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The World Heritage Torch Run Association is partner of UNESCO since August 2009. Its objective is to transmit the messages of UNESCO through the music and the actions of the UNESCO Artist for Peace, Missa JOHNOUCHI, in the form of joint project with the World Heritage Centre. The label " World Heritage Torch-Run Concert " makes it possible to better understand the approach ...
Partenaires Score 25.197628 Date 08/2020
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Property History – Background Parramatta is situated on the traditional land of the Burramatta clan of the Dharug people. The Dharug occupied land from Botany Bay to Picton in the south and Springwood in the west for many thousands of years prior to European settlement. The Burramatta had a close connection with the Parramatta River, which provided fresh water and fish, ...
Listes indicatives Score 19.955284 Date 09/2023
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CREATING KAKUM At one time the coastal zone of West A*ica was covered by 600,000 krn2 of continuous rainforest, but due to growing human populations, farming, and logging the forest have shrunk by 72%, to a series of isolated "islands" of forests. Kakum, named after the Kakum River whose headwaters lie within the park's boundaries, was originally set aside as a forest ...
Listes indicatives Score 18.47011 Date 01/2000
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The town of Mértola owes a great part of its historical importance to the Guadiana River where, the first important text with information on commercial circulation, was the charter of Mértola, from 1254, granted by D. Paio Peres Correia, Master of the Santiago Order. A river port in constant contact with the sea, it has been, over many millennia, an important commercial ...
Listes indicatives Score 16.968285 Date 01/2017
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The Heaven Pit and Ground Seam Scenic Spot is a part of Qiyao Mountain range and the geodetic structure is located in the extension part of the upward and folded zone of Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou at the west edge of Wuyi Mountain-Xuefengshan Mountain folded zone in Neocathaysian structural system. The direction of structural line is NE-SW. It is a typical landform ...
Listes indicatives Score 16.164019 Date 11/2001
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Suite à la décision du Président Roumain de mettre un terme au projet de construction du parc à thème "Draculaland" près du "Centre Historique de Sighisoara", classé site du patrimoine mondial. WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEECHAIRMAN / PRESIDENT 6 February 2003 Excellency, In my capacity as Chairperson of the World Heritage ...
Actualités Score 15.491938 Date 02/2003
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Interpretation Standards at World Heritage Sites: Is There a Need for Assessment Criteria for On-Site Interpretation Programmes and Emerging Interpretive Technologies Registration required -- see belowA One-Day Roundtable DiscussionOrganized by the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation and Presentation (ICIP)at the UNESCO ...
Evénements Score 15.087901 Date 09/2006
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The ancient city of Aspendos is located in Southern Turkey, in the ancient Pamphylia region by the Eurymedon (Köprüçay) river. The acropolis lies about 60 m. above sea level and sits on a flat-topped hill with many surviving monuments including the Nymphaeum, Basilica, Market Building and Odeion. The Eurymedon used to be a navigable river and gave access to the city. This ...
Listes indicatives Score 14.721792 Date 04/2015
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Salle des Pas perdus, Salle III, Salle V,Apprendre ensemble à changer le monde avec vos sœurs et frères scouts:Une journée passionnante de découvertes pour célébrer la Journée mondiale de la Pensée à travers la diversité culturelle et le Patrimoine mondial. Le mouvement scout « US Girl ...
Evénements Score 14.409322 Date 02/2011
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Two tells near the village of Barbar covered the largest temple yet found in Bahrain and a smaller neighbouring temple. The Barbar Temple is actually three temples, one succeeding the other on the same site. The two oldest temples are terraced with a central platform above an outer oval platform, an architectural feature comparable with Sumerian temples. The Barbar ...
Listes indicatives Score 14.157511 Date 09/2001
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The Natural-Historical complex of Karaftoo is located to the North of Kurdistan Province, about 72 km to the northwest of Divandarreh, to the east of Saqez Township, in an area called Havatu. It is in the form of a giant rock of limestone in a 45 degree slope surface, having 1500 meters length and 700 meters width.  This complex is situated in a preserved region called ...
Listes indicatives Score 13.90641 Date 02/2017
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,[Uniquement en anglais] From 6 to 19 October 2012, Go4BioDiv will take place for the third time – parallel to COP 11 in Hyderabad, India. It will be hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Government of India and carried out by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) with support by various international partners. The International Youth Forum ...
Evénements Score 13.899021 Date 05/2012
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,[Uniquement en anglais] We wish to inform you that from Octobre 5 to Octobre 10 1997, Laval University, in Quebec, will host ForumUNESCO International Seminar under the theme "Universities and Heritage: Towards a New Convergence". Sponsored by UNESCO General Director M. Federico Mayor, this event will gather professionals, students and teachers working in the field of ...
Evénements Score 13.814194 Date 10/1997
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En mars 2012, l'Administration du patrimoine culturel  (CHA)  de la République de Corée en collaboration avec le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO a lancé un  Concours national de storyboards Patrimonito . Sur 142 élèves participants, l'Administration du patrimoine culturel a sélectionné 10 ...
Actualités Score 13.588497 Date 03/2012
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Each year on the second weekend in May, dedicated people and organizations plan World Migratory Bird Day events to celebrate migrating birds in their region and to raise awareness about the need for their protection. Since World Migratory Bird Day began in 2006, events have been carried out in 104 countries. On their epic journeys spanning ...
Evénements Score 13.027932 Date 05/2012
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Asia and the Pacific Unit of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre is delighted to invite you to a Cocktail Event on the Regional Framework Action Plan for Asia and the Pacific, organised as a side event of the extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh.  Venue: Al Ahsa Oasis Room - Al Faisaliah Hotel – Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi ...
Evénements Score 13.013899 Date 09/2023
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The Wudalianchi is one of the first batch of state scenic spots areas approved though the State Council in 1982, and a state-level nature reserve approved in 1996. There are the most typical and perfect vestiges of modern volcanic eruption in China, and the world- known volcano-related mineral spring water. The Wudalianchi volcanic cluster is situated in the E-W tectonic ...
Listes indicatives Score 12.937276 Date 11/2001
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Special panel on “Sustainable heritage management: New challenges, new competences”on 9 November 2020 (16:00 – 17:30, Bangkok time).  Representatives from World Heritage Centre and Advisory bodies, including International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), International Council on Monuments and Sites ...
Evénements Score 12.847394 Date 11/2020
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITRAP), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) together with UNESCO Ha Noi Office and Viet Nam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism are organizing a training on Heritage Impact ...
Evénements Score 12.630904 Date 10/2014
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S.l. Name of component site State, Province or Region Latitude and Longitude, or UTM coordinates 1.   The Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka University [1953-1955] Dhaka 23°44'08.68"N 90°23'42.29"E 2.   Central Library (Old Building) University of Dhaka. [1953-1955] Dhaka 23°44'00.35"N 90°23'42.93"E 3.   Bangladesh Council of Scientific and ...
