A new technical note published by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), in partnership with the UNESCO World ...

Situated in the mountains of northern Honshu, this trackless site includes the last virgin remains of the cool-temperate forest of Siebold's beech trees that once covered the hills and mountain slopes ...

From 27 September to 1 October 2026, a Dialogue on Heritage and Authenticity for the Asia-Pacific region took place in Ha Noi ...

The Colonial City of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic is hosting the first pilot application of the Climate Action ...

Thebes, the city of the god Amon, was the capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor, and the necropolises of the Valley of the ...

The 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 ...

2009 33COM 7B.69 - World Heritage properties in Beijing (China) 2007 31COM 7B.78 - World Heritage Properties in Beijing (China) (C 880 – C 881 – C 439 bis) 2006 30COM 7B.63 - State of Conservation ...

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city and stands at an altitude of 2,850 m. Despite the 1917 earthquake, the city has the best-preserved, least ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Located in the Dinaric mountain range, the property stands out with its remarkable cave biodiversity and endemicity. Known since antiquity, the well-conserved representation of karst topography is one ...

The capital of three successive dynasties and later ruled by the Mughal emperors of Delhi, Thatta was constantly embellished from the 14th to the 18th century. The remains of the city and its ...

Founded by Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros in the early 16th century, Alcalá de Henares was the world's first planned university city. It was the original model for the Civitas Dei (City of God), the ...