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Iran (Islamic Republic of),Earthquake,Since the inscription of the property on the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, an International Steering Committee for the safeguarding of Bam (ISC) was established, including representatives from UNESCO, the Iranian Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization (ICHTO), ICOMOS and ICCROM. The first meeting of ...
State of Conservation Score 8.278813 Date 05/2005
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The Via Francigena in Italy is the first and most important road that, in the Middle Ages, connected the countries beyond the western Alps (the land of the Franks) to Rome: the main destination – along with Jerusalem and Santiago di Compostela – for pilgrims who, at the time, travelled from all over Europe. Dating back to the Longobard era, this road was not built from a ...
Tentative Lists Score 8.267307 Date 01/2019
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ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) is an international intergovernmental organization based in Rome, Italy. Established by UNESCO in 1956, ICCROM’s statutory functions are to carry out research, documentation, technical assistance, training and public awareness programmes to strengthen conservation of ...
FAQ Score 8.195279 Date 11/2022
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The World Heritage Centre has noted with great concern the news of the earthquake that struck near L'Aquila, Central Italy, on Monday, 6 April 2009. According to initial reports, some 60 miles west of the epicentre of the quake, the Baths of Caracalla (part of the UNESCO World Heritage property "Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying ...
News Score 8.195279 Date 04/2009
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Rome, Italy,The goal of the Conference is the exchange of experience on internal and external evaluation instruments for the management of Cultural Heritage open to the public (such as monuments, museums, libraries, archives, archaeological sites, etc.) developed in different countries on the basis of defined criteria. Contributions will be requested directly from ...
Events Score 8.051184 Date 12/2006
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Holy See Saint-Siège Santa Sede *Святой Престол الكرسي الرسولي 教廷 Holy See
States Parties Score 7.9232445 Date 10/1982
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Zoom Meeting,The World Heritage Cities Programme team is delighted to invite you to join the UNESCO Chairs Workshop: Protecting Historic Cities and Landscapes - Compatible Design for New Interventions. This workshop gathers today and tomorrow international UNESCO Chairs and experts around the table to discuss the management and protection of urban heritage, which will ...
Events Score 7.912069 Date 09/2023
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At the request of the Ethiopian and Italian governments, UNESCO will send an evaluation team to Aksum, in northern Ethiopia, to prepare the return of its celebrated obelisk. The obelisk has been in Rome since 1937. UNESCO will draw up the re-installation project for the obelisk and the development of the site, which will be funded by Italy. The obelisk has been cut into ...
News Score 7.7394495 Date 03/2005
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The ancient classical period city of Gadara , and a member city of the Decapolis(Greek Ten Cities), is one of Jordan's most dramatic antiquities sites-both for the many substantial ruins of black basalt and white lime stone ,and for the city's impressive setting overlooking the north Jordan Valley, the Sea of Galilee The extensive site has scores of standing and ...
Tentative Lists Score 7.7267895 Date 06/2001
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Holy See,Italy, Air pollution due to the traffic; Vibrations due to the subway ,[Oral report by ICOMOS and the Secretariat]
State of Conservation Score 7.7228003 Date 12/1993
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Via Appia is the first and most important of the great roads built by the Ancient Romans and is, therefore, also known as "regina viarum". It was built towards the end of the IV century BC, in 312, to ensure swift and direct communication between Rome and Capua. According to the  Roman historian Livy, it was built by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus and named ...
Tentative Lists Score 7.649455 Date 01/2006
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Irina Bokova, the Director-General of UNESCO, and Paolo Gentiloni, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, have signed an agreement on the establishment of a centre in Turin (Italy) that will conduct research and training relating to the economics of cultural heritage and cultural policies for development. Under the auspices of UNESCO, the ...
News Score 7.6477785 Date 02/2016
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Roma, Italy,The Fourth Herity conference in 2012 will be focused on "How The Cultural Heritage is communicated Public, Specialists, Managers and Institutions:evaluating the quality of the transmission of the cultural message" will take place in rome 5-7 December 2012. Call for papers All interested persons are invited to contribute to the conference. Please, send an ...
Events Score 7.6477785 Date 07/2012
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New York, 26 September — The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today welcomed transfer of an alleged extremist to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to be tried for destroying religious and historical monuments in Mali. "I commend Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and the authorities of Mali and Niger for transferring the first suspect to the ICC accused ...
