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Der Industriekomplex Zeche und Kokerei Zollverein, der 2001 als UNESCO-Welterbe ausgezeichnet wurde, gilt als eines der imposantesten Industriedenkmäler der Welt. Seit der letzten Schicht im Jahre 1986 hat sich Zollverein in eine Stätte für Kunst, Kultur und Kreativwirtschaft verwandelt, die jährlich rund 1,5 Millionen Besucher anzieht.

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Meteora (Greece) het andere Griekenland, een plek tussen Hemel en aarde en een indrukwekkende plek

 

Meteora (Grieks: Μετέωρα) zijn de op hoge rotspilaren gebouwde kloosters. Door eeuwenlange wind- en watererosie (ooit was de Thessalische vlakte een binnenzee) hebben de rotsformaties hun specifieke en moeilijk bedwingbare uiterlijk gekregen.

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Meteora (Greece) another Greece, a place between heaven and earth and an impressive place

 

Meteora (Greek: Μετέωρα) are the monasteries built on high rock pillars. By centuries of wind and water erosion (once the Thessaly plain was an inland sea), the rock formations have their specific and difficult bedwingbare received appearance.

St. Nicholas Church at Curtea de Arges, Romania

Biserica Sf. Nicolae Domnesc (Curtea Domnească )

Curtea de Arges

1340-1376

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UNESCO World Heritage list submission:

whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/545/

 

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Lovely, UNESCO listed old town of Levoča located in the historical region of Spiš, Slovakia.

Kutná Hora_UKutná Hora_zapsaná na seznamu světového kulturního dědictví UNESCO_ UNESCO World Heritage Site_Czech Rep.

Toruń - is one of the oldest Polish cities (in 1233 the town was granted municipal rights).

Nicolaus Copernicus Birthplace.

The Old Town Torun is one of the most valuable historical monuments in Poland. In 1997, he was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It includes Old and New Town with almost unchanged 13th-century urban layout and the area of the Teutonic Castle.

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Toruń - jest jednym z najstarszych miast Polski (prawa miejskie uzyskał w 1233 roku).

Miejsce urodzenia Mikołaja Kopernika.

Zespół Staromiejski Torunia jest jednym z najcenniejszych zespołów zabytkowych w Polsce. W 1997 roku został wpisany na Listę Światowego Dziedzictwa Kulturowego UNESCO. Obejmuje Stare i Nowe Miasto z zachowanym prawie bez zmian XIII-wiecznym układem urbanistycznym oraz teren zamku krzyżackiego.

UNESCO WHL-400:

🇪🇸 Budapest con las orillas del Danubio, el barrio del Castillo de Buda y la Avenida Andrássy

🇬🇧 Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue

 

Artículo en Wikipedia: Castillo de Vajdahunyad

 

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Quedlinburg is a town located north of the Harz mountains, in the district of Harz in the west of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. In 1994 the medieval court and the old town were set on the UNESCO world heritage list.

 

Submitted 17/11/2014

Accepted 10/12/2014

 

Published:

- Raufeld Medien GmbH (Germany) 26-Jun-2015

- Raufeld Medien GmbH (Germany) 28-Jan-2018

 

Disappeared from Getty

 

REsubmitted: 10/02/2022

Accepted: 17/02/2022

 

Published:

- objektiv media GmbH (Germany) 16-Apr-2024

Die Römerbrücke gilt als älteste Brücke Deutschlands (Pfeilerbau 2. Jahrhundert), und ist seit 1986 Teil des UNESCO-Welterbes.

 

The Roman bridge is considered the oldest bridge in Germany (pillar construction 2nd century), and since 1986 part of the UNESCO World Heritage.

  

Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Siège - Séville (Espagne)

Elle possède 4 magnifiques orgues en bois sculpté. Celui-ci de style baroque est adossé au choeur et supporté par des colonnes de marbre rose.

La Cathédrale Notre-Dame du Siège ou Cathédrale de Séville fait l'objet d'un classement en Espagne au titre de Bien d'Intérêt Culturel depuis le 29 décembre 1928.

Elle est déclarée Patrimoine de l'Humanité par l'UNESCO en 1987 et, en 2010 Bien de Valeur Universelle Exceptionnel.

