1709 AU - Murujuga Cultural Landscape (2025

 Murujuga Cultural Landscape

Murujuga is a deeply storied land and seascape located in northwest Australia. It encompasses the Burrup Peninsula, the Dampier Archipelago, surrounding marine areas and the submerged landscape. Murujuga is shaped by the Lore — rules and narratives put in place to create the Country — and the enduring presence of the Ngarda-Ngarli, Traditional Owners and Custodians of the site. The property holds profound cultural and spiritual significance, reflecting over 50,000 years of continuous care and management by Traditional Law that has adapted to the changing needs of Country over periods of dramatic climatic and environmental change. Murujuga is renowned for its dense concentration of archaeological and spiritual sites that reflect the interaction between people and place over thousands of generations. Its extraordinary rock art assemblage records a complex system of Lore and Traditional Law, features unique motifs and demonstrates artistic and technical mastery.

穆鲁朱加文化景观

穆鲁朱加（Murujuga）是坐落于澳大利亚西北部的古老岩石景观，包括布鲁普（Burrup）半岛、丹皮尔（Dampier）群岛的 42 座岛屿及临近海域。当地“传统拥有者和守护者” 恩加尔达-恩加尔利人（Ngarda Ngarli）信仰的创世规则与叙事，以及他们的世代生活共同塑造了这片土地。遗产承载着深厚的文化与精神内涵，昭示逾5万年持续不断的守护与使用历史。这里以密集的岩画而闻名，图案独特，展现出卓越的技艺与成熟的艺术表达。

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1446 JO - Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (2015)

Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)

Situated on the eastern bank of the River Jordan, nine kilometres north of the Dead Sea, the archaeological site consists of two distinct areas: Tell Al-Kharrar, also known as Jabal Mar-Elias (Elijah’s Hill) and the area of the churches of Saint John the Baptist near the river. Situated in a pristine natural environment the site is believed to be the location where Jesus of Nazareth was baptized by John the Baptist. It features Roman and Byzantine remains including churches and chapels, a monastery, caves that have been used by hermits and pools in which baptisms were celebrated, testifying to the religious character of the place. The site is a Christian place of pilgrimage.

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CV6102 - Camp de concentration du Tarrafal (2016)

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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.

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1274 MX - Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco (2008)

 Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco

The fortified town, first established in the 16th century to protect the Royal Route inland, reached its apogee in the 18th century when many of its outstanding religious and civic buildings were built in the style of the Mexican Baroque. Some of these buildings are masterpieces of the style that evolved in the transition from Baroque to neoclassical. Situated 14 km from the town, the Jesuit sanctuary, also dating from the 18th century, is one of the finest examples of Baroque art and architecture in the New Spain. It consists of a large church, and several smaller chapels, all decorated with oil paintings by Rodriguez Juárez and mural paintings by Miguel Antonio Martínez de Pocasangre. Because of its location, San Miguel de Allende acted as a melting pot where Spaniards, Creoles and Amerindians exchanged cultural influences while the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco constitutes an exceptional example of the exchange between European and Latin American cultures. Its architecture and interior decoration testify to the influence of Saint Ignacio de Loyola’s doctrine.

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• 1274-001 Protective town of San Miguel
• 1274-002 Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco

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1274-001 Protective town of San Miguel

749 BJ - W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (1996)

 W-Arly-Pendjari Complex

This transnational extension (Benin, Burkina Faso) to the W National Park of Niger, inscribed in 1996 on the World Heritage List, cover a major expanse of intact Sudano-Sahelian savannah, with vegetation types including grasslands, shrub lands, wooded savannah and extensive gallery forests. It includes the largest and most important continuum of terrestrial, semi-aquatic and aquatic ecosystems in the West African savannah belt. The property is a refuge for wildlife species that have disappeared elsewhere in West Africa or are highly threatened. It is home to the largest population of elephants in West Africa and most of the large mammals typical of the region, such as the African Manatee, cheetah, lion and leopard. It also harbours the only viable population of lions in the region.

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Pendjari National Park

289 MW - Lake Malawi National Park (1984)

Lake Malawi National Park

Located at the southern end of the great expanse of Lake Malawi, with its deep, clear waters and mountain backdrop, the national park is home to many hundreds of fish species, nearly all endemic. Its importance for the study of evolution is comparable to that of the finches of the Galapagos Islands.

马拉维湖国家公园

马拉维湖国家公园位于宽阔的马拉维湖最南端，湖水清澈深邃，背后群山相伴。马拉维湖国家公园保护着上百种当地的特有鱼类，其对于进化研究的重要性可与厄瓜多尔西部的加拉帕哥斯群岛上的雀类相提并论。

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RO6764 - Royal Residences of Sinaia (2024)

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PE577 - QUMRAN: Caves and Monastery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2012)

 

QUMRAN: Caves

273 PE - City of Cuzco (1983)

 City of Cuzco

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 delineated areas for agricultural, artisan and industrial production. When the Spaniards conquered it in the 16th century, they preserved the basic structure but built Baroque churches and palaces over the ruins of the Inca city.