Listes indicatives Score 12.618863 Date 05/2023
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 12.571341 Date 01/2010
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Registration for the event has now closed, but due to demand the event is accessible online. To take part in the conference remotely, please read and follow the simple instructions below. Comments and questions will be taken live at the Conference in Edinburgh! Live streaming 23 and 24 November Live video stream address http://bit.ly/ikwig Live ...
Evénements Score 12.566959 Date 11/2011
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Le patrimoine culturel est important, car il fait le pont entre le passe, le present et l’avenir. Sous l’angle des droits de l’homme, il est important non seulement en lui-meme, mais aussi dans sa dimension humaine, affirme Karima Bennoune. En sa qualite de Rapporteuse speciale des Nations Unies dans le domaine des droits culturels, elle a decide d'accorder une place ...
Actualités Score 12.403907 Date 10/2016
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Celebrate International Archaeology Day in 2014! The Archaeological Institute of America invites you to join us this year on 18 October (although events can be scheduled throughout the month of October) by hosting an archaeologically themed event in your community. Participation is open to all archaeological and historical organizations and ...
Evénements Score 12.347302 Date 09/2014
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,[Uniquement en anglais] From 23 to 28 September 2013 ICOMOS Netherlands will be organising the conference ‘Protecting Deltas, Heritage Helps’ in Amsterdam. Examples from Venice, Amsterdam, Cambodia and many other places will show that heritage can be an inspiration for a sustainable future for delta cities and other areas facing water challenges. Highlights ...
Evénements Score 12.133499 Date 09/2013
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Preventive and Planned Conservation Conference 2014 seeks a diverse and comprehensive program covering more areas of Preventive and Planned Conservation of Built Cultural Heritage. This conference is one of the communication and dissemination actions implemented within Cultural Districts “Monza and Brianza” and “Le Regge dei ...
Evénements Score 12.071537 Date 01/2014
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The Ivriz Cultural Landscape includes in situ two large Neo-Hittite rock reliefs, and a small Neo-Hittite altar, as well as a monastery dating to the Middle Byzantine Period, two caves and natural features such as springs. The site was used as a frontier marker, and as a religious and cultic area over a long span of time from the Late Bronze Age (1650-1200 BC), through ...
Listes indicatives Score 11.761455 Date 04/2017
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Museum of the World Ocean invites you to take part in the International Theoretical and Practical Conference devoted to issues of study and preservation of maritime heritage and museum’s 25th anniversary. The conferences, organized by Museum of the World Ocean, bring museum and scientific communities closer to the phenomenon of maritime heritage ...
Evénements Score 11.653604 Date 09/2014
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,[Uniquement en anglais] This year marks the tenth anniversary of the International Conference on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia and the founding of the Society. VSMM 2004 continues to push the boundaries of Virtual Reality and Multimedia research by expanding upon the 2003 conference and presenting "VR and the Human Factor: Art, Science and Culture." To celebrate the ...
Evénements Score 11.50492 Date 11/2004
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 11.49565 Date 07/2003
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Zona Bananera is a relatively recent municipality, but, traditionally, it also gives its name to a region characterized by an extensive and fertile plain crossed by dozens of rivers and cold water streams coming down from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta to the Ciénaga Grande or the Caribbean Sea; this region is also characterized for cold nights. From April to November, ...
Listes indicatives Score 11.39085 Date 09/2012
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) has been launched in Costa Rica and the city of Alajuela. A kick-off workshop was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Youth and the Municipality of Alajuela in close collaboration with UNESCO, from 21 to 24 February 2022. ...
Evénements Score 11.258169 Date 02/2022
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Ancient Umm al-Jimal[1] is in the Southern Hauran plain, the semi-arid Badia region of north Jordan, a basalt plain created by prehistoric volcanic eruptions from the slopes of the Jabal al-Arab, whose peaks are visible on clear winter days fifty km to the north-east in southern Syria. The site is 675 m above sea level and receives 150 mm average annual rainfall. The great ...
Listes indicatives Score 11.24185 Date 03/2018
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The historical city of Zozan is located at a distance of 41 kilometers to the historical city of Khargard and is like a rectangular. Its ancient castle stands in the southern side and the chief mosque- belonging to Khwarazmi period with two-balconied plan- stands in the western side of the city.
Listes indicatives Score 11.202116 Date 09/2007
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The internationally accepted landform Yardang has origin in Uygur language, Xinjiang, China; it was Sven Hedin who made it a formal technical expression in the early 20th century; it means a weathing landform, mainly ridge-like, castle-like or hill-like in extremely arid region and some basins in arid region with a considerable scale, where the not totally solidified ...
Listes indicatives Score 11.13381 Date 01/2015
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Iran due to its climatic diversity and great number of mounts enjoys a lot of small and big rivers that cover the whole country. A lot of huge bridges over these made the necessary connections to ease doing the business, going on pilgrimage, exchanging of art and culture sightseeing and even paving the way for invaders.Among Iran ancient roads Shahi with a considerable ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.954687 Date 05/2008
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Soleymanieh Spring in Fin (Kashan) is the origin of life in this region and generated civilizations like Sialk that belong to 6th millennium BC and other instances onward. This spring generated Garden of Fin, the most prominent Iranian garden. The historical region of Kashan is an especial example of civilization from early Islamic period onward. This region contains ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.890726 Date 09/2007
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Qasr (Palace) Al-Mushatta, the largest and most ambitious of the Umayyad palaces in Jordan, sits incongruously today 30 km .south of the capital Amman and just north of Queen Alia International Airport's north runway, easily reached by an 11-kilometre drive along the airport's perimeter road. It is surrounded by a square enclosure wall measuring 144metres on each side, ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.8855 Date 06/2001
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Louvain, Belgique,[Uniquement en anglais] The Raymond Lemaire Centre for Conservation (KU Leuven) and the many friends of Dr. Hisao Arahi invite you to attend a Memorial Service in his honor, to take place on October 29, 2004 at 18:30 in the St. Lambertus Chapel of the Arenbergcampus, Heverlee - Belgium. Hisao Arahi, a true friend and dedicated professional, devoted his ...
Evénements Score 10.859637 Date 10/2004
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Workshop Dates: 27 November to 1 December 2017 Applications Close: 15 September 2017 Link to event: https://www.unitar.org/event/full-catalog/world-heritage-nominations-comparative-analysis-0 Contact: Mr. Nigel Gan nigel.gan@unitar.org The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is pleased to announce the call for applications ...
