Message from Mr Khaled El-Enany Director-General of UNESCO for African World Heritage Day 5 May 2026
African world heritage constitutes an essential part of human history. Every 5 May, African World Heritage Day (AWHD) ...
Descending a long hill dominated by a giant statue of Hercules, the monumental water displays of Wilhelmshöhe were begun by Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel in 1689 around an east-west axis and were ...
Under the leadership of the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage at the University of Montreal, an international team of researchers conducts interviews with pioneers of World Heritage to capture ...
In response to the growing need to strengthen management systems for World Heritage properties in Africa, a capacity-building ...
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 ...
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 ...
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present ...
Celebrated every year on 5 May, African World Heritage Day was proclaimed in 2015 by the UNESCO General Conference to highlight the exceptional richness of the cultural and natural heritage on the ...
2023 45COM 7B.180 - Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) (C 95ter) 2021 44COM 7B.42 - Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) (C 95ter) 2018 42COM 8B.37 - Old City of Dubrovnik (Croatia) 2018 42COM 7B.20 - Old ...
The five Franciscan missions of Sierra Gorda were built during the last phase of the conversion to Christianity of the interior of Mexico in the mid-18th century and became an important reference for ...
The Silk Roads encompass some of the most complex and fascinating systems in the history of world civilizations. A shifting network of roads and pathways for trade that evolved over centuries, it ...
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