World Heritage Sites Travel

Welcome! Why did we create this website? The official UNESCO list explains quite well what each UNESCO site is and why it was added to the list, but it doesn’t give information for tourism. The intention of this site is to fill that gap, becoming a one-stop shop for World Heritage tourism information!

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Europe

A row of four enormous statues, seen from the side, guard the entranceways to the temple. Each has its arms crossed across its chest and each has a long straight beard.

Middle East

North & Central America

Vinales Valley: a bush in the foreground with bright red flowers, behind that the green floor of the valley, and beyond that, the dome-shaped karst mountains, also covered in green.

Caribbean

View down a pretty beach.

South America

View of Humayuns tomb seen from across a piece of the garden with a pond.

Asia

Africa

View down a roadway, with the rounded red-rock hills of Kata Tjuta in the distance.

Australia & South Pacific

Transnational Sites

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A view along the Seine seen from one bank. Below, lower than street level, is a bank with 2 rows of cafe tables capped with umbrellas. Between the cafe tables and the water is a path with people walking and biking, and a railing along the water. A tourist boat passes under a bridge over the river.

Paris, Banks of the Seine

A 365-hectare corridor that encompasses many of the most famous sights in Paris, spanning centuries of the city’s development.

View of rice terraces in parallel rows up the side of a mountain.

Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras

A living cultural landscape that has endured for 2000 years.

A direct view down a straight garden walkway to the central entrance to the palace.

Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

A magnificent 16th-century royal palace, particularly important for its artwork.

Mont-Saint-Michel appears as a pile of stone structures up a hill, forming a conical shape with a recognizably Gothic church spire at the top.

Mont-Saint-Michel and its bay

A magnificent Gothic abbey on top of a small island in a bay with dramatic tides.