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UNESCO Names New World Heritage Sites (PHOTOS)
UNESCO Names New World Heritage Sites (PHOTOS)
Jan 17, 2024 3:40 PM

If you think your travel bucket list is long, prepare for it to get even longer.

During the 39th session of the World Heritage Committee, that ended on July 8 and was held in Bonn, Germany, UNESCO named, and approved extensions to three other sites. The newly added global treasures, which includes one in the United States—the San Antonio Missions in Texas—were deemed as having "outstanding universal value."

Since 1975, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named more than 1,030 World Heritage sites forming part of the cultural and natural heritage, considered of outstanding universal value and have met at least one of the .

The is the first site with World Heritage status in Texas, and the 23rd in the United States.The site encompasses a group of five frontier mission complexes, which includes the Alamo, situated along a stretch of the San Antonio River basin.It includes architectural and archaeological structures, farmlands, residencies, churches and granaries, as well as water distribution systems. The complexes were built by Franciscan missionaries in the 18th century and illustrate the Spanish Crown’s efforts to colonize, evangelize and defend the northern frontier of New Spain, according to the UNESCO website.

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Adding to the already on its list, sites in Italy, Norway, Denmark, Singapore, and France awere also approved for inscription. View the slideshow above for the new World Heritage sites, plus 50 other spectacular sites on the list, which includes places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

The World Heritage Committee at Bonn inscribed a new mixed, cultural and natural site, on July 2015 to the World Heritage List:

Blue and John Crow Mountains

alongside 23 cultural sites:

Tusi sites (China)

Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement (Denmark)

The Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand (Denmark)

The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy (France)

Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars (France)

Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus (Germany)

Susa (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Cultural Landscape of Maymand (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Necropolis of Beth She’arim—a Landmark of Jewish Revival (Israel)

Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale (Italy)

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)

Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan)

Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea)

Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System (Mexico)

Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape (Mongolia)

Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site (Norway)

Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia

Singapore Botanical Gardens (Singapore)

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)

Ephesus (Turkey)

Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Turkey)

Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape (Uruguay)

The Forth Bridge (United Kingdom)

San Antonio Missions (United States of America)

The Committee approved extensions to three sites:

Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (South Africa)

Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain [an extension of the “Routes of Santiago de Compostela”] (Spain)

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park (Viet Nam)

Which ones have you visited? Which World Heritage site would you add to your bucket list?

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