UNESCO’s role is to ‘encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world, considered to be of outstanding value to humanity’.
The cultural and natural heritage sites identified by UNESCO are listed in a “World Heritage List” on the UNESCO website: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/
In addition, UNESCO has defined a Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Intangible cultural heritage is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place or peoples living cultural heritage that requires safeguarding. For example, folklore, customs, language, traditions, food, etc. The full list can be view at: https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists
In 2021, there was a total of 1,121 physical UNESCO World Heritage sites worldwide, and 549 intangible cultural elements noted as worthy of protection.
We have experienced 421 of these (at March 2021). They are listed below by country.
This post covers countries beginning with A to D. Other countries are listed in UNESCO posts E-H; I-L; M-P; Q-T and U-Z.
This post covers countries beginning with A to D. Other countries are listed in UNESCO posts E-H; I-L; M-P; Q-T and U-Z.
Albania
· Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region
Argentina
· Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas
· Fileteado painting
· Iguazu National Park
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| Talampaya Nat Park, Argentina |
· Ischigualasto / Talampaya Natural Parks
· Jesuit Block and Estancias of Córdoba
· Los Alerces National Park
· Los Glaciares National Park
· Península Valdés
· Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
· Tango dancing
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| Dingo on Fraser Island, Australia |
· Fraser Island
· Gondwana Rainforests of Australia 1
· Great Barrier Reef
· Greater Blue Mountains Area
· Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
· Sydney Opera House
· Wet Tropics of Queensland
· Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
· Classical horsemanship and School of the Spanish Riding School Vienna
· Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape
· Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg
· Historic Centre of Vienna
· Palace and Gardens of Schönbrunn
· Semmering Railway
· Wachau Cultural Landscape
Belgium
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| La Grand-Place, Brussels, Belgium |
· Belfries of Belgium and France (Ghent, Brussels, Tournai, Namur)
· Flemish Béguinages (Brussels, Brugge, Ghent, Tongeren)
· Historic Centre of Brugge
· La Grand-Place, Brussels
· Major Mining Sites of Wallonia
· Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
· Notre-Dame Cathedral in Tournai
· Stoclet House Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex
· The Four Lifts on the Canal du Centre and their Environs, La Louvière and Le Roeulx (Hainaut)
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| City of Potosi, Bolivia |
· Fuerte de Samaipata
· Historic City of Sucre
· Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
· Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
· Tiwanaku: Spiritual and Political Centre of the Tiwanaku Culture
· Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad
· Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar
· Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia
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| Historic centre of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil |
· Iguaçu National Park
· Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
· Pantanal Conservation Area
· Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
· Samba de Roda
· Valongo Wharf Archaeological Site
· Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
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| Rila Monastery, Bulgaria |
· Bistritsa Babi choirs
· Boyana Church
· Rila Monastery
· Rock-Hewn Churches of Ivanovo
· Srebarna Nature Reserve
· Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak
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| Bayon Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia |
· Churches of Chiloé
· Baile Chino (music and dance)
· Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
· Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
· Ancient Chinese wooden architecture
· Chinese calligraphy
· Chinese paper cutting
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| Ancient Chinese wooden architecture |
· Kunqu Opera
· Lushan National Park
· Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor (Xian)
· Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
· Old Town of Lijiang
· Shan'ge Chinese folk song
· Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries
· Silk industry in China
· Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor (Xi'an)
· South China Karst (Stone Forest of Kunming)
· Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
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| Old town of Lijiang, China |
· The Grand Canal
· The Great Wall
· Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (passing through Jade Dragon Snow Mountain)
· Traditional seal carving
· Traditional woodblock printing
· Xuan paper
· Xi'an guyue music
· Marimba music
· National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
· Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
· Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System
· San Agustín Archaeological Park
· Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe
· Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques
· Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
· Historic City of Trogir
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| Plitvice Lakes, Croatia |
· Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
· Lacemaking
· Licitar (honey dough biscuits)
· Mediterranean diet
· Old City of Dubrovnik
· Plitvice Lakes National Park
· Stari Grad Plain
· Stato da Mar
· Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Zadar
· Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
· Historic Centre of Prague
· Historic Centre of Telč
· Holašovice Historic Village
· Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
· Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
· Litomyšl Castle
· Tugendhat Villa in Brno
