
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,The International Ranger Federation (IRF) and IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) call for nominations for the prestigious Young Conservationist Award.The award aims to recognize and raise awareness of the outstanding contributions made to the management of protected areas, and leadership shown, by young conservationists. It also seeks to encourage young ...
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Delhi (Qutab Minar, Humayun's Tomb, Red Fort), Agra (Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri), India,This workshop is being held jointly by the World Heritage Centre, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), the UNESCO New Delhi Office and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture. It is the final workshop in a series which brought together site managers from a selection ...
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,The Graduate Program in Historic Preservation/School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in collaboration with the R. Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (University of Leuven) are organizing an International Symposium on Heritage Recording and Information Management in the Digital Age (SMARTDoc Heritage), March 26-27, 2010 in ...
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,Brazilian government promotes educational meeting on actions in favor of Cultural Heritage with youngsters from 19 countries.
The National Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute - Iphan, in partnership with the Brazilian Federation of Youth Hostels, promotes the regional edition of the World Heritage Youth Forum, from 16 to 26 July 2010. The participants are young ...
11686.
,The World Heritage City Lab “World Heritage Sites: Sustainable Development Practices for Urban Heritage” was held on 30 November 2021, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the inscription of the World Heritage property “Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” on the UNESCO World Heritage List and in the framework of the UNESCO HUL ...
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UNESCO World Heritage Forests
© David Geldhof / Yosemite National Park
Forests are some of the most biodiversity-rich habitats on Earth. They play a crucial role in climate regulation by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) and are considered as one of the most cost-effective forms of climate action.
They are also vitally important for human well-being and survival. It ...
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The historical village of Maymand in southern Iran has been awarded the UNESCO-Greece Melina Mercouri International Prize for the Safeguarding and Management of Cultural Landscapes for its 2005 edition. The prize ceremony was held at UNESCO headquarters on 7th September, 2005.
The historic village of MaymandIslamic Republic of Iran
The historic village of Maymand ...
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N 25 51 to N 26 52 and E 70 18 to E 70 34
The Thar Desert in north-western India is a unique and the only habitat of its type in the Indian subcontinent. The Aravalli hills mark the eastern-most boundary limit of the Thar desert while the western limit is defined by the fertile plains of the Indus. The Great Rann of Kutch forms a sharp boundary in the south while ...
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Le paysage culturel d'Azougui se compose de plusieurs structures culturelles dont l'existence est étroitement liée au milieu, et ce dernier est également soit une production culturelle soit un phénomène naturel qui porte maintenant les empreintes de toutes les valeurs culturelles qu'il abrite. Les composantes essentielles de ce paysage sont:
L'Oasis
L'apparition du ...
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The 'fostering of peace and security' is one of the three dimensions of sustainable development set out in the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and in the Policy Document for the Integration of a Sustainable Development Perspective into the Processes of the World Heritage Convention. Paragraphs 28 and 29 of this policy read:
28. Sustainable development and the ...
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WHC-2001/CONF.205/INF.6
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Le Corridor Kwanza est la zone du bassin de Kwanza, ou si nous voulons la zone du fleuve Kwanza qui monte au nord de la ville de Mumbwé, dans la province de Bié et se dirige vers le nord et au nord-est du pays, à travers la province de Malange, qui sépare la province de Bié de la province de Kwanza Sul, pour freiner la région de l'Ouest, un peu au nord du 10e ...
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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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WHC/18/42.COM/7A.Add
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41 C/REP/19
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WHC-15/39.COM/5C
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Pobiti Kamani ("upright stones" - fossil forest) are calcareous columns formed by natural forces. They exist at an astonishing scale. The Monument is comprised of smaller and bigger stone groups distributed in 8 km long belt with South - North direction in the region of Varna, along the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The stone columns vary in size - up to 10 m height ...
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L'ensemble du site proposé aux titres de bien culturel, de bien naturel et de paysage culturel est essentiellement constitué de territoires appartenant à la zone centrale et périphérique du Parc national de la Vanoise (France) et de la totalité du Parc national du Grand Paradis (Italie).Depuis 1976, le Conseil de l'Europe a décerné au Parc National de la Vanoise le ...
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Sinja Valley contains the archaeological evidence of the capital city of the well organized and influential Western Malla or Khasa Kingdom of the 12th and 14th Century. After the 14th Century the Khasa Kingdom split into the Baise or Twenty-Two Kingdoms which existed until the unification of Nepal in the late 18th Century. Excavations have revealed the remains of old ...