Evénements Score 10.833166 Date 09/2017
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.674425 Date 05/2023
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Latitude and Longitude, or coordinates UTM:  Cape La Chira                                                                        -16.537653 N  -72.933638 E Cape Lomitas                                                                         -14.724829 N  -75.864580 E Cape San Juan                                                                      -15.378633 N  ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.618901 Date 05/2019
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The internationally recognized geomorphic term “Yardang” was originated from Uygur language which means small hill with steep escarpments, and proposed by Swedish explorer Sven Hedin as a formal technical expression when he was exploring the Lop Nor region of Northwest China in the early 20th century. It represents the ridge-like, castle-like, or hill-like erosional ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.592494 Date 01/2015
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,[Uniquement en anglais] To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, two young Indian men, Aniketh MJ and Sulesh Kumar, are planning to visit India’s 28 World Heritage sites over a span of 3 months starting March 5th, 2012, travelling mainly by bus and train. With this trip they would like to create a bond between the current generation of ...
Evénements Score 10.554171 Date 03/2012
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Abraj Al-Kuwait will be nominated as a single monument. It is to be noted that this building is considered to be part of a nation-wide network of infrastructural water supply and reservoirs which consist of 31 more water towers (known as the mushroom towers) that are strategically distributed in groups around the country, and are connected to the distribution grid of the ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.5220785 Date 12/2014
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Chronology: The four Pharaonic temples of Dendera, Esna, Edfu and Kom Ombo, apart from their geographical location, all belong to the Ptolemaic period (dynasty of the Ptolemies, the successors of Alexander the Great, which reigned between 304 and 30 BC) and to the Roman period (between 30 BC and 395 AD) even though they all replaced much older temples on the same ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.521147 Date 07/2003
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The Yangtze Gorges is one of the first key national scenic spots (in 1982). They start at Baidicheng in Fengjie County, Chongqing and end at Nanjin Pass in Yichang, Hubei Province. The gorges themselves are 193km long and cover an area of 1208km2, including Wuxia gorge, Qutang gorge, Xiling gorge and some wide valleys between these gorges. Qutang Gorge is 8km long and is ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.488665 Date 11/2001
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Hassan Sabah's castle has been located in northeastern side of Gazor Khan Village in the environs of Mo'alem Kalayeh, from the environs of Roudbar of Alamout. The relics of castle stand on the cliff of Kanglou-Marazi along with valleys and horrible precipices. The height of this cliff is 220 meters and 2163 meters above the sea level. It is located on the ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.461459 Date 09/2007
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The International Centre for the Interpretation and Presentation of World Heritage Sites under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter the WHIPIC) will hold the 2022 Online Lecture and Webinar Series on Understanding World Heritage Interpretation, which consists of five sessions from 25 August to 3 November. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of ...
Evénements Score 10.45557 Date 08/2022
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The nominated property is a typical long-dormant volcano with obvious volcanic landform group like volcanic lava landform, water landform, Karst landform and glacial and periglacial landform. Meanwhile, Changbai Mountain is a natural museum and a giant gene pool, which gathers a variety of climatic types and biological community types like Temperate Zone and Cold Temperate ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.447065 Date 02/2017
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,[Uniquement en anglais] To contribute to the 2012 celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, the National Park Service, HISTORY, and the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO recently launched the Video Challenge “Why do you think U.S. World Heritage sites are important to the world ” For more information: ...
Evénements Score 10.432201 Date 04/2012
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San Bartolo is located within the biological corridor of the Ixcan River Basin, northeast of the Department of Petén, and 42 kilometers north of Uaxactun.  It has the most beautiful, polychrome murals of all of the archaeological sites found in Guatemala, making it a proposed candidate for Cultural Heritage status for its unique value on an artistic level. The ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.428598 Date 04/2012
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Apo Reef is the second largest contiguous coral reef in the world and the largest one in the Philippines. The Apo Reef Natural Park consists of the three islands. Apo Reef is the largest among the three islands. It has a shallow lagoon with a depth of 2 meters to 10 meters surrounded by mangrove forest which serves as source of food, nursery and spawning ground of several ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.4165535 Date 05/2006
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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), ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.378911 Date 01/2021
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Some of the cities that form this route, present very old dates about that 1000 A.C goes back a year. The cities are composed by several architectural groups that communicate by roadways that were used like roads that also were connected in to complex net among the cities of Nakbé, The Mirador and Wakná. Another special characteristic of the buildings is the use of ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.248774 Date 09/2002
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In the South Caucasus, in the first half of XVIII century, in political unstable conditions, some independent khanates were appeared. In this period, the necessity for building the defensive town stronghold, was the reason of appearance the stable town types in Azerbaijan. In the middle of XVIII century, Karabakh khanate was founded, and it's center - Shusha was one of ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.219082 Date 10/2001
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,[Uniquement en anglais] This World Heritage Media/Communication Training Workshop is for young people from Asian youth organizations who have already participated in World Heritage Education Programme activities such as the World Heritage Volunteers and World Heritage Youth Forums. This activity allows young people to develop specific skills that they can apply to their ...
Evénements Score 10.215619 Date 10/2014
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Ishak Pasha Palace on the Silk Route near the Iranian frontier, is situated on a high and vast platform of strategic importance on an area of 7600 meter square. It is not at all in the Ottoman tradition but is rather a mixture of Anatolian, Iranian and North Mesopotamian architectural tradition. The traditional model used in the construction of the Royal Palaces in the ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.18903 Date 02/2000
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The Atacama area has a desert-like climate, with big differences of temperature between day and night, and summer rains which do not surpass 100 millimeters per year. The main water sources are the San Pedro and Vilama rivers. The area's chief geographic element is the Solar de Atacama, occupying a surface 100 kilometers long by 80 km. wide. The salt mine is a result of ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.170409 Date 01/1998
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The participants in the Seventh Expert Working Group note the importance of the participation of the Afghan Government representatives and congratulate UNESCO for facilitating their presence at the current Working Group Meeting. The participants would also like to sincerely thank ICOMOS Germany for hosting the participants and providing all the ...
Evénements Score 10.153883 Date 06/2008
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Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples from the north of the Sea of Galilee, lived and worked in the towns, villages and the countryside of Lower Galilee. The region between Nazareth and Capernaum has undergone many changes since the Second Temple period. Many pilgrims and visitors will walk in the footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles, in order to experience their trials and ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.149783 Date 06/2000
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Village of Abyaneh is one of the Iranian historical villages that contains some works from Sassanid period to the present time. It owns several unequal attributions just like the unique temple of "Herpak", a Chief mosque with a unique mihrab from Seljukian period, houses harmonious with climate and mountainous land. One can see Sassanid Pahlavic words in daily ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.014097 Date 09/2007
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The Fortress of "Kambarnbe" built in 1604, is placed in Kambambe, Province of Kwanza Norte. This Fortress, like others, was a point of support to the conquest and penetration in angolan territory trough the Kwanza River. The occupation of Kambambe cost very much to the portugueses, on account of the resistance offered by the natives to the foreign authority. Besides ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.001692 Date 11/1996
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Ciudad Bolívar in the narrowness of the Orinoco River constitutes a cultural landscape located in the shores of the third mightiest river of the world, the Orinoco, and in the Imataca Complex, a rocky platform of 3,400 million years of age, which makes it the oldest geological formation in the planet. From a geographical point of view, unique characteristics are found in ...
