UNESCO World Heritage Site

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cultural heritage protection mechanism heritage designation international conservation status

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a landmark or area recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as having outstanding universal value to humanity and deserving legal protection and conservation.

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Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural heritage protection mechanism → heritage designation → international conservation status →
administeredBy	UNESCO → World Heritage Committee →
adoptedAt	UNESCO General Conference →
adoptedInCity	Paris →
adoptedInYear	1972 →
aimsTo	ensure long-term conservation of listed properties →
associatedWithDocument	Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention →
definedBy	UNESCO World Heritage Convention →
emphasizes	outstanding universal value to humanity →
evaluatedBy	International Council on Monuments and Sites → International Union for Conservation of Nature → World Heritage Centre →
hasAbbreviation	WHS →
hasCategory	cultural site → mixed site → natural site →
hasConservationTool	buffer zone → management plan →
hasCriterionType	cultural criteria → mixed criteria → natural criteria →
hasGeographicScope	global →
hasLanguageVariant	World Heritage Site →
hasLegalBasisIn	Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage →
hasPurpose	promotion of international cooperation in heritage conservation → protection of cultural heritage → protection of natural heritage → safeguarding sites of outstanding universal value →
inscribedOn	World Heritage List →
linkedTo	World Heritage Fund →
mayBePlacedOn	List of World Heritage in Danger →
monitoredBy	UNESCO World Heritage Centre →
protects	geological formations → groups of buildings → monuments → natural features → natural habitats → sites →
requires	adequate protection and management system → integrity or authenticity → outstanding universal value →
requiresInclusionIn	national tentative list →
requiresNominationBy	State Party to the World Heritage Convention →
subjectTo	periodic reporting → reactive monitoring →

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 591)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aalen Roman fort → Acropolis of Athens → Agra Fort → Alcalá de Henares → Alexandrowka colony → Alhambra → All Saints Church in Blizne → All Saints' Church, Wittenberg → Altes Museum → Ancient Agora of Athens ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of the Acropolis area and its surroundings)") → Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis → Andrássy Avenue → Angkor Archaeological Park → Angkor Wat → Angra do Heroísmo → Antigua Guatemala → Antonine Wall → Archaeological Site of Carthage → Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo → Archaeological site of Olympia → Babelsberg Park → Bagrati Cathedral → Banks of the Danube, Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue → Basilica Palladiana → Basilica and Convent of San Francisco ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Basilica and Convent of San Francisco ("World Heritage Site (UNESCO)") → Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Basilica of San Vitale → Batalha Monastery → Batalha Monastery → Bath, Somerset, England → Bath, Somerset, England ("World Heritage Site (1987)") → Bauhaus Weimar → Beaumaris Castle → Belvedere Palace, Vienna → Belém Tower → Blaenavon Industrial Landscape → Blue Mountains → Bochnia Royal Salt Mine → Bombay High Court ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Boyana Church → Boğazköy (Hattusa) → Brouwersgracht ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Buda Castle → Budapest Metro Line 1 → Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire → Caernarfon Castle → Canal du Midi → Canterbury Cathedral → Capitol of Dougga ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Caral → Casbah of Algiers → Casco Viejo → Castillo San Cristóbal → Castillo San Felipe del Morro → Castillo del Morro → Cathedral of the Annunciation → Centennial Hall → Charles Bridge ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Historic Centre of Prague)") → Charlotte Square, Edinburgh ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Chengde Mountain Resort → Chersonesus Taurica archaeological site → Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus → Church of the Deposition of the Robe ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of the Kremlin and Red Square ensemble)") → Church of the Nativity → Churches and Convents of Goa → Château de Fontainebleau → Citadelle of Quebec ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Cité Frugès de Pessac → Cité de Carcassonne → Classical Gardens of Suzhou → Cloth Hall ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Historic Centre of