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The Ngebedech Terraces cover a total area of 161,380-m2. This area is grassy upland savannah surrounded by forests. Prehistoric terraced hills are a prominent feature of the cultural landscape of Palau. Some terrace complexes are sophisticated systems that may have been variously used for agriculture, settlement, defense, and ceremonial functions. Morgan (1988: 29) ...
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Fortified Armenian monasteries in Iran were added to the new sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 6 July.
The Armenian Monastic Ensembles in Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of three monastic ensembles of the Armenian Christian faith: St Thaddeus and St Stepanos and the Chapel of Dzordzor. These edifices - the oldest of which, St ...
11704.
Kishore Rao has been appointed Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
An expert in forestry and natural resources policy and planning, Mr Rao has been Deputy Director of the World Heritage Centre since 2005, and has, in addition to overall management and programme coordination responsibilities, led the Centre's work on natural heritage protection. Mr Rao has ...
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Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB (Scotland, UK)
At a time of economic crisis and environmental threat, countries everywhere have to address the dual challenge of protecting and preserving their natural and cultural heritage while maximizing their economic value.
This two-day international conference on 23 and 24 November ...
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For more than a year now, I have been expressing on behalf of UNESCO my deep concern about the dramatic humanitarian situation in Syria and the threats to the outstanding cultural heritage of the country, which bear testimony to its history and to its cultural identity. I have called upon all those involved in the conflict to ensure the respect and protection of this ...
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Upcoming 39th session due to take place in Bonn, Germany.
The annual highlight for the World Heritage community is drawing near: From 28 June to 8 July approx. 1200 delegates, observers and NGO-representatives from 191 countries will gather in Bonn, Germany, to attend the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee. During its session last year in Doha, Qatar, the ...
11708.
On 25 January 2018, a joint workshop between UNESCO and FAO’s Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) was organized with the World Heritage Centre at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to share experiences and explore areas of cooperation in the field of agricultural heritage.
The workshop brought together cross-sectoral actors contributing to the ...
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Canada,Infrastructural developments in the "Bow Corridor" ,IUCN has reported to the Centre that the Provincial Government of Alberta has approved a project to exploit a large (22 km long and 3 km wide), open-pit coal mine, located 1.8 km from the Jasper National Park portion of this World Heritage Area. Additional approvals of the mining project, which would affect ...
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Australia,
Road construction
Expansion project of a holiday resort
Proposed mine
,The Bureau at its twenty-first extraordinary session requested the Australian authorities to provide specific information on the results of the financial review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA). At its twenty-second session, (June, 1998) the Bureau was informed that ...
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Oman,
Boundary question
Management regime
Legal status of the different components
,In 1997, the authorities of Oman submitted an interim zoning plan that foresaw a new outer boundary, and provisional boundaries for five management zones. In addition, they provided brief descriptions of their plans for implementing several projects and a report on the population status of ...
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,Europa Nostra Awards 2008
architectural heritage
cultural landscapes
works of art and collections of artistic and historic significance
archaeological sites
industrial and engineering heritage
Over the past 5 years, Europa Nostra has been managing the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage in the context of the European Commission's Culture 2000 programme. On 7 November 2006 ...
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Bundu Country Lodge, Mbombela, South Africa,Mbombela Local Municipality and the Tshwane University of Technology's Department of Tourism Management are pleased to announce the 2010 International Tourism Conference on Global Sustainable Tourism. This conference will take place at the Bundu Country Lodge, Mbombela, South Africa, from 15 to 19 November 2010.
The aim of the ...
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,The Workshop on management for World Heritage site managers in South-Eastern Europe in the framework of the preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting for Europe and North America took place in Sibiu, Romania from 15 to 17 May 2012. It was a follow-up from the previous sub-regional meeting in Prague 26-27 May 2011 where the need to involve site managers was ...
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Paris, France,A workshop on Geo Engineering for Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Role of Geo Engineering for Conservation of Word Heritage will be held in Paris on 4 and 6 September 2013.
Geotechnical Engineering is one of the fundamental and important fields for conservation of Cultural Heritage. Additionally, conservation needs interdisciplinary approach from
various ...
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,The International Competition for Best Sustainable Development Practices, a call aimed at identifying and promoting best development practices in food security, was launched in November 2013.
All UN agencies are encouraged to participate in this competition, as an opportunity for the UN system to showcase its excellence and best practices in food security.
The ...
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Honolulu, Hawai‘i,Focus Meeting of the 29th IAU General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.
Since 2008 the International Astronomical Union has worked with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to implement its Astronomy and World Heritage Initiative. Through deliverables such as the ICOMOS–IAU Thematic Study on the Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy ...
