UNESCO World Heritage
I'm a real rambler -- I travel wherever and whenever I can. On my travels, I have seen so many wonders and treasures and I've learned to love and respect the cultural and natural heritage of the places I visit.
Because of this, I also have a lot of admiration for the work UNESCO does protecting and promoting our world heritage:
"The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) seeks to encourage the identification, protection and
preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world
considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. This is embodied in
an international treaty called the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972."
UNESCO also works to promote sustainable tourism.
Here's a list of World Heritage sites I've visited. I haven't blogged about more than two of them, but I promise to add more posts on this soon.
- Historic Centre of Vienna (Austria)
- La Grand-Place, Brussels (Belgium)
- Historic Centre of Prague (Czech Republic) [My Vox post]
- Chartres Cathedral (France)
- Palace and Park of Versailles (France)
- Vézelay, Church and Hill (France)
- Paris, Banks of the Seine (France)
- Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Germany)
- Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (Germany)
- Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (Germany)
- Acropolis, Athens (Greece)
- Delos (Greece)
- Old Town of Corfu (Greece)
- Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura (Vatican State)
- Vatican City (Vatican State)
- Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue (Hungary)
- Þingvellir National Park (Iceland)
- Historic Centre of Florence (Italy)
- Piazza del Duomo, Pisa (Italy)
- Archaeological Areas of Pompei (Italy)
- Vilnius Historic Centre (Lithuania)
- City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications (Luxembourg)
- Urnes Stave Church (Norway)
- Røros Mining Town (Norway)
- Rock Art of Alta (Norway)
- Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon (Portugal)
- Laurisilva of Madeira (Portugal)
- Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments (Russia)
- Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow (Russia)
- Western Caucasus (Russia)
- Robben Island (South Africa)
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (South Africa)
- Works of Antoni Gaudí (Spain/Catalonia) [My Vox post 1 & 2]
- Laponian Area (Sweden)
- Historic City of Ayutthaya (Thailand)
- Amphitheatre of El Jem (Tunisia)
- Kairouan (Tunisia)
- Medina of Sousse (Tunisia)
- Historic Areas of Istanbul (Turkey)
- Tower of London (United Kingdom)
- Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville (United States)
These are sites I plan to visit this year:
