The new sites classified by UNESCO as World Heritage

Recently, the Committee decided to open up to new categories such as cultural landscapes and itineraries, industrial heritage (for example, this year, Ivrea, the 20th century industrial city in Italy), deserts, coastal marine sites and small island sites, in order to make the list more diverse and more representative of world heritage. The sites proposed for inscription must meet at least one of the ten selection criteria, such as representing a masterpiece of human creative genius, testifying to an exchange of influences throughout history, providing exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or a living or vanished civilization, or representing natural phenomena of exceptional beauty and aesthetic importance, or of course, being eminently representative examples of ecological and biological processes... Italy is the country with the largest number (54), then China (53), Spain (47), then France (44), Germany (44), and finally, Mexico (35).

 

China: Fanjingshan, a very rare ecosystem

South Korea: the Sansa, mountain Buddhist monasteries

France: the Chaîne des Puys tectonic site - Limagne fault

Indonesia: Ombilin Coal Mine Heritage in Sawahlunto

Australia: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape

Colombia: Chiribiquete National Park and "La Maloca of the Jaguars"

Czech Republic: Landscape of ceremonial carriage horse breeding and training in Kladruby nad Labem

China: Archaeological ruins of the city of Liangzhu

Turkey: Göbekli Tepe and its mysterious temple

Laos: Megalithic Jar Sites of Xieng Khouang – Plain of Jars

Burkina Faso: Ancient iron metallurgy sites

Denmark: Aasivissuit-Nipisat, Inuit hunting grounds

Azerbaijan: Historic centre of Sheki with the Khan's palace

Oman: the ancient city of Qalhat

India: The city of Jaipur, Rajasthan

South Africa: the Barberton Makhonjwa mountains

Bahrain: Tombs from the Dilmun culture 

Canada: Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai'pi

Germany: the border archaeological complex of Hedeby and Danevirke

Japan: Mozu-Furuichi kofun complex: burial mounds from ancient Japan

Spain: the caliphal town of Medina Azahara

Spain: The cultural landscape of Risco Caido and the sacred mountains of Gran Canaria

Italy: The Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene

Iran: the Sassanid archaeological landscape of the Fars region

Mexico: the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley and its original Mesoamerican habitat

20th century architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Iraq: Babylon

Myanmar: Bagan

United Kingdom: Jodrell Bank Observatory

Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří: Mining region

Poland: Krzemionki prehistoric striped flint mining area

Portugal: Sanctuary of the Good Jesus of Mount in Braga

Seowon: Korean neo-Confucian academies

Portugal: Royal building at Mafra - palace, basilica, convent, Cerco garden and hunting park (Tapada)

Russia: Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture

Iceland: Vatnajökull National Park - the dynamic nature of fire and ice

China: Migratory bird sanctuary along China's Yellow Sea and Bohai Gulf coasts 

France: French Southern Territories and Seas

Brazil: Paraty and Ilha Grande - culture and biodiversity

Taken from a PowerPoint made by Mr BOYER.

ZT