ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in the northern part of the country, coinciding with the Kalahari Gemsbok…
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The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in the northern part of the country, coinciding with the Kalahari Gemsbok…
Þingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing, an open-air assembly representing the whole of Iceland, was established in 930 and continued to meet until…
Located on the steep cliffs in the border regions of southwest China, these 38 sites of rock art illustrate the life and rituals of the…
The Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of the complete infrastructure of a historical coal-mining site, with some 20th-century buildings of outstanding architectural merit.…
The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China…
Yosemite National Park lies in the heart of California. With its 'hanging' valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and U-shaped valleys, it provides…
The archaeological site of Yin Xu, close to Anyang City, some 500 km south of Beijing, is an ancient capital city of the late Shang…
The vast natural forest of Yellowstone National Park covers nearly 9,000 km2 ; 96% of the park lies in Wyoming, 3% in Montana and 1%…
Located in the interior of Yaku Island, at the meeting-point of the palaearctic and oriental biotic regions, Yakushima exhibits a rich flora, with some 1,900…
Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain system of Central Asia, one of…
Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the Southern Ocean, approximately 1,700 km…
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain is the first site to be inscribed in Vanuatu. It consists of…
Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the…
East Rennell makes up the southern third of Rennell Island, the southernmost island in the…
Kuk Early Agricultural Site consists of 116 ha of swamps in the western highlands of New…
Rock Islands Southern Lagoon covers 100,200 ha and includes 445 uninhabited limestone…
The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty…
The landscape in this park, situated in south-west New Zealand, has been shaped by…
In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List…
Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were…
In the wake of World War II, in a move closely related to the beginnings of the Cold War,…
The Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA) is a 408,250 sq.km expanse of marine and…
This serial site comprises six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral…
The town and its low line of buildings set among coconut and mango trees along the beach…
The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, located in the traditional Country of the Gunditjmara…
In a region that has been subjected to severe glaciation, these parks and reserves, with…
This unique archaeological and ethnological reserve, located in the Northern Territory, has…
This transboundary property stretches over 12 countries. Since the end of the last Ice Age,…
The Royal Exhibition Building and its surrounding Carlton Gardens were designed for the…
The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by…
This site is an extensive Inca communication, trade and defence network of roads covering…
The 239,723 ha Purnululu National Park is located in the State of Western Australia. It…
The Greater Blue Mountains Area consists of 1.03 million ha of sandstone plateaux,…
The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil, and those of San Ignacio…
Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia. At 122 km long, it is the largest…
Macquarie Island (34 km long x 5 km wide) is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, lying…
This serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric…
This area, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for some 450 km, is made…
This park, formerly called Uluru (Ayers Rock – Mount Olga) National Park, features…
The Fertö/Neusiedler Lake area has been the meeting place of different cultures for…
A remarkable example of isolated oceanic islands, born of volcanic activity more than 2,000…
The fossil remains of a series of lakes and sand formations that date from the Pleistocene…
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to…
Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long…
Zabid's domestic and military architecture and its urban plan make it an outstanding…
The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is…
Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and…
Situated near the southern margin of the Red River Delta, the Trang An Landscape Complex is…
Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were…
The 14th -century Ho Dynasty citadel, built according to the feng shui principles,…
Chosen from the work of Le Corbusier, the 17 sites comprising this transnational serial…
Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to…
Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian…
This transnational extension (Benin, Burkina Faso) to the W National Park of Niger,…
Bukhara, which is situated on the Silk Route, is more than 2,000 years old. It is the most…
This serial property combines 28 sites, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia,…
The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world's cultures.…
Itchan Kala is the inner town (protected by brick walls some 10 m high) of the old Khiva…
Situated in the north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic and…
The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the…
Kunya-Urgench is situated in north-western Turkmenistan, on the left bank of the Amu Daria…
These parks comprise an impressive complex of glaciers and high peaks on both sides of the…
With its strategic location on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia,…
In 1932 Waterton Lakes National Park (Alberta, Canada) was combined with the Glacier…
This site is located on a secluded plateau of northeast Turkey overlooking a ravine that…
Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called…
This site rises high above the Bakirçay Plain in Turkey’s Aegean region. The acropolis…
This property is a serial nomination of eight component sites in the City of Bursa and the…
The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left…
The square Mosque with its single great dome and four slender minarets, dominates the…
Troy, with its 4,000 years of history, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in…
Located on the borders of Guinea, Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire, Mount Nimba rises above the…
Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden…
This site, which was the capital of Lycia, illustrates the blending of Lycian traditions…
This property consists of 6 components of defence works in Italy, Croatia and Montenegro,…
The archaeological site of Hattusha, former capital of the Hittite Empire, is notable for…
This region of Anatolia was conquered by the Turks at the beginning of the 11th century. In…
Stretching over more than 600,000 ha along the Myanmar border, the sanctuaries, which are…
The Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex spans 230 km between Ta Phraya National Park on…
The Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) and the High Coast (Sweden) are situated in the Gulf of…
Ban Chiang is considered the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in…
This outstanding mountain landscape, which spans the contemporary national borders of…
Tajikistan National Park covers more than 2.5 million hectares in the east of the…
