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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... Region Australia Criteria - Testimony to cultural tradition ; Major stages of Earth's history Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean OCEANIA Tasman Sea The Willandra Lakes Region is a remarkable example of a site where the economic and cultural ...
... Region Historic Cultural Landscape Hungary Criteria - Testimony to cultural tradition ; Traditional human settlement The cultural landscape of Tokaj graphically demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low ...
... Region * otected Areas outh Africa teria Significant ecological and biological cesses ; Significant natural habitat for diversity ght protected areas covering 5,530 km2 ke up the Cape Floral Region , one of the hest areas for plants in ...