News Score 7.5810256 Date 09/2015
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An exhibition - photographs and a video installation - at UNESCO will celebrate the reinstallation of the Aksum obelisk. The show will give visitors a chance to learn about the history of the Ethiopian site and to view the key stages of reinstalling the monument, 24 metres high and weighing 150 tons. Open to the public from 4 to 15 May (9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m.), the exhibition ...
News Score 7.4863815 Date 04/2009
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Paris, 15 February—UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova, and the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Paolo Gentiloni, will sign an agreement on the establishment of a Task Force of cultural heritage experts in the framework of UNESCO’s global coalition Unite for Heritage on 16 February in Rome. Under the agreement, UNESCO will be able to ask the Italian Government to ...
News Score 7.4863815 Date 02/2016
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From 9 to 11 January 2019, ICCROM organized an experts meeting at the Egyptian Academy of Arts in Rome to reflect on its new initiative entitled “Africa Programme 2020-2029: Changing the Face of  Heritage and Conservation in Africa”. The 15 experts representing cultural and heritage institutions on the African continent, ICCROM and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, shared ...
News Score 7.4005747 Date 01/2019
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Roma, Italy,The Euromed Heritage Journalistic Award is an international press competition dealing with the preservation and promotion of cultural heritage. The competition, organized by the European Commission, via the Regional Management and Support Unit (RMSU) of the Euromed Heritage Programme, is open to journalists from EU and Mediterranean partners. It is organized in ...
Events Score 7.4005747 Date 12/2006
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The first of three parts of the Aksum obelisk arrived in Ethiopia by airplane on April 19. The two other pieces of the obelisk, which has been in Rome since 1937, will be sent to Aksum (a World Heritage site) in the following days. Following a mission of UNESCO experts who conducted a field evaluation, UNESCO is to draw up the project for the installation of the obelisk ...
News Score 7.2828703 Date 04/2005
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Holy See,,The Bureau was concerned by the construction project inside the Vatican City of a concrete building of several floors in the place of the old Hospice of Santa Marta, the demolition of which was undertaken on 1 June 1992. The breach in the Leonin Wall that appeared during this work constitutes a danger to the integrity of this fortified ensemble. Moreover, because ...
State of Conservation Score 7.058347 Date 10/1992
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From 25 to 27 May, an international conference entitled “Cultural Heritage and Development Initiatives: a Challenge or a Contribution to Sustainability ” was held at the Palazzo Barnerini in Rome.  Organized by the UNESCO Office in Kabul together with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the World Bank, in cooperation with the Government of Italy, it focused on the ...
News Score 6.9659452 Date 05/2016
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,This side event to the Extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee will include presentations on the historic capital cities of Beijing, Rome, Kyoto and Brasilia by key international experts from the perspective of the HUL Recommendation. The discussion is intended to enhance the global dialogue among capital cities on urban conservation and sustainable ...
Events Score 6.8472533 Date 07/2021
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Major archaeological vestiges have been discovered at the World Heritage site of Aksum (Ethiopia) by the experts UNESCO sent to Aksum (Ethiopia) to survey the World Heritage Site last week. They were sent to prepare for the elevation of the Aksum Obelisk at its original location. The last segment of the 160-tonne 24.6-metre high stele arrived at the airport of Aksum this ...
News Score 6.8176055 Date 04/2005
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Khazarasp is one of the most ancient cities of Central Asia. Many ancient authors of East At-Tabbari (XI century), Arabian historian Al-Istakhri (X century), Beykhaki (XI), Djuveni (XIII century) and many other were mentioned about this city. It is a coeval to Memphis, Rome, Athenes, Merv, Samarkand, Bukhara and many other cities.Khazarasp was the main advanced post of ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.64842 Date 01/2008
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre would like to express its sincere condolences on the death of Andrzej Tomaszewski, renowned professor of built heritage conservation and former Director of ICCROM. His passing comes as a great loss to the cultural heritage preservation field. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Prof Tomaszewski graduated from the Warsaw University of Technology with ...
News Score 6.64842 Date 11/2010
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Roma, Italy,This international training course which will take place in Rome, with study visits to other cities in Italy from 24 September- 26 October 2012 (5 weeks), is organised in cooperation with UNESCO, Blue Shield Network and specialized international and national agencies, with the financial support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), and the Italian ...
Events Score 6.620466 Date 04/2012
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Roma, Italy,This international training course which will take place in Rome, with study visits to other cities in Italy from 24 September- 26 October 2012 (5 weeks), is organised in cooperation with UNESCO, Blue Shield Network and specialized international and national agencies, with the financial support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (FOC), and the Italian ...
