Monday, January 4, 2010

World Heritage Sites of Countries Starting with Alphabet "I"


(For planning your tours, travel and sightseeing, refer: Travel and Sightseeing- World http://sightseeing-guide.blogspot.com/, Travel and Sightseeing- India http://india-tours-sightseeing.blogspot.com/)

Iceland
  • Surtsey
  • Þingvellir National Park

India

  • Agra Fort
  • Ajanta Caves
  • Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
  • Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
  • Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
  • Churches and Convents of Goa
  • Elephanta Caves
  • Ellora Caves
  • Fatehpur Sikri
  • Great Living Chola Temples
  • Group of Monuments at Hampi
  • Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
  • Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
  • Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
  • Kaziranga National Park
  • Keoladeo National Park
  • Khajuraho Group of Monuments
  • Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
  • Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
  • Mountain Railways of India
  • Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
  • Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
  • Red Fort Complex
  • Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
  • Sun Temple, Konârak
  • Sundarbans National Park
  • Taj Mahal

Indonesia

  • Borobudur Temple Compounds
  • Komodo National Park
  • Lorentz National Park
  • Prambanan Temple Compounds
  • Sangiran Early Man Site
  • Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
  • Ujung Kulon National Park

Iran

  • Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran
  • Bam and its Cultural Landscape
  • Bisotun
  • Meidan Emam, Esfahan
  • Pasargadae
  • Persepolis
  • Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
  • Soltaniyeh
  • Takht-e Soleyman
  • Tchogha Zanbil

Iraq

  • Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
  • Hatra
  • Samarra Archaeological City

Ireland

  • Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
  • Skellig Michael

Israel

  • Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
  • Biblical Tels- Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
  • Incense Route- Desert Cities in the Negev
  • Masada
  • Old City of Acre
  • White City of Tel-Aviv- the Modern Movement

Italy

  • 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli and the San Leucio Complex
  • Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
  • Archaeological Area of Agrigento
  • Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
  • Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
  • Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
  • Castel del Monte
  • Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
  • Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with "The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
  • Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
  • City of Verona
  • City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
  • Costiera Amalfitana
  • Crespi d'Adda
  • Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
  • Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
  • Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta
  • Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
  • Historic Centre of Florence
  • Historic Centre of Naples
  • Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura
  • Historic Centre of San Gimignano
  • Historic Centre of Siena
  • Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
  • Historic Centre of Urbino
  • Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
  • Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
  • Mantua and Sabbioneta
  • Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
  • Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
  • Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
  • Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
  • Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
  • Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
  • Su Nuraxi di Barumini
  • Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
  • The Dolomites
  • The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
  • The Trulli of Alberobello
  • Val d'Orcia
  • Venice and its Lagoon
  • Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
  • Villa d'Este, Tivoli
  • Villa Romana del Casale

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