UNESCO

The World Heritage

 

THE AMERICAS

ANTIGUA and BARBUDA

1983

 

ARGENTINA

1978

·         Los Glaciares

·         Iguazu National Park

ARGENTINA and BRAZIL

 

·         Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis

BELIZE

1990

·         Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System

BOLIVIA

1976

·         City of Potosi

·         Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos

·         Historic City of Sucre

BRAZIL

1977

·         Historic Town of Ouro Preto

·         Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda

·         Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia

·         Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas

·         Iguacu National Park

·         Brasilia

·         Serra de Capivara National Park

·         Historic Centre of Sao Luis

CANADA

1976

·         L’ Anse aux Meadows National Historic Park

·         Nahanni National Park

·         Dinosaur Provincial Park

·         Anthony Island

·         Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Complex

·         Wood Buffalo National Park

·         Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

·         Quebec (Historic area)

·         Gros Morne National

·         Lunenburg Old Town

CANADA and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

·         Tatshenshini-Alsek, Kluane, Wrangell-  St. Elias and Glacier Bay Parks

·         Waterton Glacier International Peace Park

CHILE

1980

·         Rapa Nui National Park

COLOMBIA

1983

·         Carthagena

·         Los Katios National Park

·         Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox

·         National Archaeological Park of Tierradentro

·         San Agustin Archaeological Park

COSTA RICA

1977

·         Cocos Island National Park

COSTA RICA and PANAMA

 

·         Talamanca-La Amistad

CUBA

1981

·         Old Havana

·         Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios

·         San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba

DOMINICA

1985

·         Morne Trois Pitons National Park

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

1985

·         Colonial City of Santo Domingo

ECUADOR

1975

·         Galapagos Islands

·         City of Quito

·         Sangay National Park

EL SALVADOR

1991

·         Joya de Ceren Archaeological Site

GUATEMALA

1979

·         Tikal National Park

·         Antigua Guatemala

·         Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

GUYANA

1977

 

HAITI

1980

·         National History Park-Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers

HONDURAS

1979

·         Maya Site of Copan

·         Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve

SAINT CHRISTOPHER and NEVIS

1986

 

SAINT LUCIA

1991

 

SURINAM

1998

 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1973

·         Redwood National Park

·         Mesa Verde

·         Yellowstone

·         Grand Canyon National Park

·         Everglades National Park

·         Independence Hall

·         Mammoth Cave National Park

·         Olympic National Park

·         Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

·         Great Smoky Mountains National Park

·         La Fortaleza and San Juan Historic Site in Puerto Rico

·         Statue of Liberty

·         Yosemite National Park

·         Chaco Culture National Historical Park

·         Monticello and University of Virginia in Charlottesville

·         Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

·         Pueblo de Taos

·         Carlsbad Caverns National Park

URUGUAY

1989

·         Historic Quarter of Colonia del Sacramento

VENEZUELA

1990

·         Coro and its Port

·         Canaima National Park

EUROPE

ALBANIA

1989

·         Butrinti

ANDORRA

1997

 

ARMENIA

1993

·         Monastery of Haghpat

AUSTRIA

1992

·         Historic Centre of Salzburg

·         Palace and Gardens of Schonbrunn

·         Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut

·         Cultural Landscape

AZERBAIJAN

1993

 

BELARUS

1988

 

BELARUS and POLAND

 

·         Belovezhskaya Pushcha/Bialoiwieza Forest

BELGIUM

1996

 

BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA

1993

 

BULGARIA

1974

·         Boyana Church

·         Madara Rider

·         Thracian tomd of Kazanlak

·         Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

·         Ancient City of Nessebar

·         Rila Monastery

·         Srebarna Nature Reserve

·         Pirin National Park

·         Thracian tomb of Sveshtari

CROATIA

1992

·         Old City of Dubrovnik

·         Historical Complex of Split

·         Plitvice Lakes National Park

·         Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian

·         Basilica, Porec

·         Historic City of Trogir

CYPRUS

1975

·         Paphos

·         Painted Churches in the Troodos Region

CZECH REPUBLIC

1993

·         Historic Centre of Prague

·         Historic Centre of Cesky Krumlov

·         Historic Centre of Telc

·         Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelena Hora

·         Kutna Hora: Historical Town Centre

·         Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

DENMARK

1979

·         Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church

·         Roskilde Cathedral

ESTONIA

1995

Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn

FINLAND

1987

·         Old Rauma

·         Fortress of Suomenlinna

·         Petajavesi Old Church

·         Verla Groundwood and Board Mill

 F.Y.R.O.M.