科斯科古城

科斯科古城位于秘鲁的安第斯山脉，在印加统治者帕查库蒂之下发展成为一个复杂的城市中心，具有独特的宗教和行政职能。古城的四周是清晰可见的农业、手工业和工业区。当16世纪西班牙人占领这块土地时，入侵者保留了原有建筑，但同时又在这衰落的印第安城内建造了巴洛克风格的教堂和宫殿。

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597 RO - Monastery of Horezu (1993)

 Monastery of Horezu

Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Walachia, is a masterpiece of the 'Brancovan' style. It is known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculptural detail, the treatment of its religious compositions, its votive portraits and its painted decorative works. The school of mural and icon painting established at the monastery in the 18th century was famous throughout the Balkan region.

霍雷祖修道院

公元1690年，康斯坦丁•布兰科王子在瓦拉齐亚建立了霍雷祖修道院，修道院以其建筑的简洁和对称闻名于世，它的华美的雕塑、宗教艺术品、肖像画以及装饰画，成为布兰科艺术风格的典型代表。修道院的壁画及蚀刻画确立了霍雷祖修道院18世纪在巴尔干地区的绝对地位。

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1711 IN - Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty (2024)

 Moidams – the Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty

Set in the foothills of the Patkai Ranges in eastern Assam, the property contains the royal necropolis of the Tai-Ahom. For 600 years, the Tai-Ahom created moidams (burial mounds) accentuating the natural topography of hills, forests and water, thus forming a sacred geography. Banyan trees and the trees used for coffins and bark manuscripts were planted and water bodies created. Ninety moidams – hollow vaults built of brick, stone or earth – of different sizes are found within the site. They contain the remains of kings and other royals together with grave goods such as food, horses and elephants, and sometimes queens and servants. The Tai-Ahom rituals of “Me-Dam-Me-Phi” and “Tarpan” are practiced at the Charaideo necropolis. While moidams are found in other areas within the Brahmaputra Valley, those found at the property are regarded as exceptional.

阿洪姆王朝的土丘墓葬系统（印度）

该遗产地是阿洪姆（Ahom）王朝的皇陵，位于阿萨姆邦东部的巴特开山麓。在600年时间里，阿洪姆人利用山丘、森林、水域等自然地形建造土丘墓穴“马伊达姆”（moidam），赋予该地神圣的色彩。这里种植着榕树以及用于制作棺木和树皮手稿的树木，并筑有蓄水设施。遗址内分布着90座大小不一的马伊达姆，它们由砖、石、土砌成拱顶，内部为空心结构。墓穴中存放着国王和其他王室成员的遗骸，以及食物、马匹、大象等随葬品，有些还包括王后和仆人的遗骸。阿洪姆人的梅达梅菲和塔尔潘仪式至今仍在查莱第奥区的墓地举行。尽管这一墓葬系统也见于贾木纳河谷的其他地区，但该遗产地尤为突出。

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1375 IN - Santiniketan (2023)

Santiniketan

Established in rural West Bengal in 1901 by the renowned poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, Santiniketan was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of the unity of humanity transcending religious and cultural boundaries. A ‘world university’ was established at Santiniketan in 1921, recognizing the unity of humanity or “Visva Bharati”. Distinct from the prevailing British colonial architectural orientations of the early 20th century and of European modernism, Santiniketan represents approaches toward a pan-Asian modernity, drawing on ancient, medieval and folk traditions from across the region.

桑地尼克坦

桑地尼克坦（Santiniketan）由著名诗人、哲学家罗宾德拉纳特·泰戈尔于1901年建立，位于印度西孟加拉邦乡村。它是一所寄宿学校兼艺术中心，以古老的印度传统和超越宗教和文化界限的人类团结愿景为基础。1921年，这里建起一所 “世界大学”以彰显“人类的团结”（Visva Bharati）。与当地20世纪初盛行的英国殖民主义建筑风格和欧洲现代主义不同，桑地尼克坦汲取整个地区的古代、中世纪和民间传统，成为泛亚洲现代主义的典范。

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1687 PS - Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan (2023)

Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan

Ancient Jerico/Tell es-Sultan is located northwest of present-day Jericho in the Jordan Valley in Palestine, the property is an oval-shaped Tell, or mound, that contains the prehistorical deposits of human activity, and includes the adjacent perennial spring of ‘Ain es-Sultan. By the 9th to 8th millennium BC, Neolithic Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan was already a sizeable permanent settlement, as expressed by surviving monumental architectural attributes such as a wall with a ditch and a tower. It reflects the developments of the period, which include the shifting of humanity to a sedentary communal lifestyle and the related transition to new subsistence economies, as well as changes in social organisation and the development of religious practices, testified by skulls and statues found. The Early Bronze Age archaeological material on the site provides insights into urban planning, while vestiges from the Middle Bronze Age reveal the presence of a large Canaanite city-state, equipped with an urban centre and technologically innovative rampart fortifications, occupied by a socially complex population.

