World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain range, lake, desert, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated for the international World heritage program.

This aims to catalogue, name, and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind. exact criteria

To date, some 730 sites have been included in the list.

List

at least the ones with wikipedia articles...

• Durham castle and cathedral (England)
• Hadrian's wall, stone and turf fortification in Great Britain
• Heidelberg (Germany)
• Ironbridge gorge on the Severn River (England)
• Luebeck
• Kathmandu (seven sites in all)
• Kronborg
• Maes Howe (Orkney)
• Robben Island (South Africa)
• Skara Brae (Orkney)
• Stonehenge (England)
• Petra

France

• Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay (1979)
• Chartres Cathedral (1979)
  • Palace and Park of Versailles (1979)
• Vézelay, Church and Hill 1979)
• Decorated Grottoes of the Vézère Valley (1979)
• Palace and Park of Fontainebleau (1981)
• Amiens Cathedral (1981)
• Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange (1981)
• Roman and Romanesque Monuments of Arles (1981)
• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay (1981)
• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 1982)
• Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance in Nancy (1983)
• Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe (1983)
• Cape Girolata, Cape Porto, Scandola Nature Reserve and the Piana Calanches in Corsica (1983)
• Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct) (1985)
• Strasbourg-Grande île (1988)
• Paris, Banks of the Seine (1991)
• Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Remi and Palace of Tau, Reims (1991)
• Bourges Cathedral (1992)
• Historic Centre of Avignon (1995)
• Canal du Midi (1996)
• Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne (1997)
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France (1998)
• Historic Site of Lyon (1998)
• Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion (1999)
• The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes (2000)
• Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs (2001)

Links

Here is a list of UNESCO world heritage sites. (Someone please wikify at some point.)

For information concerning World Heritage sites: UNESCO.

For participation in documentation of World Heritage sites: VRheritage.org.