Events Score 6.620466 Date 09/2012
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Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1982, Tipasa on the shores of the Mediterranean, comprises Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauritania. An ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome, Tipasa turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of ...
News Score 6.4608083 Date 07/2002
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This conference was held in Rome from December 5-9. The conclusions outlined below were reached thanks to contributions from ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, UN-WTO, HERITY INTERNATIONALFrom the point of view of culture, no poor Countries exist around the World: every territory has a significant and priceless Heritage Wealth. This Heritage constitutes the collective memory of Humanity. ...
News Score 6.4608083 Date 12/2006
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“The reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk is a source of pride for UNESCO,” said Assistant Director-General for Culture, Françoise Rivière, during the official inauguration ceremony of the Aksum Obelisk in its original site in northern Ethiopia on 4 September. “It is a technical achievement but it is also a source of pride because it shows ...
News Score 6.4608083 Date 09/2008
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The World Heritage property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire” has received £537,185 (US$ 850,406) in funding from SITA Trust to underwrite a conservation project that will restore dilapidated portions of the site located in the United Kingdom. The project will be administered by Hadrian’s Wall Heritage. Originally inscribed on the World Heritage List ...
News Score 6.4608083 Date 04/2012
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This year, World Environment Day is focused on air pollution. Almost all of us are affected by it: 92 per cent of people worldwide do not breathe clean air. So in 2019, those celebrating World Environment Day will urge governments, industry, communities, and individuals to come together to explore renewable energy and green technologies, and improve air quality in cities ...
News Score 6.4608083 Date 06/2019
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The project for the reinstallation of Aksum Obelisk (Stela 2) is completed UNESCO has completed the engineering design for the reinstallation of the Aksum Obelisk (Stela 2). The design was developed by the Italian engineer Prof Giorgio Croci (Director of Studio Croci & Associati) who was also in charge of the dismantling of Stela 2 in Rome and of its air transportation ...
News Score 6.2834935 Date 02/2006
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“I was filled with dismay by images of the attack on the Mosul Museum, as well as on other archaeological sites in the Nineveh region in Iraq,” said the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova. She spoke at a press conference following the release of a video showing the devastation of the Mosul Museum in Iraq. Terrorists based in Iraq defaced many statues and bas-reliefs ...
News Score 6.2834935 Date 02/2015
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has called for an immediate end to hostilities in Palmyra (Syria) following reports from several sources that armed extremist groups have infiltrated the World Heritage site, where fighting is now ongoing.  “I am deeply concerned by the situation at the site of Palmyra. The fighting is putting at risk one of the most ...
News Score 6.2834935 Date 05/2015
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Almaty, Kazakhstan,Acclaimed as the ‘greatest route in the history of mankind’, the ancient Silk Road formed the first bridge between the East and the West and was an important vehicle for trade between the ancient empires of China, Central and Western Asia, the Indian sub-continent, and Rome. The Silk Road was more than just trade routes; it symbolized the ...
Events Score 6.2834935 Date 10/2013
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La cité gréco-romaine d’Empuries se trouve dans la commune de L'Escala, dans la région de l’Alt Empordà, province de Girona (Gérone), au nord-est de la péninsule Ibérique (Costa Brava). Empuries est le seul site archéologique de la péninsule Ibérique où se conjuguent les restes d'une cité grecque (Emporion) et ceux d'une cité romaine (Emporiae).Le premier ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.1938744 Date 12/2002
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Située au Centre commercial, en Commune III du District de Bamako, en plein cœur de la ville, la Cathédrale de Bamako, comme lieu de culte pour la communauté catholique, fut érigée à la faveur du Décret du 1er août 1921 de Rome créant le Vicariat Apostolique de Bamako, grâce à l’insistance des gouverneurs du Soudan français. Monseigneur Sauvant posa la première pierre ...
Tentative Lists Score 6.115652 Date 09/2017
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has recognized Ahmed Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi guilty of war crime and has sentenced him to 9 years in prison for his responsibility in the deliberate destruction in 2012 of nine mausoleums and the secret gate of the Sidi Yahia mosque in UNESCO’s World Heritage site of Timbuktu (Mali). “The decision of the International Criminal Court is a ...
