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Large building with a tall square tower in its center with a clock and a pointed roof.

Historic Centre of Sighişoara

An intact fortified medieval town built by Transylvanian Saxons.

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A view of the cathedral with its central rose window.

Durham Castle and Cathedral

An innovative cathedral with architecture that foreshadowed Gothic, and the 11th-century Norman castle that guarded it and the northern frontier.

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A large pavilion - more like a castle - at West Lake - lit up with lights along all of the curved roofs.

West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou

An ancient landscaped environment based on Buddhist principles in garden design that have been influential for over a thousand years.

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A path with stones between it and the sea, a windmill along the path, and part of the Ancient City of Nessebar visible beyond the windmill.

Ancient City of Nessebar

An ancient city on a peninsula containing architecture from many eras, including unique Bulgarian Renaissance elements.

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A misty and rocky mountaintop, with a pedestal with broken statues on it, their heads on the ground in front of them.

Nemrut Dağ

A mountain on whose peak stands the tomb of King Antiochus I, an imposing artistic achievement of the Hellenistic period.

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A series of stone arches cover a cobbled sidewalk in Djerba.

Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory

An island whose inhabitants adapted their settlements to the natural conditions, and where different cultures coexisted peacefully.

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A view over the Historic Centre of Bukhara with several of the historical buildings visible.

Historic Centre of Bukhara

A Silk Road city with historic architecture dating to the 10th and 11th centuries, important particularly for its urban planning.

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A large structure in stone with what looks like closely-set cylindrical columns around it.

State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”

A Silk Road city 4,000 years old, with remains of five walled cities from different eras.

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Entrance to a temple with a stairway leading to an arched gateway and a curved tile roof.

Mount Taishan

One of the Five Great Mountains and an important place of worship, known for its Taoist temples.

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A small red temple with two traditional curved tile roofs.

Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu

An architectural collection in the hometown of Confucius, who was hugely influential in the history of China and many other countries.

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A tall, cylindrical stone tower in the Walled City of Baku.

Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah’s Palace and Maiden Tower

A historic city and charming old city with architecture and urban planning that show an array of cultural influences spanning centuries.

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A series of ruins along the top of a hill.

Archaeological Site of Ani

The extensive ruins – palaces, churches, mosques, fortifications, and homes – of an important trading city on the medieval Silk Road, where diverse cultures and architectural traditions met and blended.

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Seen from a hill, neat rows of large houses and a road between them. Each house has a neat yard in front.

Crespi d’Adda

A 19th-century company town built to provide a good standard of living for employees of a cotton mill.

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View looking up at the top of a stupa, where strings of colorful flags extend to its center - in Kathmandu Valley.

Kathmandu Valley

Seven religious monuments that represent the unique Nepalese culture, mixing Hinduism and Buddhism with animism and Tantrism.

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View from a hill above the cliff over a bay with some of the cliff visible in the distance.

Stevns Klint

A long limestone cliff containing an exceptional fossil record of life on Earth both before and after the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

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A row of elegant buildings in Renaissance styles, all painted in pastel colors.

Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia

A 16th-18th-century colonial capital where European, African and Indigenous cultural influences have blended and echo to the present day.

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An arch with images of Jesus and saints in the tympanum.

Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

Seventy-eight locations along four medieval pilgrimage routes leading to the Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

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A beautiful view from on top of a mountain over hilly forests.

Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe

Primeval forests of European beech trees that survived the last Ice Age and then spread across Europe, now protected in 93 locations across 18 countries.

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A narrow street, low white buildings on both sides and an archway across it.

Medina of Tunis

The ancient center of Tunis, with about 700 monuments dating to the 12th-16th century: mosques, gates, markets, palaces, noble houses, and more.

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A sitting Buddha statue, with a ruin of a round temple structure and more sitting Buddhas next to it.

Ancient City of Polonnaruwa

The 12-century capital of Sri Lanka built by the Chola rulers and containing the ruins of spectacular Buddhist monuments.

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Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana

A mountainous region of Mallorca with ancient systems of water harvesting, terraces and villages that have supported agriculture for centuries.

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A pretty lake with a green hill on the opposite side.

Roșia Montană Mining Landscape

A hilly region with 16 villages and what remains of a huge Roman-era gold mining operation.

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Penguins on a stony beach at Peninsula Valdes.

Peninsula Valdés

A peninsula in the Atlantic that is a breeding ground for many marine mammals and birds, including some endangered and endemic species.

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A lake surrounded by mountains with a single kayaker in the lake.

Huascarán National Park

A beautiful mountainous landscape in the Andes, with a wide diversity of geological features and species.

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A fortress with rounded elements on the corners and a tall square tower with crenellations.

Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon

A group of Medieval buildings in Spain that exemplify a fusion of Islamic and Christian architectural and artistic traditions.

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A brightly-colored bird on a branch.

Selous Game Reserve

a.k.a. Nyerere National Park, an enormous wildlife reserve, home to a huge diversity of species, some of them endangered.

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a small house-like building but with a round stubby tower in its middle.

Struve Geodetic Arc

A chain of survey points from Norway to Ukraine set up in the 19th century to study the curvature of the Earth.

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An elegant building with a triangular portico and columns on the front and a round cupola above.

Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara

A 19th-century charitable institution in Neoclassical style, with magnificent 20th-century murals by José Clemente Orozco.

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A group of giraffes run across a grassy field.

Okavango Delta

A river delta that flows into a desert, creating unique and diverse ecosystems and supporting a wide range of species.

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View along the length of the Forth Bridge.

The Forth Bridge

A cantilever bridge dating to 1890 that is celebrated for its innovative design.

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A long low building of wood with a roof of thatch that comes quite low down to the ground.

Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

17 archeological sites from a 10,0000-year-old hunter-fisher-gatherer society.

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A classical-style theater building.

Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos

A 19th-century French settlement in Cuba with a range of interesting architecture, from neoclassical to deco and modern.

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A view of a mountainous and green landscape in the Western Ghats.

Western Ghats

A mountain range supporting incredible biodiversity and a range of ecosystems, great for hiking and other outdoor activities.

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Seen across the water, a view of the whole island, with many low buildings visible.

Island of Gorée

A former slave-trading center near Dakar, now a place of remembrance.

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St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim

Two 11th-century churches exemplifying Ottonian Romanesque architecture and art.

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Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots

Several very early Christian churches that were influential in the development of early Armenian church architecture.

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