Listes indicatives Score 10.000381 Date 10/2003
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Mount Elgon is an extinct volcano. It is one of East Africa’s oldest physical features, first erupting around 24 million years ago. It was once Africa’s highest mountain, far exceeding Kilimanjaro’s current 5,895 metres. Millennia of erosion have reduced its height to 4,321 metres, relegating it to the 4th highest peak in East Africa and 8th in Africa. Mount Elgon is home ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.959227 Date 01/2024
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Naj Tunich is a cave of karstic formation that was used by the old Mayan of the southeast of Petén like cult centre by what acquired of religious magic traditions. It possesses an exceptional beauty, to belong to the region fisiográfica of the Sedimentary Low Lands. Inside Naj Tunich's cave that means in Mayan “stone house” there are cave paintings that ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.9514675 Date 09/2002
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The Mission Ruins of Venn's Town is situated on Mahé Island more precisely in the South-West of the Morne Seychellois National Park, at an altitude of 450 m. It is served by the public road Victoria-Sans Souci-Port Glaud which traverses the central mountain chain running from east to west. The site lies 6 km from the town and it can be reached by vehicle in 20 minutes. The ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.937938 Date 01/2013
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The World Heritage Media/Communication Training Workshop: Passing the Culture Message is for young people from European youth organizations, schools and institutions who have already participated in World Heritage Education Programme activities such as the World Heritage Volunteers and World Heritage Youth Forums. It will be held from 8 to 13 ...
Evénements Score 9.9152155 Date 12/2013
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The church of "Nossa Senhora da Victoria" is placed in Massanganu, Province of Kwanza-Norte. This church was the first building outside of the, at that time, village of S. Paulo (Luanda). Its building lasted approximately 7 years, probably between 1583 and 1590. Massanganu was used as a Center of Trade and of military operations in the interior of the Country. It was also ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.901656 Date 11/1996
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Kirtipur is a medieval settlement located along a narrow ridge towards the southwest of the Kathmandu Valley. The medieval Newari settlement was developed with fort-like characteristics. The victory over Kirtipur by the army from Gorkha was pivotal in the history of the unification of Nepal. Kirtipur is a testimony to the medieval art and architecture of the Newars.  The ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.901656 Date 01/2008
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The Kalambo falls prehistoric settlement is located about 30 kilometres North-West of Mbala district, Northern province. The site was excavated by professor John desmond Clark duringthe period 1956-1959. The excavations conducted in the lake-beds revealed exposed a stone age sequence extending from the early stone age through to the iron age, most of it stratified in ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.900928 Date 11/1997
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The pilot implementation of the Culture|2030 Indicators’ framework has been launched in Colombia and in Bogota city. The launch workshop was organized by the Ministry of Culture and the District Secretariat for Culture, Recreation and Sports of Bogota city, in close collaboration with UNESCO, from 9 to 12 November 2021, and gathered 48 ...
Evénements Score 9.893717 Date 11/2021
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The Spanish World Heritage Cities Group is delighted to present on Saturday, 17th September, the fifth edition of THE HERITAGE NIGHT, an unprecedented world-class cultural and artistic event taking place simultaneously the same night in the 15 Spanish World Heritage Cities: Alcalá de Henares, Avila, Baeza, Cáceres, Cordoba, Cuenca, Ibiza / Eivissa, ...
Evénements Score 9.848812 Date 09/2022
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Birkenhead Park is situated in the town of Birkenhead, in the Wirral Peninsula. The proposed site includes the originally designed parkland (44 ha), the Park’s eight lodges, and a selection of the mid- 19th century residential properties. The total site area is 51 ha. Designed in the style of the English Landscape School, its undulating parkland consists of a crafted ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.846714 Date 09/2023
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Ordubad, being an ancient Azerbaijan and Caucasus city is interesting with its structure and architectural monuments. The building plan of the city gives the opportunity to get acquainted with the city built culture of the eastern feudals. Ordubad was one of the most important trade cities, with caravans passing from China, Europe and India. Many fruits, agricultural ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.841799 Date 10/2001
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,La Conference des Nations Unies sur les oceans se deroulera du 27 juin au 1er juillet 2022 a Lisbonne, au Portugal. Les temps forts lies au patrimoine mondial marin porteront sur l'ADN environnemental, la resilience des recifs coralliens et le carbone bleu. En savoir plus sur la participation de l'UNESCO a la Conference des Nations Unies sur les oceans : ...
Evénements Score 9.818615 Date 06/2022
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Pobiti Kamani ("upright stones" - fossil forest) are calcareous columns formed by natural forces. They exist at an astonishing scale. The Monument is comprised of smaller and bigger stone groups distributed in 8 km long belt with South - North direction in the region of Varna, along the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The stone columns vary in size - up to 10 m height ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.777317 Date 10/2011
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Description of broader context: Cetinje Royal Capital covers the area of 910 km2, which equals 6.6% of the total area of the State of Montenegro. It is situated in between Boka Kotorska Bay to the West, Budva's Riviera to the South, Skadar Lake basin and Zeta-Bjelopavlići plain to the East, Nikšić plain and Bijele Rudine to the North. It borders seven ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.768297 Date 06/2010
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Cluster Rock Art Sites Co-ordinates Cluster I- Gwalior District, Madhya Pradesh Aurpura,Baba Chaj,Bhau Saheb Ki Samadhi, Chudel Chaj, Daulatpur,Denagaon,Gupteshwar Hill,Gwalior West, Maharajapure, Mohna,Para,Sia Chaj,Tikla (Kanakali Mata) 26.2925° N, 78.2305° E Cluster II- Mandsaur District, Madhya ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.761169 Date 08/2024
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The consideration of the Fagaloa Bay- Uafato/Tiavea conservation zone as a mixed site is based on its unique physical landscape and close relationship with the traditional way of living. The Faa-Samoa (Samoan way of life) governs the interaction between the people and their environment and remains an effective measure in maintaining harmony and security for all. The Uafato ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.760624 Date 12/2006
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Old part of Steyr including Wehrgrabenviertel:The old town of Steyr and the Wehrgrabenviertel, or moat quarters, form a unique symbiosis of well-preserved medieval houses with adjacent industrial settlement ("Steyrdorf" merging into the rural suburbs).Situated at the confluence of the Enns and Steyr rivers the castle and the surrounding city, which controlled the ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.760273 Date 01/2002
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This monumental area contains Mayan cities like Yaxhá, Nakum, Naranjo and Holmul, which settled in strategic places for the obtaining of abundant nutritious resources and raw material. These archaeological places were adapted to the land for the construction of enormous squares surrounded by temples and palaces, placed in different geologic terraces. It outstanding in a ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.693809 Date 09/2002
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Le directeur du Centre du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO presidera l'un des evenements des webinaires culturels du G20 "Addressing the climate crisis through culture", la session II sur "Strategies and Actions for Increased resilience of Cultural Heritage" aura lieu le 12 avril 2021, de 13h20 a 14h25. L'evenement sera accessible en direct sur la chaine YouTube du ministere ...