News Score 6.115652 Date 09/2016
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The Tiburtino territory, characterized by a richness of its waters and a particular geomorphological conformation of the valley crossed by the Aniene River, was frequented already in very ancient times, as shown by the numerous remains of the first civilization that settled there during the Upper Paleolithic. In the caves near Ponte Lucano, along the travertine embankments ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.973194 Date 01/2006
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The Director-General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, will name the internationally renowned painter, Countess Setsuko Klossowska de Rola, UNESCO Artist for Peace, in a ceremony at Organization Headquarters on January 7 (12.30 p.m.). Countess Klossowska de Rola is being named Artist for Peace for her role in promoting the World Heritage Education Project", which was ...
News Score 5.9565444 Date 01/2005
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The UNESCO World Heritage Centre today signed the contract with Lattanzi SRL construction company to begin the re-erection of the Aksum obelisk. Also known as Stela 2, it is the second largest stela on the Aksum World Heritage site in Ethiopia. Transported to Rome by the troops of Mussolini in 1937, it was returned by the Italian Government in April 2005. Weighing 150 tons ...
News Score 5.8055053 Date 06/2007
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This conference was held in Rome December 3-5, 2008. The conclusions outlined below were reached thanks to contributions from ICCROM, UNESCO-WHC, UN-WTO, HERITY INTERNATIONAL Conclusions by the First HERITY Conference (December 5-9, 2006) highlighted that "from the point of view of culture, no poor Countries exist around the World: every territory has a significant and ...
News Score 5.8055053 Date 04/2011
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, signed a partnership agreement paving the way for the two organizations to undertake joint projects to enhance the protection of cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict. “As the impartial, neutral and independent keeper of international ...
News Score 5.8055053 Date 02/2016
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The site of the ancient town of Shahristan (Kahkakha) was a capital of ancient Ustrushana of VI-IX centuries. It consisted of the complex of castles, united in a system encircled with defensive wall with towers. In the north part there is Sharistan proper with the palace of governor (its name is Kalai Kahkakha I). There is an old fortress in the south part (its name is ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.525297 Date 09/1999
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Paris - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) signed a landmark agreement on Friday 13 October in a new effort to address mounting threats to cultural properties worldwide. Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed ...
News Score 5.525297 Date 10/2017
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Poland,Threat to the integrity of the property (tobacco factory project) (issue resolved),Previous deliberations: Twenty-second session of the Committee, Chapter VII.38 Twenty-third session of the Bureau, Chapter IV.75   Major progress had been made in the implementation of the Strategic Governmental Programme for Auschwitz and of the Act for the Protection of Former Nazi ...
State of Conservation Score 5.525297 Date 10/1999
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Rome,Within the framework of the international conferences which HERITY organizes every two years, the first (2006) was on Quality in Cultural Heritage Management: models and methods of classification, and the Second (2008) on Measuring the Value of material Cultural Heritage. After each conference the proceedings are published. The Third conference will be focused on ...
Events Score 5.525297 Date 12/2010
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Of all the past civilisations, the Roman civilisation was the first to envisage from the very beginning the systematic construction of roads. The creation of a very extensive road network standing the test of time up to the present was only possible thanks to the administrative organisation which Rome had developed throughout the different provinces of its empire.The ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.5059757 Date 04/2007
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Among the numerous events organized as part of “Aqua Granda 1966-2016”, UNESCO is directly contributing to the exhibition “From the emergency to the restoration of cultural heritage: Stories and images from the archives of the city” at the Marciana National Library in Venice, Italy. The exhibition will run until 27 November 2016. The Aqua Granda 1966-2016 exhibition at the ...
News Score 5.270892 Date 11/2016
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This year’s Forum is being held online with nearly 100 World Heritage Site Managers from around the world from 7 to 13 July, together with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Advisory Bodies (ICCROM, IUCN and ICOMOS), heritage experts and representatives of various Chinese heritage institutions.   H.E. Mr. Tian Xuejun, Chairperson of the extended 44th session of the World ...
News Score 5.270892 Date 07/2021
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands,The Course According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT, from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.). Another 1.5 billion people are living in countries afflicted with civil strife and violent conflicts, states the World Development Report ...
