World Heritage Centre News - August 01, 2021

Danube Limes added to UNESCO's World Heritage List closing this year's inscriptions
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2322
The World Heritage Committee today inscribed the transnational property of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire ? The Danube Limes (Western Segment) on UNESCO's World Heritage List. 
Frontiers of the Roman Empire ? The Danube Limes (Western Segment) features components in Austria, Germany, and SlovakiaIt covers almost 600km of the whole Roman Empire's Danube frontier. The property formed part of the much large frontier of the Roman Empire that encircled the Mediterranean Sea. ...



http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2321



World Heritage Committee inscribes four cultural and one natural site on UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2320
The World Heritage Committee today added four sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List and one extension to an existing transnational natural site in Europe.
The new cultural sites are located in Italy, Slovenia, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom.  The natural site inscribed today is Ivindo National Park in Gabon. The World Heritage Committee also approved an extension to the existing World Heritage site of Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other ...


Cultural sites in Africa, Arab Region, Asia, Europe, and Latin America inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2319
The World Heritage Committee today added 13 cultural sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List and one extension to an existing cultural site in Mexico. Ros?ia Montana? Mining Landscape (Romania), was simultaneously inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger pending the removal of threats to its integrity posed by possible extractive activities.
These additions were made during the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China), ...


Four natural and three cultural sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2318
The World Heritage Committee today added seven sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List. Four of the sites have been inscribed for the natural attributed: Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island (Japan), Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats (Republic of Korea), Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thailand) and Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands (Georgia). Three were listed for their cultural properties, among them one transnational site: Arslantepe ...


Cultural sites in China, India, Iran and Spain inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2317
The World Heritage Committee today inscribed Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China (China), Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana (India), Trans-Iranian Railway (Iran), and Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences (Spain), on UNESCO's World Heritage List during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China).
China, Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan ChinaThe serial site of Quanzhou ...


Five sites in the Arab and Europe regions inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2316
The World Heritage Committee today inscribed five cultural sites, including one transnational property, in Saudi Arabia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on UNESCO's World Heritage List during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China).
The following sites were inscribed today:
Saudi Arabia, ?im? Cultural AreaLocated in an arid, mountainous area of southwest Saudi Arabia, on one of the Arabian ...


New website dedicated to World Heritage Capacity-Building
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2315
The World Heritage Committee, during its Extended 44th session, has officially taken note of the 10th Anniversary of the adoption of the World Heritage Capacity-Building Strategy (2011 - 2021).
To mark this celebration, the World Heritage Centre is pleased to announce that a dedicated capacity building webpage has been made available to centralize all on-going and future capacity building activities: https://whc.unesco.org/en/capacity-building/
These tools and activities are conceived to ...


World Heritage Committee deletes Liverpool - Maritime Mercantile City from UNESCO's World Heritage List
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2314
The World Heritage Committee, holding its 44th session in Fuzhou and online, decided to delete the property "Liverpool ? Maritime Mercantile City? (UK) from the World Heritage List, due to the irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value of the property.
Liverpool ? Maritime Mercantile City was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004 and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012 following concerns about the proposed development of Liverpool ...


Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2313
The World Heritage Committee, meeting online since 16th of July, today decided to remove Salonga National Park (Democratic Republic of the Congo) from the List of World Heritage in Danger due to improvements in its state of conservation.
The Committee welcomed the clarification provided by the national authorities that the oil concessions overlapping with the property are nul and void and that these blocs will be excluded from future auctioning. It also observed that the management of ...