After seventeen years of grassroots youth activities and international cooperation, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) ...

UNESCO expresses strong concern over the renewed tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, including in the vicinity of the Preah Vihear Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO calls for urgent ...

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Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs. The most outstanding features of this small ...

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Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of ...

Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. The ...

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Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater ...

The Sansa are Buddhist mountain monasteries located throughout the southern provinces of the Korean Peninsula. The spatial arrangement of the seven temples that comprise the property, established from ...

Célébrée le 11 décembre, la Journée internationale de la montagne nous rappelle le rôle essentiel que jouent les montagnes ...

L’UNESCO exprime sa vive préoccupation face à la reprise des tensions entre le Cambodge et la Thaïlande, y compris aux abords du temple de Preah Vihear, inscrit au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO. L’Or ...