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Imerovigli. Santorini, looking toward Oia
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Quedlinburg/Harz GER
In the centre of the town are a wide selection of half-timbered buildings from at least five different centuries (including a 14th-century structure, one of Germany's oldest), while around the outer fringes of the old town are examples of Jugendstil buildings, dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Since December 1994, the old town of Quedlinburg and the castle mount with the Stiftskirche (collegiate church) are listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. Quedlinburg is one of the best-preserved medieval and Renaissance towns in Europe, having escaped major damage in World War II.
The Windmills of Kinderdijk belong to the UNESCO World Heritage. 15 out of the 19 windmills are still inhabited. The windmills and museums of Kinderdijk show the history of more than 740 years of Dutch water management which started in Kinderdijk in 1277.
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The most prominent historical and cultural building in the city of Turkistan (also spelled Turkestan) in Southern Kazakhstan is the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi. Khoja Ahmed Yasawi was an important Sufi mystic and saint, who lived in the 12th century.
In 1389, the great ruler Timur (Tamerlane) ordered to build this mausoleum, to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum on this spot. When Timur died in 1405, the building activities also stopped.
The city continues to attract thousands of pilgrims. According to a regional tradition, three pilgrimages to Turkistan are equivalent to the hajj to Mecca.
In 2003, the mausoleum was added to the list of Unesco world heritage sites. It is one of the largest and best-preserved constructions of the Timurid period.
Submitted: 30/09/2019
Accepted: 01/10/2019
Published:
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Herdwick sheep are unique to the Lake District; I'm rather please because I love everything about them.
Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia is one of the oldest and largest national parks in Croatia. It is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, due to its outstanding and picturesque series of tufa lakes, caves, connected by waterfalls.
Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers northeast of modern-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely Pyramid of the Sun and Pyramid of the Moon. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the first millennium (1 CE to 500 CE), Teotihuacan was the largest city in the Americas, with a population estimated at 125,000 or more, making it at least the sixth-largest city in the world during its epoch. The site covers a total surface area of 83 square kilometers and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
This photo was taken from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon and shows Plaza of the Pyramid of Moon(foreground), the Avenue of the Dead(the road running throughout) and the Pyramid of the Sun (the largest pyramid there) on the left top corner.
The Ironbridge, which crosses the River Severn, was the first cast iron bridge ever built (1779) and the area around it is regarded as the "Birthplace of the Industrial Revolution." Remains of the original Coalbrookdale factory that built the bridge and other important features associated with the start of the industrial revolution can be seen at museums in the UNESCO World-Heritage Ironbridge George area.
The Gordon River in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park World Heritage Area in Tasmania.
Natural tannins from buttongrass plains give the Gordon River’s water the appearance of black tea which also gives it an amazing reflective quality.
Der Eisfjord bei Ilulissat ist weltbekannt und wurde 2004 auf die Liste des UNESCO Weltnaturerbes aufgenommen.
Der Gletscher Sermeq Kujalleq, aus dem der Eisfjord entspringt, ist ein wahrlich beeindruckender Gletscher. Es ist der schnellste Gletscher der nördlichen Hemisphäre und bewegt sich täglich 40 Meter. Er ist 6 Kilometer breit und 45 Kilometer lang. Das entspricht etwa 66.000 Fußballfeldern. Darüber hinaus ist der Gletscher dafür bekannt, dass er die gleiche Menge an Eis ins Wasser abwirft, wie Manhattan an Wasser pro Jahr konsumiert. Tatsächlich produziert der Sermeq Kujalleq ganze 10 Prozent aller Eisberge Grönlands!
The ice fjord near Ilulissat is world-famous and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004.
The Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, from which the ice fjord originates, is a truly impressive glacier. It is the fastest glacier in the northern hemisphere, moving 40 meters every day. It is 6 kilometers wide and 45 kilometers long. That is equivalent to about 66,000 football fields. In addition, the glacier is known for releasing the same amount of ice into the water as Manhattan consumes in water per year. In fact, Sermeq Kujalleq produces a full 10 percent of all icebergs in Greenland!
