We do a whistle-stop tour through the cobbled streetsof the Unesco-listed old city – and see beautifully restored buildingssuch as the stunningHouse of Blackheads.
Unesco eventually abandoned the threat because the tour companies now use quiet helicopters and because the park dropped plans to reopen a highway which formerly bisected the natural wonder.
After the Philippines, Canada, Malawi, Cuba and Lebanon , SHSviews continues its international tour of National Commissions for UNESCO by visiting the Netherlands , where natural sciences and social and human sciences are treated equally by a Committee whose aim is to contribute to sustainable human development.
Maori Land Court Minute Books from the 19th century and a documentary recording the 1981 Springbok Tour of New Zealand have been inscripted onto the UNESCO Memory of the World New Zealand register for documentary heritage.