875 ES - Archaeological Ensemble of Tárraco (2000)

Brief Description

"Tárraco (modern-day Tarragona) was a major administrative and mercantile city in Roman Spain and the centre of the Imperial cult for all the Iberian provinces. It was endowed with many fine buildings, and parts of these have been revealed in a series of exceptional excavations. Although most of the remains are fragmentary, many preserved beneath more recent buildings, they present a vivid picture of the grandeur of this Roman provincial capital."

塔拉科考古遗址
"塔拉科现称塔拉戈纳，原来是罗马帝国统治时期西班牙的政治和商业中心，同时也是伊比利亚岛各省的宗教中心。城中有许多精美 的建筑，通过不断挖掘，这些古老的建筑一件件出现在了人们的面前。尽管许多建筑只剩下残破的碎片，或者被深埋在现有建筑物之下，但它们仍然向世人展示着这 一古代罗马帝国外省首府的风貌。"
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/875

875-001     Roman walls
875-002     The imperial cult enclosure
875-003     Provincial Forum
875-004     The Circus
875-005     The Colonial Forum
875-006     The Roman Theatre
875-007     The Amphitheatre, basilica, and Romanesque church
875-008     Paleochristian cemetery
875-009     Aqueduct， 4 km N of Tarragona
875-010     Tower of the Scipios， 5 km E of Tarragona
875-011     Médol Quary， 9 km N of Tarragona
875-012     The "Centcelles" villa-mausoleum， 4.6 km NNW of Tarragona
875-013     The "dels Munts" villa， 10 km E of Taragona
875-014     Triumphal Arch of Berá， 20 km E of Taragona

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875-005 The Colonial Forum

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875-007 The Amphitheatre

875-007 Romanesque church

 

875-009 Aqueduct, 4 km N of Tarragona

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875-010 Tower of the Scipios， 5 km E of Tarragona

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875-014 Triumphal Arch of Berá， 20 km E of Taragona

327 JO - Quseir Amra (1985)

Brief Description

"Built in the early 8th century, this exceptionally well-preserved desert castle was both a fortress with a garrison and a residence of the Umayyad caliphs. The most outstanding features of this small pleasure palace are the reception hall and the hammam, both richly decorated with figurative murals that reflect the secular art of the time."
库塞尔阿姆拉

"库塞尔阿姆拉沙漠城堡建于公元8世纪早期，保存非常完好。该城堡既是一个军事要塞，也曾是倭马亚哈里发的住所。这座精美的小宫殿最特别的是它的接待厅和浴室，装潢富丽堂皇，装饰有许多反映那个时代世俗艺术的象征性壁画。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/327

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20 SY - Ancient City of Damascus (1979)

Brief Description

"Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The city has some 125 monuments from different periods of its history – one of the most spectacular is the 8th-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary."

大马士革古城

"大马士革古城建于公元前3000年，是中东地区最古老的城市之一。中世纪时期，大马士革是繁荣的手工业中心，专门于刀剑和 饰带的制作。在它源于不同历史时期的125个纪念性建筑物中，以公元8世纪即倭马亚王朝哈里发时期的大清真寺最为壮观，大清真寺建在亚述国的一块圣地上。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/20

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569 AL - Historic Centres of Berat and Gjirokastra (2005)

Brief Description

"Berat and Gjirokastra are inscribed as rare examples of an architectural character typical of the Ottoman period. Located in central Albania, Berat bears witness to the coexistence of various religious and cultural communities down the centuries. It features a castle, locally known as the Kala, most of which was built in the 13th century, although its origins date back to the 4th century BC. The citadel area numbers many Byzantine churches, mainly from the 13th century, as well as several mosques built under the Ottoman era which began in 1417. Gjirokastra, in the Drinos river valley in southern Albania, features a series of outstanding two-story houses which were developed in the 17th century. The town also retains a bazaar, an 18th-century mosque and two churches of the same period."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/569

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Museum-City of Gjirokastra

The Historic Center of Berat

570 AL - Butrint (1992)

Brief Description

"Inhabited since prehistoric times, Butrint has been the site of a Greek colony, a Roman city and a bishopric. Following a period of prosperity under Byzantine administration, then a brief occupation by the Venetians, the city was abandoned in the late Middle Ages after marshes formed in the area. The present archaeological site is a repository of ruins representing each period in the city’s development."

