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State of Conservation

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53
Properties concerned
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Date Start: 2015close
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Threats* : Commercial developmentclose Housingclose Interpretative and visitation facilitiesclose Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructureclose Industrial areasclose
Aksum (2015)
States Parties: Ethiopia
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities
Other Threats: Structural instability of Stele 3
Ancient City of Bosra (2015)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient City of Damascus (2015)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis (2015)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Ancient Villages of Northern Syria (2015)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata (2015)
States Parties: Italy
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Series of structural collapses at the property
Archaeological Site of Cyrene (2015)
States Parties: Libya
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (2015)
States Parties: State of Palestine
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Degradation of the architectural complex of the Church of the Nativity
Danger List:  Yes
Brasilia (2015)
States Parties: Brazil
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue (2015)
States Parties: Hungary
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Lack of conservation of residential housing in the area inscribed as World Heritage
Churches of Chiloé (2015)
States Parties: Chile
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Commercial development
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2015)
States Parties: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Commercial development
Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy (2015)
States Parties: Indonesia
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing
Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces (2015)
States Parties: China
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Interpretative and visitation facilities
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo (2015)
States Parties: Panama
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Fragile state of the property and accelerated degradation by environmental factors and the lack of maintenance
Danger List:  Yes
Group of Monuments at Hampi (2015)
States Parties: India
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Hill Forts of Rajasthan (2015)
States Parties: India
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Industrial areas
Other Threats: vulnerabilities of certain individual structures within the forts requiring short-term conservation actions
Historic Areas of Istanbul (2015)
States Parties: Türkiye
Year: 2015
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Continued degradation of the vernacular architecture within the protected zones (particularly Ottoman-period timber houses in the Zeyrek and Süleymaniye core areas); Land Reclamation project
Historic Cairo (2015)
States Parties: Egypt
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Dilapidated infrastructure; Neglect and lack of maintenance
Historic Centre of Lima (2015)
States Parties: Peru
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities
Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg (2015)
States Parties: Austria
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Historic Centre of Vienna (2015)
States Parties: Austria
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra (2015)
States Parties: Albania
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Lack of adequate fire fighting arrangements in the historic urban zone
Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso (2015)
States Parties: Chile
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Commercial development Housing
Other Threats: Fire
Historic Town of Grand-Bassam (2015)
States Parties: Côte d'Ivoire
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Historic Town of Zabid (2015)
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta (2015)
States Parties: Georgia
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Kathmandu Valley (2015)
States Parties: Nepal
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (2015)
States Parties: Russian Federation
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (2015)
States Parties: Ukraine
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre (2015)
States Parties: Ukraine
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Lamu Old Town (2015)
States Parties: Kenya
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Deterioration of dwellings
Le Morne Cultural Landscape (2015)
States Parties: Mauritius
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (2015)
States Parties: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Commercial development Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities
Danger List:  Yes
Meidan Emam, Esfahan (2015)
States Parties: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Commercial development Housing
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls (2015)
States Parties: Jerusalem (Site proposed by Jordan)
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Natural risk factors; Deterioration of monuments
Danger List:  Yes
Old City of Sana'a (2015)
States Parties: Yemen
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Functional decay of the residential neighborhoods
Old Towns of Djenné (2015)
States Parties: Mali
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Deterioration of dwellings
Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove (2015)
States Parties: Nigeria
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab) (2015)
States Parties: Lebanon
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church (2015)
States Parties: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Petra (2015)
States Parties: Jordan
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Commercial development Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Qal’at al-Bahrain – Ancient Harbour and Capital of Dilmun (2015)
States Parties: Bahrain
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing
Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures (2015)
States Parties: Uzbekistan
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Conservation of urban fabric
Site of Palmyra (2015)
States Parties: Syrian Arab Republic
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Other Threats: serious weathering of many stone blocks
Danger List:  Yes
Stone Town of Zanzibar (2015)
States Parties: United Republic of Tanzania
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7,WHC-15/39.COM/INF.7Rev
Threats*: Housing Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Other Threats: Environmental pressures in relation with the Malindi port project; Natural disasters and lack of risk-preparedness
Tipasa (2015)
States Parties: Algeria
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Housing
Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi (2015)
States Parties: Uganda
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7A.Add
Threats*: Housing
Danger List:  Yes
Tyre (2015)
States Parties: Lebanon
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing
Other Threats: Insufficient maintenance
Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) (2015)
States Parties: Jordan
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Other Threats: Unstable structures and lack of security
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2015)
States Parties: Germany
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure
Van Nellefabriek (2015)
States Parties: Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B
Threats*: Interpretative and visitation facilities
Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape (2015)
States Parties: Lao People's Democratic Republic
Year: 2015
Document Source: WHC-15/39.COM/7B.Add
Threats*: Housing Interpretative and visitation facilities
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Albania Algeria Austria Bahrain Brazil Chile China Côte d'Ivoire Egypt Ethiopia Georgia Germany Hungary India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Italy Jordan Kenya Lao People's Democratic Republic Lebanon Libya Mali Mauritius Nepal Netherlands (Kingdom of the) Nigeria Panama Peru Russian Federation State of Palestine Syrian Arab Republic Türkiye Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Republic of Tanzania Uzbekistan Yemen
Threats
Housing 46 Major visitor accommodation and associated infrastructure 9 Interpretative and visitation facilities 7 Commercial development 6 Industrial areas 1

* : The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).

** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.


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