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The Olympic Park, built for the XX Olympic Summer Games 1972 in Munich, covers an area of 289 hectares in the northern centre of the Bavarian state capital. The main sports facilities lie at the heart of an architectural and park landscape moulded by their roof shape and the terrain topography in the southern part of the Olympic Park. This part also incorporates the ...

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

Banganarti (in Nubian, Island of the Locust) is a small village on the right bank of the Nile, half-way between the Third and Fourth Nile cataracts. Seven and a half kilometer downriver, on the same bank, is situated Tungul/Old Dongola, once the capital of the Kingdom of Makuria. The excavations at Banganarti began in 2001 with the discovery of a huge church which stand on ...

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 ...

Excavations, historic documents and scientific analyses support the fact that Varanasi is one of the most ancient continuously living cities of the world. With an abundance of iconic ghats, temples, historic housing and living religious and cultural traditions, Varanasi is one of the highest embodiments of Indian culture and spirituality, and the ghats are an epitome of ...

The Pretzien Weir, a sluice gate weir completed in 1875, is located at the banks of the river Elbe in the vicinity of the city of Magdeburg. The Elbe river is one of the major streams of Central Europe. Periodic floods in this largely unregulated river frequently alter the water level at Magdeburg from 0,5 meters in times of draught to 7,5 meters in times of high flooding, ...

Italie,,Le Centre du patrimoine mondial a reçu le plan de gestion de l’État partie par courrier daté du 1er février 2005. L’État partie a également fourni le 30 mars 2005 des cartes révisées du bien qui ne couvrent pas les deux musées. L’ICOMOS a étudié le plan de gestion du ...

The city of Gaziantep is located on the edge of the Alleben Stream and the settlement history of the city dates to end of the 5th century. The stream flows by winding the settlement area in C shape. However, Alleben Stream is low in water and the water level is further reduced by increasing summer temperature. The Gaziantep Plateau also has a small number of streams. ...

Philippines,Absence d’autorité de gestion efficace du site et de législation appropriée ; absence d’un plan de gestion stratégique final du bien ; Réduction de l’intérêt du peuple Ifugao pour sa culture et l’entretien des terrasses rizicoles ; absence de ressources financières et ...

Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo: N: 995933,051; E: 666505,166Historic Centre of Panamá City Within Casco Antiguo: N: 989913,756; E: 661089,998 Panama City is directly associated with important interchanges of human values throughout its history due to its strategic position on the Central American Isthmus. As a terminal city and link of important communication routes, ...

In 332 BC, Alexander the Great who was welcomed as a liberator, first went to Memphis, the capital of Pharaonic Egypt, to honour the Egyptian gods and to receive the royal investiture as Pharaoh, then to the village of Rakhotis to the west of the delta near the Mediterranean, to found Alexandria whose perimeter who drew himself and ordered his architect, Dinocrates of ...

Mfangano is located in Lake Victoria, South-West Kenya. The area is classified as semi-arid to semi-humid, with a bimodal rainfall pattern. The vegetation is variable but dominated by a combination of thick forest trees and shrubs down slope, while the hilltop is dominated by patches of forest and grassland. The inhabitants are the Abasuba people, a sub tribe of the Bantu ...

Chine,Pression urbaine, pression du tourisme ; absence de mécanisme de gestion (notamment législatif) ,Conformément à la décision 27 COM 7B.43 adoptée à la 27e session du Comité du patrimoine mondial en 2003, l’Etat partie a présenté un rapport d’avancement au Centre du patrimoine ...

Orchha is a historical town in the Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh, India with a total population of around 12,000 inhabitants. The town encompasses a very dense collection of the historical buildings, gardens and traditional housings. It was the seat of an eponymous former princely state of central India, in the Bundelkhand region. The historical settlement derived its ...

Site # 1: Yelleg, Halal, and Maghara Mountains The mountains of Yelleg (1087 m), Halal (892 m), and Maghara (750 m), are isolated highlands of the Tih (= Wildrness) Desert of North Sinaï. These mountains, besides being rather rich in plant dibversity, include many interesting elements not known from the Egyptian mainland, or even in other regions of Sinaï. The only ...

1. City of Gerace: 38.27285, 16.216862. Baptistery of Santa Severina: 39.14848, 16.915263. Oratorium of San Marco a Rossano: 39.57140, 16.636344. Catholic of Stilo: 38.48038, 16.468285. Orthodox Monastery of S. Giovanni Theristìs in Bivongi: 38.49521, 16.47080 The nomination proposal constitutes a serial site consisting of 5 components - a city and 4 monumental buildings - ...

Pologne,a) Absence de plan de gestion ; b) Manque de consultation des communautés locales.,L’État partie a déployé des efforts importants pour la finalisation du plan de gestion. Du 30 novembre au 2 décembre 2006, une réunion internationale de consultation sur le plan de gestion a été organisée par ...

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

The Karatepe-Aslantaş Archaeological Site consists of a settlement continuum located today on the west bank of the Aslantaş dam lake at its narrowest point and continues further beyond on the opposite bank. The location preserves the original bend of the Ceyhan/Pyramos River flowing through the once fortified hilltops. The archaeological site comprises the Iron Age remains ...

Latitude Longitude -13.95215  143.27487 -15.48606 144.66698 -13.88880 142.84803 -12.61881 143.44903 -11.99030 143.11611 -15.33069 -15.11388 143.57402 143.30956 The Cultural Landscapes of Cape York Peninsula will be proposed as a serial World Heritage property comprising a number of component parts from across the Peninsula and will ...