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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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