UNESCO World Heritage List : Hierapolis-Pamukkale

UNESCO World Heritage List : Historic City of Ayutthaya

Augsburgs historische Wasserwirtschaft gilt als herausragendes Zeugnis der Geschichte der Wassernutzung und der Wasserwirtschaft. Eine Auswahl 22 historischer baulicher Anlagen zur Fließgewässernutzung und zur Trinkwasserversorgung Augsburgs vom 15. bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert wurde am 6. Juli 2019 unter der Bezeichnung „Das Augsburger Wassermanagement-System“ zum UNESCO-Welterbe erklärt. (wikipedia)

Durch die sog, Druckwindkessel (10m hoch 1,75m Durchmesser, genietete Stahlplatten, Gesamtfassungsvermögen 90m3) ersetzten die Augsburger Wassertürme.

Gujarat, India.

 

"Unesco World Heritage Site"

 

Unesco World Heritage Site

 

The Meteora is a rock formation in central Greece hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on immense natural pillars and hill-like rounded boulders that dominate the local area. ~ Wikipedia

East Side Gallery, Berlin Wall, Mülenstraße, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany 2015

  

This mural by Birgit Kinder, originally painted in 1990 and restored in 2009, is part of the East Side Gallery and depicts a Trabant Car breaking through the erstwhile Berlin Wall.

 

Comprising of 106 painting/murals by 118 artists from 21 countries, on 1316 meters of the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, the East Side Gallery is the largest open air gallery in the world.

 

Signed :

"Birgit K,

09.07.09"

 

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Italia, Toscana, Siena, inverno 2021

  

Siena è una città in Toscana, Italia. La città è storicamente legata ad attività commerciali e bancarie, essendo stata un importante centro bancario fino al XIII e XIV secolo. Siena è stata una delle città più importanti dell'Europa medievale e il suo centro storico è Patrimonio dell'Umanità dell'UNESCO. Siena è famosa per la sua cucina, l'arte, i musei, il paesaggio urbano medievale e il Palio, una corsa di cavalli che si tiene due volte l'anno in Piazza del Campo. Piazza del Campo è il principale spazio pubblico del centro storico della città, è considerata una delle più grandi piazze medievali d'Europa. È ben conosciuta in tutto il mondo per la sua bellezza e integrità architettonica. Il Palazzo Pubblico e la sua Torre del Mangia, oltre a vari palazzi signorili circondano la piazza a forma di conchiglia.

  

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuries. Siena was one of the most important cities in medieval Europe, and its historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Siena is famous for its cuisine, art, museums, medieval cityscape and the Palio, a horse race held twice a year in Piazza del Campo. Piazza del Campo is the main public space of the historic center of the city, it is regarded as one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza.

 

Bryggen, also known as Tyskebryggen, is a series of Hanseatic heritage commercial buildings lining up the eastern side of the Vågen harbour in the city of Bergen, Norway. Bryggen has been on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites since 1979

Durdle Door is one of Dorset’s most photographed and iconic landmarks. It is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site and is an extremely popular beauty spot.

 

It is located on the Lulworth Estate in south Dorset and is part of the Jurassic Coast. The coastline is of such international geological importance that it was designated England’s first natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001 and is now part of a family of natural wonders including America’s Grand Canyon and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

 

The magnificent natural limestone arch was formed when the power of the waves eroded the rock and forged a hole through the middle. The name Durdle is derived from an old English word ‘thirl’, which means to pierce, bore or drill.

 

Text Ref: www.visit-dorset.com/listing/durdle-door/126276301/

Les moulins de Kinderdijk ont ​​été construits pour garder les terres basses de l'Alblasserwaard au sec. Disposés l’un en face de l'autre, ils forment une image emblématique de la Hollande. De plus, vous pourrez voir de nombreux cours d’eau, des digues et des écluses et découvrir comment les hollandais utilisent depuis plus de 1 000 ans toute cette eau à leur avantage.

Canon EOS 90D.Captured this breathtaking sunset from the hills overlooking Vernazza, one of the most picturesque gems of the Cinque Terre. The sky erupted in a palette of fiery oranges and deep purples, reflecting beautifully over the Mediterranean waters.

 

Shooting with the Canon EOS 90D, I wanted to preserve the incredible dynamic range of this scene—from the textures of the ancient stone path in the foreground to the soft glow of the distant horizon. The high resolution of the 90D sensor really allowed the vibrant colors of the Ligurian architecture to pop against the lush green terraces. Italy never ceases to amaze!

