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 ...

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 ...

Six sites have been added to India’s Tentative List by UNESCO's World Heritage Centre in 2025. But what exactly is a UNESCO ...

The treaty sets the guidelines for the consideration of a World Heritage site, and the countries that signed it agree to "conserve not only the World Heritage sites situated on its territory but ...

including registration of the Sado Island gold mine in Niigata Prefecture as a World Cultural Heritage site. That listing increased to 21 the number of cultural landmarks in Japan recognized as ...

The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (German: Wieskirche) is a rococo church near Steingaden and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here's why the visit is worthwhile. Ceiling fresco of the Wieskirche by ...