{"id":48956,"date":"2021-08-03T05:18:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=48956"},"modified":"2021-08-03T05:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:18:17","slug":"unesco-added-33-new-cultural-natural-sites-to-world-heritage-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/unesco-added-33-new-cultural-natural-sites-to-world-heritage-list\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO added 33 new cultural, natural sites to World Heritage List"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed 33 new cultural and natural sites to its World Heritage List recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A prehistoric solar observatory in Peru, an ancient Harappa city in India, and a railway connecting the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf were among the sites added to the list during the extended 44th session of Unesco\u2019s World Heritage Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, the committee inscribed 33 properties on the coveted list which includes 28 cultural and 5 natural sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The list of the newest World Heritage Sites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li>Arslantepe Mound (Turkey)<\/li><li>Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex (Peru):<\/li><li>Colonies of Benevolence (Belgium\/Netherlands)<\/li><li>The Great Spa Towns of Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)<\/li><li>Cordouan Lighthouse (France)<\/li><li>Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera (France)<\/li><li>Dholavira: a Harappan City (India)<\/li><li>Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana (India)<\/li><li>Mathildenh\u00f6he Darmstadt (Germany)<\/li><li>ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz (Germany)<\/li><li>Frontiers of the Roman Empire &#8212; The Lower German Limes (Germany\/the Netherlands)<\/li><li>Padua&#8217;s fourteenth-century fresco cycles (Italy)<\/li><li>The Porticoes of Bologna (Italy)<\/li><li>Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences (Spain)<\/li><li>Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China (China)<\/li><li>Ro\u0219ia Montan\u0103 Mining Landscape (Romania)<\/li><li>S\u00edtio Roberto Burle Marx (Brazil)<\/li><li>The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atl\u00e1ntida (Uruguay)<\/li><li>Trans-Iranian Railway (Iran)<\/li><li>Cultural Landscape of Hawraman\/Uramanat (Iran)<\/li><li>\u1e24im\u0101 Cultural Area (Saudi Arabia)<\/li><li>Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island (Japan)<\/li><li>Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan (Japan)<\/li><li>Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands (Georgia)<\/li><li>Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (South Korea)<\/li><li>Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thailand)<\/li><li>As-Salt &#8211; The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality (Jordan)<\/li><li>Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region (Chile)<\/li><li>Sudanese style mosques in northern C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire)<\/li><li>The works of Jo\u017ee Ple\u010dnik in Ljubljana &#8211; Human Centred Urban Design (Slovenia)<\/li><li>The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales (United Kingdom)<\/li><li>Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea (Russia)<\/li><li>Ivindo National Park (Gabon)<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed 33 new cultural and natural sites to its World Heritage List recently. 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