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The area of Chamangá, located in the Province of Flores is characterized for having the greatest concentration of pictographic sites from Uruguay. The potential of this place in relation to these type of archeological areas is confirmed day after day with the constant increase in the number of rupestrian representations findings. More than 40 rock paintings have been ...

Mardi apres-midi, le President Zelensky a officialise la candidature du centre historique d’Odesa au Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, dans un discours adresse au Conseil executif de l’Organisation. En recevant ce dossier, Audrey Azoulay, Directrice generale de l’Organisation, a souligne que « cette initiative marque la confiance accordee aux mecanismes de protection de ...

The Qawra/Dwejra site combines interesting geology, both on land and under the sea, rich diverse wildlife and habitats, dramatic seascapes dominated by a rocky shoreline, cultural elements spanning from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century AD and a general wilderness feel. Both the inland sea (Qawra) and Dwejra Bay are excellent examples of large-scale circular ...

The “Places of Globalisation” bring together a shared legacy based on heritage, linked to the routes of the Discoveries; they form a network of different places and promote cultural exchange between peoples, thereby contributing to dialogue between cultures and projecting a dynamic concept of culture and peace. The cultural legacy of the Ancient World gave rise to the ...

Le programme de bourses du patrimoine mondial du National Monuments Service a ete mis en place pour soutenir la nouvelle strategie nationale pour le patrimoine mondial. L'un des objectifs de cette strategie est de defendre le patrimoine mondial aux niveaux national et international, et l'un des principaux moyens d'y parvenir est l'education et les initiatives de ...

Workers’ Assembly Halls is a proposed transnational serial nomination that is representative of the global phenomenon of mass organisation of workers by the international democratic labour movement in the context of industrialisation during the formative period of working-class internationalism from 1850 to 1950. Purpose-built and established by international democratic ...

Vancouver, Canada,Du 3 au 9 fevrier 2023, le Cinquieme congres international sur les aires marines protegees (IMPAC5) se tiendra a Vancouver, au Canada. Le Programme marin du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO presidera le symposium sur l'habilitation des communautes locales a s'adapter au changement climatique, qui reunira des praticiens des 29 recifs coralliens inscrits sur ...

The Napier Art Deco Historic Precinct is part of the central business district of the City of Napier, located between the shoreline of Hawke Bay and the coastal margin of the Heretaunga Plains, Hawke's Bay, North Island.Napier township was originally surveyed and laid out in the 1850s. Most of the town centre was destroyed on 3 February 1931 by a major earthquake ...

The name "makhalla" (community), derives from the word "mahal", meaning "place" and "time, moment". This duality has always been characteristic of the makhalla. A makhalla is not only a territorial and administrative unit, a community of people living in a certain territory in a city or district, but also a way of life, a type of thinking and a centuries-old ...

,[Uniquement en anglais] The World Heritage Convention is approaching two important milestones: 40 years since it came into force and the inscription of the 1000th property on the World Heritage List. However, the very success of the World Heritage Convention poses a series of challenges and opportunities not fully envisaged when it was adopted in 1972. At its 33rd ...

Uplistsikhe Cave Town-Fortress is situated on a rocky massif in 15 km eastwards to town Gori on the left bank of the river Mtkvari. The fortress is mentioned in chronicles from earliest times. Its history begins in the I-II millennium B.C. Uplistsikhe was an important religious, political and cultural centre in the Hellenistic and the late Antique periods (IV c. B.C. - IV ...

,[Uniquement en anglais] Designed to support Albania and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in their efforts to protect the Lake Ohrid area, the second Management Planning Workshop on 3-4 June in Tirana, Albania, will bring together stakeholders from both sides of the Lake to discuss the long-term vision and management objectives for a potential transboundary ...

Indawgyi Lake Wildlife Sanctuary (WS) contains Indawgyi Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Myanmar, and a substantial portion of the surrounding forested watershed. Established in 1999, ILWS covers 73,600 hectares and ranges in elevation from 169 m at the lake surface to over 1,400 m.  The lake drains to the north and includes 12,000 hectares of open water, along ...

,[Uniquement en anglais] Effective transboundary cooperation among Botswana, Angola and Namibia on management of the shared Cubango-Okavango River Basin is critical for the conservation of the Okavango Delta World Heritage property (Botswana), inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2014 under criteria (vii) (ix) and (x) due to its exceptional biodiversity and scenic ...

L’UNESCO lance un certain nombre d’initiatives pour soutenir les industries culturelles et le patrimoine alors que des milliards de personnes dans le monde se tournent vers la culture pour s’evader en surmontant l'isolement social auquel les soumet une pandemie qui affecte durement les manifestations culturelles. « Le caractere mondial de la crise du COVID-19 est un appel ...

The Khudafarin bridges are located on the Araz River and link the Jabrayil region of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Khoda Afarin County of East Azerbaijan province, Islamic Republic of Iran. The Khudafarin bridges are composed of an 11-span bridge and a 15-span bridge located over the Araz River between the villages of Khudafarin and Gumlakh. There is a distance of 750 ...

The Wild Ass Sanctuary is located in the Little Rann of Kutch of the Gujarat State in India. It covers an area of 4954 km². The Sanctuary is named after a sub species of wild ass (Equus hemionus khur), the last population of which it harbours. The Rann is one of the most remarkable and unique landscapes of its kind in the entire world. It is a vast desiccated, ...

Cajamarca is the setting of the encounter between the culture of Spain and the Andean world. The layout of the city and its buildings, both civil and religious, built of adobe and volcanic stone within the Historic Centre of Cajamarca, offer an exceptional testimony of Spanish-Andean culture. The architecture, which is unique and covers every century from the 16th to the ...

The Sajama National Park includes geological natural wonders made up of flora, fauna, thermal springs and also cultural wonders such as polychromed chullpas (pre-hispanic burial buildings), cave paintings, pucaras and colonial architecture and art. The native population, proud of what they have, has always tried to preserve their way of life as well as the ambience that ...