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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