The UK Government is preparing a new Tentative List of natural, cultural and mixed sites for potential nomination for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be submitted to UNESCO in 2011, with a view to putting forward nominations to the World Heritage Committee from 2012. The closing date for applications is: 11 June [...]
International World Heritage Day is celebrated at World Heritage Sites across the world every year on 18th April, to raise awareness of the diversity of the world’s cultural and natural heritage and the steps that are being made to protect it, conserve it and promote understanding of it. ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) [...]
Course/Professional Development 22 March 2010, Oxford Cultural World Heritage Sites are incredibly diverse, ranging from individual monuments and sites, such as Stonehenge and Avebury, to historic areas and cities such as Bath, Liverpool and Edinburgh. The defining characteristic that links all cultural World Heritage Sites is that the asset or property must be recognised as [...]
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