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Archaeological Site of Al-Hijr (Madain Salih) in Saudi Arabia/UNESCO.
Eight new sites, from the Straits of Malacca, to Papua New Guinea and San
Marino, added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City has added eight new
cultural sites to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. With these inscriptions, Papua
New Guinea and San Marino enter the World Heritage List for the first time. The
new sites inscribed are:
1] Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca
(Malaysia). These have
developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and
West in the
Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns
with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible;
2] Kuk Early Agricultural Site (Papua New Guinea) consists of 116 ha of
swamps in the
southern highlands of New Guinea 1,500 metres above sea-level.
Archaeological excavation has revealed the landscape to be one of wetland reclamation
worked almost continuously for 7,000, and possibly for 10,000 years. It contains
well-preserved archaeological remains
demonstrating the technological leap which transformed plant exploitation to
agriculture
around 6,500 years ago; 3] Stari Grad Plain (Croatia) on the Adriatic island
of Hvar is a cultural landscape that has remained practically intact since
it was first colonized by Ionian Greeks from Paros in the 4th century BC. The
original agricultural activity of this fertile plain, mainly centring on
grapes and olives, has been maintained since Greek times to the present; 4]
Fortifications of Vauban (France) consists of 13 groups of fortified buildings and
sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. They
represent the finest examples of the work of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
(1633-1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV. The serial property includes
towns built from scratch by Vauban, citadels built on plains, urban bastion
walls, bastion towers and a residence;
5] Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Germany) . The property consists of six
housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to
1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was
particularly progressive socially, politically and culturally; 6] Mantua and
Sabbioneta, in the Po valley, in the north of Italy, represent two aspects of
Renaissance town planning: Mantua shows the renewal and extension of an existing
city, while 30 km away, Sabbioneta represents the implementation of the period’
s theories about planning the ideal city; 7] San Marino Historic Centre and
Mount Titano (San Marino) covers 55 ha, including Mount Titano and the
historic centre of the city which dates back to the foundation of the republic as a
city-state in the 13th century. San Marino is inscribed as a testimony to the
continuity of a free republic since the Middle Ages; 8] The Wooden Churches
of the Slovak part of Carpathian Mountain Area (Slovakia) inscribed on the
World Heritage List consist of two Roman Catholic, three Protestant and three
Greek Orthodox churches built between the 16th and 18th centuries in small,
poor villages in an area formerly known as Upland Hungary. The property
presents good examples of a rich local tradition of religious architecture, marked
by the meeting of Latin and Byzantine cultures.
Text and photograph courtesy UNESCO, a partner and Cooperating Organization
with dgCommunity Culture and Development. (Photograph of Archaeological Site,
Al-HIjr (Madain Salih) in Saudi Arabia. Photographer: Veronique Dauge).
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