Located well above the Arctic Circle, the site includes the mountainous Wrangel Island (7,608 km2), Herald Island (11 km 2) and surrounding waters. Wrangel was not glaciated during the Quaternary Ice ...

Les deux grands tertres de Çatal Höyük forment ce bien de 37 hectares situé dans le sud du plateau anatolien. Le tertre oriental, qui est le plus haut, présente 18 niveaux d’occupation néolithique ...

The colonial town of Cienfuegos was founded in 1819 in the Spanish territory but was initially settled by immigrants of French origin. It became a trading place for sugar cane, tobacco and coffee.

Avec ses cinq plateaux, le Mont Wutai est une montagne sacrée bouddhiste. Ce paysage culturel compte 41 monastères, dont la grande salle orientale du temple de Foguang, l’un des derniers édifices en ...

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), author of the American Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States, was also a talented architect of neoclassical buildings. He designed ...

Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified ...

Nancy, résidence temporaire d'un roi sans royaume devenu duc de Lorraine, Stanislas Leszczynski, est paradoxalement l'exemple le plus ancien et le plus typique d'une capitale moderne où un monarque ...

Cet ensemble regroupe, en Saxe-Anhalt, les lieux liés à la vie de Martin Luther et à celle de son collaborateur Melanchthon : la maison de Melanchthon à Wittenberg ; celle où Luther est né en 1483 et ...

The property encompasses sites where the method of producing sparkling wines was developed on the principle of secondary fermentation in the bottle since the early 17 th century to its early ...

In the framework of the ‘European Month in Cuba’, the EU-funded UNESCO Transcultura Programme is organizing an event on the ...

Experts from East Africa gathered in Nairobi for a workshop to discuss current challenges posed at the World Heritage sites in danger in Kenya, Madagascar, and Tanzania. Africa, despite its rich and ...