Mr. Lazare Eloundou Assomo, Director of the World Heritage Centre, shares a message for World Wildlife Day 2026. play_arrow play_arrow Watch Dear colleagues and friends, our health is deeply ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre is deeply saddened by the passing away of Prof. Marie-Teres Albert, former Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Heritage Studies at the Brandenburg University of ...
Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and among the greatest threats facing cultural and natural heritage today. One in three natural sites and one in six cultural heritage sites are ...
UNESCO and the Advisory Bodies to the World Heritage Committee have issued new guidance for assessing impacts from projects that could potentially affect the planet’s most precious heritage places.
The “Historical Atlas of Kyoto: Spatial Analysis of the Memory Systems of a City, its Architecture and Urban Landscape” (In French: « Atlas historique de Kyoto: Analyse spatiale des systèmes de ...
The World Heritage Committee meets once a year, and consists of representatives from 21 of the States Parties to the Convention elected by their General Assembly. At its first session, the Committee ...
Situated in the Peruvian Andes, Cuzco developed, under the Inca ruler Pachacutec, into a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions. It was surrounded by clearly ...
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qābus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ancient city of Jorjan in north-east Iran, bears testimony to the cultural exchange ...
Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre held two online consultations for the mid-cycle review of the Regional Framework Action Plan for Asia and the Pacific (2023 - 2030), strengthening collaboration with ...
Outstanding Universal Value, or ‘OUV’ is described in Paragraph 49 of the Operational Guidelines as: ‘cultural and/or natural significance which is so exceptional as to transcend national boundaries ...
In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised criteria describing cultural landscapes. The mountains at the heart of the park have cultural ...
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