Sarazm, which means “where the land begins”, is an archaeological site bearing…
The site consists of four large groups of stone circles that represent an extraordinary…
Bosra, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the…
A landscaped park of 559.9 ha astride the Neisse River and the border between Poland and…
Some 40 villages grouped in eight parks situated in north-western Syria provide remarkable…
These two castles represent the most significant examples illustrating the exchange of…
The ‘Roman Limes’ represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent…
Sri Lanka's highlands are situated in the south-central part of the island. The property…
Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC, Rome was first the centre of…
Founded in the 16th century by the Portuguese, Galle reached the height of its development…
The variety of formations and the fact that they are concentrated in a restricted area…
Located in south-west Sri Lanka, Sinharaja is the country's last viable area of primary…
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes, brings together two historic railway…
Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in…
The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of Monte San Giorgio beside Lake Lugano is regarded as…
Situated at the heart of the city of Singapore, the site demonstrates the evolution of a…
In the eastern Arabian Peninsula, the Al-Ahsa Oasis is a serial property comprising…
This property includes two components situated in a desert landscape: Jabel Umm Sinman at…
Historic Jeddah is situated on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. From the 7th century AD it…
This property was the first capital of the Saudi Dynasty, in the heart of the Arabian…
The Maloti-Drakensberg Park is a transboundary site composed of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg…
The property is located in central and southern parts of the Republic of Korea, and…
The Sansa are Buddhist mountain monasteries located throughout the southern provinces of…
Human habitation of this elongated sand dune peninsula, 98 km long and 0.4-4 km wide, dates…
Namhansanseong was designed as an emergency capital for the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910),…
The Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty form a collection of 40 tombs scattered over 18…
Situated in the eastern fringe of Central Europe, the transnational property numbers a…
Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes together comprise three sites that make up 18,846 ha.…
The prehistoric cemeteries at Gochang, Hwasun, and Ganghwa contain many hundreds of…
The two Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley (Portugal) and Siega Verde…
When the Joseon King Jeongjo moved his father's tomb to Suwon at the end of the 18th…
In the early 15th century, the King Taejong ordered the construction of a new palace at an…
Jongmyo is the oldest and most authentic of the Confucian royal shrines to have been…
The Temple of Haeinsa, on Mount Gaya, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana , the most complete…
Shared between Mongolia and the Russian Federation, this site is an outstanding example of…
The walled coastal town of Al Zubarah in the Persian Gulf flourished as a pearling and…
The property includes the mining sites of Almadén (Spain), where mercury…
These four churches, the first of which was built by the Spanish in the late 16th century,…
The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 130,028 ha, including the North and South Reefs. It…
These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, which is…
This park features a spectacular limestone karst landscape with an underground river. One…
Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish…
The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil…
This site is located a few kilometres south-west of Jerusalem, in the Central Highlands…
The inscribed property is situated 10 km south of Jerusalem on the site identified by…
Following his defeat of the Mughal emperor Humayun in 1541, Sher Shah Suri built a strong…
These are two masterpieces from the time of the brilliant Mughal civilization, which…
The Buddhist monastic complex of Takht-i-Bahi (Throne of Origins) was founded in the early…
Berat and Gjirokastra are inscribed as rare examples of an architectural character typical…
The ruins of the huge city of Moenjodaro – built entirely of unbaked brick in the 3rd…
The property includes five aflaj irrigation systems and is representative of some 3,000…
In a mountainous site of extraordinary beauty, the ruins of the first capital of the…
The protohistoric site of Bat lies near a palm grove in the interior of the Sultanate of…
Located in a strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, this site has one of the…
The cultural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley is illustrated by seven groups of monuments…
A traditional human habitat, created in the 10th century by the Ibadites around their five…
At the foot of the Himalayas, Chitwan is one of the few remaining undisturbed vestiges of…
Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500…
Important both for its high biodiversity and for its karst features, Gunung Mulu National…
The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest…
The Qadisha valley is one of the most important early Christian monastic settlements in the…
The cultural landscape of Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley offers a microcosmic perspective of…
The town of Mbanza Kongo, located on a plateau at an altitude of 570 m, was the political…
Luang Prabang is an outstanding example of the fusion of traditional architecture and Lao…
The Champasak cultural landscape, including the Vat Phou Temple complex, is a remarkably…
The site consists of a group of Georgian-style naval buildings and structures, set within a…
Situated on the eastern bank of the River Jordan, nine kilometres north of the Dead Sea,…
The 74,000-hectare property, inscribed as a mixed natural and cultural site, is situated in…
The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged,…
Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a…
The semicircular waterfall at the heart of this site is some 80 m high and 2,700 m in…
Located on a plateau above the Osaka Plain, this property includes 49 kofun (“old…
The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave…
Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred…
Península Valdés in Patagonia is a site of global significance for the conservation of…
The site encompasses a series of twenty three component parts, mainly located in the…
These two contiguous parks, extending over 275,300 ha in the desert region on the western…
The beauty of the solitary, often snow-capped, stratovolcano, known around the world as…
The Jesuit Block in Córdoba, heart of the former Jesuit Province of Paraguay,…
The property numbers more than 30 islands clustered in three groups and covers surface area…
Quebrada de Humahuaca follows the line of a major cultural route, the Camino Inca, along…
The Los Alerces National Park is located in the Andes of northern Patagonia and its western…
The shrines and temples of Nikko, together with their natural surroundings, have for…
Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784. During this period the framework of national…
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since…
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the…
Located in a mountainous region that was cut off from the rest of the world for a long…
Built in A.D. 794 on the model of the capitals of ancient China, Kyoto was the imperial…
