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Azerbaijan,a) Changing urban fabric due to the demolition of buildings and uncontrolled construction within the Walled City; b) Overall lack of any management system and in particular insufficient coordination between the national and municipal authorities; c) Absence of a comprehensive management plan that addresses conservation problems, urban development control and ...

Russian Federation,,As a follow-up to concerns about construction with the World Heritage site, and in particular the new Mariinsky Theatre proposal, a meeting was organized with the Russian authorities at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on 5 January 2006. At the subsequent request of the Russian Federation National Commission and following an invitation by the State ...

Afghanistan, Looting, illicit traffic and illegal excavations of cultural heritage assets(issue resolved) Military Training (Continued inappropriate use of certain heritage areas for military posts) (issue resolved) Anti-personnel mines and unexploded ordinances (i.e. munitions) (issue resolved) Commercial development, Housing (Development pressure around the property and ...

Georgia, Lack of a management mechanism (issue resolved) Lack of definition of the unified buffer zone (issue resolved) Lack of Urban Master Plan of the City of Mtskheta Insufficient coordination between the Georgian Church and the national authorities Privatization of surrounding land Natural erosion of stone Loss of authenticity during previous works carried out by the ...

Afghanistan, Civil unrest (Political instability) River erosion (Inclination of the Minaret) Management systems/ management plan (Lack of management plan) Illegal activities (Illicit excavations and looting) Erosion and siltation/deposition; flooding (riverbank erosion, collapse of retaining walls, recurrent flooding) ,At the time of writing this report, the World Heritage ...

The Montado is a cultural landscape shaped by human activity. Over the ages mankind has been able to mould and sustain a multifunctional agro-silvo-pastoral ecosystem located in the south of the Tagus Valley. These areas were originally occupied by Mediterranean woodlands and are now populated by cork oaks and holm oaks - legally protected species since the 7th century - ...

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 ...

The material remains of the Mayo Chinchipe Marañón culture demonstrate the development of a society 5500 years ago, living in the mega-diverse environment of the Amazon Region, interacting with it and using its resources optimally, attaining high levels of symbolism. They also held exchange with cultures in coastal regions of present-day Ecuador, as shown by their use of ...

1) N13 48 6.6 E77 36 33.9 - Sri Veerabhadra Temple2) 13˚ 48ʹ 11.4 ʺ N and 77˚ 36ʹ 44.6 ʺ E - Monolithic Bull (Nandi)Location and Context: Sri Veerabhadra temple, also known as Lepakshi Temple is located in Lepakshi Village, named after a main shrine dedicated to Veerabhadra (the fiery incarnation of Lord Shiva). From the inscriptions engraved on the prakara walls of the ...

Julfar is part of the Musandam Peninsula, and closely situated to the Strait of Hormuz, where the alluvial plains separate the limestone mountains of the Ru’us al-Jibal from the coast of the Gulf. Due to a unique geographical feature, the two outwash fans of Wadi Bih and Wadi Haqil are situated in close proximity collecting the majority of rainwater and sediments from the ...

Russian Federation,a) Quality of new design projects in the inscribed zone; b) High-rise development ; c) Confusion over definition and extent of inscribed property and its buffer zones.,On 28 February 2012, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 35th session (UNESCO, 2011). a) Boundary issues The State ...

Japan,a) Potential negative impact of an express highway on the property; b) Potential negative impact of large-scale events commemorating 1300th Anniversary of Nara Heijo-kyo capital, planned to take place on the property in 2010.,In its Decision 32 COM 7B.73, adopted at its 32nd session (Quebec City, 2008), concerning the Nara Palace site (Heijo-kyo site), one of the ...

United Republic of Tanzania, Management system/management plan Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure Development and environmental pressures, particularly in relation with Malindi port project (issue resolved) Natural disasters and lack of risk-preparedness Visitors/tourist pressures Housing pressure Lack of human and financial resources Lack of legal ...

Uzbekistan, Ground transport infrastructure (Large-scale development projects such as road building) Housing (Traditional housing and proposed demolition of mahalla residential areas) Management deficiency (Impact of urban landscaping programme on the authenticity and integrity of the property) Management Systems/Management Plan (Lack of strategic approach to urban ...

1.1 Introduction The property being proposed for inclusion in the World Heritage list corresponds to a geographical and cultural unit within the Spanish Wine Protected Designation of Origin Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja (D.O.Ca. Rioja). Rioja is one of the world’s great wines, a position it has achieved not only thanks to its unarguable quality but ...

Nr Province Name Municipality LAT LONG 1 PU Teatro comunale    Cagli 43,54573825 12,64740506 2 PU Teatro del Trionfo Cartoceto 43,7690791 12,88226685 3 PU Teatro della Fortuna Fano 43,84427989 13,01751737 4 PU Teatro Battelli Macerata Feltria 43,80346986 12,44203736 5 PU Teatro ...

The Chapada do Araripe is located between the parallels of 7 and 8° South Latitude and the meridians of 39° and 41° West Longitude of Greenwich. It is a central plateau that forms a territory comprising three Brazilian states in the northeast of the country: Ceará, Pernambuco and Piauí. Due to its geomorphology, it acts as a watershed between the hydrographic basins of the ...

The Wine in Iberia candidacy integrates a group of cultural assets that demonstrate and base the exchange of ideas between two different communities whose result is the emergence of the Iberian Culture, with Wine as one of its driving threads. The Phoenician maritime commercial networks in which the wine participates, the existence of very old settlements where the ...

Seville Heritage Park is one of Jamaica's most significant cultural heritage sites and the area is regarded as the genesis of modern Jamaica. The site has been occupied since prehistoric times, and includes the archaeological remains of the indigenous Amerindian (Taino) village of Maima, the 16th century Spanish settlement of Sevilla la Nueva, the post-1655 British sugar ...

The first guide for the insurance industry to protect our world’s priceless and irreplaceable assets was launched today at a major event by UN Environment’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) in São Paulo, Brazil, convening leading insurers, investors and banks. The pioneering guide, Protecting our World Heritage, insuring a sustainable future, builds on last year’s launch of ...