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UNESCO:
TWENTY-TWO NEW SITES INSCRIBED ON UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE LIST, AND ONE
DELETED DURING COMMITTEE MEETING IN CHRISTCHURCH: 20/8/2007
(MaximsNews.com, UNESCO)
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- 20 August 2007 –
The World Heritage Committee inscribed 22 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage
List during its ongoing session in
Christchurch
. The new inscriptions include 16 cultural, five natural and one mixed, cultural
and natural property.
In
a decision unprecedented in the history of UNESCO’s Convention concerning the
Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the Committee deleted one
property, the Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, from the List because of
Oman
’s failure to preserve the outstanding universal value of the Sanctuary.
After
the additions made this year, UNESCO’s World Heritage List numbers 851
properties including 660 cultural, 166 natural and 25 mixed properties.
New properties inscribed on the World Heritage List by geographical
distribution:
Africa
:
The
Rainforests of the Atsinanana (
Madagascar
) comprising six national parks distributed along the eastern part of the island
was inscribed as a natural property.
Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda (
Gabon
) was inscribed as a mixed site, both cultural and natural. It is the
country’s first World Heritage site.
Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape (
South Africa
) of dramatic mountainous deserts in the northwest of the country was inscribed
as a cultural landscape communally owned and managed by the semi-nomadic Nana
people.
Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes (
Namibia
) was inscribed as a cultural site for its large concentration of rock carvings.
Arab Region:
Samarra
Archaeological
City
(
Iraq
) was inscribed as a cultural site for its rich Abbassid remains. It was also
inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Asia
and Pacific Region:
Sydney
Opera House (
Australia
) was listed as a cultural property, a great architectural work that brings
together multiple strands of creativity and innovation both in architectural
form and structural design.
Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape (
Azerbaijan
) was inscribed as an outstanding collection of some 6,000 rock engravings
bearing testimony to 4,000 years of rock art.
South China Karst (
China
) was inscribed as a natural property, unrivalled in terms of the diversity of
its karst features and landscapes.
Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (
China
) features multi-storied defensive village houses, which display a complex and
flamboyant fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms, and
was inscribed as a cultural property.
Red Fort Complex (
India
) was listed as a cultural property representing the zenith of Mughal creativity
and refinement.
Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine (
Japan
) was inscribed as a cultural landscape for its archaeological remains of mines,
smelting and refining sites, along with mining settlements and transportation
routes dating from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Jeju
Volcanic
Islands
and Lava Tubes (
Republic
of
Korea
) was inscribed as a natural property of outstanding beauty which bears
testimony to the history of our planet.
Parthian
Fortresses of Nisa (
Turkmenistan
), one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major
power from the mid-3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD,
was listed as a cultural landscape.
Europe and
North America
:
Rideau
Canal (
Canada
), a cultural property, was listed as the best preserved canal in
North America
from the great canal-building era of the early 19th century to
remain operational along its original line with most of its original structures
intact.
Bordeaux
, Port of the Moon (
France
) is inscribed as an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble of the Age of
Enlightenment featuring innovative classical and neo-classical trends that
translate into exceptional urban and architectural unity and coherence.
Old
Town
of Corfu (
Greece
), on the
Island
of
Corfu
, with its three Venetian forts and neo-classical housing was inscribed as a
fortified Mediterranean port town of high integrity and authenticity.
Gamzigrad-Romuliana,
Palace
of
Galerius
(
Serbia
). The late Roman fortified palace compound and memorial complex was inscribed
as a unique testimony of the Roman building tradition of the period of the
Second Tetrarchy.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge of Višegrad (
Bosnia and Herzegovina
) was listed as a cultural site fo characterizing the apogee of Ottoman
monumental architecture and civil engineering.
Teide
National Park
(
Spain
) was listed as a natural site for its beauty and its importance in providing
evidence of the geological processes that underpin the evolution of oceanic
islands.
Lavaux
Vineyard Terraces (
Switzerland
) was inscribed as a cultural landscape that is an outstanding example of
centuries-long interaction between people and their environment developed to
optimize local resources so as to produce a highly valued win.
Primeval Beech Forest of the Carpathian (Ukraine and Slovakia), was inscribed as
a transnational serial natural property of ten separate components and as an
outstanding example of undisturbed, complex temperate forests exhibiting the
most complete ecological patterns and processes of pure stands of European
beech.
Latin America and the
Caribbean
:
Central
University City Campus of the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), built from 1949 to 1952, was inscribed
as a unique example of 20th-century modernism integrating urbanism,
architecture, engineering, landscape design and fine arts and is one of the most
significant icons of modernity in
Latin America
.
The
Committee also removed four sites from the List of World Heritage in Danger,
recognizing improvements in their conservation: Everglades National Park (USA),
Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (
Honduras
), Royal Palaces of Abomey (
Benin
) and
Kathmandu
Valley
(
Nepal
).
Three World Heritage sites were inscribed on the Danger List because of concern
about threats to their preservation: Galapagos (
Ecuador
),
Niokolo-Koba
National Park
(
Senegal
) and
Samarra
(
Iraq
).
During
its 31st session the Committee also decided to extend the boundaries
of
Switzerland
’s Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn (inscribed in 2001).
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