Built between 1774 and 1781, this property is a moving mechanical scale model of the solar system as it was known at the time. Conceived and built by an ordinary citizen – the wool manufacturer Eise ...

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 ...

La description est disponible sous licence CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 El paisaje cultural de Bali se extiende por una superficie de más de 19.500 hectáreas y comprende cinco terrazas de cultivo del arroz con ...

The Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda demonstrates an unusual interface between dense and well-conserved tropical rainforest and relict savannah environments with a great ...

La « Venise du Nord », avec ses nombreux canaux et plus de 400 ponts, est avant tout le résultat d'un vaste projet d'urbanisme commencé en 1703 sous Pierre le Grand. Connue plus tard sous le nom de ...

The ensemble of buildings, sports facilities and open spaces of the Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), was built from 1949 to 1952 by more than 60 ...

The City of Graz – Historic Centre and Schloss Eggenberg bear witness to an exemplary model of the living heritage of a central European urban complex influenced by the secular presence of the ...

Shortly after its foundation in the 9th century, the Benedictine abbey of Vézelay acquired the relics of St Mary Magdalene and since then it has been an important place of pilgrimage. St Bernard ...

This serial property of 111 small individual sites encompasses the remains of prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from around 5000 to 500 B.C. on the ...

The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value. The layout and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the surrounding ...

The Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, near Besançon, was built by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Its construction, begun in 1775 during the reign of Louis XVI, was the first major achievement of industrial ...

La dense forêt sacrée d’Osun, à la périphérie de la ville d’Oshogbo, est l’une des dernières zones de la forêt primaire qui subsiste au sud du Nigéria. Elle est considérée comme la demeure d’Osun, une ...