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Nairobi, Kenya,In the framework of the Third Cycle of Periodic Reporting on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in the Africa region, training workshop for Anglophone World Heritage Site Managers will be held from 19-21 February 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya
Over 100 participants including around 80 African World Heritage Site Managers from 18 Anglophone ...
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Room 1 (MR6) Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, New Delhi, India,UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the Government of Norway, will organise an event entitled “Boosting World Heritage conservation in Africa to meet global targets for people and planet” during the 46th session of the World Heritage Committee, on Monday 22 July 2024, from 6:30 pm to 8 pm ...
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El Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve in Baja California, Mexico, is focusing on developing locally based ecotourism to address threats to the coastal lagoons, which shelter the gray whale, harbour seal, California sea lion, northern elephant seal and four species of endangered marine turtles. It is also an important cultural site inhabited by rancheros, with the ancient rock ...
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In 1974, after an appeal from the Pakistani Government, UNESCO launched the International Safeguarding Campaign for Moenjodaro. It lasted until 1997 and mobilized around 8 million US $ from its Member States for large scale conservation measures which aimed at protecting the site from flooding, implementation of national capacity building activities and for the ...
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Fujian Tulou is a property of 46 buildings constructed between the 15th and 20th centuries over 120 km in south-west of Fujian province, inland from the Taiwan Strait. Set amongst rice, tea and tobacco fields the Tulou are earthen houses. Several storeys high, they are built along an inward-looking, circular or square floor plan as housing for up to 800 people each. They ...
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Jerusalem at the crossroads between the watershed route of the Judean Mountains being midway between Nablus and Hebron and the connection from the coastal Via Maris to the Jordan Rift Valley, has historically given it strategic importance. This meeting place between East and West has, over the ages, become cultural as well as physical.The Old City and Ramparts of Jerusalem ...
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The Pondaung Formation is a geologic formation which consists of layers of red beds alternating with grey sandstones sediments, dated to about 40 million years ago. Several of these outcrops around Bahin village, located in the Dry Zone of central Myanmar, contain fossils of the oldest representatives of anthropoid primates, which correspond to the class that includes ...
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It occupies 1,250,970 hectares (3,091,200 acres) in size, lies in the south-western corner of Darfur state adjacent to the border with the republic of central Africa on Congo watershed system between longitude 23° 20° 00″– 24΄ 46΄ 00″ E. and latitude 8° 45΄ 00″ – 10° 00΄ 00″ N. Al Radom was declared a National Park at 1980 and as a biosphere reserve at 1982. It is located ...
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Panasonic Vietnam, in cooperation with UNESCO’s Office in Hanoi, organized the Eco Learning program on UNESCO World Heritage for students of secondary schools in Hanoi, on 9 and 10 August at the Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long – Hanoi (Thang Long Imperial Citadel). Representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training ...
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Integrated within the Ministry of the Economy, Innovation and Development, Turismo de Portugal is the national tourism authority responsible for promotion, enhancement and sustainability of tourism activities, aggregating within a single entity all the institutional competencies related to stimulation of tourism activities, from the supply sector to demand.
Using its ...
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This area, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for some 450 km, is made up largely of tropical rainforests. This biotope offers a particularly extensive and varied array of plants, as well as marsupials and singing birds, along with other rare and endangered animals and plant species. 486Wet Tropics of QueenslandTropiques humides de QueenslandTropicos ...
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,[in French only] Partenaire actif de l’UNESCO pour la valorisation des paysages et du patrimoine, la France a développé des outils originaux pour la promotion des paysages. Il y a 20 ans, la loi du 8 janvier 1993 dite « loi Paysage » qui vise à protéger et à mettre en valeur les paysages, qu’ils soient ...
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Museum of the World Ocean. Kaliningrad, Rusian Federation,Museum of the World Ocean invites you to take part in the International Theoretical and Practical Conference devoted to issues of study and preservation of maritime heritage and museum’s 25th anniversary.
The conferences, organized by Museum of the World Ocean, bring museum and scientific communities closer to ...
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11732.
11733.
11734.
WHC/21/44.COM/7C
11735.
WHC-13/37.COM/14
11736.
11737.
11738.
11739.
11740.
11741.
11742.
WHC/18/42.COM/INF.18
11743.
11744.
WHC/18/42.COM/INF.18
11745.
11746.
11747.
11748.
11749.
The route is formed by The Laguna Lachuá, Semuc Champey's staggered pools, Candelaria's caves and the caves of Lanquín, places that present diverse ecosystems, Rainy Tropical Humid Forest that represents the most complex bioma in the Earth, Rainy Tropical Forest, that it keeps a narrow similarity with the Humid Tropical Forest and very Humid Subtropical Forest.
