Our UNESCO sites Countries I - L

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

India

Hampi monument, India

·      Agra Fort

·      Ajanta Caves

·      Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park

·      Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)

·      Churches and Convents of Goa

·      Elephanta Caves

·      Ellora Caves

·      Fatehpur Sikri

·      Hampi Group of Monuments

·      Hill Forts of Rajasthan (in Chittorgarh, Kumbhalgarh, Ranthambhore, Jaisalmer, Jaipur)

·      Historic City of Ahmadabad

·      Humayun's Tomb

·      Jaipur (the Pink) City, Rajasthan

·      Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

·      Kalbelia dance

·      Kaziranga National Park

·      Mahabalipuram Group of Monuments

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One-horned rhinoceros, Kaziranga Nat Park, India

Mountain Railways of India (Darjeeling  Himalayan Railway)

·      Pattadakal Group of Monuments

·      Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi

·      Ramlila folk re-enactment

·      Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat

·      Red Fort Complex

·      Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

·      Sanchi Buddhis Monuments

·      Taj Mahal

·      The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding 

     Contribution to the Modern Movement

·      Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai

·      Western Ghats

Ireland

Skellig Michael, Ireland

·      Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne

·      Celtic harp

·      Skellig Michael

·      Uilleann pipes

Italy

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

·      Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale

Colosseum, Rome, Italy

·      Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites

·      Costiera Amalfitana

·      Historic Centre of Florence

·      Historic Centre of Naples

·      Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City and San Paolo Fuori le Mura

·      Historic Centre of San Gimignano

·      Historic Centre of Siena

·      Historic Centre of the City of Pienza

·      Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)

·      Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany

The Trulli houses of Alberobello, Italy

·      Mediterranean diet

·      Mount Etna

·      Piazza del Duomo, Pisa

·      Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)

·      Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica

·      The Trulli of Alberobello

·      The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera

·      Val d'Orcia

·      Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Fortified City of Peschiera del Garda

·      Venice and its Lagoon

Japanese cuisine

Japan

·      Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration

·      Japanese cuisine

·      Kabuki (classical Japanese dance-drama)

·      Noh (classical Japanese dance-drama)

·      Washi making (traditional Japanese paper)

·      Yūki-tsumugi (making silk cloth)

Jordan

·      Petra 

·      Wadi Rum Protected Area

Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul, S Korea

Korea (Republic of)

·      Changdeokgung Palace Complex

·      Ganggangsullae dance

·      Jongmyo Shrine

Laos

·      Town of Luang Prabang

Latvia

·      Historic Centre of Riga

Lithuania

The Bock fortifications, Luxembourg

·      Curonian Spit

·      Vilnius Historic Centre

Luxembourg

·      City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications