UNESCO World Heritage Centre - World Heritage List
World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre promotes peace and security through international cooperation in education, sciences, culture, communication, and information.
Taj Mahal - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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Ancient City of Sigiriya - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Ancient City of Sigiriya. The ruins of the capital built by the parricidal King Kassapa I (477–95) lie on the steep slopes and at the summit of a granite peak standing some 180m high (the 'Lion's Rock', which dominates the jungle from all sides). A series of galleries and staircases emerging from the mouth of a gigantic lion constructed of ...
Great Zimbabwe National Monument - UNESCO World Heritage …
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Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast - UNESCO World Heritage …
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The Great Wall - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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World Heritage Interactive Map - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) - UNESCO World …
World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - The World Heritage Convention
With 377 sites inscribed in the first twenty years of the Convention, the World Heritage Centre is established to oversee the day-to-day management of the Convention. A new category of sites is added, making the Convention the first legal instrument to recognize and protect cultural landscapes. 1994. Global Strategy.