The World Heritage list includes 936 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage having outstanding universal value.
As to endorse this project, this page is to highlight the World Heritage properties on which you will find images on this site (click on the page n° to the right).
AUSTRALIA
Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens, Melbourne (2004) 1 Sydney Opera House (2007) 1 Great Barrier Reef (1981) 3 Wet Tropics of Queensland (1988) 1 2 Uluru-Kata Tjura National Park (1987) 1 2 3
CAMBODIA
Angkor (1992) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
CHILE
Rapa Nui National Park (1995) 2 3 Historic Quarter of the Sea Port City of Valparaiso (2003) 1
CHINA
Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area (1996) 1
CZECH REPUBLIC
Historic Centre of Prague (1992) 1 Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc (2000) 1
ECUADOR
City of Quito (1978) 1 Galapagos (1978) 2 3 4
FRANCE
Vézelay, Church & Hill (1979) 1 Mont-Saint-Michel & its Bay (1979) 1 Bourges Cathedral (1992) 1
GERMANY
Aachen Cathedral (1978) 1 Speyer Cathedral (1981) 1 Würzburg Residenz (1981) 1 Castle of Augustusburg at Brühl (1984) 1 St Mary's Cathedral & St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1985) 1 Roman Mounuments & Cathedral of St Peter in Trier (1986) 1 Palaces & Parks in Potsdam & Berlin (1990) 1 Abbey & Altenmünster in Lorsch (1991) 1 Historic Town of Goslar (1992) 1 Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993) 1 Town of Bamberg (1993) 1 Cologne Cathedral (1996) 1
IRAN
Meidan Emam, Esfahan (1979) 3 Persepolis (1979) 1
JAPAN
Himeji-jo (1993) 1 Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (1994) 1
JORDAN
Petra (1985) 1 2 Wadi Rum Protected Area (2011) 1
LAOS
Town of Luang Prabang (1995) 1 2 3 4
LIBYA
Archaeological Site of Cyrene (1982) 1 Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna (1982) 1 Archaeological Site of Sabratha (1982) 1 Old Town of Ghadames (1986) 1
NAMIBIA
Twyfelfontein (2007) 1
POLAND
Historic Centre of Cracow (1978) 1 Historic Centre of Warsaw (1980)
RUSSIA
Historic Centre of Saint-Petersburg (1990) 1
SOUTH AFRICA
Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (2004) 1
Royal Domain of Drottningholm (1991) 1 Hanseatic Town of Visby (1995) 1
SYRIA
Ancient City of Damascus (1979) 1 2 Ancient City of Bosra (1980) 1 Site of Palmyra (1980) 1 Ancient City of Aleppo (1986) 1 Crac des Chevaliers & Qal'at Salah El-Din (2006) 1 Ancient villages of Northern Syria (2011 ) 1
SWITZERLAND
Three Castles, Defensive Wall & Remparts of Bellinzona (2000) 1 Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes (2008) 1
UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN & NORTHERN IRELAND
Canterbury Cathedral, St.Augustine's Abbey & St. Martin's Church (1988) 1 Old & New Towns of Edinburgh (1995) 1 2
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Mesa Verde National Park (1978) 1 Grand Canyon National Park (1979) 1 Statue of Liberty (1984) 1