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21 New Sites added to Unesco World Heritage list
With the addition of these 21 sites, The Unesco World Heritage list now totals 1073. I often look at the list and dream about where in the world I’d like to go to next. This curiosity led me to Siem Reap last year to see Angkor Wat, and as if that wasn’t enough, on a cruise through Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, both of which are Unesco World Heritage sites. Sites on the list represent ” outstanding universal value and meet at least one out of ten selection criteria.” If you’re unfamiliar with Unesco World Heritage and how they select sites on their list, you can check it out here.
The 21 new Sites
The new natural sites are:
- Los Alerces National Park (Argentina)
- Qinghai Hoh Xil (China)
- Landscapes of Dauria (Mongolia/Russian Federation)
The new cultural sites are:
- Mbanza Kongo, Vestiges of the Capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo (Angola)
- Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site (Brazil)
- Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura (Cambodia)
- Kulangsu: a Historic International Settlement (China)
- Venetian Works of Defence between 16th and 17th centuries: Stato da Terra – western Stato da Mar (Croatia, Italy, Montenegro)
- Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap (Denmark)
- Asmara: a Modernist City of Africa (Eritrea)
- Taputapuātea (France)
- Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura (Germany)
- Historic City of Ahmadabad (India)
- Historic City of Yazd (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region (Japan)
- Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town (Palestine)
- Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System(Poland)
- Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk (Russian Federation)
- ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape (South Africa)
- Aphrodisias (Turkey)
- The English Lake District (United Kingdom)
The extensions to existing sites are:
- Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine)
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (Benin, Burkina Faso)
- Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau , Germany
- Strasbourg: from Grande-île to Neustadt, a European urban scene , France
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Annual Fee
$95
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