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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... important component of reef building processes . Fifteen species of seagrass grow throughout the area , forming over 3,000 km2 of seagrass meadows and providing an important food source for grazing animals , such as dugongs and turtles ...
... important biodiversity is probably due to millennia of grazing as well as natural factors . A number of bridges on the routes are known as ' pilgrims ' bridges ' , and that over the Borade at Saint- Chély - d'Aubrac even has the figure ...
... important interchange of human values , over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world , on developments in architecture or technology , monumental arts , town - planning or landscape design ; Testimony to cultural tradition ...