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The Keibul Lamjao Conservation Area represents an extraordinary story of natural antiquity, diversity, beauty and human attachment. Keibul Lamjao Conservation Area (KLCA) comprises of a core area of Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP) (40 sq km) and a buffer of Loktak Lake (140 sq km) and Pumlen Pat (43 sq. km). The property area along with buffer area is located in the ...
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Kekova is the name of a region of fascinating islands, bays and ancient cities. Kekova has a rarely seen attraction, a long the shore of the Island a sunken city is observed. The geological movements of the Island caused the city on the Island to be submerged, creating a strange scene with half of the city under water and half above. Teimiussa, Simena are the main Lycian ...
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Sadd Al-Bint (also called Sadd Qusaybah)
25°29’6.04”N
39°21’46.38”E
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Sadd Al-Hasid – Ancient Dam; Restored Dam
25°32’41.74”N
39°23’10.67”E
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Sadd Al-Khanaq (also called Mu’awiyah) – Dam 1; Dam 2
24°26’34.28”N
39°55’7.33”E
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Sadd Samallaqi
21°7’45.60”N
40°30’44.32”E
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Sadd ...
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Melka Kunture, as it can be seen today, is part of a gently undulating landscape of the Upper Awash Valley, in the highlands of Ethiopia, at c. 2000m asl. All over the Upper Pliocene and the Pleistocene, tectonic activities led to the deepening of the demi-graben depression were the meandering paleo-Awash deposited alluvia. Through time, parts of the paleo-landscape were ...
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Awali is a settlement of approximately 400 buildings located on a plateau above the Mughaidrat plain north of Jabal Dukhan in the Southern Governorate of the Kingdom of Bahrain, where oil was first discovered and exploited on the Arabian Peninsula. Awali is the earliest modern oil “camp” or settlement in the Arabian Gulf, which provided a gated residence and working ...
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Le Centre du patrimoine mondial se félicite de l'Année internationale des forêts. Avec 104 sites du patrimoine mondial reconnus en totalité ou en partie pour la riche diversité biologique de leurs forêts, la Convention du patrimoine mondial est la convention intergouvernementale la plus efficace en ce qui concerne la ...
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According to the criterion (v) Sarajevo - Open city is unique example of traditional human living and settling. Beauty of a city is possible not only with numerous architectural monuments but also in interpretation of synthesis of living harmony and in preservation of varieties, and Sarajevo is such, unique, unrepeatable and united open site, the world city. Previous ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] CAA 2008, the 36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology: On the Road to Reconstructing the Past 2-6 April 2008 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary. The main theme of the conference is the use of computer applications and quantitative methods in two fields: at large-scale (rescue) ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] UNESCO Chair at Kadir Has University aims to offer summer courses to international and Turkish students with a focus on World Heritage both as an academic field of study and as an applied area of study to discuss various contemporary issues and themes, regarding management of World Heritage and community involvement through use of new media. The ...
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The Blue Nile and the Lake Tana, located in the North West highlands of Ethiopia in the Amara Regional State, have been a passion that has driven many explorers since historic times. In ancient Greece, the source of the Nile was considered as one of the earth’s most compelling mysteries. A Greek historian, Herodotus, wrote about the Nile extensively in 460 BC. He believed ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Second Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centres for World Heritage took place in Milan, Italy, on 22 and 23 January 2012, hosted by the International Research Centre on the Economics of Culture and World Heritage Studies (Turin Centre) and the IULM University, with the participation of representatives of all existing Category 2 ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Within the context of the HUL application in Cuenca (Ecuador), a Visionary Conference will take place lead by the Municipality of Cuenca, the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, the University of Cuenca and WHITRAP (Shanghai).
Local Stakeholders and community participants will join this event, as well as international experts will present ...
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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 ...
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The planned property includes parts of Lake Saimaa, located in south-eastern Finland, which is the largest lake in Finland (4 400 square km2) and among the four largest lakes in Europe. The national serial nomination would be based on Natura 2000 areas within the lake that are the most important breeding areas for the endemic Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis), ...
