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Zimbabwe Ruin Archaeological Southern Masvingo: Bikita 150 Paper House E.N 389 1973 Pioneer Memorial Historical Central Midlands Kwekwe 151 Dambarare E.N 522 1973
The National Monuments of Zimbabwe are protected and promoted in accordance with the National Museums and Monuments Act 1972. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This law replaced the colonial-era Monuments and Relics Act 1936, which in turn replaced the 1902 Ancient Monuments Protection Ordinance and 1912 Bushmen Relics Ordinance. [ 3 ]
The first site in Zimbabwe to be inscribed to the list was the Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas, in 1984. The most recent site listed was the Matobo Hills, in 2003. Three sites in Zimbabwe are listed for their cultural and two for their natural properties. [3]
Historic sites in Zimbabwe (2 C, 1 P) T. Towers in Zimbabwe (1 C) Pages in category "Landmarks in Zimbabwe" This category contains only the following page.
Great Zimbabwe (37 P) Pages in category "World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Possibly the most famous of these are the Great Zimbabwe ruins in Masvingo which survive from the Kingdom of Zimbabwe era. Other ruins include Khami Ruins, Zimbabwe, Dhlo-Dhlo and Naletale. The Matobo Hills are an area of granite kopjes and wooded valleys commencing some 35 kilometres south of Bulawayo, southern Zimbabwe. The Hills were formed ...
Heritage registers in Zimbabwe (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Historic sites in Zimbabwe" This category contains only the following page.
Central Zimbabwe contains the "Great Dyke" – a source of serpentine rocks of many types including a hard variety locally called springstone.An early precolonial culture of Shona peoples settled the high plateau around 900 AD and “Great Zimbabwe”, which dates from about 1250–1450 AD, was a stone-walled town showing evidence in its archaeology of skilled stone working.