Events Score 5.270892 Date 07/2014
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Zerzevan Castle is located in Diyarbakır Province in the southeast part of Turkey. Its location was at a strategic point on the way from Amida (Diyarbakır) to Dara (Mardin), from Edessa (Şanlıurfa) to Nisibis (Nusaybin) in the ancient period.Existence of a castle named Kinabu on the edge of the ancient road which was used for commercial and military purposes is first ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.2591553 Date 04/2020
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Italy Italie Italia Италия إيطاليا 意大利 The Italian Republic
States Parties Score 5.071343 Date 06/1978
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Formation géologique d'un intérêt scientifique exceptionnel, les collines de Chimtou, l'antique ville numide de Simitthus qui fut déduite colonie romaine sous l'empereur Octave-Auguste, sont constituées d'un calcaire de couleur variant du blanc crémeux au rouge brique avec une dominante jaune or. C'est cette dernière couleur qui a lui la célébrité et la large diffusion. ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.038884 Date 02/2012
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Recognizing the importance of protecting cultural heritage from attack in times of conflict, Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), today signed a Letter of Intent formalizing and further enhancing their collaboration. The signing of the Letter of Intent took place in the margins of an ...
News Score 5.038884 Date 11/2017
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Situé dans le Centre-ouest du pays, le site archéologique de Sbeïtla renferme les vestiges de la ville antique de Sufetula Musuniorum (Sufetula des Musunii). Fondée ex nihilo par l’administration romaine au cours du 3e quart du 1er siècle après J.C. L’agglomération a été établie sur un plateau assez plat dans une boucle de l’oued Sbeïtla, immédiatement en contrebas d’une ...
Tentative Lists Score 5.02281 Date 04/2021
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Afghanistan, Political instability Inclination of the Minaret Lack of management plan Illicit excavations and looting ,As requested by the World Heritage Committee at its 34th session (Decision 34 COM 7A. 20), the State Party submitted to the World Heritage Centre a draft Statement of Outstanding Universal Value on 8 February 2011. However, no progress report on the ...
State of Conservation Score 4.9556007 Date 05/2011
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Mothia was founded at the end of VII century B.C. on the island of San Pantaleo, situated at the centre of a large lagoon, known today as 'Stagnone', or big pond. Thanks to its location, particularly favourable to maritime trade, Mothia soon became one of the most prosperous Western Phoenician colonies. The more outstanding public works date back to the second half ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.8264384 Date 01/2006
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“The destruction of heritage is inseparable from the persecution of people. This is why we consider the protection of cultural heritage today as far more than a cultural issue. This has become a humanitarian imperative, and a security issue,” stated UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova today in The Hague during the Europe Lecture 2016, organised by the European Lecture ...
News Score 4.8116894 Date 06/2016
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The Aizanoi ancient city is located in the inner Western Anatolia Region, 48 km Southwest of the Kütahya Province, and within the boundaries of the Çavdarhisar district. Today, it is approximately at a 1000-1050 m altitude in the flat treeless plateau which is known as Örencik Plain. The City was located approximately 40 km Southwest of the Cotiaeum, 25 km ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.6311836 Date 04/2012
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Peru,a) Risk of disintegration and destruction of structures, surfaces and decorative art caused by humidity produced by rising water levels in the aquifer of the property; b) Delay in legislative procedures for Draft legislation No. 3807 concerning the illegal occupation of the Chan Chan Archaeological Zone. ,In January 2006, the World Heritage Centre received the State ...
State of Conservation Score 4.6311836 Date 05/2006
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Ethiopia,a) Inexistence of the delimitation of this serial site; b) Lack of conservation and management plans; c) Lack of appropriate urban and architectural legislation; d) Lack of cartography, documentation and equipment.,Following the return of the Aksum Obelisk, from Rome to Aksum, in April 2005, and in the framework of the Italian Funds in Trust, UNESCO has ...
State of Conservation Score 4.6311836 Date 06/2006
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The remains of the ancient city of Tyras lie on the high cape of the West Coast of the Dniester Liman (within the modern town of Bilhorod-Dnistrovsyi). In the Middle Ages, a new settlement was founded there, and it had different names (Turrys, Bilhorod, Ak-Liba, Akca-Kermen, Moncastro, Akkerman). Tyras was established in the late 6th century BC, and became a major trade ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.551948 Date 07/2019
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The Paleochristian heritage of the Maltese Islands rates as the fourth most important cluster of such monuments in the Mediterranean Region following those of the Italy, Israel and of the Maghreb. The most prominent feature of Malta's Paleochristian archaeology consists of an extensive concentration of subterranean burial grounds (OI catacombs) located under the modern ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.4511113 Date 08/1998
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova addressed today’s Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly, which adopted unanimously a resolution on “Saving the cultural heritage of Iraq”. The resolution, presented jointly by Germany and Iraq, was cosponsored by a total of 91 Member States, focuses on the fight against the destruction of cultural heritage and attacks against the ...
