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IndiaRegional value
A 1200 year old water tank nestled in the forest at the foot of the hills behind. This place is quite unknown and is ...
UKUNESCO
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This volcanic archipelago, with its spectacular landscapes, is situated off the coast of the Hebrides and comprises t...
Sri-LankaUNESCO
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Lion Rock. In the last quarter of the 5th century AD, King Kashyapa built an impregnable fortress and his palace on t...
MadagascarUNESCO
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The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga consists of a royal city and burial site, and an ensemble of sacred places. It is assoc...
PalestineUNESCO
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The use of a local limestone shaped the construction of the old town of Hebron/Al-Khalil during the Mamluk period bet...
TurkmenistanNational value
The Bronze Age settlement (2300 BC) is located in the southeast of Turkmenistan, in the Mary oasis. Discovered in 197...
AustriaUNESCO
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The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems, a landscape of high visual quality. It preserves...
Sudanmust
A place of ancient treasures, the town has been reduced to a conglomeration of ruined peristyles and sun-cracked ston...
AzerbaijanUNESCO
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Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sas...
UruguayUNESCO
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Founded by the Portuguese in 1680 on the Rio de la Plata, the city was of strategic importance in resisting the Spani...
IranUNESCO
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The City of Yazd is located in the middle of the Iranian plateau, 270 km southeast of Isfahan, close to the Spice and...
ChinaUNESCO
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Located in the Yangtze River Basin on the south-eastern coast of the country, the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu (a...
ChinaUNESCO
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The two traditional villages of Xidi and Hongcun preserve to a remarkable extent the appearance of non-urban settleme...
ChinaUNESCO
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Ping Yao is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city, founded in the 14th century. I...
ChinaUNESCO
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The palaces and temples which form the nucleus of this group of secular and religious buildings exemplify the archite...
Cabo VerdeUNESCO
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The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in...
ZimbabweUNESCO
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The ruins of Great Zimbabwe &ndash, the capital of the Queen of Sheba, according to an age-old legend &ndash are a un...
ZimbabweUNESCO
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Khami, which developed after the capital of Great Zimbabwe had been abandoned in the mid-16th century, is of great ar...
MauritaniaUNESCO
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Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres...
Russia / Belgorod regionOrdinary
Located on the territory of a former chalk quarry, on the right bank of the Koren River. The study of the archaeologi...
IsraelUNESCO
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As a holy city for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Jerusalem has always been of great symbolic importance. Among its...
IsraelUNESCO
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Tels (prehistoric settlement mounds), are characteristic of the flatter lands of the eastern Mediterranean, particula...
IsraelUNESCO
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The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural lands...
IsraelUNESCO
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Acre is a historic walled port-city with continuous settlement from the Phoenician period. The present city is charac...
CyprusUNESCO
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The Neolithic settlement of Choirokoitia, occupied from the 7th to the 4th millennium B.C., is one of the most import...
Sri-LankaUNESCO
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This sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings ...
Sri-LankaUNESCO
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Polonnaruwa was the second capital of Sri Lanka after the destruction of Anuradhapura in 993. It comprises, besides t...
North KoreaUNESCO
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Situated in Kaesong city, in the south of the country, the site consists of 12 separate components, which together te...