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Whakarua Moutere (or the North-East Islands) is a serial site of nine locations (eight of them island groups) extending along the northeastern coastline of the North Island. The northernmost cluster is the Three Kings Islands (latitude 34º 10' S) 60 km NW off Cape Reinga; the southermost is the Aldermen Islands (36º 58' S) 20 km off the eastern coast of the ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The 16th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia will bring information technology and multimedia specialist together with leaders in Art, Science and Heritage to explore creative solutions to 21st Century challenges.
The Conference themes include:
Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality,
Virtual Heritage,
TransMedia ...
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Lake Guija is shared with neighboring Guatemala, and is one of the largest natural lakes in the region. The lake and its shores preserves an outstanding natural environment, including a large forest on the San Diego Volcano and an area of marshland and ponds extending north of the lake (the "Lagunas de Metapan"). A traditional fishery is still supported by the lake.
Over ...
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This is proposed serial site comprised of Panga ya Saidi, Meru and Chasimba Caves which are in close proximity, related and similar based on their archaeology.
Panga ya Saidi
Panga ya Saidi is an archaeological cave site located in Kilifi County, southeastern Kenya, about 15 km from the Indian Ocean in the Dzitsoni limestone hills. The cave site has rich archaeological ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] A round-table discussion dedicated to the astronomical heritage was organized by the Permanent Delegation of Chile to UNESCO, in cooperation with the World Heritage Centre, at a Seminar held at UNESCO on 1 October 2013.
The main topics discussed within the framework of the Astronomy and World Heritage Thematic Initiative:
Protection of ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Preparations are underway for the conference organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Dunhuang Academy, and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China. Originally scheduled for summer 2003, the conference was postponed due to the SARS epidemic.
Ninety papers from specialists in 18 countries have been ...
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Paris, France,[Uniquement en anglais] UNISCAPE and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette are jointly organizing the international conference "Landscape & Imagination. Towards a new baseline for education in a changing world", which will be held in Paris 2-4 May 2013.
The aim of the conference is to discuss the contribution ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The fourth annual coordination meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage-related Category 2 Institutes and Centres (C2Cs) took place in Shanghai, China, from 23 to 25 May 2014. The World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific region (WHITRAP) hosted the meeting with support from Tongji University and the Shanghai Tongji ...
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Hanyangdoseong 1
Jongno-gu, Seodaemun-gu and Seongbuk-gu Districts, Seoul City
N37°35'35.09" E126°58'25.24"
Hanyangdoseong 2
Seongbuk-gu and Jongno-gu Districts, Seoul City
N37°34'50.07" E127°0'31.39"
Hanyangdoseong 3
Jongno-gu District, Seoul City
N37°34'16.07" E127°0'35.03"
Hanyangdoseong 4
Jongno-gu District, Seoul ...
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The proposed serial transnational nomination European Paper Mills is a selected group of six paper mills in five countries that demonstrates the leading role of Europe in the handmade paper industry from the 16th centuries onwards. The group includes six component parts: Velké Losiny Paper Mill (Czechia), Homburg Paper Mill (Germany) and Niederzwönitz Paper Mill (Germany), ...
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The proposed serial transnational nomination European Paper Mills is a selected group of six paper mills in five countries that demonstrates the leading role of Europe in the handmade paper industry from the 16th centuries onwards. The group includes six component parts: Velké Losiny Paper Mill (Czechia), Homburg Paper Mill (Germany) and Niederzwönitz Paper Mill (Germany), ...
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The Simien Mountains National Park (SMNP) is a world heritage property located some 800km north of Addis Ababa in Amhara National Regional State in the northern Ethiopia highland massif. The property area was only 136 square kilometers when it was originally established under the Negarit Gazetta No 4 of 31st October 1969, Order No 59 of 1969. More recently, the Simien ...