News Score 4.4511113 Date 05/2015
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Afghanistan,a) Political instability b) Inclination of the Minaret c) Lack of management plan d) Illicit excavations and looting,The Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam was inscribed on both the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2002. In April 2007, the property sustained damage to the gabion walls on the Hari Rud River side from flash ...
State of Conservation Score 4.4427385 Date 05/2009
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Lazio's countryside features quite a number of stately homes, or suburban villas, built from the second half of the 16th century onwards for the higher clergy and by members of the aristocracy connected to the papal court in Rome.These suburban villas developed mainly in two areas: in the region's northern area, around Viterbo and in the South-Eastern area, on the ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.322765 Date 01/2006
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The dendrological park "Sofiyivka" of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences is a research establishment of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; the park is of all-state significance. The construction of the park was started in 1796, the opening ceremony took place in May, 1802. In 1796-1832 the park belonged to the family of Pototskyi, but in 1832 it was confiscated ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.2845187 Date 06/2000
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World Heritage Centre Established in 1992, the World Heritage Centre is the focal point and coordinator within UNESCO for all matters related to World Heritage. Ensuring the day-to-day management of the Convention, the Centre organizes the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee and its Bureau, provides advice to States Parties in the preparation of site ...
Pages Score 4.2845187 Date 04/2016
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La voie romaine Bavay-Tongres est une section d'un des axes majeurs de la Gaule septentrionale qui reliait deux points stratégiques, la Mer du Nord depuis Boulogne jusqu'au Rhin à Cologne. Afin d'assurer la maîtrise du territoire après la conquête de la Gaule par César, les Romains entreprirent la création d'un réseau de chaussées s'articulant autour des villes, chef ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.2728915 Date 08/2008
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The Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia (Colombia), the Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe (Sudan), Wadi Rum Protected Area (Jordan) and The Longobards in Italy, Places of Power , 568 – 774 A.D. (Italy), and the Fagus Factory in Alfeld (Germany), have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Inscriptions will continue on Monday. The Coffee ...
News Score 4.129946 Date 06/2011
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Since the beginning of the conflict in Iraq, in addition to the tragic loss of human life and the humanitarian crisis associated to the persecution of cultural and religious minorities, cultural heritage has been the target of intentional destruction. The goal has clearly been to erase the history of the country along with the identities and diversity of its people. UNESCO ...
News Score 4.129946 Date 03/2015
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World Heritage Centre Established in 1992, the World Heritage Centre is the focal point and coordinator within UNESCO for all matters related to World Heritage. Ensuring the day-to-day management of the Convention, the Centre organizes the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee and its Bureau, provides advice to States Parties in the preparation of site ...
Pages Score 4.129946 Date 03/2023
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Ethiopia,a) Insufficient delimitation of this serial property; b) Lack of conservation and management plans; c) Lack of appropriate urban planning and building regulations; d) Lack of cartography, documentation and equipment.,The World Heritage Committee had requested a joint World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS / ICCROM mission to Aksum to assess its state of conservation ...
State of Conservation Score 4.129946 Date 06/2008
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Libya, Vandalism Deliberate destruction of heritage Human Resources Conflict situation prevailing in the country Illegal activities ,On 30 January 2018, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report, which is available at http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/287/documents/. Progress in a number of conservation issues addressed by the Committee at its previous sessions ...
State of Conservation Score 4.129946 Date 05/2018
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The property being proposed for inclusion on Spain’s Tentative List is an ex novo sector of the Roman city of Italica, referring to an urban planning project dating back to Hadrian’s era. This project significantly extended the limits of the city and completely changed its urban space. This autonomous sector of Italica is located in the northern area of the site, declared ...
