Sunday, July 10, 2011

Newly Added World Heritage Sites

UNESCO has added foolowing 25 new places as world heritage sites:
  1. Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe, Sudan
  2. Cathedral of Assumption, Nicaragua
  3. Fagus Factory in Alfeld, Germany
  4. Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya
  5. Hiraizumi - The Buddhist Pure Land, Japan
  6. Historic Bridgetown, Barbados
  7. Kanya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
  8. Ningaloo Coast, Australia
  9. Ogasawara Islands, Japan
  10. Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and the Ancient Beech Forests of Germany (Slovakia, Ukraine, Germany)
  11. Selimiye Mosque Social Complex at Edirne, Turkey
  12. Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra, Indonesia
  13. Wadi Rum protected area, Jordan
  14. West Lake cultural landscape of Hangzhou, China
  15. Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, Colombia
  16. The Persian Garden, Iran
  17. Konso Cultural Landscape, Ethiopia
  18. The Causses and the CĂ©vennes, Mediterranean
  19. Longobards in Italy. Places of the power (568-774 A.D., Italy
  20. Petroglyphs Complexes of the Mongolian Altai, Mongolia
  21. Saloum Delta, Senegal
  22. Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana, Spain
  23. Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps, Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia
  24. Ancient Villages of Northern Syria, Syrian Arab Republic
  25. Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, BidaaBint Saud and Oases Areas), United Arab Emirates
  26. The Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans, Ukraine
  27. Citadel of the Ho Dynasty, Vietnam