The Million wells for Bengaluru campaign is an initiative to build one million shallow wells using traditional well-digging techniques. The initiative for the revival of traditional water systems ...

Successively a Roman municipium, the capital of the Visigothic Kingdom, a fortress of the Emirate of Cordoba, an outpost of the Christian kingdoms fighting the Moors and, in the 16th century, the ...

The Roman aqueduct of Segovia, probably built c. A.D. 50, is remarkably well preserved. This impressive construction, with its two tiers of arches, forms part of the setting of the magnificent ...

Zabid's domestic and military architecture and its urban plan make it an outstanding archaeological and historical site. Besides being the capital of Yemen from the 13th to the 15th century, the city ...

2019 43COM 7B.76 - Historic City of Ayutthaya (Thailand) (C 576) 2017 41COM 7B.98 - Historic City of Ayutthaya (Thailand) (C 576) 2015 39COM 7B.71 - Historic City of Ayutthaya (Thailand) (C 576) 2012 ...

Believe it or not, it is possible to move a mountain… literally! Abu Simbel: The campaign that revolutionized the international approach to safeguarding heritage. Saving the temples of Egypt and ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

2009 33COM 7B.131 - City of Bath (United Kingdom) (C 428) 2008 32COM 8B.97 - Revision of Statements of Signifiance and Statements Outstanding Universal Value - City of Bath (UK) 2008 32COM 7B.116 - ...

This area, which stretches along the north-east coast of Australia for some 450 km, is made up largely of tropical rainforests. This biotope offers a particularly extensive and varied array of plants, ...

This memorial column, erected in the early years of the 18th century, is the most outstanding example of a type of monument specific to central Europe. In the characteristic regional style known as ...

The Ahwar is made up of seven components: three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh areas in southern Iraq. The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form ...

From the 10th century onwards, this town became an important link with the Slav peoples, especially those of Poland and Pomerania. During its period of greatest prosperity, from the 12th century ...