Tentative Lists Score 4.1107774 Date 01/2019
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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 ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.9760733 Date 03/2016
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The Haci Bayram district is located at the north-western part of the Citadel within the boundaries of the district of Ulus, Ankara.The area, taking Hacı Bayram Mosque and Augustus Temple as the focal point, has a traditional historic fabric which also contains Ottoman and Early Republican Period buildings, as well as later-period ones. The district is located on a hill ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.9760733 Date 04/2016
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The archaeological remains of the Harappa port-town of Lothal is located along the Bhogava river, a tributary of Sabarmati, in the Gulf of Khambat. Measuring about 7 HA, Lothals thick (12-21 meter) peripheral walls were designed to withstand the repeated tidal flood, which probably resulted in the bringing the city to an end. Within the quadrangular fortified layout, ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8709488 Date 04/2014
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The archaeological site of Sagalassos is located in southwest Turkey, near the present town of Ağlasun (Burdur province); roughly 110 km to the north of the well-known port and holiday resort of Antalya. The ancient city was founded on the south facing slopes of the Taurus mountain range and was the metropolis of the Roman province of Pisidia. Next to its mountainous ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.8520088 Date 06/2009
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Experts* sent to Lebanon by UNESCO to assess the state of the country's cultural heritage sites have called for urgent measures to clean up the oil spill from the World Heritage edifices along the Byblos shore line. However, they found that major components of Lebanon's cultural heritage had been spared by the recent conflict. The experts' findings were presented at a ...
News Score 3.8520088 Date 09/2006
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today called for the creation of “protected cultural zones” around heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. Opening an international conference on threats to cultural heritage and diversity in these countries at UNESCO Headquarters, she suggested a start could be made with the city of Aleppo, and especially the Omeyyad Mosque, a highly iconic ...
News Score 3.8520088 Date 12/2014
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Istanbul, Turkey, 15 July—The World Heritage Committee inscribed five new sites on the World Heritage List this afternoon. One of the new sites, a transboundary property, is located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, the others are in Greece, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The new sites, in the order of their inscription, are: Stećci – Medieval ...
News Score 3.8520088 Date 07/2016
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Serbia,a) Lack of legal status of the property; b) Lack of legislative protection of buffer zones; c) Lack of implementation of the management plan and of active management; d) Difficulties to monitor the property due to political instability, post-conflict situation (visits under the Kosovo Stabilisation Force / United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo ...
State of Conservation Score 3.8520088 Date 05/2008
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Algeria,· Natural degradation due to sea salt, shore line and wind erosion, and to vegetation with roots seriously affecting archaeological remains; · Deterioration of the archaeological vestiges following serious acts of vandalism (destruction, theft, waste dumping, etc); · Increasing and uncontrolled urbanisation on the outskirts of the site and the ...
State of Conservation Score 3.8520088 Date 05/2005
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Iraq, Lack of survey, documentation and mapping of surviving surface buried archaeological remains of all types Slopes of the archaeological mound non stabilized Location and/or architectural design of the Kurdistan National Museum not appropriate  Existing legal framework needs to be improved Insufficient involvement of former inhabitants and of Erbil’s civil society in ...
State of Conservation Score 3.8520088 Date 05/2018
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Libya, Conflict situation prevailing in the country Excessive vegetation growth Natural Degradation Urban encroachment Impact of humidity and seawater salt on stone masonry ,On 8 February 2019, the State Party submitted a state of conservation report. An executive summary of this report is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/184/documents/. Progress in a number of ...
State of Conservation Score 3.8520088 Date 06/2019
235.
Sudan,a) Deterioration as a result of exposure to difficult environmental conditions such as wind with sand and floods; b) Urban encroachment; c) Absence of a management plan with government commitment. ,Upon a request from the World Heritage Centre, due to information received concerning threats affecting the property, the State Party submitted a detailed report on ...
State of Conservation Score 3.6091218 Date 06/2010
236.
The University of Havana is the oldest higher education institution in the country, founded in January 1728. The Dominican fathers have the merit of promoting the approval of the first Cuban higher education center (third in the Caribbean region and sixteenth in Latin America), which name would be Real and Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo (Royal and Pontifical ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.5295439 Date 12/2024
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The Sanctuary includes marine areas within both inland waters and territorial waters (twelve mile zone) of France, Italy and the Principality of Monaco. It also includes the neighbouring high seas. The Italian regions involved are: Liguria, Sardinia and Tuscany.The portion of basin between Liguria and Provence have been known since the ancient time to be the home for many ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.218049 Date 01/2006
238.
The old city of Beijing was first built in the Yuan Dynasty (mid-13th Century, formerly known as "Dadu"), and further developed and perfected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (early 14th Century to early 20th Century). With eight hundred years’ history of urban development, it is now the largest imperial capital city still existing in China and a classic model of ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.2049484 Date 01/2013
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The ancient city of Kibyra is located in township of Gölhisar on southwestern part of the province of Burdur, at a distance of ca. 110 km from the provincial center. The settlement is situated on hills just to the west of modern town. To the west of the city are broad pasturages and Akdağ mountains while the fertile plain of Gölhisar extends to the east, with the stream ...