Actualités Score 9.687089 Date 04/2021
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Chronology In the four necropolises, the tombs can be all dated between the Middle Empire and the low Roman period over a long period of about 2500 years which chronologically is as follows: 1°) necropolises of Beni Hassan and Deir al-Barsha Two necropolises representative of nobiliary tombs of the Middle Empire (2064-1797) in Middle Egypt. 2°) necropolis of Tell ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.683454 Date 07/2003
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Ngwenya Mine is situated on the north-western border of Swaziland. Its iron ore deposits constitute one of the oldest geological formations in the world, and also have the distinction of being the site of the world's earliest mining activity. Deposits at Ngwenya were worked at least 42 000 years BP (Before Present) for the extraction of red haematite and specularite ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.66678 Date 12/2008
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Ljubljana in Slovenia,Ce symposium international intitule 'Le patrimoine mondial du vingtieme siecle :  Defis et experiences dans la gestion et l'evaluation de l'impact du patrimoine architectural' est accueilli par le Musee de la ville de Ljubljana, en Slovenie. Les sessions comprendront les defis et les lecons tirees des nominations au patrimoine mondial du 20e siecle et ...
Evénements Score 9.66178 Date 10/2022
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Barbados is about 32 km long and 23 km across at its widest dimension. The island is characterized by several distinctive and in parts unique geological, geographical, biological, as well as cultural features, most of which are located in the Scotland District. The first peculiarity is the location of the entire island of Barbados, which stands in isolation in front of ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.594152 Date 01/2005
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The Repetek State Biosphere Reserve is situated in the south-eastern Karakum desert, near the Repetek railway station. Its typical landscape is arid, with large, hummocky, ridged, fixed sand dunes in some areas, large areas of sand dune and valley-like depressions. The ridges are 15-20m in height and 8-10km in length. The depressions, which lie adjacent to the slopes of ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.5401745 Date 03/2009
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The large site of Pella nestles in the warm, fertile foothills of the north Jordan Valley, about 90 kilometres or an 80-minutes drive from from the capital Amman. It is directly adjacent to the modern village of Tabaqat Fahil, about four kilometres east of the Jordan River, and just over a kilometre east of the village of Mashare, on the main Jordan Valley road. The ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.532692 Date 06/2001
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Nyika National Park and Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve are two protected areas found in the Northern Region of Malawi. Nyika is one of the important Afro-muntane centre of plant biodiversity. Flora found in Nyika is of phytogeogrephical importance and it is thought to be the Southern Mist site of many species occurring in the further North and Northern Mist (Tundra). ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.529344 Date 05/2000
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The Myeik Archipelago (MA) comprises about 800 islands of primarily limestone and granite located along 60 km off Myanmar’s southern coast. These islands are covered by lowland wet evergreen forest and surrounded by an extensive coral reef system. Mangrove forests, beach and dune forests, and seagrass beds add to the faunal and floral diversity. The MA contains one ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.477322 Date 02/2014
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The spectacular scenery of stilt propped water settlement of Nzulezu built on lake Tadane located in the Jomoro District in the Western Region of Ghana stands out as a magnificent interplay between man and his environment. Nzulezu is an Nzema word meaning "surface of water." The inhabitants of the village are said to have migrated from Walata, a city in ancient Ghana ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.452457 Date 01/2000
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Touran Biosphere Reserve covers area 1,464,992 hectares. The Reserve presents a variety of habitats, including three extensive plains at different altitudes, varying from 700 to 1400 square meters, a saline river system, three mountain systems rising to a maximum of 2200 meters and 200000 hectares of sand including moving dunes, and a vast expanse of barren playa. This ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.437361 Date 05/2008
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Mt. Kumgang is a strikingly beautiful mountain with numerous peaks and curious rocks amounting to some 1,2000, waterfalls and pools formed by crystal-like clear waters flowing from hundreds of gorges, as well as with the seascape stretched along the coastline. Mt. Kumgang is divided into Inner Kumgang, Outer Kumgang and Sea Kumgang according to its geographical ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.435202 Date 05/2000
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Kamakura was constructed by the samurai (warrior class) to be the seat of their political power. It is surrounded by hills to the north, east and west, and faces the ocean to the south. For this reason, it is ideally protected. The samurai government controlled all of Japan from here for over 150 years, and Kamakura became the center of politics, economy and culture. The ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.434032 Date 01/1992
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The World Heritage Committee has expressed the need to have a more balanced World Heritage List, which should be representative of the diversity of the world natural and cultural heritage. Within this context and as a follow up of the Regional Seminar on Desert Landscapes organized in Egypt (Kharga Oasis, September 2001), which underlined the ...
Evénements Score 9.434032 Date 02/2004
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,EVENEMENT PARALLELE vendredi 3 juin 11:00-12:15 HEC Stockholmsmassan, salle 5 Organisateurs : Convention sur le commerce international des especes de faune et de flore sauvages menacees d'extinction, Convention sur la conservation des especes migratrices appartenant a la faune sauvage, Convention sur les zones humides d'importance internationale en particulier comme ...
Evénements Score 9.427191 Date 06/2022
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The nominated area is located on the north-western spur of the Eastern Sayan. Its natural borders are right tributaries of the Yenisey River; in the north-east the Bazaikha, in the south and south-west - the rivers Mana and Bolshaya Slimeva. In the north-east the territory borders on the suburb of Krasnoyarsk. GeologyAccording to geomorphological division the territory ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.372167 Date 06/2007
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They are located in the city of Stara Zagora, in the district of the Higher Institute of Medicine.The two dwellings stand side by side. They date back to the 6th millennium before our era. They were discovered in the course of excavations. By a rare chance, all the furnishings and household utensils have been preserved intact since discovery. At present, they are the best ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.364123 Date 01/1984
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The Fortress of "S. Miguel" is established in the old mountain of S. Paulo, near the bridge of Luanda Island.It is the first defensive edification built in Angola, and Paulo Dias de Novais, the first Governor of Angola who unshiped in Luanda in 1575, sent it built. It is a huge ~ area walled in fortifications and countreforts, rubblework edification with a ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.343082 Date 11/1996
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The 9th US/ICOMOS International Symposium will convene to look once again at the World Heritage Convention and its List as a rich source of models to improve the protection and management of the vast heritage of the United States, as well as to share with others some of our more recent national, state and local initiatives and approaches that may ...
