276 IQ - Samarra Archaeological City (2007)

Samarra Archaeological City

Samarra Archaeological City is the site of a powerful Islamic capital city that ruled over the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Located on both sides of the River Tigris 130 km north of Baghdad, the length of the site from north to south is 41.5 km; its width varying from 8 km to 4 km. It testifies to the architectural and artistic innovations that developed there and spread to the other regions of the Islamic world and beyond. The 9th-century Great Mosque and its spiral minaret are among the numerous remarkable architectural monuments of the site, 80% of which remain to be excavated.

萨迈拉古城

萨迈拉古城被列入了《世界文化遗产名录》和《世界濒危遗产名录》，它是强大的伊斯兰都城的遗址，这个都城在一个多世纪的时间里统治了从突尼斯延伸到中亚的阿巴斯帝国的各个省份。它位于巴格达以北130公里的底格里斯河两岸，从北到南长41.5公里，宽度从4公里到8公里不等。该遗址证明其在建筑和艺术方面具有创新性，这种创新性在那里有所发展，并传播到伊斯兰世界和伊斯兰世界以外的其他地区。公元9世纪的大清真寺和通天塔，是该遗址众多的杰出建筑奇迹之一，其中仍有80%有待挖掘。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/276

• 276rev-001 Samarra North Zone - al-Mutawakkiliyya
• 276rev-002 Samarra Centre Zone
• 276rev-003 Samarra South Zone
• 276rev-004 al-Istablat
• 276rev-005 al-Quwayr
• 276rev-006 Qubbat al-Sulaibiyya
• 276rev-007 al-Ma'shuq
• 276rev-008 Tell Umm al-Sakhr Iraq
• 276rev-009 al-Huwaysilat Upper
• 276rev-010 al-Huwaysilat Lower

AU1131 Royal Exhibition Building available for swap

 AU1131-1 Royal Exhibition Building (1 available)

AU1131-2 Royal Exhibition Building (2 available)

IQ276 Samarra Archaeological City available for swap

IQ276-1 Samarra (1 avaialble)

IQ276-2 Samarra (1 avaialble)

IQ276-3 Samarra (1 avaialble)

IQ276-4 Samarra (1 avaialble)

204 CU - Old Havana and its Fortification System (1982)

 Havana was founded in 1519 by the Spanish. By the 17th century, it had become one of the Caribbean's main centres for ship-building. Although it is today a sprawling metropolis of 2 million inhabitants, its old centre retains an interesting mix of Baroque and neoclassical monuments, and a homogeneous ensemble of private houses with arcades, balconies, wrought-iron gates and internal courtyards.

哈瓦那旧城及其工事体系

哈瓦那由西班牙人于1519年建立，17世纪成了加勒比海主要的造船中心之一。虽然哈瓦那今天是一个有200万人口且不断扩张的都市，但其旧城中心仍保留着引人入胜的巴洛克式和新古典风格混合的建筑物，所有的民房都有拱廊、阳台、铸铁的大门和内院。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/204

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Havana Cathedral

1401 MA - Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage (2012)

Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism. The inscribed city encompasses the new town conceived and built under the French Protectorate from 1912 to the 1930s, including royal and administrative areas, residential and commercial developments and the Jardins d’Essais botanical and pleasure gardens. It also encompasses older parts of the city dating back to the 12thcentury. The new town is one of the largest and most ambitious modern urban projects built in Africa in the 20th century and probably the most complete. The older parts include Hassan Mosque (begun in 1184) and the Almohad ramparts and gates, the only surviving parts of the project for a great capital city of the Almohad caliphate as well as remains from the Moorish, or Andalusian, principality of the 17thcentury.

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1401 

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1434 FR - Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena (2018)

Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena

"Situated in the centre of France, the property comprises the long Limagne fault, the alignments of the Chaîne des Puys volcanoes and the inverted relief of the Montagne de la Serre. It is an emblematic segment of the West European Rift, created in the aftermath of the formation of the Alps, 35 million years ago. The geological features of the property demonstrate how the continental crust cracks, then collapses, allowing deep magma to rise and cause uplifting at the surface. The property is an exceptional illustration of continental break-up – or rifting – which is one of the five major stages of plate tectonics."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1434

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1425 FR - The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy (2015)

 The climates are precisely delimited vineyard parcels on the slopes of the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune south of the city of Dijon. They differ from one another due to specific natural conditions (geology and exposure) as well as vine types and have been shaped by human cultivation. Over time they came to be recognized by the wine they produce. This cultural landscape consists of two parts. Firstly, the vineyards and associated production units including villages and the town of Beaune, which together represent the commercial dimension of the production system. The second part includes the historic centre of Dijon, which embodies the political regulatory impetus that gave birth to the climats system. The site is an outstanding example of grape cultivation and wine production developed since the High Middle Ages.