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The proposed serial transnational nomination European Paper Mills is a selected group of six paper mills in five countries that demonstrates the leading role of Europe in the handmade paper industry from the 16th centuries onwards. The group includes six component parts: Velké Losiny Paper Mill (Czechia), Homburg Paper Mill (Germany) and Niederzwönitz Paper Mill (Germany), ...
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The proposed serial transnational nomination European Paper Mills is a selected group of six paper mills in five countries that demonstrates the leading role of Europe in the handmade paper industry from the 16th centuries onwards. The group includes six component parts: Velké Losiny Paper Mill (Czechia), Homburg Paper Mill (Germany) and Niederzwönitz Paper Mill (Germany), ...
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The proposed serial transnational nomination European Paper Mills is a selected group of six paper mills in five countries that demonstrates the leading role of Europe in the handmade paper industry from the 16th centuries onwards. The group includes six component parts: Velké Losiny Paper Mill (Czechia), Homburg Paper Mill (Germany) and Niederzwönitz Paper Mill (Germany), ...
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Karlstejn Castle surpasses those other castres already on the World Heritage List in the exceptional nature of its ideological calling, which ensured that this architectural composition be complemented by utterly unique artistic décoration.
The castle was built in 1348-57 on a spur extending from a rocky ridge in a picturesque, hilly landscape around 30km south-west of ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] This conference organized by the University of Olso, will be held in Oslo, Norway, 14-15 November 2013.
Since the 1990s World Heritage has been portrayed as a marker of transformation, from economic growth, increased tourism, regeneration to more intangible aspects of local pride and global recognition. In the last five years research on the ...
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Though the history of the city dates back to 900 BC, its famous for her tombstones dating to 12 th-15 th centuties AD. It has an important place inthe Islamic world in their variation within Anatolian tomb architecture in dimension and design.
Apart from some small cemeteries here and there in Ahlat there are six main cemeteries of historical importance named; Harabe ...
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En juin 2012, le Centre du patrimoine mondial et de l'éducation pour la jeunesse de Pékin a lancé ce concours en République populaire de Chine en collaboration avec le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO.
Sur 102 élèves participants, 15 finalistes ont été sélectionnés par le Centre ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Association of Independent Museums will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in 1997. Joint hosts for this special anniversary conference will be the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and the Ironbridge Institute (University of Birmingham). The historic Ironbridge Gorge provides a fitting venue for this year's theme of 'Spirit of Time and ...
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Nishat Bagh N34 07 30.57 E74 52 53.90Shalimar Bagh N 34 08 58.71 E74 52 23.21Achabal Bag N 33 42 53 E75 06 38.32Chashma Shahi N34 05 08.37 E74 53 12.86Pari MahalVerinag N33 32 10.86 E75 14 56
Pre-Mughal Period
Before the advent of Islam, Kashmir was predominantly a Hindu region, the concept of pleasure gardens was not alien to it even during this period. Influenced by the ...
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The city of Trujillo of Peru in spite of to be into a genuine architectural - urbanistic latinoamerican problematic keeps a particular urban characteristics which are valued by the existence of a group of monuments with a historic - artistic
and architectural value. Into its own urban central kernel there are a lot of works that must be considered as real "landmarks" all ...
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Sirmilik National Park and Lancaster Sound (proposed) National Marine Conservation Area is an exceptional representation of the high Arctic coastal ecosystem. The proposed property illustrates the outstanding cultural heritage of Paleo-Eskimo, Thule, Inuit and European peoples over the last three thousand years and exhibits a living culture that is integral to the ...
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The Danube Limes is integral part of the system of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire. The Frontiers of the Roman Empire are the largest single monument built by one of the most influential civilizations in human history, stretching on three continents at a length of more than 7000 km, including and linking together hundreds and even thousands of individual fortified sites ...