1997

·         Ohrid Region

FRANCE

1975

·         Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay

·         Chartres Cathedral

·         Palace and Park of Versailles

·         Vezelay, Church and Hill

·         Decorated Grottoes of the Vezere Valley

·         Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

·         Chateau and Estate of Chambord

·         Amiens Cathedral

·         Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the “Triumphal Arch” of Orange

·         Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles

·         Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

·         Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans

·         Place Stanislas, Place de la Carriere and Place d’ Alliance in Nancy

·         Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe

·         Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Nature Reserve and the Piana Calanches in Corsica

·         Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)

·         Strasbourg-Grande ile

·         Paris, Banks of the Seine

·         Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims

·         Bourges Cathedral

·         Historic Centre of Avignon

·         Le Canal du Midi

·         Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

FRANCE and SPAIN

1987

·         Pyrenees-Mont Perdu

GEORGIA

1992

·         City-Museum Reserve of Mtskheta

·         Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery

·         Upper Svaneti

GERMANY

1976

·         Aachen Cathedral

·         Speyer Cathedral

·         Wurzburg Residence

·         Pilgrimage Church of Wies

·         Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Bruhl

·         St Mary’s Cathedral and St Michael’s Church at Hildesheim

·         Roman Monuments, Cathedral and Liebfrauen-Church in Trier

·         Hanseatic City of Lubeck

·         Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

·         Abbey and Altenmunster of Lorsch

·         Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar

·         Town of Bamberg

·         Maulbronn Monastery Complex

·         Old Town of Quedlinburg

·         Volklingen Ironworks

·         Messel Pit-Fossil Site

·         Cologne Cathedral

·         Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar and Dessau

·         Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg

GREECE

1981

·         Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae

·         Archaeological Site of Delphi

·         Acropolis, Athens

·         Mount Athos

·         Meteora

·         Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika

·         Archaeological Site of Epidaurus

·         Medieval City of Rhodes

·         Mystras

·         Archaeological Site of Olympia

·         Delos

·         Monasteries of Daphni, Hossios Luckas and Nea Moni of Chios

·         Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos

·         Archaeological Site of Vergina

HOLY SEE

1982

Vatican City

HUNGARY

1985

Budapest, the Banks of the Danube and the Buda Castle Quarter

Holloko

Millenary Benedictine Monastery of Pannonhalma

HUNGARY and SLOVAKIA

 

Caves of the Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst

ICELAND

1995

 

IRELAND

1991

Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne

Skellig Michael

ITALY

1978

·         Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

·         Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci

·         Historic Centre of Florence

·         Venice and its Lagoon

·         Piazza del Duomo, Pisa

·         Historic Centre of San Gimignano

·         I Sassi di Matera

·         City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto

·         Historic Centre of Siena

·         Historic Centre of Naples

·         Crespi d’ Adda

·         Ferrara: City of the Renaissance

·         Castel del Monte

·         The trulli of Alberobello

·         Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna

·         Historic Centre of Pienza

·         Royal Palace and the Park of Caserta, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and San Leucio

·         Residences of the Royal House of Savoy

·         Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua

·         The Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena

·         Pompei, Herculanum and Torre Annunziata

·         Villa Romana del Casale

·         Su Nuraxi di Barumini

·         Portovenere, Cinque Terre, Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto

·         Costiera Amalfitana

·         Archaeological Area of Agrigento

ITALY and HOLY SEE

 

