Our UNESCO sites Countries E - H

The United Nations has an agency called the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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 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 E to H. Other countries are listed in UNESCO posts  A-D;  I-L;  M-P;  Q-T and U-Z. 

City of Quito, Ecuador

Ecuador

·      City of Quito

·      Galápagos Islands

·      Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca

·      Marimba music

·      Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System

·      Traditional weaving of the Ecuadorian toquilla straw hat (the Panama hat)

Egypt

Marg at the Pyramids of Giza

·      Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

·      Historic Cairo

·      Memphis and its Necropolis: The Pyramid fields from Giza to Dahsur

·      Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine  

England & Nthn Ireland (UK) (See also, Scotland and Wales)

·      Blenheim Palace

·      Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church

·      City of Bath

·      Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

·      Derwent Valley Mills

·      Dorset and East Devon Coast

Bath Abbey, England

·      Durham Castle and Cathedral

·      Frontiers of the Roman Empire

·      Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast

·      Gorham's Cave Complex (Gibraltar)

·      Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City

·      Maritime Greenwich

·      Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church

·      Saltaire

·      Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

·      Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

·      The English Lake District

Marg in the historic centre of Tallin, Estonia

·      Tower of London 

Estonia

·      Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

Finland

·      Fortress of Suomenlinna

France

·      Amiens Cathedral

·      Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Aubusson tapestry

Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France

·      Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

·      Canal du Midi

·      Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims

·      Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars

·      Chartres Cathedral

·      French cuisine

·      Fortifications of Vauban in Briançon (incling Fort Medoc near Pauillac)

·      Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge

·      Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

·      Historic Site of Lyon

·      Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion

·      Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret

·      Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay

Grande-Ile, Strasbourg, France

·      Palace and Park of Versailles

·      Paris, Banks of the Seine

·      Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

·      Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France

·      Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt

·      The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement

·      The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy in Dijon

·      The vineyards, wine cellars, and sales houses of Champagne-

     Ardenne 

Germany

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

·      Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

·      Berlin Modernism Housing Estates

Hanseatic city of Lubeck, Germany

·      Classical Weimar

·      Frontiers of the Roman Empire

·      Hanseatic City of Lübeck

·      Idea and practice of organizing shared interests in cooperatives (Co-op gardens)

·      Margravial Opera House Bayreuth

·      Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System

·      Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

·      Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof

Town Hall of Bremen, Germany

·      Organ building and music

·      Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin 

·      St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim

·      Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen

·      Town of Bamberg

·      Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square

·      Wadden Sea

Greece
·      Acropolis, Athens

Meteora, Greece

·      Archaeological Site of Delphi

·      Archaeological Site of Olympia

·      Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Mediterranean diet

·      Meteora and monasteries

·      Tinian marble craftsmanship

Holy See

·      Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See

·      Vatican City 

Budapest on the Danube, Hungary

Hungary

·      Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, 

     the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue

·      Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)

·      Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape