The site consists of an exceptional urban setting encompassing the key natural elements that have shaped and inspired the development of ...
Diamantina, a colonial village set like a jewel in a necklace of inhospitable rocky mountains, recalls the exploits of diamond prospectors ...
Brasilia, a capital created ex nihilo in the centre of the country in 1956, was a landmark in the history of ...
The park shares with Iguazú National Park in Argentina one of the world’s largest and most impressive waterfalls, extending over some ...
This sanctuary in Minais Gerais, south of Belo Horizonte was built in the second half of the 18th century. It consists ...
As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian ...
Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto (Black Gold) was the focal point of the gold rush and ...
Paramaribo is a former Dutch colonial town from the 17th and 18th centuries planted on the northern coast of tropical South ...
Located on land projecting into the Uruguay River west of the town of Fray Bentos, the industrial complex was built following ...
Founded by the Portuguese in 1680 on the Río de la Plata, the city was of strategic importance in resisting the ...
São Francisco Square, in the town of São Cristovão, is a quadrilateral open space surrounded by substantial early buildings such as ...
Cocos Island National Park, located 550 km off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is the only island in the tropical ...
The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left their mark, has allowed the fauna and ...
This region of Anatolia was conquered by the Turks at the beginning of the 11th century. In 1228–29 Emir Ahmet Shah ...
Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of ...
The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. ...
Known as the 'Romanesque Sistine Chapel', the Abbey-Church of Saint-Savin contains many beautiful 11th- and 12th-century murals which are still in ...
The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ...
Twenty-three belfries in the north of France and the belfry of Gembloux in Belgium were inscribed as a group, an extension ...
This serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around ...
On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval ...
The Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island site coincides with the core zone of La Réunion National Park. The property ...
This serial site comprises six marine clusters that represent the main diversity of coral reefs and associated ecosystems in the French ...