Slightly farther afield, Sri Lanka's so-called "cultural triangle" - comprising the area bounded by Kandy, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa - hosts Sri Lanka's most celebrated archaeological and cultural sites, and four more of its Unesco World Heritage sites.
In fact, Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the world.
There has been a trend in recent years of tourism authorities hiking up prices at Unesco world heritage sites in China.
While all of these places are of the luxury calibre, the emphasis is on eco-tourism and preservation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
This short video is part of Tides of Time, 2009, an interactive DVD that features eight of UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world.
The citadel of Madiq and the ancient villages in the north of Syria, all of which are Unesco World Heritage Sites, could become collateral damage.
Roman-built medieval fortress city of Carcassonne (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites).
And it is a spectacular one, encompassing UNESCO World Heritage sites, pirate coves, dinosaur fossils, surf beaches, seal-basked rocks and enough Cornish pasty parlours to sustain your hiking between them.
In recent years, some of the nation's real-estate developers and even government officials have been churning out detailed counterfeits of the West's greatest architectural hits, from Unesco World Heritage sites to Le Corbusier gems to Manhattan skyscrapers.
National Parks on both sides of the border and falls are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and between them, boast a wide assortment of falls view hotels, hiking trails, walkways, sightseeing buses, an eco-railway and even helicopter rides.
The obvious first step on a Sri Lanka architectural itinerary is the 17th-century walled Galle Fort, one of seven Unesco World Heritage sites on the island, and set just steps away from those glorious beaches on the south coast.
Edinburgh is home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites separated by the steep-sided greenery of the Princes Street Gardens: the Old Town with its imposing Castle Rock and Royal Mile, and the New Town, just a bit younger than Old Town, with a posh Georgian grid laid out in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
Today UNESCO and its values have a strong presence in the UK. From UNESCO Chairs to World Heritage Sites, UNESCO is more a part of our lives in the UK than many people realise.
Using the Aldabra atoll as an example, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley (CEO, Seychelle Islands Foundation) noted that no other international protected areas system holds its sites accountable for its conservation efforts as does the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites.
Today UNESCO and its values have a strong presence in the UK. From UNESCO Chairs to World Heritage Sites to its inaugural Creative Cities, UNESCO is more a part of our lives in the UK than many people realise.
To raise the professional capacity of guides at heritage sites, particularly, World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management developed the Cultural Heritage Specialist Guide Programme in 2005.
It explores in detail the economic, social, institutional and legal considerations that govern the diverse categories of UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites.
There are a large number of UNESCO sites and programmes active in the UK, including 28 World Heritage Sites, eight Biosphere Reserves, three UNESCO Creative Cities, 18 UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks at UK Higher Education Institutions, and 66 UNESCO Schools, among many others.
They have included the granting of the National Monument Conservation and Restoration Award, a National Workshop on the 1972 Convention, a travelling photograph exhibit of Cuban spots declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Old Havana and its colonial fortress system as World Heritage Sites.
This conference is part of the Making Sense of Our Sites initiative, launched by the UK National Commission for UNESCO in 2009, which supports UK World Heritage Sites to communicate messages of World Heritage effectively to schools.
International, regional and national registers list items of world significance in the same way as the UNESCO World Heritage List identifies precious natural sites and buildings.
The UK Government has announced that in future it will be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status, with a streamlined application system to help ensure success.
This follows the 2009 DCMS World Heritage Policy Review Consultation and the announcement in February 2010 that the UK would be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status.
UNESCO: Next step in finding new UK World Heritage sites announced
This opening of applications follows an earlier announcement by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that the UK will be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status, with a streamlined application system.
During the session, the Committee approved the inscription of 27 sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
The picturesque city was once an important destination for Islamic scholars because of its ancient and prominent burial sites, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
Last June, UNESCO placed the iconic city on its list of endangered world heritage sites after the Islamist militants controlling the area destroyed many of its treasured tombs and shrines.
On the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Old Havana and its fortress system as World Heritage Sites, and the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Programme "Memory of the World", a press conference was held on Tuesday, November 30.
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