Situated in the mountains of northern Honshu, this trackless site includes the last virgin…
There are around 48 Buddhist monuments in the Horyu-ji area, in Nara Prefecture. Several…
As a holy city for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Jerusalem has always been of great…
Consisting of a series of catacombs, the necropolis developed from the 2nd century AD as…
The archaeological site contains some 3,500 underground chambers distributed among distinct…
Situated on the western slopes of the Mount Carmel range, the site includes the caves of…
The Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee are inscribed for their…
Tels (prehistoric settlement mounds), are characteristic of the flatter lands of the…
The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated…
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate…
Acre is a historic walled port-city with continuous settlement from the Phoenician period.…
Situated 85 km south of Baghdad, the property includes the ruins of the city which, between…
The Ahwar is made up of seven components: three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh…
Erbil Citadel is a fortified settlement on top of an imposing ovoid-shaped tell (a hill…
Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over…
The ancient city of Ashur is located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia in a…
Hyrcanian forests form a unique forested massif that stretches 850 km along the southern…
The eight archaeological sites situated in three geographical areas in the southeast of…
The City of Yazd is located in the middle of the Iranian plateau, 270 km southeast of…
Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported…
The Lut Desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, is located in the south-east of the country. Between June…
Maymand is a self-contained, semi-arid area at the end of a valley at the southern…
Shahr-i Sokhta, meaning ‘Burnt City’, is located at the junction of Bronze Age trade…
The lavish Golestan Palace is a masterpiece of the Qajar era, embodying the successful…
The property includes nine gardens in as many provinces. They exemplify the diversity of…
Tabriz has been a place of cultural exchange since antiquity and its historic bazaar…
Built between the beginning of the 16th century and the end of the 18th century, this…
Shushtar, Historical Hydraulic System, inscribed as a masterpiece of creative genius, can…
Bam is situated in a desert environment on the southern edge of the Iranian high plateau.…
The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, in the north-west of the country, consists of…
Pasargadae was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus II the…
The archaeological site of Takht-e Soleyman, in north-western Iran, is situated in a valley…
Built by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century, and bordered on all…
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the…
The ruins of the holy city of the Kingdom of Elam, surrounded by three huge concentric…
The Semmering Railway, built over 41 km of high mountains between 1848 and 1854, is one of…
The cultural landscape of Bali consists of five rice terraces and their water temples that…
From the 18th century to 1918, Schönbrunn was the residence of the Habsburg emperors.…
Lorentz National Park (2.35 million ha) is the largest protected area in South-East Asia.…
Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in…
These volcanic islands are inhabited by a population of around 5,700 giant lizards, whose…
The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high…
Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this…
Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city,…
The walled city of Jaipur, in India’s north-western state of Rajasthan was founded in…
The City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear witness to an exemplary…
This tomb, built in 1570, is of particular cultural significance as it was the first…
The walled city of Ahmadabad, founded by Sultan Ahmad Shah in the 15th century, on the…
Located at the heart of the Himalayan range in northern India (State of Sikkim), the…
The Nalanda Mahavihara site is in the State of Bihar, in north-eastern India. It comprises…
This National Park in the western part of the Himalayan Mountains in the northern Indian…
Rani-ki-Vav, on the banks of the Saraswati River, was initially built as a memorial to a…
The serial site, situated in the state of Rajastahan, includes six majestic forts in…
The austere, grandiose site of Hampi was the last capital of the last great Hindu Kingdom…
Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents…
The Jantar Mantar, in Jaipur, is an astronomical observation site built in the early 18th…
This site includes three railways. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the first, and is…
The Red Fort Complex was built as the palace fort of Shahjahanabad – the new capital…
A concentration of largely unexcavated archaeological, historic and living cultural…
The Mahabodhi Temple Complex is one of the four holy sites related to the life of the Lord…
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly known as Victoria Terminus Station, in Mumbai,…
The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka are in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the…
On a hill overlooking the plain and about 40 km from Bhopal, the site of Sanchi comprises a…
The Sundarbans covers 10,000 km2 of land and water (more than half of it in India, the rest…
This former duck-hunting reserve of the Maharajas is one of the major wintering areas for…
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, an outstanding example of British colonial…
In the heart of Assam, this park is one of the last areas in eastern India undisturbed by a…
The construction of this castle began at the end of the 15th century, in Gothic style. It…
Built during the second half of the 16th century by the Emperor Akbar, Fatehpur Sikri (the…
The Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Nesvizh is…
Near the gardens of the Taj Mahal stands the important 16th-century Mughal monument known…
The Great Living Chola Temples were built by kings of the Chola Empire, which stretched…
The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world.…
On the shores of the Bay of Bengal, bathed in the rays of the rising sun, the temple at…
The four hydraulic boat-lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are…
These 34 monasteries and temples, extending over more than 2 km, were dug side by side in…
La Grand-Place in Brussels is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private…
The temples at Khajuraho were built during the Chandella dynasty, which reached its apogee…
Brugge is an outstanding example of a medieval historic settlement, which has maintained…
The churches and convents of Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Indies –…
The four major town houses - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van…
The historic churches of Mtskheta, former capital of Georgia, are outstanding examples of…
The Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes, covering more than 100 ha, are the largest and…
Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional…
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Tournai was built in the first half of the 12th century. It…
The property includes several group and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual…
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the…
The archaeological site of Sambor Prei Kuk, “the temple in the richness of the forest”…
When banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet commissioned this house from one of the…
The four sites of the property form a strip 170 km long by 3–15 km wide,…
Evidence of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism in Bengal from the 7th century onwards, Somapura…
Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at the meeting-point of the Ganges and Brahmaputra…
The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest…
Qal’at al-Bahrain is a typical tell – an artificial mound created by many successive…
From 1625 to 1900, 12 kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of…
The historic city of Sheki is located at the foot of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and…
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders…
The cathedral and churches of Echmiatsin and the archaeological remains at Zvartnots…
Between 1696 and 1760, six ensembles of reducciones (settlements of Christianized Indians)…
These two Byzantine monasteries in the Tumanian region from the period of prosperity during…
Sucre, the first capital of Bolivia, was founded by the Spanish in the first half of the…
The cultural landscape and archaeological remains of the Bamiyan Valley represent the…
The city of Tiwanaku, capital of a powerful pre-Hispanic empire that dominated a large area…
The numerous rock carvings and funerary monuments found in these three sites illustrate the…
The archaeological site of Samaipata consists of two parts: the hill with its many…
The Uvs Nuur Basin (1,068,853 ha), is the northernmost of the enclosed basins of Central…
The National Park is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon…
Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid Chu-Ili mountains, is a remarkable…
The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the…
The transnational property is located in the Tien-Shan mountain system, one of the largest…
The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge of Višegrad across the Drina River in the…
Located in the Yangtze River Basin on the south-eastern coast of the country, the…
The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains…
This delta in north-west Botswana comprises permanent marshlands and seasonally flooded…
Qinghai Hoh Xil, located in the northeastern extremity of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, is…
Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was the focal point of the…
Located on the steep cliffs in the border regions of southwest China, these 38 sites of…
Founded in the 16th century by the Portuguese, the town’s history is linked to the…
South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to…
As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending…
Huangshan, known as 'the loveliest mountain of China', was acclaimed through art and…
This sanctuary in Minais Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte was built in the second half of…
The park shares with Iguazú National Park in Argentina one of the world’s largest and…
A hilly 512 ha site in Yunnan province, Chengjiang’s fossils present the most…
Brasilia, a capital created ex nihilo in the centre of the country in 1956, was a landmark…
Consisting of eight geographical clusters of protected areas within the boundaries of the…
Many of the numerous rock shelters in the Serra da Capivara National Park are decorated…
The late 17th-century core of this historic town, founded by the French and occupied by the…
Mount Sanqingshan National Park, a 22,950 ha property located in the west of the Huyaiyu…
Diamantina, a colonial village set like a jewel in a necklace of inhospitable rocky…
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages feature the Diaolou, multi-storeyed defensive village houses…
The Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, in the states of Bahia and Espírito…
The site includes archaeological remains of three cities and 40 tombs: Wunu Mountain City,…
The Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, in the states of Paraná and São…
The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000…
Goiás testifies to the occupation and colonization of the lands of central Brazil in the…
The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of…
The Central Amazon Conservation Complex makes up the largest protected area in the Amazon…
Construction of the Dujiangyan irrigation system began in the 3rd century B.C. This system…
The Pantanal Conservation Area consists of a cluster of four protected areas with a total…
The Temple of Heaven, founded in the first half of the 15th century, is a dignified complex…
Peaks of the Southern Atlantic submarine ridge form the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago and…
Classical Chinese garden design, which seeks to recreate natural landscapes in miniature,…
The two sites included in the designation contain flora and fauna and key habitats that…
The first Buddhist temple in China was built here in Sichuan Province in the 1st century…
São Francisco Square, in the town of São Cristovão, is a quadrilateral…
The Potala Palace, winter palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, symbolizes…
The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements…
The temple, cemetery and family mansion of Confucius, the great philosopher, politician and…
The Pampulha Modern Ensemble was the centre of a visionary garden city project created in…
A spectacular area stretching over more than 26,000 ha in China's Hunan Province, the site…
Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site is located in central Rio de Janeiro and encompasses the…
Stretching over 72,000 ha in the northern part of Sichuan Province, the jagged Jiuzhaigou…
Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So…
Located on the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church consists of three buildings. The eastern…
Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as…
The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved…
In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined…
Discovered in 1944, this tomb dates from the Hellenistic period, around the end of the 4th…
This property is a 5,000 km section of the extensive Silk Roads network, stretching…
In the valley of the Roussenski Lom River, in north east Bulgaria, a complex of rock-hewn…
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna…
Rila Monastery was founded in the 10th century by St John of Rila, a hermit canonized by…
At 5,895 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa. This volcanic massif stands in…
Situated on a rocky peninsula on the Black Sea, the more than 3,000-year-old site of…
The vast plains of the Serengeti comprise 1.5 million ha of savannah. The annual migration…
Discovered in 1982 near the village of Sveshtari, this 3rd-century BC Thracian tomb…
The site, located in the south Atlantic, is one of the least-disrupted island and marine…
The Srebarna Nature Reserve is a freshwater lake adjacent to the Danube and extending over…
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and…
Spread over an area of over 27,000 ha, at an altitude between 1008 and 2914 m in the Pirin…
Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered…
Founded in 670, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Despite…
The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which…
Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the town of Thugga, built on an elevated site…
This Phoenician city was probably abandoned during the First Punic War (c. 250 B.C.) and as…
Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century…
The Ichkeul lake and wetland are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of…
The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighbouring Benin, is…
The property consists of two separate areas: Sanganeb is an isolated, coral reef structure…
The Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, a semi-desert landscape between the Nile…
These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley,…
In the heart of the small island of Praslin, the reserve has the vestiges of a natural palm…
The atoll is comprised of four large coral islands which enclose a shallow lagoon; the…
The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one…
Known as the gateway to the desert, Agadez, on the southern edge of the Sahara desert,…
This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering some 7.7 million ha, though the area…
Located along the South Nahanni River, one of the most spectacular wild rivers in North…
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes has one of the largest concentrations of [...] petroglyphs, i.e.…
In addition to its particularly beautiful scenery, Dinosaur Provincial Park – located at…
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a…
The village of Ninstints (Nans Dins) is located on a small island off the west coast of the…
The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest…
In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus…
Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a…
Situated on the plains in the north-central region of Canada, the park (which covers 44,807…
The ksar, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls, is a traditional…
Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the…
Founded in the 9th century and home to the oldest university in the world, Fez reached its…
The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount…
In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour…
Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example…
Fringing the Atlantic coast, the park comprises sand-dunes, coastal swamps, small islands…
The palaeontological site of Miguasha National Park, in south-eastern Quebec on the…
The Bandiagara site is an outstanding landscape of cliffs and sandy plateaux with some…
Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North…
Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné became a market centre and an important link in the…
Located at the southern end of the great expanse of Lake Malawi, with its deep, clear…
The Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha palaeontological site along the coast of Nova Scotia…
The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga consists of a royal city and burial site, and an ensemble of…
Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and…
Ghadamès, known as 'the pearl of the desert', stands in an oasis. It is one of the oldest…
Red Bay, established by Basque mariners in the 16th century at the north-eastern tip of…
A colony of the Greeks of Thera, Cyrene was one of the principal cities in the Hellenic…
This fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in…
Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and…
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an…
At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct…
The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati…
The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty,…
The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 11 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km…
Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining…
The most saline of Africa's large lakes, Turkana is an outstanding laboratory for the study…
To the north-east of Kumasi, these are the last material remains of the great Asante…
The remains of fortified trading-posts, erected between 1482 and 1786, can still be seen…
James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the…
Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural…
The Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island site coincides with the core zone of La…
The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late 19th-century…
The fortified historic town of Harar is located in the eastern part of the country on a…
The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding…
The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century 'New Jerusalem' are situated…
Situated at 2,000 m in the Andes, 60 km to the east of Rancagua, in an environment marked…
Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers…
The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on…
Massive erosion over the years on the Ethiopian plateau has created one of the most…
Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s…
Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil…
The Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine stands at the foot of Mount Horeb where, the Old…
Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic…
This outstanding archaeological area contains such magnificent monuments as the Temples of…
Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle…
The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments,…
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east…
Salonga National Park is Africa's largest tropical rainforest reserve. Situated at the…
A vast area of primary tropical forest dominated by two spectacular extinct volcanoes,…
The park's immense savannahs, grasslands and woodlands, interspersed with gallery forests…
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity…
This park is one of the last major remnants of the primary tropical forest of West Africa.…
In the northeast of the country, the sandstone Ennedi Massif has been sculpted over time by…
The site includes eighteen interconnected lakes in the hyper arid Ennedi region of the…
The importance of this park derives from its wealth of flora and fauna. Its vast savannahs…
The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the…
This is one of the largest and best-protected rainforests in Africa, with 90% of its area…
The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first…
This property is composed of five elements located in different provinces of the country.…
The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone…
Khami, which developed after the capital of Great Zimbabwe had been abandoned in the…
The ruins of Great Zimbabwe – the capital of the Queen of Sheba, according to an…
The area exhibits a profusion of distinctive rock landforms rising above the granite shield…
On the banks of the Zambezi, great cliffs overhang the river and the floodplains. The area…
Situated in north-eastern South Africa, the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains comprises 40% of…
The ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape is located at the border with Botswana and Namibia in the…
Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and…
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004, the property is located at the south-western…
The 160,000 ha Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape of dramatic mountainous desert…
Vredefort Dome, approximately 120 km south-west of Johannesburg, is a representative part…
Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, a…
The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the…
The ongoing fluvial, marine and aeolian processes in the site have produced a variety of…
The site, located in south-east Senegal, includes three geographical areas: the…
Fishing and shellfish gathering have sustained human life in the 5,000 km2 property, which…
Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in…
Located in a well-watered area along the banks of the Gambia river, the gallery forests and…
The island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to…
Situated in the Senegal River delta, the Djoudj Sanctuary is a wetland of 16,000 ha,…
The first capital of Côte d’Ivoire, the Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, is an…
One of the largest protected areas in West Africa, this park is characterized by its great…
The steep limestone cliffs on the eastern side of the Rock of Gibraltar contain four caves…
The site features the remains of a city founded by Dorian Greeks in the 5th century BC on…
The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans represents a masterful synergy of…
The city of L''viv, founded in the late Middle Ages, was a flourishing administrative,…
Designed to rival Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, Kiev's Saint-Sophia Cathedral symbolizes…
Situated on the shores of Lake Ohrid, the town of Ohrid is one of the oldest human…
Seven timber houses are listed in this site located in the east of Sweden, representing the…
The Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton in southern Sweden (built 1922–24) is an…
The enormous mining excavation known as the Great Pit at Falun is the most striking feature…
The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast…
Karlskrona is an outstanding example of a late-17th-century European planned naval city.…
The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami, or Lapp people. It is…
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church…
A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic…
The Royal Domain of Drottningholm stands on an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of…
This Stockholm cemetery was created between 1917 and 1920 by two young architects, Asplund…
The rock carvings in Tanum, in the north of Bohuslän, are a unique artistic achievement…
Sweden's production of superior grades of iron made it a leader in this field in the 17th…
The Birka archaeological site is located on Björkö Island in Lake Mälar and was occupied…
The Late Roman fortified palace compound and memorial complex of Gamzigrad-Romuliana,…
The four edifices of the site reflect the high points of the Byzantine-Romanesque…
The Studenica Monastery was established in the late 12th century by Stevan Nemanja, founder…
On the outskirts of Stari Ras, the first capital of Serbia, there is an impressive group of…
San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the…
The property, which is located on the east coast of the Sultanate of Oman, includes the…
These eight churches of northern Moldavia, built from the late 15th century to the late…
Built in the 1st centuries B.C. and A.D. under Dacian rule, these fortresses show an…
These eight churches are outstanding examples of a range of architectural solutions from…
Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighişoara…
Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Walachia, is a…
These Transylvanian villages with their fortified churches provide a vivid picture of the…
Located on the slopes of Mount Espinho, overlooking the city of Braga in the north of…
Located 30 km northwest of Lisbon, the property was conceived by King João V in 1711 as a…
The site, extensively fortified from the 17th to 19th centuries, represents the largest…
Situated on a hill overlooking the city, the University of Coimbra with its colleges grew…
Standing at the entrance to Lisbon harbour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites –…
The 987-ha site on the volcanic island of Pico, the second largest in the Azores…
Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro region for some 2,000…
The historic town of Guimarães is associated with the emergence of the Portuguese national…
The Laurisilva of Madeira is an outstanding relict of a previously widespread laurel forest…
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is…
In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture.…
The Monastery of Santa Maria d'Alcobaça, north of Lisbon, was founded in the 12th…
This museum-city, whose roots go back to Roman times, reached its golden age in the 15th…
Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights…
The Monastery of the Dominicans of Batalha was built to commemorate the victory of the…
Situated on one of the islands in the Azores archipelago, this was an obligatory port of…
A cluster of dozens of islands centred on Vega, just south of the Arctic Circle, forms a…
Located in a dramatic landscape of mountains, waterfalls and river valleys, the site…
Røros Mining Town and the Circumference is linked to the copper mines, established in the…
Situated in south-western Norway, north-east of Bergen, Geirangerfjord and…
This group of petroglyphs in the Alta Fjord, near the Arctic Circle, bears the traces of a…
The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og…
Van Nellefabriek was designed and built in the 1920s on the banks of a canal in the Spaanse…
The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new…
The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder,…
The Beemster Polder, dating from the early 17th century, is is an exceptional example of…
Situated in a bay in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena has the most extensive fortifications in…
The outstanding contribution made by the people of the Netherlands to the technology of…
Extending over 72,000 ha in north-western Colombia, Los Katios National Park comprises low…
Schokland was a peninsula that by the 15th century had become an island. Occupied and then…
Founded in 1540 on the banks of the River Magdalena, Mompox played a key role in the…
This breathtaking national park was formed by glaciers and is traversed by rivers and…
Several monumental statues of human figures can be seen in the park, which also contains…
The capital of Malta is inextricably linked to the history of the military and charitable…
The largest group of religious monuments and megalithic sculptures in South America stands…
Because of its strategic position, Luxembourg was, from the 16th century until 1867, when…
Located some 506 km off the coast of Colombia, the site includes Malpelo island (350 ha)…
The Kernavė Archaeological site, about 35 km north-west of Vilnius in eastern Lithuania,…
An exceptional example of a sustainable and productive cultural landscape that is unique…
This monastic complex, perched since about the 7th century on the steep sides of the rocky…
Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only…
This iconic volcanic region covers an area of over 1,400,000 ha, nearly 14% of Iceland's…
The Area de Conservación Guanacaste (inscribed in 1999), was extended with the addition of…
Þingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing, an open-air…
The property includes four archaeological sites located in the Diquís Delta in…
In the 4th century, a remarkable series of decorated tombs were constructed in the cemetery…
The first Benedictine monks settled here in 996. They went on to convert the Hungarians, to…
The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and…
Hollokö is an outstanding example of a deliberately preserved traditional settlement.…
This site has the remains of monuments such as the Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic…
The remains of this walled city lie at the foot of an acropolis in north-eastern Greece, on…
The Old Town of Corfu, on the Island of Corfu off the western coasts of Albania and Greece,…
The small island of Pátmos in the Dodecanese is reputed to be where St John the…
The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest…
The city of Aigai, the ancient first capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia, was discovered in…
Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd…
Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries (the first is in…
The site of Olympia, in a valley in the Peloponnesus, has been inhabited since prehistoric…
Mystras, the 'wonder of the Morea', was built as an amphitheatre around the fortress…
The Order of St John of Jerusalem occupied Rhodes from 1309 to 1523 and set about…
In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the shrine of Asklepios, the god of medicine,…
Founded in 315 B.C., the provincial capital and sea port of Thessalonika was one of the…
The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and…
The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of the…
This famous temple to the god of healing and the sun was built towards the middle of the…
Located about 30 km northeast of Copenhagen, this cultural landscape encompasses the two…
Havana was founded in 1519 by the Spanish. By the 17th century, it had become one of the…
Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead…
Located on a strategically important site commanding the Sund, the stretch of water between…
Complex geology and varied topography have given rise to a diversity of ecosystems and…
The property is situated on the Elbe (Labe) River flood plain where there is sandy soil, ox…
Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town…
Commercial and political rivalries in the Caribbean region in the 17th century resulted in…
The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding…
Desembarco del Granma National Park, with its uplifted marine terraces and associated…
Holašovice is an exceptionally complete and well-preserved example of a traditional…
The remains of the 19th-century coffee plantations in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra…
This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most…
The colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was…
Kutná Hora developed as a result of the exploitation of the silver mines. In the 14th…
One of the first seven villages founded by the Spaniards in Cuba, Camagüey played a…
The houses in Telc, which stands on a hilltop, were originally built of wood. After a fire…
Situated on the banks of the Vltava river, the town was built around a 13th-century castle…
The Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia, occupied from the 7th to the 4th millennium B.C.,…
This region is characterized by one of the largest groups of churches and monasteries of…
Stari Grad Plain on the Adriatic island of Hvar is a cultural landscape that has remained…
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears…
Trogir is a remarkable example of urban continuity. The orthogonal street plan of this…
The group of religious monuments in Porec, where Christianity was established as early as…
The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited…
The ruins of Diocletian's Palace, built between the late 3rd and the early 4th centuries…
The 'Pearl of the Adriatic', situated on the Dalmatian coast, became an important…
Located in a vast mountainous area in the centre of Gran Canaria, Risco Caído comprises…
The Caliphate city of Medina Azahara is an archaeological site of a city built in the…
The development in the 12th century of Mudejar art in Aragon resulted from the particular…
The Roman aqueduct of Segovia, probably built c. A.D. 50, is remarkably well preserved.…
Located at the heart of Andalusia in southern Spain, the site comprises three megalithic…
Our Lady of Burgos was begun in the 13th century at the same time as the great cathedrals…
A network of four Christian pilgrimage routes in northern Spain, the site is an extension…
The Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana located on a sheer-sided mountain range…
Together these three buildings form a remarkable monumental complex in the heart of…
These are two of the finest contributions to Barcelona's architecture by the Catalan art…
The Tower of Hercules has served as a lighthouse and landmark at the entrance of La Coruña…
Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this 'City…
Seventeen decorated caves of the Paleolithic age were inscribed as an extension to the…
Situated on the island of Tenerife, Teide National Park features the Teide-Pico Viejo…
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and…
The caves of the Sierra de Atapuerca contain a rich fossil record of the earliest human…
The narrow Vall de Boí is situated in the high Pyrénées, in the Alta Ribagorça region…
The walls of Lugo were built in the later part of the 3rd century to defend the Roman town…
The Palmeral of Elche, a landscape of groves of date palms, was formally laid out, with…
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, has two nuclei: the original,…
Founded by Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros in the early 16th century, Alcalá de Henares was…
Tárraco (modern-day Tarragona) was a major administrative and mercantile city in Roman…
The late prehistoric rock-art sites of the Mediterranean seaboard of the Iberian peninsula…
The monastic community founded by St Millán in the mid-6th century became a place of…
In the 1st century A.D. the Roman Imperial authorities began to exploit the gold deposits…
Built between 1482 and 1533, this group of buildings was originally used for trading in…
Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca…
Doñana National Park in Andalusia occupies the right bank of the Guadalquivir river at its…
The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious…
The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in Estremadura, was…
The urban morphology of the two small cities of Úbeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates…
This Cistercian abbey in Catalonia is one of the largest in Spain. At its centre is a…
Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal…
This ancient university town north-west of Madrid was first conquered by the Carthaginians…
Laurel forest covers some 70% of this park, situated in the middle of the island of La…
Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the…
This famous pilgrimage site in north-west Spain became a symbol in the Spanish Christians'…
Built at the end of the 16th century on a plan in the form of a grill, the instrument of…
Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albaycín, situated on two…
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest,…
In the 9th century the flame of Christianity was kept alive in the Iberian peninsula in the…
Located in the mountain region of Świętokrzyskie, Krzemionki is an ensemble of four…
During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, more than 85% of Warsaw's historic centre was…
The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka and Bochnia has been mined since the 13th century.…
The Historic Centre of Kraków, the former capital of Poland, is situated at the foot of…
The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the…
The Centennial Hall, a landmark in the history of reinforced concrete architecture, was…
The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica, the largest timber-framed religious buildings…
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a breathtaking cultural landscape of great spiritual significance.…
Kujataa is a subarctic farming landscape located in the southern region of Greenland. It…
Torun owes its origins to the Teutonic Order, which built a castle there in the mid-13th…
Zamosc was founded in the 16th century by the chancellor Jan Zamoysky on the trade route…
Luxuriant natural tropical forest blends with scenic volcanic features of great scientific…