·         Historic Centre of Rome

LATVIA

1995

·         Historic Centre of Riga

LITHUANIA

1992

·         Vilnius Historic Centre

LUXEMBURG

1983

·         City of Luxemburg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications

MALTA

1978

·         Hal Saflieni Hypogeum

·         City of Valletta

·         Megalithic Temples

MONACO

1978

 

NETHERLANDS

1992

·         Schokland and surroundings

·         Defence Line of Amsterdam

·         Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout

·         Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour

NORWAY

1977

·         Urnes Stave Church

·         Bryggen area in Bergen

·         Roros

·         Rock Drawings of Alta

POLAND

1976

·         Cracow’s Historic Centre

·         Wieliczka Salt Mine

·         Auschwitz Concentration Camp

·         Historic Centre of Warsaw

·         Old City of Zamosc

·         Medieval Town of Torun

·         Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork

PORTUGAL

1980

·         Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores

·         Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belem in Lisbon

·         Monastery of Batalha

·         Convent of Christ in Tomar

·         Historic Centre of Evora

·         Monastery of Alcobaca

·         Cultural Landscape of Sintra

·         Historic Centre of Oporto

ROMANIA

1990

·         Danube Delta

·         Biertan and its Fortified Church

·         Monastery of Horezu

·         Churches of Moldavia

RUSSIAN FEDERATION

1988

·         Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg

·         Kizhi Pogost

·         Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow

·         Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings

·         Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands

·         White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal

·         Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad

·         Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye

·         Virgin Komi Forests

·         Lake Baikal

·         Volcanoes of Kamchatka

SAN MARINO

1991

 

SLOVAKIA

1993

·         Vlkolinec

·         Banska Stiavnica

·         Spissky Hrad

SLOVENIA

1992

·         Skocjan Caves

SPAIN

1982

·         Historic Centre of Cordoba

·         Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzin, Granada

·         Burgos Cathedral

·         Monastery and site of the Escurial, Madrid

·         Parque Guell, Palacio Guell and Casa Mila in Barcelona

·         Altamira Cave

·         Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

·         Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias

·         Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)

·         Old Town of Avila with its Extra-Muros Churches

·         Mudejar Architecture of Teruel

·         Historic City of Toledo

·         Garajonay National Park

·         Old Town of Caceres

·         Cathedral, Alcazar and Archivo de Indias in Seville

·         Old City of Salamanca

·         Poblet Monastery

·         Archaeological Ensemble of Merida

·         Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe

·         Route of Santiago de Compostela

·         Donana National Park

·         Historic Walled Town of Cuenca

·         La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia

·         Las Medulas

·         Palau de la Musica Catalana and the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona

·         San Millan Yuso and Suso Monasteries

SWEDEN

1985

·         Royal Domain of Drottningholm

·         Birka and Hovgarden

·         Engelsberg Ironworks

·         Rock Carvings in Tanum

·         Skogskyrkogarden

·         Hanseatic Town of Visby

·         The Lapponian Area

·         Church Village of Gammelstad, Lulea

SWITZERLAND

1975

·         Convent of St. Gall

·         Benedictine Convent of St. John at Mustair

·         Old City of Berne

TURKEY

1983

·         Historic Areas of Istanbul

·         Goreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia

·         Great Mosque and Hospital of Divrigi

·         Hattusha

·         Nemrut Dag

·         Xanthos-Letoon

·         Hierapolis-Pamukkale

·         City of Safranbolu

UKRAINE

1988

·         Kiev: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings

UNITED KINGDOM

1984

·         Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast

·         Durham Castle and Cathedral

·         Ironbridge Gorge

·         Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

·         Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites

·         Castles  and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd

·         St Kilda

·         Blenheim Palace

·         City of Bath

·         Hadrian’s Wall

·         Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret’s Church

·         Henderson Island

·         Tower of London

·         Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey and St Martin’s Church