Evénements Score 9.343082 Date 04/2006
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NEGOTINSKE PIVNICE are a rural compound (settlements consisting of wine cellars) which are located in the Negotin Frontier area, in the far eastern corner of Serbia, next to the Bulgarian border, some 300 km away from Belgrade. In the area of the Negotin Frontier, famous for its vineyards dating from the ancient times, the village population, living off viticulture, used ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.337162 Date 04/2010
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.310265 Date 04/2014
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The Tai-Ahom clan upon their migration from China established their capital in different parts of the Brahmaputra River Valleybetween 12th to 18th CE. Usurping the Barahi tribe, Chau-lung Siu-ka-pha established the first capital of the Ahoms at the foothill of Patkai hills and named it Che-rai-doi or Che-tam-doi, meaning “a dazzling city above the mountain” in ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.305488 Date 04/2014
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,Du 20 au 21 mars 2025, l’Association for Cultural Economics International et le Conseil de l'Alhambra et du Generalife en cooperation avec le Centre du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, organise un forum scientifique intitule « Convention internationale de Grenade sur l'economie du patrimoine mondial », a Grenade, en Espagne. La conference abordera le theme de l'economie du ...
Evénements Score 9.298149 Date 03/2025
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One of the most important reasons for establishment of Kerman City is its location as a cross road. From long long ago, this city has been one of the important locations that connect West to East and North to South. Such a specification has had a remarkable influence on construction and development of bazaar, in a way that the commercial zones of the city have been ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.269427 Date 05/2008
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Akwasnshi/Atal as the monolith is called among the Ejagham people of the Cross River State is distributed among over" thirty communities. In each community, the stones are found in circles, sometimes perfect circles, facing each other standing erect, except where they have been tampered with by weather or man.In some cases, the stones are found in the center of the ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.221497 Date 08/2007
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These two settlements represent the establishment of the first kibbutz and moshav with designs and physical form representing the ideological-social patterns of the late 19th and early 20th century. These patterns are a direct result of ideas prepared since Utopia written by Thomas Moore written in 1516. Degania The kibbutz movement is one of the modern manifestations ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.203927 Date 06/2000
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The property within boundaries of District of Koycegiz is located in the face of Dalyan City and on the right shores of Dalyan Stream (Calbis) which connect Koycegiz Lake to Mediterranean. It was the capital of the ‘Kaunos Region’ between the Caria and Lycia until the beginning of the 4th BC. The existence of Kaunos had known by the scholars but its location ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.168114 Date 04/2014
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Although a fort from the period of initial European settlement was already in existence the true start of the establishment of the St George's Fortified System was arguably the construction of Fort George from 1706 until 1710. Over the course of the eighteenth century the defence system around St George's gradually evolved on the ridges of the hills that enclose St. ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.15923 Date 05/2004
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Located at Aveiro’s District, Municipality of Mealhada, Civil Parish of Luso, at 40° 33’ N and 8° 28’ (O) “W”at the “northwestern” extreme of Bussaco’s mountain range, the “Desert of the Discalced Carmelites and Built Ensemble of the Palace-Hotel in Bussaco” develops between 250 and 560 meters and exposes up mainly towards north. The enclosed surface has an area of about ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.139955 Date 01/2017
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Site # 1: The Qattara Depression The Qattara Deperssion in the noerthern part of the Western Desert is the largest natural closed depression of the Eastern Sahara. It is a region where salt weathering appears to be particularly effective. In spite of earlier research in the 1940’s and 1950’s, the origin of this Depression is still a geological puzzle. A common origin ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.137147 Date 12/2003
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The Huicholes, heirs of Mesoamerican societies, make up one of the native groups that have survived with great vitality in America thanks to the rough topography of their territories, to its decentralized political organization and to their ability to adapt to the historical surroundings reflected by their active participation in the history of the West of Mexico. ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.118286 Date 06/2004
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Castle architecture of Japan was established in the mid-sixteenth century. Hikonejo belongs to the golden age of castle architecture of the early seventeenth century. It has retained well the entire form of the castle, including its defensive sections and the lord's residential area.Hikonejo consists of an inner block with a hill facing Lake Biwa in its center and ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.084876 Date 01/1992
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The area of the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi is located on the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf, in the United Arab Emirates; west of the emirate of Abu Dhabi.  It has been developed over the past 7000 years due to the wind erosion of pre‐existing dunes and progradation of subaqueous, intertidal, and supratidal carbonate sediments.  The Sabkha is a translation of the ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.074686 Date 06/2018
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The central part of this property presents a mound like hill of 12 m in height and 2,5 ha in area. It is known under the name of "Stone Tomb". This mound is made up of individual somatic sandstone clods or blocks, with a great number of caves and grottoes between them. On the grottoes' stone walls; there are over 1000 petro -- glyphs with symbolic, ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.050249 Date 11/2006
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Manama is located at the northern coast of the main island of the Kingdom of Bahrain, a small island state located in the center of the Arabian Gulf. As a result of its strategically good location Bahrain has always been an international maritime trade and multicultural hub. Since ancient times the main harbor is located at Bahrain's northern coast; previously in Qal'at ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.037927 Date 07/2018
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In Colombia, in accord with Decree 216 of 2003, the Ministry of Environment, Housing, and Territorial development is the environmental governing body, with a technical office that is responsible for day-to-day operational management of conservation in situ. The mission of this office, the Special Administrative Unit of National Natural Parks, is to manage national ...
Listes indicatives Score 9.024018 Date 09/2007
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En ligne,La Journee mondiale des villes 2020 (31 octobre), sur le theme global « Valoriser nos communautes et nos villes », mettra en lumiere le role decisif des communautes locales, au coeur de la construction de villes durables et resilientes et promouvra l’importance d’approches centrees sur l’humain pour le developpement urbain. Dans le contexte de la celebration de la ...
Evénements Score 9.001237 Date 10/2020
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Characterized by a complex of terrestrial, wetland and marine ecosystem, the Batanes group of islands consist of 10 small islands bounded by the Eashi Channel on the north, by the Pacific Ocean on the east, by the South China Sea on the west and the Balintang Channel on the south. It is one of the last remaining areas in the Philippines having unique natural physiographic ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.995117 Date 08/1993
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Oke Idanre hill consists of high plain with spectacular valleys interspersed with inselbergs of about 3,000 ft above sea level. Its physical attributes include Owa's Palace, Shrines, Old Court, Belfry, Agbooogun foot print, thunder water (Omi Aopara) and burial mounds and grounds. It also has diverse and variegated eco-systems of flora and fauna. Oke Idanre contains very ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.99354 Date 08/2007
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The famous Buddhist archaeological site of Ranigat, is located in Tehsil Totalai, District Buner, N.W.F.P. The remains of Ranigat are scattered in the valley along the ridge in an area. The Buddhist monuments at Ranigat had attracted the attention of many researchers like Sir A. Cunningham an eminent Archaeological Surveyor who visited the site in 1848. Later on , the site ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.9390955 Date 01/2004
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Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek in English) is a natural seawater inlet of the Arabian Gulf located in the heart of Dubai with 14 kilometres length and between 100-500 meters width that runs South-East and ends at Ras Al-Khor wildlife Sanctuary. The creek divides the city into two parts: Bur Dubai and Deira, and has played a major role in the economic development of the region ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.899796 Date 01/2012
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The Padang (Malay for ‘field’) is a multi-use open green space set at the heart of the historic Singapore settlement that combines the features and functions of a playing field, ceremonial parade ground, and tropical civic square. As one of the oldest open spaces in Singapore, the Padang is a seemingly nondescript yet dynamic green that has evolved organically and accrued ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.897564 Date 09/2022
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,[Uniquement en anglais] The pilot implementation of the UNESCO Thematic Indicators for Culture in the 2030 Agenda (UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators) has been launched in the Republic of North Macedonia and the city of Skopje. A kick-off workshop was organized by the Ministry of Culture and city of Skopje in close collaboration with UNESCO, on 6th June 2022. The workshop ...
