Our UNESCO sites Countries Q - T

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

Wooden Churches of Maramures, Romania

Romania

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

·      Churches of Moldavia

·      Danube Delta

·      Doina music and Hora lungă folksong

·      Historic Centre of Sighişoara

·      Horezu ceramics

·      Struve Geodetic Arc

·      Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania

·      Wooden Churches of Maramureş

Russia

Historic monument, Novgorod, Russia

·      Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad

·      Curonian Spit

·      Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent

·      Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments

·      Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings

·      Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow

·      White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal 

Scotland (UK)

Edinburgh old town buildings

·      The Antonine Wall (part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, UK)

·      New Lanark

·      The Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

·      The Forth Bridge

Singapore

·      Singapore Botanic Gardens

Slovakia

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

Spissky Hrad, Slovakia

·      Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity

·      Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments 

Slovenia

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

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Bobbin lacemaking

Spain

·      Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada

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

·      Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

Alhambra, Spain

·      Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida

·      Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco (Tarragona)

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Burgos Cathedral

·      Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville

·      Flamenco

·      Historic Centre of Cordoba

·      Historic City of Toledo

·      Historic Walled Town of Cuenca

·      La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia

·      Mediterranean diet

·      Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid

·      Mudejar Architecture of Aragon

·      Old City of Salamanca

·      Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches

Placa Mayor, Salamanca, Spain

·      Old Town of Cáceres

·      Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

·      Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

·      Roman Walls of Lugo

·      Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain

·      Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)

·      University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares

·      Vizcaya Bridge (Bilbao)

·      Works of Antoni Gaudí 

Sweden

·      Royal Domain of Drottningholm

Switzerland

Old city of Berne, Switzerland

·      Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques

·      Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces

·      Old City of Berne

Syria

·      Ancient City of Damascus

·      Palmyra

·      Ancient City of Aleppo

·      Crac des Chevaliers     

Thailand

·      Historic City of Ayutthaya

·      Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex

Turkey

·      Ashik (singer)

Topkai Palace, Old Istanbul, Turkey

·      Ebru, Turkish art of marbling

·      Ephesus

·      Historic Areas of Istanbul

·      Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia

·      Hierapolis-Pamukkale

·      Karagöz and Hacivat shadow puppets

·      Lavash bread making and sharing culture

·      Turkish coffee culture and tradition