·         Old and New Towns of Edinburgh

·         Gough Island Wildlife Reserve

·         Maritime Greenwich

YUGOSLAVIA

1975

·         Stari Ras and Sopocani

·         Region of Kotor

·         Durmitor National Park

·         Studenica Monastery

AFRICA and THE ARAB STATES

ALGERIA

1974

·         Al Qal’a of Beni Hammad

·         Tassili n’ Ajjer

·         M’Zab Valley

·         Djemila

·         Tipasa

·         Timgad

·         Kasbah of Algiers

ANGOLA

1991

 

BAHRAIN

1991

 

BENIN

1982

·         Royal Palaces of Abomey

BURKINA FASO

1987

 

BURUNDI

1982

 

CAMEROON

1982

·         Dja Faunal Reserve

CAPE VERDE

1988

 

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

1980

·         Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park

CONGO

1987

 

COTE D’ IVOIRE

1981

·         Tai National Park

·         Comoe National Park

DEM. REP. OF THE CONGO

1974

·         Virunga National Park

·         Garamba National Park

·         Kahuzi-Biega National Park

·         Salonga National Park

·         Okapi Wildlife Reserve

EGYPT

1974

·         Memphis and its Necropolis with the Pyramid fields

·         Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

·         Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae

·         Islamic Cairo

·         Abu Mena

ETHIOPIA

1977

·         Simen National Park

·         Rock-hewn Churches, Lalibela

·         Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region

·         Lower Valley of the Awash

·         Tiya

·         Aksum

·         Lower Valley of the Omo

GABON

1986

 

GAMBIA

1987

 

GHANA

1975

·         Forts and Castles, Volta Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions

·         Ashanti Traditional Buildings

GUINEA

1979

 

GUINEA and COTE D’ IVOIRE

 

·         Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve

IRAQ

1974

·         Hatra

JERUSALEM

 

 

JORDAN

1975

·         Petra

·         Quseir Amra

KENYA

1991

·         Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest

·         Sibiloi/Central Island National Parks

LEBANON

1983

·         Anjar

·         Baalbek

·         Byblos

·         Tyre

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA

1978

·         Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna

·         Archaeological Site of Sabratha

·         Archaeological Site of Cyrene

·         Rock-art Sites of Tadrart Acacus

·         Old Town of Ghadames

MADAGASCAR

1983

·         Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve

MALAWI

1982

·         Lake Malawi National Park

MALI

1977

·         Old Towns of Djenne

·         Timbuktu

·         Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)

MAURITANIA

1981

·         Banc d’ Arguin National Park

·         Ancient ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata

MAURITIUS

1995

 

MOROCCO

1975

·         Medina of Fez

·         Medina of Marrakesh

·         Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

·         Historic City of Meknes

·         Archaeological Site of Volubilis

·         Medina of Tetouan (formerly known as Titawin)

MOZAMBIQUE

1982

·         Island of Mozambique

NIGER

1974

·         Air and Tenere Natural Reserves

·         W National Park of Niger

NIGERIA

1974

 

OMAN

1981

·         Bahla Fort

·         Archaeological sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn

·         Arabian Oryx Sanctuary

QATAR

1984

 

SAUDI ARABIA

1978

 

SENEGAL

1976

·         Island of Goree

·         Niokolo-Koba National Park

·         Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary

SEYCHELLES

1980

·         Aldabra Atoll

·         Vallee de Mai Nature Reserve

SOUTH AFRICA

1977

 

SUDAN

1974

 

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

1975

·         Ancient City of Damascus

·         Ancient City of Bosra

·         Site of Palmyra

·         Ancient City of Aleppo

TUNISIA

1975

·         Medina of Tunis

·         Site of Carthage

·         Amphitheatre  of El Jem

·         Ichkeul National Park

·         Punic Town of Kerkuane

·         Medina of Sousse

·         Kairouan

·         Dougga/Thugga

UGANDA

1987

·         Bwindi Impenetrable Park

·         Rwenzori Mountains National Park

ASIA and THE PACIFIC

AFGHANISTAN

1979

 

AUSTRALIA

1974

·         Kakadu National Park

·         Great Barrier Reef

·         Willandra Lakes Region

·         Tasmanian Wilderness

·         Lord Howe Island Group

·         Central Eastern Australian Rainforest Reserves

·         Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park

·         Wet Tropics of Queensland

·         Shark Bay, Western Australia

·         Fraser Island

·         Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh/Naracoorte)