This group of monuments is located in the historic city of Pskov, on the banks of the…
The Assumption Cathedral is located in the town-island of Sviyazhsk and is part of the…
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site…
This property lies on the shores of the Volga River, south of its confluence with the River…
The 'Venice of the North', with its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges, is the…
Situated in the Pacific Ocean some 1,000 km from the South American continent, these 19…
Situated at the confluence of the Volga and Kotorosl Rivers some 250 km north-east of…
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city…
The Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent were part of the northern lines…
With its outstanding natural beauty and two active volcanoes, the park illustrates the…
The Ferapontov Monastery, in the Vologda region in northern Russia, is an exceptionally…
Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca is set in a valley surrounded by the Andean…
The Western Caucasus, extending over 275,000 ha of the extreme western end of the Caucasus…
The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western…
The Sikhote-Alin mountain range contains one the richest and most unusual temperate forests…
This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of…
Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million…
The Virgin Komi Forests cover 3.28 million ha of tundra and mountain tundra in the Urals,…
This is a fine example of a working Orthodox monastery, with military features that are…
The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye, near…
These two artistic centres in central Russia hold an important place in the country's…
The Solovetsky archipelago comprises six islands in the western part of the White Sea,…
Situated on the ancient trade route between Central Asia and northern Europe, Novgorod was…
Inextricably linked to all the most important historical and political events in Russia…
The pogost of Kizhi (i.e. the Kizhi enclosure) is located on one of the many islands in…
Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is…
The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge…
Located in northwest England, the English Lake District is a mountainous area, whose…
Joya de Cerén was a pre-Hispanic farming community that, like Pompeii and…
This railway bridge, crossing the Forth estuary in Scotland, had the world’s longest…
A striking landscape was created around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey and…
Westminster Palace, rebuilt from the year 1840 on the site of important medieval remains,…
Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of…
Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the…
Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a…
Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th…
Six areas in the historic centre and docklands of the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool…
This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the…
The Derwent Valley in central England contains a series of 18th- and 19th- century cotton…
The cliff exposures along the Dorset and East Devon coast provide an almost continuous…
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, is a complete and well-preserved industrial village of the second…
The area around Blaenavon is evidence of the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's…
The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, an outlying district of London, and the park in…
Edinburgh has been the Scottish capital since the 15th century. It has two distinct areas:…
Canterbury, in Kent, has been the seat of the spiritual head of the Church of England for…
The massive White Tower is a typical example of Norman military architecture, whose…
New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the…
Blenheim Palace, near Oxford, stands in a romantic park created by the famous landscape…
The castles of Beaumaris and Harlech (largely the work of the greatest military engineer of…
Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It…
The Verla groundwood and board mill and its associated residential area is an outstanding,…
Petäjävesi Old Church, in central Finland, was built of logs between 1763 and 1765. This…
Built in the second half of the 18th century by Sweden on a group of islands located at the…
This Bronze Age burial site features more than 30 granite burial cairns, providing a unique…
Located in the eastern part of the Thuringian Basin, the Cathedral of Naumburg, whose…
The water management system of the city of Augsburg has evolved in successive phases from…
The archaeological site of Hedeby consists of the remains of an emporium – or trading…
Between 1919 and 1933 the Bauhaus movement revolutionized architectural and aesthetic…
Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the…
Speicherstadt and the adjacent Kontorhaus district are two densely built urban areas in the…
The site is located along the Weser River on the outskirts of Höxter where…
Construction of this palatine chapel, with its octagonal basilica and cupola, began c.…
Descending a long hill dominated by a giant statue of Hercules, the monumental water…
The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous 'Torhall', are rare…
Miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, the Church of Wies…
A masterpiece of Baroque theatre architecture, built between 1745 and 1750, the Opera House…
Fagus Factory in Alfeld is a 10-building complex - began around 1910 to the design of…
This magnificent Baroque palace – one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany and…
Messel Pit is the richest site in the world for understanding the living environment of the…
Begun in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and…
St Michael's Church was built between 1010 and 1020 on a symmetrical plan with two apses…
The Upper Harz mining water management system, which lies south of the Rammelsberg mines…
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. The property consists of six housing estates that testify…
Located on the Danube River in Bavaria, this medieval town contains many buildings of…
The Town Hall and the statue of Roland on the marketplace of Bremen in north-west Germany…
The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were…
The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns and…
The Zollverein industrial complex in Land Nordrhein-Westfalen consists of the complete…
The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine…
Wartburg Castle blends superbly into its forest surroundings and is in many ways 'the ideal…
The museum as a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th…
In the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a…
These places in Saxony-Anhalt are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and his…
The ironworks, which cover some 6 ha, dominate the city of Völklingen. Although they have…
From the 10th century onwards, this town became an important link with the Slav peoples,…
Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and…
Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a capital of the East Franconian German…
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and…
With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex…
Trier, which stands on the Moselle River, was a Roman colony from the 1st century AD and…
Set in an idyllic garden landscape, Augustusburg Castle (the sumptuous residence of the…
Speyer Cathedral, a basilica with four towers and two domes, was founded by Conrad II in…
Located in north-eastern Italy, the property includes part of the winegrowing landscape of…