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The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has designated 175 World Heritage Sites in all of the 15 sovereign countries (also called "state parties") of Southern Europe: Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Vatican City as well as one site in ...
Logo of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. This is a list of the lists of World Heritage Sites. A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having special cultural or physical significance.
Country Cultural sites Natural sites Mixed sites Total sites Shared sites [3] UNESCO region [4]; Afghanistan: 2 2 Asia and the Pacific Albania: 2 1 [note 1]: 1 [note 2]: 4 2 Europe and North America
The three sites are remnants of the Moorish influence in southern Spain. The fortress Alhambra and the palace Generalife were built by the rulers of the Emirate of Granada. The Albayzín district contains examples of the Moorish vernacular architecture and was added to the listing in 1994. [12] Burgos Cathedral: Burgos
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands . [ 3 ]
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity".
Europe [a] is the cradle of the geoparks movement. [1] The European Geoparks Network is a founding member of the Global Geoparks Network and it functions as a regional geopark network of it. As of November 2022, there are 94 UNESCO Global Geoparks in 28 European countries and there are several territories in an aspiring or planned phase, or in ...
The nomination includes sites that bear testimony to Greek-Byzantine culture in southern Italy: the city of Gerace, Baptistery of Santa Severina, Oratorium of San Marco a Rossano, Catholic of Stilo, and Orthodox Monastery of Saint Giovanni Theristìs in Bivongi (pictured). [104] European Paper Mills (from the era of hand-made paper)* Tuscany: 2024