Kraków)") → Constitution Square → Conwy Castle → Cumalıkızık → Curia Julia ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Cusco → Dahshur necropolis → Daphni Monastery → Derbent → Derby Silk Mill ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Dessau-Törten housing estate ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Dečani Monastery → Dougga → Douro Demarcated Region → Drottningholm Palace → Durham Castle → Durham Cathedral → El Jem Amphitheatre → Elmina Castle → Episcopal City of Albi → Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region → Etchmiadzin Cathedral → Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia → Fagus Factory → Fagus Factory in Alfeld → Fatehpur Sikri → Fes el-Bali → Forth Bridge → Forum Romanum → Fountain of the Four Rivers ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Fourvière Hill ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site → Gardens of Fontainebleau (modifications) → Gelati Monastery → Genbaku Dome → Genbaku Dome → Giza Pyramids → Golestan Palace → Goslar → Gothic silk exchange → Grachtengordel → Grand Place / Grote Markt → Grand Trianon → Gračanica Monastery → Great Court → Great Hall ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Great Lavra ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Great Mosque of Córdoba → Great Wall of China → Greenwich Hospital (collaborative work) ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Gregoriou Monastery → Hadrian's Wall → Hall of Union ("UNESCO World Heritage component") → Harar Jugol → Harlech ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Harlech Castle → Hatra → Hebron → Herculaneum → Hildesheim Cathedral → Historic Areas of Istanbul → Historic Centre of Mexico City → Historic District of Panama City with the Salón Bolívar → Historic Fortified City of Briançon → Holy Trinity Monastery ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Hopewell tradition ("UNESCO World Heritage Site nomination (Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks)") → Hosios Loukas → Hospicio Cabañas → Hospicio Cabañas → Hospital de Sant Pau → Humayun's Tomb → Humayun's Tomb, Delhi → Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works → Ibiza → Immeuble locatif à la Porte Molitor → Independence Hall ("World Heritage Site") → Innere Stadt → Jaipur ("UNESCO World Heritage City") → Jerónimos Monastery → Jirón de la Unión ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Jvari Monastery → Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park → Kasbah of the Udayas → Khami Ruins → Khomanani Cultural Landscape → Kiyomizu-dera → Koutloumousiou Monastery → Krak des Chevaliers → Kremlin → La Chaux-de-Fonds → La Fortaleza → La Lonja de la Seda → Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture → Lavaux vineyards → Levoča historic centre → Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire → Lord Howe Island → Luang Prabang → Maison Guiette → Mantua → Maritime Greenwich → Marly Palace ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Marrakesh → Medieval City of Rhodes → Medina of Essaouira → Medina of Fez → Medina of Tetouan → Medina of Tunis → Megalithic Temples of Malta → Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur → Merv → Metropolitan Cathedral of Mexico City → Mines of Rammelsberg → Mission Espada → Mission San José → Monplaisir Palace → Monte Albán → Monte Perdido → Monticello → Morelia → Mtskheta → Nabataean city of Petra → Naples → National Congress of Brazil building ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Brasília)") → National Maritime Museum ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Nazca Lines → Nea Moni of Chios → Neuer Garten → Neues Palais ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Nevsky Prospekt ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp → Old City of Jerusalem UNESCO World Heritage Site → Old City of Sanaʽa → Old Quebec → Old Royal Naval College → Old Town (Kraków) → Old Town Square → Old Town of Ghadamès → Old Town of Toruń → Olympia → Orangery Palace → Ore Mountains → Palace Square → Palace of Assembly, Chandigarh → Palace of Diocletian → Palace of Earthly Tranquility ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Palace of Westminster → Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes → Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin → Palacio de Santa Catalina → Palatine Hill ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Historic Centre of Rome)") → Palau Güell → Palau de la Música Catalana → Palácio do Planalto ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Brasília)") → Pampulha Modern Ensemble → Parco archeologico del Colosseo ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Park Güell → Parthenon ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Parthenon sculptures ("UNESCO World Heritage component") → Pasargadae → Patriarchate of Peć → Patriarchate of Peć