Kiyomizu-dera (清水寺, Kiyomizu Temple, "Pure Water Monastery") is a Buddhist temple located in eastern Kyoto, Japan. The temple is part of the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities) UNESCO World Heritage Site.[1]

I composed these two photographs of frescoes created by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) during a recent visit to the Residenz Palace, in Wurzburg, Germany.

Tiepolo was the supreme master of 18th-century Venetian ceiling frescoes. He successfully dissolved architectural boundaries, extending rooms into open, sunlit skies populated by mythological and allegorical figures.

In the Würzburg Residenz Palace, Tiepolo’s masterpiece spans the vault of the grand staircase, featuring the massive Apollo and the Four Continents. It is one of the largest ceiling frescoes in the world, intended to celebrate the Wurzburg Court as being at the center of the cosmos.

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🇪🇸 Ciudad fortificada histórica de Carcasona

🇬🇧 Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne

 

Monumento histórico de Francia (PA00102588).

 

Información en WIKIPEDIA:

🇪🇸 Ciudadela de Carcasona

🇫🇷 Cité de Carcassonne

 

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Artículo en Wikipedia: Plaza de los Héroes (Budapest)

 

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A revered Bodhi tree in front of the ruins of Wat Lokayasutha with it's giant 42m long reclining Buddha, made of brick and plaster. The temple was destroyed by the Burmese army in 1767 along with most of then Siam's royal capital city in Ayutthaya, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

 

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🇪🇸 Venecia y su Laguna

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Pese a ser una ciudad musulmana, Marrakech aun conserva su barrio judío, el barrio de Mellah, donde destacan el cementerio, la sinagoga y las antiguas casas judías

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Elf miljard ton ijs: dat is de Aletschgletsjer

Aletschgletsjer is een gletsjer in de Berner Alpen. Het is de grootste gletsjer in Zwitserland en van de Alpen.

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Eleven billion tons of ice: that's the Aletsch Glacier.

The Aletsch Glacier is a glacier in the Bernese Alps. It is the largest glacier in Switzerland and the largest in the Alps.

 

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UNESCO World Heritage Site: Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)

ENG: The Bode Museum, opened in 1904 as the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, is part of the Museum Island ensemble in Berlin and thus a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It houses the Sculpture Collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art and the Numismatic Collection. It was reopened on 17 October 2006 after almost six years of renovation and opened to the public on 19 October of the same year.

 

The Bode-Museum became doubtfully well-known during the night of 27 March 2017, when a "Big Maple Leaf Gold Coin" weighing around 100 kg was stolen from the exhibition. This loan from a private owner had a face value of around 1.0 million Canadian dollars, the material value at the time of the crime was around 3.8 million euros. The gold coin and the perpetrators have since disappeared and the coin was most likely melted down.

 

GER: Das Bode-Museum, 1904 als Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum eröffnet, gehört zum Ensemble der Museumsinsel in Berlin und damit zum Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO. Es beherbergt die Skulpturensammlung und das Museum für Byzantinische Kunst sowie das Münzkabinett. Am 17. Oktober 2006 wurde es nach knapp sechsjähriger Renovierung wiedereröffnet und am 19. Oktober desselben Jahres der Öffentlichkeit übergeben.

 

Zu zweifelhafter Bekanntheit kam das Bode-Museum in der Nacht auf den 27. März 2017, da wurde eine rund 100 kg schwere „Big-Maple-Leaf-Goldmünze“ aus der Ausstellung gestohlen. Diese Leihgabe eines privaten Eigentümers hatte einen Nennwert von rund 1,0 Million kanadische Dollar, der Materialwert zum Tatzeitpunkt rund 3,8 Millionen Euro. Die Goldmünze sowie die Täter sind seitdem verschwunden und die Münze wurde aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach eingeschmolzen.

UNESCO-World-Heritage, Essen, Ruhrgebiet, North-Rhine-Westfalica

A bay on the UNESCO site of The Jurassic Coast

 

Fossils are found as the cliffs continually are eroded by weather

The Longmen Grottoes (aka Longmen Caves) is a UNESCO–listed world heritage site which has thousands of statues of Buddha carved in caves excavated from its surrounding cliffs. Unfortunately, the site was subjected to significant vandalism and senseless destruction at several points in its history. Major artifacts were removed by Western collectors and souvenir hunters during the early 20th century and by the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The heads of many statues were also destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

 

The Chinese government has since recognized the cultural and tourist importance of the Longmen Grottoes and has been active engaged in the preservation and restoration of the site. For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmen_Grottoes

   

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