My Son Sanctuary - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
My Son Sanctuary. Between the 4th and 13th centuries a unique culture which owed its spiritual origins to Indian Hinduism developed on the coast of contemporary Viet Nam.
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My Son Sanctuary - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
My Son is located along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and was one of the prime areas where unused ordnance was dumped during the Vietnam War. In the years following peace in 1975, the Vietnamese authorities de-mined four main monumental area …
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UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Activites. The World Heritage Centre is at the forefront of the international community’s efforts to protect and preserve.
Cat Tien National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Cat Tien National Park locates in the middle of two biogeologies changing from Truong Son highland to Southen plain. Therefore it gathers 212 abundant diversity of fauna and flora typical for ecosystem of wet tropical forest in the provinces in South East of Vietnam. The major component is Dipterocarpaceas, Fabaceae and Lythraceae.
Phnom Kulen: Archeological Site/Ancient Site of Mahendraparvata
My Son (Vietnam: 4th to 14th centuries C.E.) and Hoa Lai: My Son site was constructed between the 4 th and the 14 th centuries by the Kings of Champa. The temples were built by brick and sandstone materials, and were dedicated to Hinduism, to worship the god Shiva.
UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Document - The Sejong …
World Heritage partnerships for conservation. Ensuring that World Heritage sites sustain their outstanding universal value is an increasingly challenging mission in today’s complex world, where sites are vulnerable to the effects of uncontrolled urban development, unsustainable tourism practices, neglect, natural calamities, pollution, political instability, and conflict.
Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas (UNESCO/TBS)
Description Consisting of eight geographical clusters of protected areas within the boundaries of the Three Parallel Rivers National Park, in the mountainous north-west of Yunnan Province, the 1.7 million hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three of the great rivers of Asia: the Yangtze (Jinsha), Mekong and Salween run roughly parallel, north to south, through steep …
Palace and Park of Fontainebleau - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Palais et parc de Fontainebleau. Utilisée par les rois de France dès le XII e siècle, la résidence de chasse de Fontainebleau, au cœur d'une grande forêt de l'Île-de-France, fut transformée, agrandie et embellie au XVI e siècle par François I e r qui voulait en faire une « nouvelle Rome ». Entouré d'un vaste parc, le château, inspiré de modèles italiens, fut un lieu de ...
Centro del Patrimonio Mundial - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Chaco est remarquable par ses bâtiments publics et cérémoniels monumentaux et son architecture caractéristique qui en font un ancien centre cérémoniel unique en son genre. Outre le parc national historique de la culture chaco, le bien du patrimoine mondial comprend le Monument national des ruines aztèques et plusieurs plus petits sites ...