Adding new sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee has inscribed 42 new sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, including a site in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The newly inscribed sites were announced during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee,
currently held from September 10 to 25 in Riyadh, the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A total of 42 new sites were added in the ongoing special session held in Riyadh this month.
Three Ukrainian sites, including the 11th-century St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev,
were also added last week at the start of the 15-day meeting.
While the Commission’s recommendations to add Venice to the list of World Heritage Sites in Danger were initially rejected,
What keeps her out of the situation is despite criticism that city officials —
who recently adopted a trial of a nominal daily admission fee — aren’t doing so.
And do enough to solve the “old but pressing issues” caused by tourist overcrowding and climate change.
The 50 candidate sites considered, this list is as follows:
- Cultural landscape of ancient tea forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er, China
- Deer stone monuments and related Bronze Age sites, Mongolia
- Jaya Tomoli, South Korea
- Gordion, Türkiye
- Medieval Jewish heritage in Erfurt, Germany
- Koh Ker, Cambodia
- Modernist Kaunas, Lithuania
- Takalik Abaj National Archaeological Park, Guatemala
- Old town of Kuldiga, Latvia\
- Prehistoric sites in Talaiotec Minorca, Spain
- Santiniketan, India
- Silk Roads: Zaravshan-Karakum Corridor in Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
- Gedeo Cultural Landscape, Ethiopia
- Persian Khan, Iran
- Trondike-Klondike, Canada
- Viking Age circular castles, Denmark
- Zatec and the landscape of Saaz Hops, Czechia
- Odzala-Kokoa forest massif, Congo
- Volcanoes and forests of Mount Pele and Piton, north of Martinique, France
- Old Jericho/Tel Sultan, West Bank
- Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University, Russia
- Khinalig people and the “Koch Yolu” deportation route, Azerbaijan
- Djerba, Tunisia
- Sacred Bands of Hoysalas, India
- Yogyakarta and its historical monuments, Indonesia
- Maison Carré Nimes, France
- Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
- ESMA Museum and Memory Site – former secret center of detention, torture and extermination, Argentina
- Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker, Netherlands
- Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks USA
- Godensavan Archaeological Site: Godensavan Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery, Suriname
- Si Thep Ancient City, Thailand
- Wooden columned mosques in medieval Anatolia, Türkiye
- Cultural landscape of Zagori, Greece
- Anticosti, Canada
- Evaporite karst and northern Apennine caves, Italy
- Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
- Cold winter deserts in Turan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
- Urooq Bani Maarid, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Tugai forests in Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve, Tajikistan
- Memorial Sites in Rwanda, Rwanda
- World War I funerary sites, Belgium and France
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