Evénements Score 8.893239 Date 06/2022
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1.1 Introduction The property being proposed for inclusion in the World Heritage list corresponds to a geographical and cultural unit within the Spanish Wine Protected Designation of Origin Denominación de Origen Calificada Rioja (D.O.Ca. Rioja). Rioja is one of the world’s great wines, a position it has achieved not only thanks to its unarguable quality but ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.886609 Date 01/2013
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The caravanserais, a new architectural type with social function developed in central Asia by the Karakhanids and Ghaznavids passed into Anatolian Turkish architecture. The institution of caravanserais has its most variations in Seljuk Anatolia, using the forms of Anatolian stone architecture. These buildings offering travellers in mountain and desert all the ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.881873 Date 02/2000
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The Neolithic Site of Burzahom, in the district of Srinagar, India brings to light transitions in human habitation patterns from Neolithic Period to Megalithic period to the early Historic period.  From transition in architecture to development in tool-making techniques to introduction and diffusion of lentil in the north-western India, the site of Burzahom is a ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.873116 Date 04/2014
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Ghirza is a frontier site situated in the pre-desertic region of Tripolitania in Western Libya, about 250 km southeast from the coast. It measures circa 500 m north-east and 300 m south-west (Brogan and Smith 1984). The site consists of a cluster of circa 40 structures ranging from small, one-room buildings to large fortifications, a temple and two burial grounds with ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.850338 Date 07/2020
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The Deliblato Sands is a geo-morphological formation of eolian origin, of exceptional specific beauty and multiple scientific importance. It is of diluvial origin. It is an isolated complex of sand masses with a distinctly undulating dune relief on an area of over 380 sq. kilometres, of elongated ellipsoid shape, surrounded by the expanses of the cultured steppe of the ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.8292885 Date 03/2002
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There are places where the interplay between endogenous factors and morphogenetic agents builds up enchanting landscapes, suspended in a delicate condition between being an environmental resource or a natural hazard. When such places are also settled by the human presence, the final interaction is absolutely unique. In Central Italy, past geodynamic and volcanic events ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.825437 Date 01/2017
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.823414 Date 01/2022
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,[Uniquement en anglais] UNESCO, The Philippines and Baguio city organized the Launch Workshop of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators’ project implementation. The pilot implementation of the Culture|2030 Indicators’ framework has been launched in The Philippines and in Baguio city. The launch workshop was organized by the Philippines’ National Commission for Culture and the ...
Evénements Score 8.812797 Date 10/2021
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L'atelier des chaires UNESCO : Proteger les villes et les paysages historiques - Conception compatible pour de nouvelles interventions s'est tenu du 28 au 29 septembre 2023, marque par le 15e anniversaire de l'inscription de "Mantoue et Sabbioneta" sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO. L'evenement a ete organise par la Chaire UNESCO en preservation et ...
Actualités Score 8.781767 Date 12/2023
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The nominated city is located 70km north of the city of Duhok. Amedy is one of the oldest cities in the world and one of the most important historic cities in North Iraq. The oldest written record belongs to the 9th century B.C. namely in the reign of the Assyrian Emperor 858-824 B.C. (Under the name of " Kur a- ma- da- a- a" which means the city of Medes, the city's ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.760839 Date 02/2011
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Kirkuk Citadel is located in the center of the city of Kirkuk, and considered one of the oldest parts of the urban city. Some historians believe that Gutians were the ones who built the Citadel, based on an old cuneiform tablet, and it can be said that this high settlement, now called Kirkuk Citadel, was famous since the middle of the second millennium BC as “Citadel of ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.746115 Date 06/2021
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The Pharmaceutical Museum in Matanzas preserves and treasures Dr. Ernesto Triolet’s French Drugstore, founded on the 1st of January 1882 at Arms Square, currently Place of Liberty, in Matanzas. The drugstore was founded by pharmacists Don Juan Fermín de Figueroa, Cuban, and French Ernesto Triolet Lelievre. The pharmacy worked as such until January 16, 1964, and in May it ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.742337 Date 12/2024
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.742247 Date 06/2022
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Ancient Termiz includes Qoratepa, Fayaztepa, Zurmala Mortar, Qirq-Qiz, Khakim at-Termiziy, Sultan-Saodat, Kokildor Khonaqo, Djarqurgan Minaret, Kampirtepa. Old Termiz is located in 5 km to the northwest from Termiz, on the right branch of Amudarya River. A total area is 500 hectares consists of four parts, a citadel - Qala, two shakhristans (city) and rabad - the suburb, ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.738364 Date 01/2008
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A typical tumulus has the following features: a mound of earth with limestone fragments of 1 to 4 m in heights, surrounded by a circular wall on average 6 to 10 m in diameter. This wall is generally no longer visible due to the progressive subsidence of the tumulus. The top of the mound often presents a depression which is a sign of pillaging. The tumuli all cover a ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.71924 Date 09/2001
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It is well known that Astronomy in Egypt started a long time ago, and Egypt is considered as one of the oldest countries whose people studied astronomy. The Egyptian monuments at Nabta Playa (Neolithic, which antedates Stonehenge by a millennium), the Pyramids at Giza (4th Dynasty), Abu Simbel Temple (21st Dynasty) and the zodiac at the Temple of Denderah (Ptolemaic), all ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.711598 Date 03/2010
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1) N13 48 6.6 E77 36 33.9 - Sri Veerabhadra Temple2) 13˚ 48ʹ 11.4 ʺ N and 77˚ 36ʹ 44.6 ʺ E - Monolithic Bull (Nandi)Location and Context: Sri Veerabhadra temple, also known as Lepakshi Temple is located in Lepakshi Village, named after a main shrine dedicated to Veerabhadra (the fiery incarnation of Lord Shiva). From the inscriptions engraved on the prakara walls of the ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.710887 Date 02/2022
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One of the basic and essential needs of humans concerns the possession of a safe shelter, a need which since pre-historic era has been with them up to now. This basic need has been met in different ways in accordance with the prevalent socio-cultural and geographical conditions. The settlement of man in his own-built environment revolutionized his life bringing about ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.696088 Date 02/2017
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The Archaeological Site of Priene is located within the borders of the modern Village Güllübahçe, 15 kilometers southwest of the town of Söke in the province of Aydın, in southwestern Turkey. It is about 500 m north of the Menderes (Maeander) River, 15 km inland from the Aegean Sea and on the south slopes of Mycale (Mount Samsun).  According to Pausanias (7,2,10), Priene ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.694659 Date 02/2018
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Izamal is known as the "Hill City" because it has in its urban zone, several archaeological vestiges located on the hill sides. The extension of the remains of pre Hispanic constructions as estimated could occupy an area of 10 kilometers square. Today city of Izamal was a remarkable site of the ancient Mayan civilization. It was probably the largest large city of plains of ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.682125 Date 10/2008
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Mixed Cultural/Natural Properties. This property is a mixed cultural and natural serial site comprising five (5) sites, largely uninhabited coral atolls and islands with numerous coral reefs system, which are currently earmarked as proposed marine protected areas targeted under the current Community Based Coastal and Marine Conservation Programme undertaken by Conservation ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.652222 Date 06/2006
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Un nouvel appel a propositions de l'UICN SOS - Sauvons nos especes, est desormais ouvert. Finance par la DG DEVCO de la Commission europeenne, cet appel est consacre a la faune et a la flore africaines. Il donne la priorite a cinq especes de carnivores, a savoir les lions, les leopards, les guepards, les chiens sauvages africains et les loups ethiopiens. Une part reduite ...