Monastery → Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy → Pergamon Museum → Peter and Paul Fortress → Peterhof Palace → Petit Trianon ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Palace and Park of Versailles)") → Petra → Philippeion ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Plaza Mayor de Lima → Plaza San Martín ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Historic Centre of Lima)") → Plaza de Armas de Lima → Plaza de la Constitución ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Plaza de la Independencia ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Pont du Gard → Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal → Potosí → Prague Castle → Prambanan Temple → Prinsengracht → Propylaea ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Puebla Cathedral ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Punic Town of Kerkouane and its Necropolis → Qal'at al-Bahrain → Qhapaq Ñan → Quedlinburg → Queen’s House ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Qutb Minar → Qutub Minar and its Monuments → Rapa Nui National Park → Red Fort → Red Fort Complex → Red Pyramid ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Reims Cathedral → Reims Cathedral → Rideau Canal → Rietveld Schröder House → Rila Monastery → Roman Agora of Delphi ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Roman Theatre of Orange → Room of the Three Windows ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Rotunda at the University of Virginia → Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France → Royal Chapel of Versailles ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Sabratha Roman theater → Sakai Mozu Kofun Group → Salamanca → Salzburg → Salzburg Cathedral Square → Samarra → San Agustin Church → San Ildefonso College ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → San Juan National Historic Site → San Juan city walls → Sanssouci Palace → Sanssouci Park → Santa Maria delle Grazie with The Last Supper → Santiago de Compostela Cathedral → Schloss Glienicke → Schönbrunn Palace → Selimiye Mosque → Shlisselburg → Shlisselburg Fortress → Shuri Castle → Siemensstadt housing estate, Berlin → Simien Mountains → Skara Brae → Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales → Small Hermitage ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Sopoćani Monastery → Speicherstadt warehouse district → Spiš Castle → Spišská Kapitula → St Kilda → St Leonard Church in Lipnica Murowana → St Michael Archangel Church in Binarowa → St Michael Archangel Church in Dębno Podhalańskie → St Michael Archangel Church in Haczów → St Philip and St James Church in Sękowa → St. Basil's Cathedral ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → St. George’s Castle → St. Nicholas Anapausas Monastery → St. Panteleimon Monastery ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → St. Peter's Basilica → State Kremlin Palace → Statue of Liberty → Statue of Liberty National Monument ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (via Statue of Liberty)") → Steffl ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Stonehenge → Street of the Knights → Studenica Monastery → Su Nuraxi di Barumini → Summer Palace → Suomenlinna → Svetitskhoveli Cathedral → Sydney Opera House → Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica → Taliesin West → Taos Pueblo → Tarquinia → Teatro Olimpico → Tempietto of San Pietro in Montorio ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Temple of Antoninus and Faustina → Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae → Temple of Castor and Pollux → Temple of Heaven → Temple of Maharraqa → Thatta ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (Makli, Thatta)") → The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement ("World Heritage List") → The Pitons → The White City → Tholos of Delphi → Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak → Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari → To-ji → Toledo → Tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites)") → Topkapi Palace → Toruń → Tower of London → Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios → Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius → Triumphal Arch of Orange → Troitskaya Tower ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (partial)") → Tyre → UNESCO World Heritage Site Hildesheim Cathedral and St. Michael's Church → Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (main campus vicinity) → University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia → Upper Harz Water Management System → Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site → Valley of the Temples → Venice → Vicenza → Villa Adriana (Tivoli) → Villa Emo → Villa La Roche ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Villa Rotonda → Villa Savoye → Villa Tugendhat → Wartburg Castle → Waset ("World Heritage Site") → Wawel Castle → Westminster Abbey → Westminster World Heritage Site → Wet Tropics of Queensland → Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines → Wooden Churches of Southern Lesser Poland → Works of Antoni Gaudí → World Heritage Sites in Delhi → Xochimilco → Yazd → Yíhéyuán → Zamość → Église Saint-Étienne de Strasbourg ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Þingvellir National Park → Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum →	heritageDesignation