·         Heard and McDonald Islands

·         Macquarie Island

BANGLADESH

1983

·         Historic Mosque City of Bagerhat

·         Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur

·         The Sundarbans

CAMBODIA

1991

·         Angkor

CHINA

1985

·         Mount Taishan

·         The Great Wall

·         Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties

·         Mogao Caves

·         Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

·         Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian

·         Mount Huangshan

·         Jiuzhaigou Valley

·         Huanglong

·         Wulingyuan

·         The Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde

·         Temple and Cemetery of Confucius, and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu

·         Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains

·         Potala Palace, Lhasa

·         Lushan National Park

·         Mount Emei and Leshan Giant Buddha

·         Ancient City of Ping Yao

·         Classical Gardens of Suzhou

·         Old Town of Lijiang

FIJI

1990

 

INDIA

1977

·         Ajanta Caves

·         Ellora Caves

·         Agra Fort

·         Taj Mahal

·         Sun Temple, Konarak

·         Mahabalipuram

·         Kaziranga National Park

·         Manas Wildlife Sanctuary

·         Keoladeo National Park

·         Churches and Convents of Goa

·         Khajuraho

·         Hampi

·         Fatehpur Sikri

·         Pattadakal

·         Elephanta Caves

·         Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur

·         Sundarbans National Park

·         Nanda Devi National Park

·         Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi

·         Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi

·         Qutb Minar, Delhi

INDONESIA

1989

·         Borobudur Temple Compounds

·         Ujung Kulon National Park

·         Komodo National Park

·         Prambanan Temple Compounds

·         Sangiran Early Man Site

IRAN

1975

·         Tchogha Zanbil

·         Persepolis

·         Meidan Emam, Esfahan

JAPAN

1992

·         Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area

·         Himeji-jo

·         Yakushima

·         Shirakami-Sanchi

·         Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto

·         Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

·         Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)

·         Itsukushima Shinto Shrine

KAZAKHSTAN

1994

 

KYRGYSTAN

1995

 

LAO PEOPLE’S DEM. REP.

1987

·         Town of Luang Prabang

MALAYSIA

1988

 

MALDIVES

1986

 

MONGOLIA

1990

 

MYANMAR

1994

 

NEPAL

1978

·         Sagarmatha National Park

·         Kathmandu Valley

·         Royal Chitwan National Park

·         Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

NEW ZEALAND

1984

·         Te Wahipounamu

·         Tongariro National Park

PAKISTAN

1976

·         Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro

·         Taxila

·         Takht-I-Bahi and Sahr-I-Bahlol

·         Historical Monuments of Thatta

·         Fort ad Shalamar Gardens in Lahore

·         Rohtas Fort

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

1997

 

PHILIPPINES

1985

·         Tubbataha Reef Marine Park

·         Baroque Churches of the Philippines

·         Rice Terraces of the Philippines Cordilleras

REPUBLIC OF KOREA

1988

·         Sokkuram Buddhist Grotto

·         Haeinsa Temple Changgyong P’ango

·         Chongmyo Shrine

·         Ch’angdokklung Palace Complex

·         Hwasong Fortress

SOLOMON ISLANDS

1992

 

SRI LANKA

1980

·         Sacred City of Anuradhapura

·         Ancient City of Polonnaruva

·         Ancient City of Sigiriya

·         Sinharaja Forest Reserve

·         Sacred City of Kandy

·         Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications

·         Golden Temple of Dambulla

TAJIKISTAN

1994

 

THAILAND

1987

·         Historic Town of Sukhothai

·         Historic City of Ayutthaya

·         Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries

·         Ban Chiang Archaeological Site

TURKMENISTAN

1994

 

UZBEKISTAN

1993

·         Itchan Kala

·         Historic Centre of Bukhara

VIET NAM

1987

·         Complex of Hue Monuments

·         Ha Long Bay