Sunrise at Val D'Orcia
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28COM 14B.51 - Nominations of Cultural Properties to the World Heritage List (Val d'Orcia)
Val d'Orcia
The landscape of Val d’Orcia is part of the agricultural hinterland of Siena, redrawn and developed when it was integrated in the territory of the city-state in the 14th and 15th centuries to reflect an idealized model of good governance and to create an aesthetically pleasing picture. The landscape’s distinctive aesthetics, flat chalk plains out of which rise almost conical hills with fortified settlements on top, inspired many artists. Their images have come to exemplify the beauty of well-managed Renaissance agricultural landscapes. The inscription covers: an agrarian and pastoral landscape reflecting innovative land-management systems; towns and villages; farmhouses; and the Roman Via Francigena and its associated abbeys, inns, shrines, bridges, etc.
Justification for Inscription.
Criterion (iv): The Val d’Orcia is an exceptional reflection of the way the landscape was re-written in Renaissance times to reflect the ideals of good governance and to create an aesthetically pleasing pictures.
Criterion (vi): The landscape of the Val d’Orcia was celebrated by painters from the Siennese School, which flourished during the Renaissance. Images of the Val d’Orcia, and particularly depictions of landscapes where people are depicted as living in harmony with nature, have come to be seen as icons of the Renaissance and have profoundly influenced the development of landscape thinking.
Source: Advisory Body Evaluation
Wies - The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by brothers J. B. and Dominikus Zimmermann, the latter of whom lived nearby for the last eleven years of his life. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, in the municipality of Steingaden in the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany.
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Visoki Dečani is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Dečani, Kosovo. It was founded in the first half of the 14th century by Serbian king Stefan Dečanski.
It is on the Unesco world heritage list (for Servia ! ) under the name: Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.
In 2006 it was placed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Dečani Monastery is guarded by KFOR.
Submitted: 30/06/2018
Needs revision: 02/07/2018
Resubmitted: 02/07/2018
Needs revision: 03/07/2018
Accepted: 04/07/2018
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The Town Hall of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund is a building built in the North German Brick Gothic style, the construction of which dates back to the years 1300-1310. Continuous extensions and renovations allowed for a mix of architectural styles right up to the 19th century. The building on Alter Markt is one of the most important secular buildings in the Baltic Sea region and is also the symbol of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. It stands in the heartland of the city area recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as part of the historic old towns of Stralsund and Wismar.
Het stadhuis van de Hanzestad Stralsund is een gebouw gebouwd in de stijl van de Noord-Duitse baksteengotiek, waarvan de constructie dateert uit de jaren 1300-1310. Voortdurende uitbreidingen en renovaties zorgden voor een mix van bouwstijlen tot in de 19e eeuw. Het gebouw aan de Alter Markt is een van de belangrijkste seculiere gebouwen in het Oostzeegebied en is ook het symbool van de Hanzestad Stralsund. Het staat in het kerngebied van het stadsgebied dat door UNESCO is erkend als werelderfgoed als onderdeel van de historische oude steden Stralsund en Wismar.
Χερουβικόν - 2nd tone (Byzantine Chant)
Chanted by Bulgarian Byzantine Choir
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Church of Saint John the Baptist, Nesebar, Bulgaria
Свети Йоан Кръстител (Несебър), България
built in the 10th century
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Nessebar - UNESCO World Heritage site
The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture.
The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the first Nasrid emir and founder of the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state of Al-Andalus. It was built on the Sabika hill, an outcrop of the Sierra Nevada which had been the site of earlier fortresses and of the 11th-century palace of Samuel ibn Naghrillah. Later Nasrid rulers continuously modified the site.
The photo here is that of the corridor surrounding the Court of Lions. One can see the detailed wall carvings and the arches.