World Heritage Sites: A Complete Guide to 878 UNESCO World Heritage SitesUpdated for 2010, this guide fully describes every official UNESCO World Heritage site. In 1959, UNESCO launched an international campaign to safeguard the world's most important sites, which led to the first World Heritage List. In clear text that highlights all the fascinating facts, this revised edition of World Heritage Sites details all 890 properties, including the 13 new sites added in 2009. Covering 148 countries, the World Heritage List has proved to be a valuable tool in the battle to preserve much of the world's cultural and natural heritage. Its strict criteria result in only the world's most spectacular and extraordinary sites making it onto the list, including:
The new sites added to this edition are:
Featuring gorgeous photographs and updated maps, World Heritage Sites is uniquely comprehensive. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 with the ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men and women through education, social and natural science, culture and communication. |
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... houses and farm buildings , strip - field farming , orchards , vineyards , meadows and woods cover 1.4 km2 . As was customary in the region , the first generation of inhabitants settled on either side of the main street . In this one ...
... houses were built , some as high as 50 m , of which fourteen have survived . Its walls and fortified houses form an unforgettable skyline , in the heart of the Etruscan landscape . The historic centre of San Gimignano contains a series ...
... houses have verandas . Decoration of the houses is important , with arches over gateways , screen walls , external corridors , doors and windows , courtyards and roof beams . Wooden elements are elaborately carved with domestic and ...