This year we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention: a legal tool that protects cultural and herbal heritage. For this reason, the World Heritage List includes the most impressive sites in the world and continues to grow.
The World Heritage Committee, made up of 21 elected countries, meets annually to assess the state of conservation of sites inscribed on the World Heritage List and to upload new sites. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Heritage Committee was unable to meet in 2020, instead holding an assembly in July 2021 to discuss the sites proposed for 2020 and 2021. In a historic assembly held online from Fuzhou, China and UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France, 132 countries participated via Zoom, and the consultation was webcast in six languages. During the talks, more than 180,000 people visited the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.
In this issue, we are pleased to present the 34 sites that were added to the World Heritage List in this session, from the spa towns of Europe, with 11 spa towns spread across seven countries, to the biodiversity-rich Japanese site of Amami-Oshima. Island, the island of Tokunoshima, the northern component of the island of Okinawa and the island of Iriomote. The remote and mountainous cultural landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat in Iran is a testament to the classical culture of the Hawrami other peoples over the millennia, and the vast 300,000 ha of Gabon. Ivindo National Park includes spaces that have not yet been fully explored. These and more, you will notice them on those pages.
But adding sites to the World Heritage List is not an end in itself. By acceding to the Convention, the country is committed to safeguarding those sites and the unique values they embody, for supply and the long term. At a time when armed conflict, climate replacement and biodiversity loss are affecting sites around the world, it is more vital than ever to share our wisdom and resources and take action for the long term of our planet.
I am very pleased to take up the position of Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, following the departure of my valuable colleague Mechtild Rössler for a well-deserved retirement.
I look forward to addressing the demanding situations that lie ahead in the protection of World Heritage together with UNESCO staff, national and local authorities, administrators, young people and citizens who care so much about protecting our common heritage, as we look ahead to the next 50 years. of World Heritage conservation.
Lazare Eloundou AssomoDirector of World Heritage
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World Heritage Sites 2020
Borders of the Roman Empire – The silts of the Danube (western segment) (Austria, Germany, Slovakia); Largest seaside resort in Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Colonies of Benevolence (Belgium, Netherlands); Sítio Roberto Burle Marx (Brazil); Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China (China); Cordouan Lighthouse (France); Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt (Germany); Kakatiya Rudreshwara Temple (Ramappa), Telangana (India); Trans-Rairan Railway (Islamic Republic of Iran); Fourteenth-century fresco cycles of Padua (Italy); Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex (Peru); Mining landscape of Roșia Montană (Romania); Ḥimā Cultural Area (Saudi Arabia); Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, landscape of Arts and Sciences (Spain); Arslantepe mound (Turkey); The paintings of the engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atlantis (Uruguay); tropical forests and colchicum wetlands (Georgia); Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island( Japan); Getbol, Korean marshes (Republic of Korea); Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thailand).
World Heritage Sites 2021
Implantation and synthetic mummification of the Chinchorro culture in the region of Arica and Parinacota (Chile); Sudanese-style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire (Côte d’Ivoire); Nice, Winter Resort of the Côte d’Azur (France); Borders of the Roman Empire: the limes of Lower Germany (Germany, Netherlands); ShuM sites in Speyer, Worms and Mainz (Germany); Dholavira, Harappa, a city in Harappa, India Hawraman/Uramanat Cultural Landscape (Islamic Republic of Iran); The Porticos of Bologna (Italy); prehistoric sites of Jomon in northern Japan (Japan); As-Salt – The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality (Jordan); Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea ( Russian Federation); The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centered Urban Design (Slovenia); The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland); Ivindo National Park (Gabon)
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