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The List That Matters An Overview of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites A beauty contest where it helps to be huge, old, and falling apart? Forget the knee-jerk rejection of such a seeming impossibility; designation as a UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Site has been a kind of beauty contest since 1972 and its "winners" offer a world-wide inventory of culturally and naturally significant sites "of outstanding value to humanity." Still sound a bit too much like a quote from the personality portion of a Ms. World Pageant? We'll let our quick-list of a few of the many World Heritages sites convince you otherwise. Apollo's Turkish Baths Hierapolis-Pamukkale in Pamukkale, Turkey The Old City of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
Sandcastle of Dreams Aït-Ben-Haddou in Morocco Stairway to Heaven Borobudur in Central Java, Indonesia Olinda, Gift of the Portuguese Historic center of Olinda in Olinda, Brazil Keeping it Nouveau The townhouses of architect Victor Horta in Brussels, Belgium Old Cuban Coffee Archaeological landscape of the first coffee plantations in Sierra Maestra, Southeast Cuba Handprints of History Cueva de las Manos in the Patagonian region of Argentina The Bright Side of East Germany Garden kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz in Dessau, Germany Follow the Yellow Dirt Road Frankincense Trail in Dhofar Province, Omar The "Beautiful City" The complex of monuments in Hue, Vietnam More Than Just Hamlet's Home Kronborg Castle in Elsinore, Denmark The Knights of Malta Live On The city of Valetta in Malta The Rock of Ages Mont-Saint-Michel in the Gulf of Saint Malo, France Island of Apartheid Robben Island, South Africa The Chosen Ones Outside magazine profiles five new members of UNESCO's World Heritage Club |
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