threatening impacts of climatic, geological or other environmental factors. Inscribing a site on the List of World Heritage in Danger allows the World Heritage Committee to allocate immediate ...

Modern heritage – the architecture, town planning and landscape design of the modern era, or the last two hundred years or so – is still underrepresented on the World Heritage List. And yet it is an ...

For over 40 years, some of the most incredible and beautiful places in the world have been placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list. Places on the list are granted certain legal protections ...

More than 40,000 hexagonal columns shape the mystical landscape at Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway, which became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986. The Roman Empire’s largest amphitheater set ...