The area ...
11750.
El area protege es ecosistema del Chaco humedo asi como a los sitios historicos de la Guerra del Chaco (1932 - 1935) entre Paraguay y Bolivia.El Parque fue creado por Decreto No. 18.205, el 4 de mayo de 1956 y constituye un importante refugio para la reproduccion de la fauna silvestre.
11751.
The results of the 3rd and 4th HERITY Conferences, held in Rome, Italy in December 2010 and 2012, are now available.
The conferences and their conclusions were made possible thanks to contributions from UNESCO-WHC, UN-WTO, ICCROM and HERITY International.
For more information on HERITY, the different conferences and their results, please visit: ...
11752.
Peru,,Shell Petroleum and Petroperu have made commercial discovery of natural gas next to the park and an expanded exploration effort is to proceed.
Access roads and pipeline system will bring in many workers and settlers next to the western boundary. No guard posts are located here at present.
A letter of inquiry to the Royal Dutch Shell headquarters and to the Peruvian ...
11753.
Türkiye,,The Bureau took note with satisfaction that the urban development plan of the town had been modified and wished to obtain more information regarding the new plan from the competent Turkish authorities.
The request of the Bureau for more information on the revised urban development plan was transmitted to the Turkish authorities by letter of 9 September 1992 and a ...
11754.
Senegal,Road project; Poaching; Management issues,The World Heritage Centre informed the Committee that it has requested the competent authorities of Senegal to provide to the Committee, at its sixteenth session, a summary of the plan to mitigate impacts of the road construction project in the Niokolo-Koba National ...
11755.
Oman,
Degradation of the structures;
Use of recent construction materials (cement, etc.)
,A new expert mission was scheduled for October 1997 to advise on the preservation of the Fort. At the time of the preparation of this document the outcome of the mission was not yet known.
11756.
Germany,
Urban pressure
Current traffic planning
Need to review the legal protection of the site
,The Bureau at its twenty-first session requested the German authorities to provide a detailed report on Potsdam by 15 October 1997. At the time of the preparation of the document no report had been received.
11757.
France,,The Secretariat was informed on several occasions of the construction of a building on the Parvis of the Cathedral. Consultation with the French Delegation to UNESCO have been held and an ICOMOS mission was sent to Amiens. After this mission, ICOMOS informed the Secretariat that the new building was not compromising the values for which the Cathedral was inscribed ...
11758.
Mbanza Kongo, Angola,The Ministry of Culture of Angola, in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, is organizing the Third International Roundtable on Mbanza Kongo, candidate to the World Heritage List, with the participation of national and international experts, from various fields of social and human sciences with the aim to discuss issues connected to the ...
11759.
,Organized by the City of Seville as a contribution to the UNESCO Recommendation on historic urban landscapes, the purpose of the conference is to shed more light on concepts, instruments, tools and criteria of management of historic cities.The conference brings together diverse international specialists. Together they will address the important issue of the insertion of ...
11760.
Will contribute resources towards site management, capacity building, alternative livelihoods for communities, research and fundraising activities.
Objectives
In April 2004, the World Heritage Centre entered into a US$ 5 million, biodiversity programme to protect India's World Heritage sites, Manas and Kaziranga and their endangered species including the one-horned ...
11761.
Cooperating this time with the new American committee Venetian Heritage Inc., the Comitato Italiano saw work on the high altar of the Church of San Rocco almost completed and a start made on two gilded and painted wooden altars in the Basilica on Torcello.
Lead Organization / Sector / Office: Comitato Italiano per Venezia
Associated Organization(s): Venetian Heritage ...
11762.
Ping Yao is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city, founded in the 14th century. Its urban fabric shows the evolution of architectural styles and town planning in Imperial China over five centuries. Of special interest are the imposing buildings associated with banking, for which Ping Yao was the major centre for the whole of China in the ...
11763.
The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) is an intergovernmental organization created to promote the conservation of all forms of cultural heritage, in every region of the world. Its mission is to provide Member States with the best tools, knowledge, skills and enabling environment to preserve their cultural ...
11764.
The World Heritage Convention, adopted in 1972, is a legally binding instrument providing an intergovernmental framework for international cooperation for the identification and conservation of the world's most outstanding natural and cultural properties. The document developed from the merging of two separate movements: the first focusing on the preservation of cultural ...
11765.
The term ‘Historic Urban Landscape’ is defined in Articles 8 and 9 of the Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape:
8. The historic urban landscape is the urban area understood as the result of a historic layering of cultural and natural values and attributes, extending beyond the notion of “historic centre” or “ensemble” to include the broader urban context and its ...