Tentative Lists Score 3.2049484 Date 04/2016
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Bonn (Germany) - An appeal for the international community to counter the new threat of violent extremism and cultural cleansing was issued at the opening of the World Heritage Committee, which opened its session in Bonn, Germany, today. The Committee will remain in session until 8 July under the chair of Maria Bohmer, Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office ...
News Score 3.2049484 Date 06/2015
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Director of World Heritage Lazare Eloundou Assomo Since 2021Originally from Cameroon, Mr Eloundou Assomo is a graduate in architecture (Grenoble School of Architecture, France) and in urban planning (DEA Grenoble 1). He began his career as an associate researcher at the Centre for Earthen Construction of the Grenoble School of Architecture in 1996. He was then in ...
Pages Score 3.2049484 Date 11/2024
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It covers almost 600km of the whole Roman Empire’s Danube frontier. The property formed part of the much large frontier of the Roman Empire that encircled the Mediterranean Sea. The Danube Limes (Western Segment) reflects the specificities of this part of the Roman Frontier through the selection of sites that represent key elements from roads, legionary fortresses and ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.1512156 Date 07/2024
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Santiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout the Middle Ages. To reach Spain pilgrims had to pass through France, and the group of important historical monuments included in this inscription marks out the four routes by which they did so. 868Routes of Santiago de Compostela in ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.1115036 Date 12/1998
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Built in the 1st centuries B.C. and A.D. under Dacian rule, these fortresses show an unusual fusion of military and religious architectural techniques and concepts from the classical world and the late European Iron Age. The six defensive works, the nucleus of the Dacian Kingdom, were conquered by the Romans at the beginning of the 2nd century A.D.; their extensive and ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.1115036 Date 12/1999
245.
The site consists of two separate elements, containing outstanding vestiges dating back to Greek and Roman times: The Necropolis of Pantalica contains over 5,000 tombs cut into the rock near open stone quarries, most of them dating from the 13th to 7th centuries BC. Vestiges of the Byzantine era also remain in the area, notably the foundations of the Anaktoron (Prince’s ...
World Heritage Properties Score 3.1115036 Date 07/2005
246.
In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits of this region in north-west Spain, using a technique based on hydraulic power. After two centuries of working the deposits, the Romans withdrew, leaving a devastated landscape. Since there was no subsequent industrial activity, the dramatic traces of this remarkable ancient ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.9510803 Date 12/1997
247.
The Cilento is an outstanding cultural landscape. The dramatic groups of sanctuaries and settlements along its three east–west mountain ridges vividly portray the area's historical evolution: it was a major route not only for trade, but also for cultural and political interaction during the prehistoric and medieval periods. The Cilento was also the boundary between the ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.9510803 Date 12/1998
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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 ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.8063889 Date 12/1996
249.
In Europe the limes was established under Augustus was moved ahead under Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian and Antoninus Pius between the rivers Rhine and Danube, in the territory of the United Kingdom and Romania, was moved back under Gallienus and Aurelian in the 3rd century, and given up in the course of the 5th century. The boundary of this late Roman sector is in the Balkan, ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.74401 Date 01/2020
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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 ...
World Heritage Properties Score 2.6752224 Date 07/2006
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The Roman Empire, in its territorial extent, was one of the greatest empires the world has known. Enclosing the Mediterranean world and surrounding areas, it was protected by a network of frontiers stretching from the Atlantic Coast in the west, to the Black Sea in the east, from central Scotland in the north to the northern fringes of the Sahara Desert in the south. Much ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.6272173 Date 01/2020
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The serial transnational nomination “Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan” (Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation) includes two large-scale memorial complexes associated with the beginning and the turning point of military operations on the Eastern Front of the World War II. World War II is the most significant event of ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.6184788 Date 05/2024
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The serial transnational nomination “Memorials to the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War: Brest Fortress and Mamayev Kurgan” (Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation) includes two large-scale memorial complexes associated with the beginning and the turning point of military operations on the Eastern Front of the World War II. World War II is the most significant event of ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.6184788 Date 05/2024
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Beypazarı is a district of the capital city, Ankara, and located in Central Anatolia 98 km west of the capital. Beypazarı has been settled since ancient times, and holds symbols of ancient traditions with rich historical and natural resources. Though the district has been ruled by the Hittites, Phrygia, Galatia, Rome, Byzantine, Anatolia Seljuk, and Ottoman dynasties, it ...
Tentative Lists Score 2.6184788 Date 04/2020
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