勃艮第风土和气候

这个气候是指第戎市以南博纳村丘和尼伊村丘的葡萄园。它们因具体自然状况（地理位置、日照状况等）的不同而有不同特点，葡萄品种和种植方式也都不同。随着时间的推移，它们以各自出产的葡萄酒来区分。这篇文化遗产区包括两个部分，一个是博纳镇和与之相关的葡萄园、酒厂和村庄，它们共同体现了商业层面和生产体系；另一个是第戎的传统市中心，它代表了促使气候划分体制形成的政治管理层面。这片文化遗产地突出呈现了自中世纪前期发展起来的葡萄种植业和葡萄酒生产业。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1425

• 1425-001 Les climats du vignoble de Bourgogne
• 1425-002 Les climats du vignoble de Bourgogne - Dijon  

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Bourgogne

Dijon

1096 IL - White City of Tel-Aviv -- the Modern Movement (2003)

Brief Description

"Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting modern organic planning principles. The buildings were designed by architects who were trained in Europe where they practised their profession before immigrating. They created an outstanding architectural ensemble of the Modern Movement in a new cultural context."

特拉维夫白城——现代运动
"特拉维夫建于1909年，并逐渐发展成为驻巴勒 斯坦英军控制下的一个大都市。在20世纪30年代初到50年代间，白城在帕特莱克爵士的城市规划基础上建成，体现了现代城市发展规划的基本原则。城中的建 筑物由在欧洲培训和实习的建筑设计师设计而成，他们以全新的文化理念创造了一个杰出的“现代运动”的建筑群。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1096

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CN6380 - Huangguoshu Scenic Area (2019)

Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is located in the south of China. It belongs to the watershed region in the karst plateau rising between Sichuan Basin and Guangxi Hill. Since the Tertiary Period, with the strong neotectonic uplift of Himalayan orogeny and tropical and subtropical humid climates, the strong erosion of the northern Yangtze River system and the southern Pearl River system has formed the plateau-gorge landform structure, which is often distinguished by the geomorphological erosion cycle knickpoint type waterfall. The plateau-gorge landform structure is composed of two significantly different but closely related geomorphic units - the plateau area and the gorge area. In the background of the special regional units, Huangguoshu Scenic Area is created with completely different but closely related landform type, development and evolution, landscape characteristics, living environment, human habitation, land use, and regional culture.

Coordinates

Huangguoshu Scenic Spot:

- Huangguoshu Waterfall N 25 57 08 E 105 40 05 

- Dishuitan Waterfall N 25 59 29  E 105 36 21 

- Gaodang Ancient Village N 26 04 02  E 105 40 25 

Getuhe Scenic Spot: N 25 42 21  E 106 15 07 

Tunpu Scenic Spot:

- Yunshantun-Benzhai Ancient Village N 26 17 15  E 106 04 26 

- Baojiatun Ancient Irrigation System N 26 18 57  E 106 06 35 

- Tiantaishan Ancient Temple N 26 21 01 E 106 10 46

275 AR - Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis (1983)

The ruins of São Miguel das Missões in Brazil, and those of San Ignacio Miní, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa María la Mayor in Argentina, lie at the heart of a tropical forest. They are the impressive remains of five Jesuit missions, built in the land of the Guaranis during the 17th and 18th centuries. Each is characterized by a specific layout and a different state of conservation.

瓜拉尼人聚居地的耶稣会传教区：阿根廷的圣伊格纳西奥米尼、圣安娜、罗雷托圣母村和圣母玛利亚艾尔马约尔村遗迹以及巴西的圣米格尔杜斯米索纳斯遗迹

在热带雨林的中心地带，有五个引人注目的耶稣会传教区遗址，他们分别是：巴西的圣米格尔杜斯米索纳斯遗迹，阿根廷的圣伊格纳西奥米尼、圣安娜、罗雷托圣母村和圣母玛利亚艾尔马约尔村遗迹。他们建于17至18世纪的瓜拉尼人地区。各处遗址布局迥异，保护状况各不相同。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/275

• 291-001 São Miguel das Missões Brazil
• 291-002 San Ignacio Mini Argentina
• 291-003 Nuestra Señora de Santa Ana Argentina
• 291-004 Nuestra Señora de Loreto Argentina
• 291-005 Santa María la Mayor Argentina

Ruins of the Jesuit reduction San Ignacio Mini, Church gate, Misiones Province, Argentina

1310 CV - Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande (2009)

 Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande

The town of Ribeira Grande, renamed Cidade Velha in the late 18th century, was the first European colonial outpost in the tropics. Located in the south of the island of Santiago, the town features some of the original street layout impressive remains including two churches, a royal fortress and Pillory Square with its ornate 16th century marble pillar.

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1310

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1567 FR - Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front) (2023)

 Funerary and memory sites of the First World War (Western Front)

All along the Western Front of the First World War, which stretched for some 700 km from the North Sea to the Franco-Swiss border, a series of 139 funerary and memorial sites bear witness to the common desire of the various parties involved in the conflict to honour their children who fell in battle. This objective takes the form of individual graves and/or memorials listing the names of the missing. Places dedicated to meditation, remembrance and tributes are specially created. Beyond the diversity in size, location and design, there is a clear desire to create spaces that are worthy of the sacrifice made. This is reflected in the choice of noble materials, as well as in calls for renowned architects, botanists, landscape architects and artists to design sites of exceptional architectural, artistic and landscape quality. These sites are visited daily by pilgrims, individual visitors, official delegations, school groups, local community representatives and descendants. They bear witness to funerary and memorial practices that are still relevant today, as remains discovered by chance or during archaeological excavations are still buried there with all honours. These commemorative sites represent a heritage that almost literally belongs to the whole world, spreading a message of reconciliation that is still very topical.

第一次世界大战（西线）的墓葬和纪念场所

该跨境系列遗产由第一次世界大战西线沿线的遗址构成，这里是1914-1918年间德国与盟军战争的地方。遗产的组成部分散布于比利时北部和法国东部之间。其规模各不相同，从容纳数万名不同国籍士兵遗骸的大型墓园，到小型、简单的墓地和单一纪念碑。这些地点类型包括军事公墓、战场墓地和医院公墓，通常与纪念场馆相结合。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1504

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Vintage card - ME06 Fort of Douaumont Douaumont Meuse France

CN5811 - Western Xia Imperial Tombs available for swap

CN5811-1 Western Xia Imperial Tombs (1 available)

CN5811-A1 Western Xia Imperial Tombs (0 available)

02/09/24 1 postcard on its way to helent in exchange for Australian UNESCO maxi card

CN5811-A2 Western Xia Imperial Tombs (1 available)

CN5811-A3 Western Xia Imperial Tombs (1 available)

CN5811-A4 Western Xia Imperial Tombs (1 available)

LB294 Baalbek available for swap

LB294-1 Baalbek (0 available）

 

24/09/2024 1 postcard on the way to hidalgo in exchange for Azerbaijan Gobustan rock art

LY190 - Cyrene available for swap

 LY190-1 Cyrene (0 available)

24/09/2024 one postcard on its way hidalago in exchange for Oman - Bat

ZA1007 Cape Floral Region available for swap

ZA1007-1 Table mountain Cape Region National Park (0 available)

24/09/2024 1 postcard on the way to hidalgo in exchange for Azerbaijan Cultural Landscape of Khinalig 

1504 HR/ME - Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards (2016)

This serial property combines 28 sites, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia, western Montenegro and central and southern Croatia, representing these cemeteries and regionally distinctive medieval tombstones, or stećci. The cemeteries, which date from the 12th to 16th centuries CE, are laid out in rows, as was the common custom in Europe from the Middle Ages. The stećci are mostly carved from limestone. They feature a wide range of decorative motifs and inscriptions that represent iconographic continuities within medieval Europe as well as locally distinctive traditions.

• 1504-001 Radimlja, Stolac Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-002 Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup, Konjic Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-003 Kalufi in Krekovi, Nevesinje Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-004 Borak in the village of Burati, Rogatica Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-005 Maculje, Novi Travnik Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-006 Dugo polje at Blidinje, Jablanica Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-007 Gvozno, Kalinovik Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-008 Grebnice, Radmilovića Dubrava, Baljci, Bileća Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-009 Bijača, Ljubuški Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-010 Olovci, Kladanj Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-011 Mramor in Musići, Olovo Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-012 Kučarin in Hrančići, Goražde Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-013 Boljuni, Stolac Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-014 Dolovi in the village of Umoljani, Trnovo Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-015 Luburića polje, Sokolac Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-016 Potkuk in Bitunja, Berkovići Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-017 Bečani, Šekovići Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-018 Mramor in Vrbica, Foča Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-019 Čengića Bara, Kalinovik Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-020 Ravanjska vrata, Kupres Bosnia and Herzegovina
• 1504-021 Velika and Mala Crljivica, Cista Velika Croatia
• 1504-022 St. Barbara, Dubravka, Konavle Croatia
• 1504-023 Grčko groblje, Žabljak Montenegro
• 1504-024 Bare Žugića, Žabljak Montenegro
• 1504-025 Grčko groblje, Plužine Montenegro
• 1504-026 Mramorje, Perućac, Bajina Bašta Serbia
• 1504-027 Mramorje, Rastište, Bajina Bašta Serbia
• 1504-028 Grčko groblje, Hrta, Prijepolje Serbia

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1504

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1504-021 Velika and Mala Crljivica, Cista Velika Croatia

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1504-022 St. Barbara, Dubravka, Konavle Croatia

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1504-023 Grčko groblje, Žabljak Montenegro