Historic Centre of Évora
A museum city of architecture of the Portuguese golden age.
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University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia
Portugal’s oldest university, with centuries of architecture and ancient traditions.
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Agra Fort
A stunning example of Mughal architecture in the form of a fortress containing palaces, audience halls and mosques.
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Ajanta Caves
Thirty ancient caves carved into a cliff wall, many of them filled with Buddhist paintings and sculpture.
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Alto Douro Wine Region
A river valley landscape shaped by centuries of Port wine cultivation and production.
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Old Town Lunenburg
A charming 18th-19th-century British colonial fishing settlement with colorful wooden buildings.
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Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
Five cave temples decorated with Buddhist paintings and sculpture, a place of pilgrimage for 2000 years.
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Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
A city with an interesting history of coexisting cultural communities, and with several historic monuments including a wonderfully intact Roman aqueduct.
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Maritime Greenwich
An elegant ensemble of architecturally important buildings from the 17th and early 18th century.
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Los Alerces National Park
A stunningly beautiful park with mountains, lakes and forests, and the second-oldest trees in the world.
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City of Safranbolu
A medieval caravan stop on the Silk Road that contains many examples of traditional Ottoman architecture.
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Group of Monuments at Hampi
Hundreds of ruins of temples and other structures of the vanished Vijayanagara kingdom.
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Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
Peter the Great’s planned city of stunning Baroque architecture.
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City of Valletta
A fortified port city with a long military history and a Renaissance urban plan.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
A busy 19th-century Gothic Revival train station in Mumbai that blends Victorian and Indian influences.
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Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
A large group of very well-preserved Roman buildings.
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Mosi-oa-Tunya/Victoria Falls
A huge and exceedingly beautiful waterfall on the Zambezi River.
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The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes
A beautiful river valley landscape dotted with stunning castles and charming medieval towns.
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Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
Two sets of ruins from the Mycenaean civilization in the Peloponnese, which preceded the Ancient Greeks.
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Butrint
A little-known archeological site in southern Albania with ruins from centuries of occupiers.
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Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
An ancient and disputed city, holy to three major religions.
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Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
A mosque complex representing the height of Ottoman architectural achievement.
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Taj Mahal
The most famous monument in India, a landmark of Mughal-era architecture and a symbol of eternal love.
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Talayotic Menorca
Numerous archeological sites with dry-stone structures dating to the Bronze Age and Late Iron Age.
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Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
Two-thousand-year-old earthworks that demonstrate the Hopewell people’s knowledge of geometry and astronomy.
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Megalithic Temples of Malta
Seven impressive stone structures used for ritual purposes during the Bronze Age.
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Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca
Two colonial-era towns where cultural exchange has created unique townscapes and local culture.
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Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement
An 18-century commercial port where foreign and Chinese influences mixed and intertwined, especially evident in the unique range of architecture.
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Ngorongoro Conservation Area
A biodiverse ecosystem with massive annual wildlife migrations, a huge intact caldera, and important hominid fossil finds.
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Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point
A remarkable achievement in earthen construction by hunter-gatherers more than 3000 years ago.
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Palmeral of Elche
An extraordinary palm grove dating to the Arab period in Spain.
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Royal Domain of Drottningholm
A magnificent and remarkably well-preserved 18th-century palace and grounds.
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Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
Home to a centuries-old culture of agave cultivation for production of Tequila.
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
A 19th-century engineering achievement; an elegant structure that still functions to carry a canal high above the ground.
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Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island
Four islands with subtropical rainforests that support a range of endemic species.
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Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
Palaces and other structures that tell the story of the 70-year sojourn in France of the Catholic papacy in the 14th century.