布特林特
"布特林特城史前就有人定居，先后为希腊殖民地、古罗马城市和主教辖区所在地。在拜占庭时期，这里曾一度非常繁荣，后被威尼斯人短期占领。中世纪后期，由于该地区变成了沼泽，所以这个城市便被遗弃了。现在的考古遗址其实就是一个废墟，展现了这个城市发展各个时期的风貌。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/570

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942 GR - Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint John "the Theologian" and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos (1999)

Brief Description

"The small island of Pátmos in the Dodecanese is reputed to be where St John the Theologian wrote both his Gospel and the Apocalypse. A monastery dedicated to the ‘beloved disciple’ was founded there in the late 10th century and it has been a place of pilgrimage and Greek Orthodox learning ever since. The fine monastic complex dominates the island. The old settlement of Chorá, associated with it, contains many religious and secular buildings."

帕特莫斯岛的天启洞穴和圣约翰修道院

"多德卡尼斯群岛的帕特莫斯小岛由于圣约翰神学家在此创作《福音书》和《启示录》而驰名。10世纪后期，有人在这里为“挚爱 的门徒”修建了一座修道院，从此，这里便一直是一个朝圣地，也是希腊东正教学习之地。岛上占主体地位的是精美的修道院建筑群，焦耳城(Chorá)古老的 住区及其周围有许多宗教和世俗的建筑。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/942

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1179 CH - Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona (2008)

Brief Description

"The Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona in the north-eastern part of the country covers a mountainous area of 32,850 ha which features seven peaks that rise above 3,000 m. The area displays an exceptional example of mountain building through continental collision and features .excellent geological sections through tectonic thrust, i.e. the process whereby older, deeper rocks are carried onto younger, shallower rocks. The site is distinguished by the clear three-dimensional exposure of the structures and processes that characterize this phenomenon and has been a key site for the geological sciences since the 18^th century. The Glarus Alps are glaciated mountains rising dramatically above narrow river valleys and are the site of the largest post-glacial landslide in the Central Alpine region."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1179

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1302 CH - La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning (2009)

Brief Description

"The site of La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle watchmaking town-planning consists of two towns situated close to one another in a remote environment in the Swiss Jura mountains, on land ill-suited to farming. Their planning and buildings reflect watchmakers’ need of rational organization. Planned in the early 19th century, after extensive fires, the towns owed their existence to this single industry. Their layout along an open-ended scheme of parallel strips on which residential housing and workshops are intermingled reflects the needs of the local watchmaking culture that dates to the 17th century and is still alive today. The site presents outstanding examples of mono-industrial manufacturing-towns which are well preserved and still active. The urban planning of both towns has accommodated the transition from the artisanal production of a cottage industry to the more concentrated factory production of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The town of La Chaux-de-Fonds was described by Karl Marx as a “huge factory-town” in Das Kapital where he analyzed the division of labour in the watchmaking industry of the Jura."

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1302

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269 CH - Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair (1983)

Brief Description

"The Convent of Müstair, which stands in a valley in the Grisons, is a good example of Christian monastic renovation during the Carolingian period. It has Switzerland's greatest series of figurative murals, painted c. A.D. 800, along with Romanesque frescoes and stuccoes."

米兹泰尔的木笃会圣约翰女修道院

"米兹泰尔的木笃会圣约翰女修道院位于格里森州的一个山谷中，是卡洛林王朝时期极具基督教革新运动特征的修道院的典范。修道院内保存有具像壁画，于公元800年绘制完成，并保存有罗马时期的水彩绘画，堪称瑞士最伟大的艺术杰作。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/269

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IT340 - Historic Centre of Lucca (2006)

622 SK - Vlkolínec (1993)

Brief Description

"Vlkolínec, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement of 45 buildings with the traditional features of a central European village. It is the region’s most complete group of these kinds of traditional log houses, often found in mountainous areas."