Aachen Cathedral → Admiralty Embankment ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Ahmedabad ("UNESCO World Heritage City") → Assisi → Avignon → Bauhaus Dessau building ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Belém ("UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone") → Blenheim Palace → Budapest Metro Line 1 ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Cartagena, Colombia → Cathedral of Brasília ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Cathedral of the Archangel ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Catherine Park ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Cloister of Santa Maria della Pace ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Durham → Ferrara → Fort Jesus → Giza pyramid complex → Granada ("UNESCO World Heritage Site components") → Habana Vieja → Hall of Preserving Harmony ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Herengracht ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Isla de Pascua Province ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (via Rapa Nui National Park)") → Ivan the Great Bell Tower ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Jeddah ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (Historic Jeddah)") → Lake Tegano → Levuka →	heritageStatus
Arles → Bath → Bern → Besançon → Camagüey → Campeche → Damascus Gate ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Eisleben → Firth of Forth ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (Forth Bridge)") → Ghadamès → Graz → Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza → Historic Centre of Lima → Kairouan → Kandy → Lyon → Lübeck → Maser ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (as part of the Palladian Villas of the Veneto)") → Old Havana → Riga → Sabratha → Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic → St. George’s, Bermuda → Theatre of Delphi ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Tikal → Wittenberg →	hasHeritageDesignation
Alcalá de Henares → Arequipa → Bath, Somerset, England → Bursa ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (historic areas)") → Canterbury, Kent, England → Chellah necropolis → Dijon ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Dung Gate → Fez → Fraser Island → Greenwich → Holy Mountain → Kronstadt ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Kyoto ("UNESCO World Heritage Sites") → Longwy ("UNESCO World Heritage Site component") → Meknes → Meteora → Novgorod → Orange ("UNESCO World Heritage Site components") → Pirin Mountains → Pirin National Park → Rhodes → St. Petersburg → Tarragona → Valparaíso →	hasHeritageStatus
Doñana National Park → Kilimanjaro National Park ("World Heritage Site") → Mesa Verde National Park →	designation
Blenheim Palace ("World Heritage Sites in England") → Ivan the Great Bell Tower ("World Heritage Sites in Russia") →	category
Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System ("World Heritage Site") → Daintree Rainforest →	hasDesignation
Celestial Mountains ("World Heritage (serial property)") → Saint-Émilion →	UNESCOStatus
Geirangerfjord ("World Heritage Site") → Oxley Wild Rivers National Park ("World Heritage Site") →	UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus
Falkirk →	AntonineWallStatus
Manas River →	associatedWith
Audenarde →	belfryListedAs
UNESCO World Heritage Convention ("World Heritage") →	definesConcept
Prague Castle ("UNESCO World Heritage List") →	describedBySource
Bikini Atoll →	designatedAs
UNESCO Global Geoparks ("World Heritage Sites") →	distinctFrom
UNESCO World Heritage Convention ("World Heritage List") →	establishesList
World Heritage Committee ("World Heritage List") →	governs
Visva-Bharati University →	hasCulturalHeritageStatus
Vatican Hill ("UNESCO World Heritage core area via Vatican City") →	hasCulturalSignificance
UNESCO World Heritage Site ("World Heritage Site") →	hasLanguageVariant
Mount Fuji ("World Heritage Site") →	hasUNESCOStatus
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban →	hasWorkRecognizedAs
Salamanca ("UNESCO cultural site") →	heritageCriteria
Algiers →	heritageDesignationOfCasbahOfAlgiers
Great Sphinx of Giza →	heritageSite
Belize →	heritageSiteStatus
Molenlanden →	heritageSiteTypeNearby
Sagrada Família ("World Heritage Site") →	NativityFacadeUNESCOStatus
Burgenlandkreis →	Naumburg CathedralStatus
Vézelay ("World Heritage Site") →	UNESCOListing
Warsaw →	Warsaw Old Town