Saturday 15 August 2015

Heritage list updated




THESE are some of the world’s historic or significant cultural sites given UNESCO World Heritage status this year:

  • Christiansfeld, Moravian Church Settlement (Denmark)
  • Champagne hillsides, houses and cellars (France)
  • Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus district, Hamburg (Germany)
  • Cultural landscape of Maymand (Iran)
  • Necropolis of Beth She’arim—a landmark of Jewish Revival (Israel)
  • Arab-Norman Palermo and the cathedral churches of Cefalú and Monreale (Italy)
  • Sites of Japan’s Meiji industrial revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
  • Rjukan-Notodden industrial heritage site (Norway)
  • Singapore Botanical Gardens (Singapore)
  • Ephesus (Turkey)
  • Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial landscape (Uruguay)
  • The Forth Bridge (Scotland)
  • San Antonio Missions (US)


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