Actualités Score 8.596895 Date 03/2019
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N° Name of the Component Coordinates 01 Rajajil standing stones 29°48'46.33"N 40°13'10.83"E 02 Harrat Khaybar 25°20'15.29"N 39°20'25.01"E 03 Harrat Rahat (Madinah Region) 23°46'21.55"N 40°2'10.95"E 04 Harrat Kishb 23°23'56.40"N 39°50'58.56"E 05 Harrat Lunayyir 25°16'8.58"N 37°31'38.96"E 06 Rohab (Tabuk ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.592501 Date 01/2023
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On March 30, 1954, a Chilean newspaper announced an archeological discovery of worid-wide significance. It was about the frozen body of a child of 8 or 9 years of age, sacrificed by the Incas at the top of one of the highest mountains of the Andes Cordillera, in front of Santiago city. The existence of buildings' traces on the ascending path to the top of this hill was ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.586446 Date 01/1998
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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, ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.561762 Date 04/2014
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Monographic topic: Art and technology in the work of Antoni Gaudi Gaudi's architecture tends to be approached from one of two viewpoints, one stressing its artistic aspects and the other its technical innovations. However, as study deepens on the subject it becomes clear that in Gaudi the two concepts are indivisible; the mechanical, geometric and ...
Evénements Score 8.553863 Date 07/1997
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Not more that 30 km from Durrës, in western-central Albania, is located the impressive Castle of Bashtova; to the mouth of Shkumbini River, 4 km from the Adriatic shoreline, which has been considered as a very strategic point at the time of its construction. It controled a very large area to the Adriatic coast to the west, and the same area to the field from the east. It ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.537713 Date 05/2017
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The old village of Azúa, it was founded in the year 1504 by Diego Velazquez, during the government Nicolas of Ovando. In December of 1508, by providence of the Crown of Spain, it was granted a coat of arms, the same as other villages of the Spaniard. Azúa was plundered by corsairs and pirates in the middle of the XVI century. Little less than one century later it was ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.534558 Date 11/2001
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C’est un grand plaisir de se reunir pour cette 44e session elargie du Comite du patrimoine mondial qui se tiendra du 16 au 31 juillet 2021 a Fuzhou, en Chine et en ligne. La Chine abritant un nombre prodigieux de sites naturels et culturels anciens epoustouflants – de l’emblematique Grande Muraille et des sanctuaires du panda geant du Sichuan aux Routes de la soie et aux ...
Publications Score 8.533428 Date 03/2021
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,[Uniquement en anglais] Out of a total of over 1200 World Heritage sites, there are only 6 natural and mixed sites within the 23 Pacific Island Countries and Territories, including the largest lake in the insular Pacific, an oceanic wilderness, and a maze of green dome-shaped Islands seemingly floating in a turquoise lagoon. To address this poor representation on the ...
Evénements Score 8.515222 Date 06/2025
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The area of the reserve is approximately 300 sq kilometres. The Dana Reserve is a system of mountains and wadis, extending from the top of the eastern Rift Valley to desert lowlands of Wadi Araba, with an elevation drop of over 1600 meters through the reserve. The reserve embraces 3 major bio-geographical zones and four distinct vegetation zones. This condensed variety of ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.492991 Date 11/2007
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In the place they are visible the following constructions: the Colonial Fort San Felipe of the XVI century, the Carmen's church 1927; Club Union Puertoplateño 1895, the house Rothschil-Pimentel 1906, the house Embroiders CastelIanos built in 1865, the ruined walls of the time of the annexation to Spain (1861 - 1865), Augusto Benz's House of 1918, Country's House of Don ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.492991 Date 11/2001
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Bhedaghat, often referred to as the Grand Canyon of India, is a town in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh (India), around 25 kms from Jabalpur. One can experience the outstanding beauty of marble rocks and their various morphological glittering forms on either side of the graceful Narmada river which flows through the gorge. It has also been observed that the magical ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.48044 Date 04/2021
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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 ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.476091 Date 12/2003
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On January 20 1605, the mines of San Sebastián del Oeste were discovered, and consequently, the town was founded. Since then, the town has had a close relationship with its surroundings, which cover more than 1,970 square kilometres. The town itself now spreads over 37 partially settled hectares. San Sebastian del Oeste was one the main mining centres in the New Spain ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.46934 Date 11/2001
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Latitude and Longitude, or UTM coordinates Kanchipuram  12°50'25.4"N                  79°41'59"E Components of the Nominated proposal Rajasimhesvaram (Kailasanatha temple)  12°50'32"N   79°41'23"E Parameswara Vinnagaram (Vaikuntaperumal temple)  12°50'13"N   79°42'35"E Piravathaneswara temple  12°50'48"N   79°42'20"E Iravathaneswara ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.460724 Date 04/2021
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Historical background of temples in Bangladesh Temples are not only monuments or monumental remains in the context of the history of society, cultures, religions and regions in Bangladesh (and in South Asia). Brahmanical (or Hindu), Buddhist, Jain, and various other religious traditions have manifested their heterogeneity and ritualistic performances through temples for ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.453676 Date 05/2023
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Samar Island Natural Park is located in the island of Samar in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. The 300,000-hectare park lies within the Eastern Visayas Bio-Geographic Zone and the Greater Mindanao Faunal Region and is considered the center of biological diversity in the Philippines. Samar Island Natural Park is a lowland forest reserve, home to the largest tract of ...
Listes indicatives Score 8.452573 Date 07/2024
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