I like lists, and I like travel. The obvious answer to this equation is that I like the UNESCO World Heritage List. (I also find this site to be a nice supplement to the official descriptions.)
The World Heritage List helps implement the 1972 World Heritage Convention, which calls on its187 member States to identify and preserve natural and cultural sites on their territories that are of "outstanding universal value." Such sites are precious to humanity as a whole; thus inscription on the World Heritage List qualifies a site for financial assistance from a common fund if it is under threat or needs rehabilitation.
States must nominate and approve the listing of a site on their territory, and they must initiate requests for assistance. World Heritage sites in the U.S. include Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Montecello. There's also a List of World Heritage in Danger -- which includes, for example, the Everglades.
Our travels chronicled in this blog have included the following World Heritage sites:
The World Heritage List helps implement the 1972 World Heritage Convention, which calls on its187 member States to identify and preserve natural and cultural sites on their territories that are of "outstanding universal value." Such sites are precious to humanity as a whole; thus inscription on the World Heritage List qualifies a site for financial assistance from a common fund if it is under threat or needs rehabilitation.
States must nominate and approve the listing of a site on their territory, and they must initiate requests for assistance. World Heritage sites in the U.S. include Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Montecello. There's also a List of World Heritage in Danger -- which includes, for example, the Everglades.
Our travels chronicled in this blog have included the following World Heritage sites:
- Seventeenth century canal ring area of Amsterdam
- City of Luxembourg: Its Old Quarters and Fortifications
- La Grande Place (Brussels)
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Cologne Cathedral
- Maritime Greenwich
- Westminster Abbey
- Tower of London
- Medina of Fez
- Volubilis
- Historic City of Meknes
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Essaouira
- Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou
- Historic Centre of Rome
- Vatican City
- Kinderdijk
- Flemish Beguinages
- Belfries of Belgium and France
- Plantin-Moretus Museum
- Vizcaya Bridge
- Rietveld-Schroeder House
- Upper Middle Rhine Valley
- Speyer Cathedral
- Wadden Sea
- Schokland
- D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station
- Beemster Polder
- Defense Line of Amsterdam
- Historic Center of Salzburg
- Historic Center of Warsaw
- Historic Center of Krakow
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Wieliczka Salt Mine
- Museum Island (Berlin)
- Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
- Independence Hall (Philadelphia)
- Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico)
- Buddhist Monuments of Horyu-ji
- Himeji-jo
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
- Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
- Shrines and Temples of Nikko
- Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range (Koyasan)
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