古耶利哥城/苏丹台形遗址

遗产位于约旦河谷，是一包含史前人类活动遗迹的椭圆形土丘，还包括毗邻此地、常年不竭的“苏丹之泉”（Ain es-Sultan）。由于绿洲的肥沃土壤和便利水源，早在公元前9-8千年，这里就出现了人类永久定居点。在遗址上发现的头骨和雕像展示了此地新石器时代居民的宗教崇拜习俗；青铜器时代早期的考古资料显示出城市规划的迹象；青铜器时代中期的遗迹则表明这里曾有一个大型迦南城邦，居住着复合社会群体。

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IL1470 - Early Synagogues in the Galilee (2000)

 Early Synagogues in the Galilee

Synagogue Capernaum 

IL6062 - Ein Karem, a village and its cultural landscape (2015)

 

967 BO - Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (2000)

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park

The National Park is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. With an altitudinal range of 200 m to nearly 1,000 m, it is the site of a rich mosaic of habitat types from Cerrado savannah and forest to upland evergreen Amazonian forests. The park boasts an evolutionary history dating back over a billion years to the Precambrian period. An estimated 4,000 species of flora as well as over 600 bird species and viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species live in the park.

挪尔•肯普夫墨卡多国家公园

这座国家公园（占地1 523 000公顷）是亚马逊盆地最大和保护最为完好的公园之一，海拔高度从200米到近1000米。该公园有着各种各样的生物栖息地，包括赛拉多(Cerrado)大草原、森林和亚马逊高地常青林。肯普夫国家公园展示了距今10多亿年前到寒武纪之间的自然进化历程，据估计，公园内生存有约4000种植物、600多种鸟类和许多世界上濒危的脊椎动物。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/967

1595 JM - The Archaeological Ensemble of 17th Century Port Royal (2025)

The Archaeological Ensemble of 17th Century Port Royal

The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town under water and sand. Today, its terrestrial and underwater remains offer rare insights into urban colonial life. Once a key hub for transatlantic trade—including the trade of enslaved Africans—Port Royal featured a deep-water port and six defensive forts, some now submerged. Archaeological evidence reveals a well-preserved layout of residential, religious, and administrative buildings, serving as a distinctive marker of British colonial presence in the Caribbean.

皇家港17世纪考古景观

皇家港坐落于牙买加东南部、金斯敦港湾入海口，是17世纪英国在加勒比地区的重要港市。1692年，一场毁灭性的地震使其大部分没入海水与沙层之中，如今残存于陆上和水下的遗迹为了解殖民时期的城市生活风貌提供了罕见素材。作为曾经的跨大西洋贸易（包括非洲奴隶贸易）的一大枢纽，皇家港拥有1座深水港口与6座防御工事，部分现已淹没。考古证据呈现了保存完好的住宅、宗教与行政建筑格局，成为加勒比地区英国殖民史的独特标志。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1595

1529 FR - Taputapuātea (2017)

Taputapuātea

Taputapuātea on Ra’iātea Island is at the centre of the ‘Polynesian Triangle’, a vast portion of the Pacific Ocean, dotted with islands, and the last part of the globe to be settled by humans. The property includes two forested valleys, a portion of lagoon and coral reef and a strip of open ocean. At the heart of the property is the Taputapuātea marae complex, a political, ceremonial and funerary centre. It is characterized by several marae, with different functions. Widespread in Polynesia, the marae were places where the world of the living intersected the world of the ancestors and the gods. Taputapuātea is an exceptional testimony to 1,000 years of mā'ohi civilization.

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1529

1473 RO - Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu (2024)

 Brâncuși Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu

Austere, contemplative, yet accessible, the monumental ensemble of Târgu Jiu was created in 1937-1938 by Constantin Brâncuși, an influential pioneer of abstract sculpture, to commemorate those who died defending the city during the First World War. Located in two parks connected by the narrow Avenue of Heroes, the property includes the monumental ensemble of sculptural installations and the pre-existing Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, located on the axis. The remarkable fusion of abstract sculpture, landscape architecture, engineering, and urban planning conceived by Constantin Brâncuși goes far beyond the local wartime episode to offer an original vision of the human condition.

特尔古日乌的布朗库西组雕

特尔古日乌（Târgu Jiu）组雕庄严、沉静，却又平易近人。1937至1938年间，著名抽象雕塑先驱康斯坦丁·布朗库西（Constantin Brâncuși）创作了这组雕塑，以纪念在第一次世界大战中为保卫特尔古日乌城而牺牲的烈士。该遗产位于由狭窄的英雄大道连接的两座公园内，包括雕塑装置组，和中轴线上原有的圣使徒皮特和保罗教堂。布朗库西将抽象雕塑、景观设计、工程学及城市规划巧妙融合，使这组艺术作品远远超越当地战争纪念意义，而为观察人类生存状态提供了独特视角。

Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1473

• The Table of Silence (Masa tăcerii), 
• The Gate of the Kiss (Poarta sărutului), and 
• the Endless Column (Coloana fără Sfârșit)

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The Table of Silence (Masa tăcerii)

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The Gate of the Kiss (Poarta sărutului)

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the Endless Column (Coloana fără Sfârșit)