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Sanxingdui Site: N 30°59′38″, E 104°11′58″
Jinsha Site: N 30°41′01″, E 104°00′41″
Joint Tombs of Boat-shaped Coffins: N 30°40′00″, E 104°03′19″
According to legends and historical records, there was once an ancient state ...
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Le Centre du patrimoine mondial, en cooperation avec The Nature Conservancy, une des organisations les plus importantes au monde dediee a la conservation des aires protegees, et avec Washington State University, est heureux d'annoncer le lancement du cours en ligne « Business Planning - Achieving Sustainable Financing for Protected Areas ». Le cours a pour objectif ...
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Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe,En collaboration avec le Fonds du Patrimoine Mondial Africain (FPMA), le Centre du patrimoine mondial organise un atelier a Masvingo (Zimbabwe) du 26 au 28 avril 2018 qui marquera une etape importante dans la participation des etablissements d'enseignement africains a la mise en oeuvre de la Convention du patrimoine ...
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The three rock shelters of Jasukavenda (Cerro Guasu): Itaguy Guasu, Itaguy Miri, Itaguy'i:S 23° 05' 77.4''; W 55° 59' 0.20''Akua 1: S 22° 40' 16.8''; W 56° 09' 29.5''Akua 2: S 22° 40' 20.4''; W 56° 09' 57.1''The existing rock shelters inside Cerro Corá National Park:Alambique/Amba: S 22° 40' 09,3''; W 56° 00' 39,7''Tujao 1 and 2: S 22° 40' 58''; W 56° 00' 21.6''
The rock ...
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Introduction
Located in the Middle Euphrates region of Iraq, in the province of Al-Qadisiyah, the site of Nippur (Nuffar) encompasses a group of archaeological mounds (tells), the largest one 25m high, and the remains of a canal bed (Shatt al-Nil). It extends over 168.4 ha in the Mesopotamian plain and, in Mesopotamian times, the city lay on the Euphrates. Nippur played an ...
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Trakai Park lies in the eastern part of the Lithuanian Republic, 25 km to the west of the capital city, Vilnius. Trakai Park stands in the Dzukija Upland area of the Baltic uplands at a height of 102-228 m above sea level. It covers an area of wooded lake land in eastern Dzukija, which is centred on the historical town of Trakai.
Trakai Park was founded in 1991 by the ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Organised by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the University of Florida (College of Design, Construction and Planning Preservation Programs). 20 experts, 10 from the USA, 9 from Canada and one from Brazil, were invited by the Director of the World Heritage Centre to discuss identification, protection, conservation and potential nomination of ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) are organizing a one day seminar on “World Heritage and Public Works–Development cooperation for poverty alleviation” at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
The seminar aims at examining the contribution of heritage preservation ...
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Part of transnational serial nomination - Viking Monuments and Sites
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SERIES AS A WHOLE
The Viking serial nomination comprises land-, sea- and townscapes stretching from the North Atlantic to the Baltic Sea. Among the thousands of Viking sites from the eighth to the twelfth centuries AD, these nine nominated properties from six nations are ...
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The Miskitos Keys is made of an insular area and its coasts in a radius of 40kms. and a continental area formed
by a strip 20kms. wide Outstanding in the Keys are its coral reefs as a preponderant geological formation on which tropical humid vegetations form.
Where many species in danger of extinction still live, such as Crocodylus acutus and marine turtles, especially ...
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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 ...
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Suzhou, Chine,Cette formation est dispensee par l'Institut de Formation et de Recherche pour l'Asie et le Pacifique (WHITRAP), Suzhou Center, Suzhou, Chine, et « The School of Architecture of Southeast University », Chine, sous la tutelle de l'UNESCO.
Le cours adopte une approche participative et multidisciplinaire et est concu pour familiariser les participants avec les ...
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Nanumea 5°40’30”S 176°06’56”E
Nuitao 6°06’34”S 177°20’03”E
Nanumanga 6°17’11”S 176°18’55”E
Nui 7°14’44”S 177°08’45”E
Vaitupu 7°29’21”S 178°40’47”E
Nukafetau 8°01’36”S 178°18’50”E
Funafuti 8°31’28”S ...
