So the World Heritage Committee met in Baku (Azerbaijan) last month, and inscribed no less than twenty-nine sites!
New Inscribed Properties (2019)
Cultural properties
- Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso (Burkina Faso)
- Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City (China)
- Babylon (Iraq)
- Bagan (Myanmar)
- Budj Bim Cultural Landscape (Australia)
- Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture (Russian Federation)
- Dilmun Burial Mounds (Bahrain)
- Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region (Czechia, Germany)
- Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan’s Palace (Azerbaijan)
- Jaipur City, Rajasthan (India)
- Jodrell Bank Observatory (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region (Poland)
- Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem (Czechia)
- Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene (Italy)
- Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)
- Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan (Japan)
- Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto (Indonesia)
- Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape (Spain)
- Royal Building of Mafra – Palace, Basilica, Convent, Cerco Garden and Hunting Park (Tapada) (Portugal)
- Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga (Portugal)
- Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies (Republic of Korea)
- The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (United States of America)
- Water Management System of Augsburg (Germany)
- Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi (Canada)
Natural properties
- French Austral Lands and Seas (France)
- Hyrcanian Forests (Iran (Islamic Republic of))
- Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I)(China)
- Vatnajökull National Park – Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice (Iceland)
Mixed property
So that’s 29 of the Tentative entries on The Sitelist moved to Inscribed, and one extension to
- Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region (Albania, North Macedonia)
… and as well there’s been a bunch of new tentative inscriptions since our last update; so check it out in the header view, our bucket list is now up to two thousand eight hundred twenty-one items; 1121 inscribed sites and a round 1700 tentative!
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p dir=”ltr”>Yes, this is the epic bucket list that will never empty, this travel visit thing; get yourself the MTP app and start tracking yours today!
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