306 Matobo Hills – 2003
The area exhibits a profusion of distinctive rock landforms rising above the granite shield that covers much of Zimbabwe. The large boulders provide
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Unesco heritage 2003
951 Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park – 2003
The , inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2003, covered 85,754 hectares. With this extension, the site covers a total surface area
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1084 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – 2003
This historic landscape garden features elements that illustrate significant periods of the art of gardens from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The
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1090 Monte San Giorgio – 2003
The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230
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1073 Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region – 2003
These five archaeological sites, stretching over more than 60 km in the Nile valley, are testimony to the Napatan (900 to 270 BC) and Meroitic
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522 Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza – 2003
The urban morphology of the two small cities of Úbeda and Baeza in southern Spain dates back to the Moorish 9th century and
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1099 Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape – 2003
Mapungubwe is set hard against the northern border of South Africa, joining Zimbabwe and Botswana. It is an open, expansive savannah landscape at
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769 Uvs Nuur Basin – 2003
The (1,068,853 ha), is the northernmost of the enclosed basins of Central Asia. It takes its name from Uvs Nuur Lake, a large,
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1070 Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent – 2003
The were part of the northern lines of the Sasanian Persian Empire, which extended east and west of the Caspian Sea. The fortification
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1053 Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska – 2003
The wooden churches of southern Little Poland represent outstanding examples of the different aspects of medieval church-building traditions in Roman Catholic culture. Built
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769 Uvs Nuur Basin – 2003
The (1,068,853 ha), is the northernmost of the enclosed basins of Central Asia. It takes its name from Uvs Nuur Lake, a large,
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1079 Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro – 2003
The five Franciscan missions of Sierra Gorda were built during the last phase of the conversion to Christianity of the interior of Mexico
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1103 Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi – 2003
The , in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. In this
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1090 Monte San Giorgio – 2003
The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain of beside Lake Lugano is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245–230
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1068 Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy – 2003
Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy The nine Sacri Monti (Sacred Mountains) of northern Italy are groups of chapels and other architectural features
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1096 White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement – 2003
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed
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1130 Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat) – 2003
The ancient city of Ashur is located on the Tigris River in northern Mesopotamia in a specific geo-ecological zone, at the borderline between
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1077 Takht-e Soleyman – 2003
The archaeological site of , in north-western Iran, is situated in a valley set in a volcanic mountain region. The site includes the
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925 Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka – 2003
The are in the foothills of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau. Within massive sandstone outcrops, above
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761 Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites – 2003
James Island and Related Sites present a testimony to the main periods and facets of the encounter between Africa and Europe along the
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