伏尔考林耐克

"伏尔考林耐克位于斯洛伐克的中部，是一个保存完好的定居点，那里有45幢具有传统中欧村庄特点的房子，这是该地区此类木屋群中保存最为完整的一组，人们经常可以在山里看见这种木屋。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/622

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1070 RU - Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent (2003)

Brief Description

"The Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent were part of the northern lines of the Sasanian Persian Empire, which extended east and west of the Caspian Sea. The fortification was built in stone. It consisted of two parallel walls that formed a barrier from the seashore up to the mountain. The town of Derbent was built between these two walls, and has retained part of its medieval fabric. The site continued to be of great strategic importance until the 19th century."

德尔本特城堡、古城及要塞

"德尔本特城堡、古城及要塞是一度称霸里海东西两岸的撒撒尼波斯帝国的北方国界。该要塞以石头筑成。由海岸上至高山，有两条平行墙作为屏障。德尔本特城便建于两墙之内，保留了其中世纪的部分建筑风格。该遗址直至19世纪仍具有十分重要的战略地位。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1070

• Sassanid Fortress Naryn-Kala (Derbent)
• Derbent Ancient City

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429 GB - New Lanark (2001)

Brief Description 
"New Lanark is a small 18th- century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism."

新拉纳克
"新拉纳克是18世纪坐落在苏格兰风景最优美的地方的一个小村庄。19世纪早期，慈善家、乌托邦理想主义者罗伯特·欧文在此创建了现代工业化社区的模型。令人难忘的棉磨坊、宽敞且装备齐全的工人社区、严谨的教育机构和良好的学校教育，时至今日仍是欧文人文主义的明证。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/429

Robert Owen -The man behind the idea of New Lanark

 Arial view of New Larnak

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 Robert Owens School of Children

 Institute for the formation of Character

 Mill number one

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 Mill number three

 Mill number three

 Village Store

 Robert Owen House

43 BG - Madara Rider (1979)

Brief Description

"The Madara Rider, representing the figure of a knight triumphing over a lion, is carved into a 100-m-high cliff near the village of Madara in north-east Bulgaria. Madara was the principal sacred place of the First Bulgarian Empire before Bulgaria’s conversion to Christianity in the 9th century. The inscriptions beside the sculpture tell of events that occurred between AD 705 and 801."

马达腊骑士崖雕

"马达腊骑士崖雕刻画的是一位骑士斗败狮子的场面，位于保加利亚东北部马达腊镇附近的一面高约100米的悬崖之上。在公元9 世纪前，保加利亚人并不信仰基督教，那时马达腊是保加利亚第一帝国主要的宗教场所。在崖雕的边上还刻有铭文，讲述了公元705年至801年间发生的事件。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/43

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307 US - Statue of Liberty (1984)

Brief Description

"Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi, in collaboration with Gustave Eiffel (who was responsible for the steel framework), this towering monument to liberty was a gift from France on the centenary of American independence in 1886. Standing at the entrance to New York Harbour, it has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States ever since."
自由女神像

"自由女神像由法国雕塑家巴托迪和古斯塔夫·埃菲尔（他负责雕像的钢架）共同完成，这个象征着自由的雕塑是法国于1886年赠送给美国的，以祝贺美国独立100周年。从那时至今，这个矗立在纽约港口的自由女神已经迎来数以百万到美国来的移民。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/307

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Courtesy of heatherc from USA

GB1311 - Darwins Home and Workplace: Down House and Environs (1999)

IL1479 - Bet She'an (2000)

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IL1473 - Sea of Galilee & its Ancient Sites (2000)

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Sea of Galilee

Korazim

Tabgha

IL1480 - Caesarea (2000)

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The Roman Theatre

The aqueduct

140 PK - Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol (1980)

Brief Description

"The Buddhist monastic complex of Takht-i-Bahi (Throne of Origins) was founded in the early 1st century. Owing to its location on the crest of a high hill, it escaped successive invasions and is still exceptionally well preserved. Nearby are the ruins of Sahr-i-Bahlol, a small fortified city dating from the same period."

塔克特依巴依佛教遗址和萨尔依巴赫洛古遗址

"塔克特依巴依（王位的起源）的佛教寺庙建筑群是于1世纪早期修建的，由于它坐落在高山的顶端，所以躲避了一次又一次的侵略，至今仍然保存完好。附近有萨尔依巴赫洛古遗迹，萨尔依巴赫洛是同一时期的一座防备森严的小城。"

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/140

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Takht-i-Bahi