On February 27, UNESCO, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, and the National Preserve ‘Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’ formalised a ...

UNESCO is deeply alarmed by the 24 March strikes that hit a building in the area of Bernardine Monastery within the World ...

Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. What ...

Inscribing a site on the World Heritage List is not the end of the story. Site managers and local authorities continuously need to work towards managing, monitoring and preserving the World Heritage ...

Once a site is inscribed on the World Heritage List (and becomes a “World Heritage property”), the State Party has to ensure that effective and active measures are taken for its protection, ...

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The ironworks, which cover some 6 ha, dominate the city of Völklingen. Although they have recently gone out of production, they are the only intact example, in the whole of western Europe and North ...

The Białowieża Forest World Heritage site, on the border between Poland and Belarus, is an immense range of primary forest including both conifers and broadleaved trees covering a total area of ...

A Tentative List is an inventory of those sites which each State Party intends to consider for nomination. The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche ...

The Churches of Chiloé represent a unique example in Latin America of an outstanding form of ecclesiastical wooden architecture. They represent a tradition initiated by the Jesuit Peripatetic Mission ...

After launching the Patrimonito Storyboard Competition in 2022, the World Heritage Centre received over 700 submissions from young people featuring solutions to the impacts of climate change on World ...