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Located at the edge of a wide and sheltered gulf, İzmir connects to a rich hinterland extending north, east and south through a series of rivers and valleys. İzmir's geographical position is surrounded by Madra Mountains and Balıkesir provincial border to the north, Kuşadası Gulf and Aydın provincial border to the south, Çeşme Peninsula and the Gulf of İzmir, which derives ...

The World Heritage Committee today added 13 cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List and one extension to an existing cultural site in Mexico. Roșia Montană Mining Landscape (Romania), was simultaneously inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger pending the removal of threats to its integrity posed by possible extractive activities. These additions were ...

Web Style Guide The World Heritage Centre Website mainly use YAML css Framework. The website strucutre is based on a flexible and responsive grid. It support old Internet Explorer versions, and it is tested with IE7 and Higher. Table of content Typography Headings Paragraphs Messages Blockquotes Inline Text Unordered List Ordered List Definition ...

Banteay Chhmar Temple was an ancient site in the Angkorian period (802-1432). It is located in Banteay Chhmar commune, Thma Puok district, Banteay Meanchey province, about 65-km north of Sisophon city, via Road Number 56. The site face the Dangrek Mountain chain at the north, and it is surrounded by  four villages, namely Banteay Chhmar west, Bnateay Chhmar north, Banteay ...

Subiaco Benedectine Complex:   S. Benedetto Monastery 41°55'00.7"N 13°07'05.4"E S. Scolastica Monastery 41°55'06.4"N 13°06'39.6"E Montecassino Complex 41°29'27.9"N 13°48'50.6"E San Vincenzo al Volturno Abbey:   San Vincenzo Abbey 41°38'60.0"N 14°05'16.3"E Archaeological area of Volturno 41°38'55.3"N 14°04'58.8"E  San Pietro al ...

No. Name of property State, Province or Region Area (ha) Geographic (lat/long) or UTM Coordinates of approximate centre point 1 Nomadic Monuments of Inner Tien Shan Kyrgyzstan, Inner Tien Shan, Naryn oblast Koshoi- Korgon- 55,6 Tash-Rabat-28,5 Manakeldy-31,8 Shyrdakbek - 38,3 Koshoi- Korgon- 41" 7' 24, 83 N 75" 41' 59, 63 E Tash-Rabat 40"49'21, ...

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta is located on the traditional lands of the Ngadjuri and Narungga peoples, respectively, who occupied these lands for thousands of years prior to European settlement and dispossession from the nineteenth century. Burra and Moonta figure in their oral traditions and in European contemporary written records and illustrations, ...

1. The City Wall in XingchengXingcheng City Wall is located at the west bank of Liaodong Bay of China, the middle part of Liaoxi Corridor and the central part of Xingcheng city.Xingcheng City Wall was built during the 3rd year of Xuande Reign of Ming Dynasty (428), completed in the 5th year of Xuande Reign (430), meant to protect and safeguard the city from the intrusion ...

World Heritage properties are affected by the impacts of climate change at present and in the future. Their continued preservation requires understanding these impacts to their Outstanding Universal Value and responding to them effectively. Climate Change and World Heritage © Copyright / Geoff Pugh, Oxfam East Africa via flickr.com / Children collect water for ...

Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 45COM 10 September - 25 September 2023 Committee Members Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Qatar, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Zambia ...

This is a proposal for a modification to the boundaries of the Property inscribed in 2003 on the World Heritage List (Decision 27 COM 8C 42) and identified as “Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza” to include the monument of the Cathedral of the Asunción in Jaén. After the experience of Úbeda and Baeza, Andrea Vandelvira ...

No. Name of property State, Province or Region Area (ha) Geographic (lat/long) or UTM Coordinates of approximate centre point 1 Ancient Termiz Surkhandarya Region, Termiz District 500 ha 67º11'34" N, 37º15'52"E 2 Historic Center of Qoqon Ferghana Region   40º35''N; 71º E 3 Kanka   Tashkent Region, Akkurgan District 220 ha 41º12' ...

Kharga Oasis (a) NW corner: 36R 780150.50 m E - 2882738.25 m N NE corner: 36R 285678.26 m E - 2882281.51 m N SE corner: 36R 282536.98 m E - 2690578.57 m N SW corner: 36R 785938.04 m E - 2690675.87 m N Nabta Playa (b) NW corner: 36Q 241612.93 m E - 2515159.66 m N NE corner: 36Q 292065.13 m E - 2514259.72 m N SE corner: 36Q 291310.98 m E - 2464508.64 m N SW corner: 36Q ...

The following sites have been inscribed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee at its 21st session, meeting in Naples, Italy, 1-6 December, 1997. A total of 46 sites were inscribed: 7 natural sites; 38 cultural sites; and 1 mixed site. The work of the 21st Session thus brings the total number of sites on the World Heritage List to 552 (418 cultural, 114 ...

No. Name of the component part Latitude and Longitude Latitude Longitude 01 Ajinatepa Buddhist monastery 37°47'52.70"С 68°51'16.00"В 02a Kalai Hulbuk 37°46'39.70"С 69°33'24.35"В 02b Shahristoni Hulbuk 37°47'0.50"С 69°33'37.47"В 02c Makbarai Shohoni ...

No. Name of property State, Province or Region Area (ha) Geographic (lat/long) or UTM Coordinates of approximate centre point I. ROUTE: AMUL - MERV 1 Amul Lebap velayat 5 At the outskirts of the modern Turkmenabat city 2 Akcha-gala Bayramaly etrap, Mary velayat 1.2 Approximately 8 km to the north-east of Merv, at the Akcha-gala deserted ...

The archaeological site of Tell Sa'ad (F3 ) Dilmun Town N3258669.797  E235762.699 The archaeological site of Tell (F6 - A) Al Hakim Palace N3258904.000  E236053.000 The archaeological site of Tell (F6 - B) The Tower Temple N3258888.000  E236101.000 The archaeological site of Tell Sae'ed (F5) The Hellenistic Fortress N3258787.000  E236086.000 The ...

Lisbon has witnessed the meeting and exchange of cultures that took place in the city throughout the centuries, from the diverse peoples who settled there since the 7th century B.C. and left their cultural mark, to the globalisation generated by the Portuguese discoveries, when the city became a precursor to the maritime exploration of the 15th and 16th centuries, ...

The Founding of Chiang Mai Chiang Mai was purposefully created by King Mangrai in AD.1296 to be the political, economic, social and cultural center of his newly expanded and integrated kingdom of the Tai people, called "Lanna Kingdom" (kingdom of a million rice fields). It was designed to be located in the landlocked heartland of Southeast Asia, north of modern-day ...

Cairns - UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, meeting since November 27 in Cairns, Australia, has inscribed 61 new cultural and natural sites on the World Heritage. The List now has 690 sites of "exceptional universal value" in 122 countries. Sites in Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Nicaragua and Suriname are on the List for the first time. Ten of the new sites are properties ...