774 Laponian Area – 1996
The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami people. It is the largest area in the world (and
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Unesco heritage 1996
762 Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå – 1996
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a ‘church village’, a unique kind of village formerly
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782 La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia – 1996
Built between 1482 and 1533, this group of buildings was originally used for trading in silk (hence its name, the Silk Exchange) and
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781 Historic Walled Town of Cuenca – 1996
Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved medieval fortified
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765 Volcanoes of Kamchatka – 1996
This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of active volcanoes, a variety of types,
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754 Lake Baikal – 1996
Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20%
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755 Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar – 1996
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with a 2,000-year
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749 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex – 1996
This transnational extension (Benin, Burkina Faso) to the W National Park of Niger, inscribed in 1996 on the World Heritage List, cover a
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759 Defence Line of Amsterdam – 1996
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification
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793 Historic City of Meknes – 1996
Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital under Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), the founder
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791 Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal – 1996
The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhabitants. The layout of the buildings, which
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792 Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro – 1996
The old colonial town of Querétaro is unusual in having retained the geometric street plan of the Spanish conquerors side by side with
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750 Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata – 1996
Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these
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776 Itsukushima Shinto Shrine – 1996
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine
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775 Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) – 1996
The was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts
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787 The Trulli of Alberobello – 1996
The Trulli of Alberobello The trulli , limestone dwellings found in the southern region of Puglia, are remarkable examples of drywall (mortarless) construction,
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789 Historic Centre of the City of Pienza – 1996
It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in 1459, to
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788 Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna – 1996
Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has
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398 Castel del Monte – 1996
When the Emperor Frederick II built this castle near Bari in the 13th century, he imbued it with symbolic significance, as reflected in
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757 Sceilg Mhichíl – 1996
is an outstanding, and in many respects unique, example of an early religious settlement deliberately sited on a pyramidal rock in the ocean,
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