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1. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park
48 54 52.60N 88 4 33.06E
2. Siilkhem mountain National Park, Part "A"
49 25 59.89N 88 33 28.53E
3. Siilkhem mountain National Park, Part "B"
49 49 21.42N 89 44 56.84E
The Mongolian Altai Mountains constitute a major and central part of the Altai mountain range located at the junction of Central Asia and Siberia. The ...
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Sanliurfa known as the city of prophets has a very rich and for reaching background, due to its location in the great fertile plain of upper Mesopotamia Sanliurfa was praised as the city of prophets Hiob, Jethro and St. George besides Abraham who were said to have lived here.
This Holy city is full of historic religious, public and civil architectural buildings. All are ...
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Hanoi, Viet Nam,Le Seminaire s’articule autour de trois themes principaux, integrite physique des paysages urbains historiques, integrite fonctionelle des paysages urbains historiques et l'integrite visuelle des paysages urbains historiques. Il sera accueilli par la Hanoi University of Architecture (HAU) et le Comite du Peuple de la Ville de Hanoi (Viet Nam).
Dates ...
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In the framework of the UN 2009 International Year of Astronomy, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is hosting a symposium on "The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture". The aim of this Symposium is to provide a global, and at the same time detailed, view of the very many activities that link astronomy to our diverse cultures. It ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The 16th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists will be held in the city of The Hague in the Netherlands from 1st-5th September 2010.
The meeting is organised by the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, the Department of Archaeology of the Municipality of The Hague and the Cultural Heritage Agency (Ministry of ...
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Archaeological investigations have demostrated that the present town of Chalchuapa has at least 3200 years of continous human occupation. The record of this lengthly past includes a wide variety of archaeological features, including several groups of monumental architecture relating to different periods of the community's prehistory. Three of these groups are currently ...
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Ciudad Vieja is a historic archaeological site, representing first location of the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador. San Salvador was established here in 1528, while the Conquest was still in progress. It was abandoned only 17 years later and never reoccupied. Its low ruins are presently used for traditional agricultural. A variety of features can be observed, some of ...
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Capital city of the first Arakanese Kingdom, the site measures 7 by 6 km and contains some 200 Buddhist monuments (temples, stupas, monasteries, etc.) mostly built in the 15th and 16th centuries AD. Located at the junction of the deltaic plain and the Arakanese mountains, the site is an exceptional example of the cleaver use of natural features (hill ranges, waterways, ...
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Geographic location: The Las Labradas Archaeological Zone is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, in Northwestern Mexico, facing the Sea of Cortes, on the shore of the beach bearing the same name, in the Municipality of San Ignacio, in the Southern part of the State of Sinaloa, Mexico. It is found on the outskirts of a small fishing village called Barras de Piaxtla, ...
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Located at the mouth of the Ciliwung River in Java , the Old Town of Jakarta was established by the VOC in 1619. Its 17th century town plan was completed in 1650. In 17th and 18th century VOC had largest volume of trade in the world, governed from Batavia. No colonial town built by VOC matched the grandeur and completeness (military, civil engineering, and ...
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The small town of Hatta is situated at the foot of the Hajar Mountains, a chain that stretch out the south-eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, along the Gulf of Oman. This mountain range, shared by Oman and the United Arab Emirates, features the Samail ophiolite, the largest and best-preserved ophiolite complex in the world. The landscape of the region is characterized ...
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Most of the el-Bariyah area is classified as Irano-Turanian in climate, with a mountainous desert habitat. Essentially a treeless, thin-soiled, arid and dramatically eroding limestone plateau is dissected by wadi draining towards the Dead Sea. This region lies in the rain-shadow of the central highlands, classified as a hot area that receives a very low annual rainfall, ...
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The Old Town of Bar is the largest and the most important medieval archaeological site in the Balkans. It covers the area of 4.5 hectares, where the remains of around 600 public and private edifices are the proof of the existence of various construction phases present in different epochs of the Mediterranean history.
The visual identity of the Old Town of Bar is formed by ...
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Fort Shirley is part of the Cabrits National Park in the north of Dominica and can be considered Dominica’s most important historic site and was the scene of the famous revolt of the 8th West India Regiment in 1802 when African slave soldiers took over the garrison for three days in protest over conditions there and the fear of being sent to work in the canefields. Their ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] 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 Roma 5-7 December 2012.
This Conference scope includes all Museums, Monuments, Libraries, Archives and ...
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Toutswemogala Hill lies 6.5 km West of the North-South Highway in the Central District of Botswana. It is situated about 50 km north of the village of palapye.
Toutswemogala is an elongated flat-topped hill rising about 50 meters above the surrounding flat mopane veld. It is an Iron Age settlement, which has been occupied on two different occasions. The radio-carbon ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The international workshop 'Strengthening south-south collaboration on World Heritage and sustainable tourism' will be held at Hongcun Village, Anhui Province in China.
This international workshop will focus on the power of tourism for local economic development and the conservation of heritage values through international cooperation. It is ...
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The Jesuit Mission of San Cosme y San Damián is one of a group of 30 Jesuit missions in the Rio de la Plata Basin and one of the seven remaining Jesuit missions in Paraguay. The current municipality of San Cosme y San Damián has an approximate population of 10,000 inhabitants and a surface area of 800 km², and is situated along the Paraná River coast. This Tentative List ...
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Traditional Settlement at Nagari Sijunjung (Perkampungan Adat Nagari Sijunjung) located at two villages, Jorong Koto Padang and Tanah Bato, of Sijunjung regency of West Sumatra. The main setting of settlement is in a linier position lies between two large rivers, namely Batang Sukam and Batang Kulampi. The compound of traditional houses is surrounded by hills, forest, ...
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Les menaces pesant sur les sites culturels et naturels du patrimoine mondial dues aux effets du changement climatique ont ete a nouveau confirmees lors de la 12eme Conference des Parties a la Convention-Cadre des Nations-Unies sur les Changements Climatiques, qui s'est tenue a Nairobi au Kenya. Le rapport, intitule « l’Atlas du changement climatique : cartographie du ...
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Surrounded by blue rolling hills and topographically cut off from the rest of the populated areas of the region, Ziro Valley presents an example of how co-existence of man and nature has been perfected over the centuries by the Apatani civilization. The valley, inhabited by the Apatani tribe, lies tucked in the lower ranges of the eastern Himalayas in the state of ...
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Boubyan Island is comprised of pristine marine and terrestrial ecosystems and habitats of international and regional importance. It is the largest island in Kuwait with an area of 863 square kilometers, and is the second largest island in the Arabian Gulf. Boubyan is located in the most north-western point of the Gulf and includes the Mubarak Al-Khabeer Marine Reserve ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Course will take place 3-15 November 2008, Kyoto, Japan
The Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto is organizing the 3rd International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 3 to 15 November 2008, in cooperation with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, ICCROM ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] From 14 to 23 March 2011, an international workshop, Preparation of the Management Plan of Tchitundo-Hulu Rock Art Site, was held in Virei, Angola. The 10-day on-site training session brought together more than 50 national and international site managers and experts from Angola, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, São ...
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Development in the historical structure of the Iranian architecture has begun from the second half of the 19th century and contemporaneous with establishment of Dar al-Fonun College which was the first training center for new sciences in Iran since 1851. At the outset of this development, there was a tendency toward the European architecture and employment of some elements ...
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The Sovi Basin, Waimaro, is Fiji's most important land ecosystem in terms of its biological and landscape heritage. The 19600 hectare Basin is sited in the Naitasiri Province.
Sovi Basin has a number of special natural features. The distinctive bowl shape of the Basin with its encircling volcanic peaks create a landform unique in both Fiji and in the island Pacific. Its ...
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Large timber monasteries, mostly built during the 18th and 19th centuries AD, on a similar linear plan. Four main timber structures are usually aligned on a large wooden platform on posts, providing spaces for cult, assemblies and accomodation for the monks: from east to west, the shrine, the prayer hall, the main teaching hall and an ancillary building. Above the shrine, ...
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Within the framework of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project "Capacity Building to Support the Conservation of World Heritage Sites and Enhance Sustainable Development of Local Communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)" the World Heritage Centre will organize a national workshop on World Heritage for government officials and community ...
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Coordinates:
- Kanas National Nature Reserve: N48 58 E87 18
- Two Rivers' Headwaters Nature Reserve of Altay: N47 30 E89 50
The Altay Mountains extend across China, Kazakstan, Mongolia and Russia in a NW-SE direction. The whole length is 1650 km and the width is about 130-200 km, with an elevation of 1000-3000 m. The altitude of the highest Youyi Peak is 4,374 m and it is ...
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The Stud-farm Institute, later Stud-farm Estate founded by Emperor Joseph II. in 1784 has been a major centre and organisational example of the highest standard horse-breeding and animal husbandry.The first buildings of the estate were built in a short time. Eventually they developed into a unique architectural and agricultural complex. Besides the value of the species of ...
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The Nyero Rockpaintings site is a three tiered rockshelters with primitive paintings on their inner surfaces. Archaeologically the site is of a Later Iron Age period. The makers of the paintings cannot be traced but the ingenuity in which they were painted demonstrates a high degree of appreciation of their aesthetic values.
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,[Uniquement en anglais] As it was announced during the side-event held at the Pulkovo Observatory on 28 June 2012, a round-table discussion was organized on 4th July 2012 in presence of the Academician Mikhail Marov, Head of Department of the Vernadsky Institute, Chairperson of the Committee on Heritage of Ziolkovsky, Russian Academy of Sciences, co-initiator of the ...
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During mid-19th and 20th centuries, settlements arose along the Gulf of Arauco, in a territory known as the Carbon Basin of the Biobio Region in Chile, due to and for the exploitation of submarine coal deposits, which, located down the coastline of the cities of Coronel, Lota, Curanilahue and Lebu, began a globalization process in South America that originated an intense ...
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The Nicortsminda Cathedral of St. Nicholas is one of the most important architectural monuments of the medieval Georgia. It is located in the village bearing the same name in the mountainous region Racha in Western Georgia. According to the epigraphy on the western entrance, Nicortsminda Cathedral was built during the reign of King Bagrat III in 1010-1014.The Cathedral is ...
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Today it is called “The Jewish Cemetery of Altona Königstrasse” in Hamburg. The site covers an area of almost 1.9 hectares and is the amalgamation of two adjacent but separate cemeteries, namely the southwestern part laid out by Sephardic Jews in 1611, which extends over one fourth of the cemetery, and the other section to the north and east, a cemetery laid out by the ...
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The Classical Karst is part of the Dinaric Karst. Dinaric Karst is a typical karst landscape located in temperate latitudes, the largest continuous karst surface in Europe and belonging among the largest karst surfaces in the world. The karst landscape is the most widespread landscape type in Slovenia. Classical Karst covers the area between the Ljubljana Marsh ...
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"The Rise of Systematic Biology" is a tentative serial nomination of thirteen sites in eight countries (see Table 1), suggested by Sweden, representing the foundation of the science of systematic biology. The sites together form the arena where the science developed strongly due to the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and his international scientific network. ...
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Hinglaj Mata Mandar is an ancient but living cultural landscape located in Hingol National Park on the Makran coast of the Arabian Sea, approximately 190 km west of Karachi. A famous Hindu religious place, it is situated in a mountain cave on the bank of the Hingol River. This is an ancient holy place that predates the Arab invasion and the advent of Sufism in Sindh and is ...
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