https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/151Located in the north-west of Washington State, Olympic National Park is renowned for the diversity of its ecosystems. Glacier-clad peaks interspersed with extensive alpine meadows are surrounded by an extensive old growth forest, among which is the best example of intact and protected temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest. Eleven major river systems drain the Olympic mountains, offering some of the best habitat for anadromous fish species in the country. The park also includes 100 km... WHS Dec 25, 2023, 9:24 AM cowpoke
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica [valkaˈmɔnika] - Italy
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/94Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic. WHS Dec 13, 2023, 8:23 AM cowpoke
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe [sɛ̃ saviɳ syʁ ɡaʁtɑ̃p] - France
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/230Known as the 'Romanesque Sistine Chapel', the Abbey-Church of Saint-Savin contains many beautiful 11th- and 12th-century murals which are still in a remarkable state of preservation. 2024-01-13 WHS Jan 13, 2024, 10:11 AM cowpoke
Jesuit [xeˈzʝwit] Missions of the Chiquitos [tʃiˈkitos] - Bolivia (Plurinational State of)(Spanish)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/529Between 1696 and 1760, six ensembles of reducciones (settlements of Christianized Indians) inspired by the ‘ideal cities’ of the 16th-century philosophers were founded by the Jesuits in a style that married Catholic architecture with local traditions. The six that remain – San Francisco Javier, Concepción, Santa Ana, San Miguel, San Rafael and San José – make up a living heritage on the former territory of the Chiquitos. 2024-03-20 WHS Mar 20, 2024, 6:41 AM cowpoke
Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht [ˈsɪŋəlˌɣrɑxt] - Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1349The historic urban ensemble of the canal district of Amsterdam was a project for a new ‘port city’ built at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. It comprises a network of canals to the west and south of the historic old town and the medieval port that encircled the old town and was accompanied by the repositioning inland of the city’s fortified boundaries, the Singelgracht. This was a long-term programme that involved extending the city by draining the swampland, using a syst WHS Sep 5, 2024, 8:31 AM cowpoke
Ancient __Ksour__ [ksuːr] of Ouadane [wɑdæn], Chinguetti [ʃiŋɡitːi], Tichitt [tiːʃitː] and Oualata [wælætæ] - Mauritania [ˌmɔrɪˈteɪniə] (speaks Arabic)
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/750Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that evolved between the 12th and 16th centuries. Typically, houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret. They illustrate a traditional way of life centred on the nomadic culture of the people of the western Sahara. 2024-05-13 WHS May 13, 2024, 6:54 AM cowpoke
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère [ve.zə.lɛ] Valley - France
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/85The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 animal figures, which are remarkable for their detail, rich colours and lifelike quality. WHS Dec 10, 2023, 8:51 AM cowpoke
Vézelay [ve.zə.lɛ], Church and Hill - France
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/84Shortly after its foundation in the 9th century, the Benedictine abbey of Vézelay acquired the relics of St Mary Magdalene and since then it has been an important place of pilgrimage. St Bernard preached the Second Crusade there in 1146 and Richard the Lion-Hearted and Philip II Augustus met there to leave for the Third Crusade in 1190. With its sculpted capitals and portal, the Madeleine of Vézelay – a 12th-century monastic church – is a masterpiece of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture WHS Dec 10, 2023, 8:51 AM cowpoke
Memphis and its Necropolis [nɪˈkrɑpəlɪs] – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur [dɑh.ˈʃuːr] - Egypt
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/86The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times, the site was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World. WHS Dec 10, 2023, 8:52 AM cowpoke
Mont-Saint-Michel [mɔ̃ sɛ̃ mi.ʃɛl] and its Bay - France
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/80Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stand the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St Michael, and the village that grew up in the shadow of its great walls. Built between the 11th and 16th centuries, the abbey is a technical and artistic <em>tour de force</em>, having had to adapt to the problems posed by this unique natural site. WHS Dec 9, 2023, 10:18 AM cowpoke