11766.
WHC-12/36.COM/12C
11767.
Dominican Republic,
Hurricane in 1999 (issue resolved)
Urban Pressure
Tourism Pressure
Lack of capacity in conservation techniques
Lack of management mechanism (including legislation)
Lack of presentation and interpretation
Lack of institution coordination
Inappropriate conversion of historic houses in the city centre to accommodate tourism-related functions.
,At the time ...
11768.
Ecuador,
heavy poaching of wildlife,
illegal livestock grazing,
encroachment along the Park's perimeter,
unplanned road construction.
,The site was inscribed in 1983 and added to the List of World Heritage in Danger in 1992 due to threats from poachers, boundary encroachment and unplanned road construction. A technical assistance project from the World Heritage Fund is ...
11769.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands,These conclusions and recommendations were agreed upon by the participants at the conference Linking Universal and Local Values: Managing a Sustainable Future for World Heritage (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22-24 May 2003). The conference was attended by representatives from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Canada, Colombia, ...
11770.
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 ...
11771.
AIrkoutsk - centre administratif de la région d'Irkoutsk - est un objet de différentes sortes d'étude comme ”ville histonque” dont l' histoire est plus de trois cents ans et la population est plus de 600 mille d'habitants.Irkoutsk est traversée par quatre rivières (Angara, Irkout, Ouchakovka, Kaia) et située à 66 km du lac Baikal sur la terrasse ...
11772.
Not yet drafted
11774.
Not yet drafted
11775.
Localisé dans la partie est de la cuvette centrale du Fleuve Congo, le Parc National de la Lomami (PNL) a été créé en 2016 ainsi protégeant un bloc de 8,874 km2 en forêt dense équatoriale avec des savanes hydromorphes au sud et entouré par une zone tampon de 22,000 km2. Les explorations de la région, qui n’ont commencé qu’en 2007, ont vite révélé une diversité faunistique ...
11776.
From natural perspective, in the nominated property there is a specific geomorphology type named “forest soil”, which presents outstanding universal value aesthetically and geologically. The lacustrine sedimentary around Zhada Basin and Sutlej River Basin of the nominated property belongs to the forest soil type but exhibits distinctive features, making a “Guge type”. The ...
11777.
Eighteen hours after the March 11 tsunami wreaked devastation in Japan, it hit the Galápagos Islands. Luckily, by then the energy of the waves had dissipated somewhat, and the people there had received advanced warning and took to higher ground. The waves hit later in the afternoon, local time, and caused significant damage only to some buildings ...
11778.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, expressed profound dismay as she condemned the destruction of the Temple of Bel in Palmyra, one of the most important 1st century CE religious monuments in the Middle East, a construction unique in its design.
“The destruction of Palmyra constitutes an intolerable crime against civilization but 4,500 years of history will never ...
11779.
The World Heritage Centre has taken due note of concerns expressed by numerous citizens and NGOs regarding the recent agreement signed between Seychelles and India to establish a naval base on Assumption Island, located some 27 km from Aldabra Atoll World Heritage property (Seychelles). UNESCO appreciates the commitment of these stakeholders to the safeguarding of this ...
11780.
,Museums preserve heritage and stimulate creativity in all its forms. Most importantly, museums create and transmit values associated with their collections. In our globalised world, where millions of people are travelling and migrating across borders every day, museums not only act as custodians of shared heritage, but also as key spaces for encounters, exchange, and the ...
11781.
Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan,On Friday 5 July, the World Heritage Centre and partners will present the scope, aim, and expected deliverables of the Resilient Reefs climate adaptation initiative. The initiative is a 4-year USD$9 million public-private consortium that will build climate resilience leadership in an initial five UNESCO World Heritage Listed coral reefs, ...
11782.
Rock Art Room, Al-Faisaliah Hotel, Riyadh,Using impact assessment for heritage conservation and renewable energy development
Guidance and Toolkit on Impact Assessments and the Guidance for Wind Energy projects in a World Heritage Context for better decision-making on conservation, climate actions and sustainable development
Event date and time : 11 September 2023 ...
11783.
Cette oeuvre magistrale fut conçue en style éclectique par l'architecte J. Poelaert en 1862. L'édifice devait remplacer un premier Palais de Justice, établi dans les bâtiments de l'ancien couvent des Jésuites délabrés et trop exigus.En 1860, la Ville de Bruxelles organisa pour ce faire un concours international. L'ingénieur F. Wellens, président de la ...
11784.
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 ...
11785.
See 'attributes'.
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11787.
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11790.
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11792.
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