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For those who are new to travel, you may wonder whether the reading through an itinerary, "which is a World Heritage?"
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is truly a site that contains a list of outstanding universal cultural or natural value, like the monument of the Great Barrier Reef Australia. It could be AA, building, mountain, forest, lake, desert, complex or city.
So how ISA Sitea one selected?
Only countries that have signed the World Heritage Convention, pledging to protect their cultural and natural heritage can submit nominations for properties in its territory to be considered inappropriate for inclusion in the list.
A nominated property is independently evaluated by several Advisory Boards. Once a site has been nominated and evaluated, the Intergovernmental Committee makes the final decision. One year, the Committee meets to decide which assets will inscribed on the World Heritage List.
The program aims catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, cultural or natural heritage common humanity.
There are currently 890 World Heritage Sites in 148 countries. These include 689 cultural, 176 natural and 25 mixed properties. Each year, million people travel the world to visit the sites of UNESCO. An estimated 2 to 3 million visitors go to see the Taj Mahal each year. The famous Gothic cathedral of Cologne, Germany has an estimated 6 million visitors per year. In Barcelona, the Sagrada Familia by Antonio Gaudí is the most visited site in the city. Italy has more sites any other country, 44.
There are 20 UNESCO sites in the U.S. You may have visited any of them, not realizing it was a site of UNESCO, as the Statue of Liberty, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Redwood, a Yellowstone National Olympic or Parks.Â
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