Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Covering a difficult geographical setting,…
The site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watchmaking town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Swiss Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to…
The has served as a lighthouse and landmark at the entrance of La Coruña harbour in north-western Spain since the late 1st century A.D. when the Romans built the Farum Brigantium. The…
The form a collection of 40 tombs scattered over 18 locations. Built over five centuries, from 1408 to 1966, the tombs honoured the memory of ancestors, showed respect for their achievements, asserted…
The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the…
The is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The site covers the Dutch Conservation Area, the German National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and…
Kyrgyzstan dominates the Fergana Valley and forms the backdrop to the city of Osh, at the crossroads of important routes on the Central Asian Silk Roads. For more than one and a…
The site of the Dolomites comprises a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps, numbering 18 peaks which rise to above 3,000 metres and cover 141,903 ha. It features some of the…
Shushtar, Historical Hydraulic System, inscribed as a masterpiece of creative genius, can be traced back to Darius the Great in the 5th century B.C. It involved the creation of two main diversion…
The is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The site covers the Dutch Conservation Area, the German National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and…
The is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The site covers the Dutch Conservation Area, the German National Parks of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, and…
With its five flat peaks, is a sacred Buddhist mountain. The cultural landscape is home to forty-one monasteries and includes the East Main Hall of Foguang Temple, the highest surviving timber building…
The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics. Located in the south of the island of Santiago, the…
The 11,130m2 property, the first to be inscribed in the country, with its imposing stone walls is the best preserved of ten fortresses in the Lobi area and is part of a…
When banker and art collector Adolphe Stoclet commissioned this house from one of the leading architects of the Vienna Secession movement, Josef Hoffmann, in 1905, he imposed neither aesthetic nor financial restrictions…