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July 9, 2015
World Heritage Committee inscribes 24 New Sites
Photo: Forth Bridge from South Queensferry (U.K.) has been inscribed to the World Heritage List. This railway bridge spanning the estuary of the Forth River in Scotland is the world’s longest multi-span cantilever bridge. It opened in 1890 and continues to carry passengers and freight. Its distinctive industrial aesthetic is the result of a forthright and unadorned display of its structural components. Innovative in style, materials and scale, the Forth Bridge was an important milestone in bridge design and construction during the period when railways came to dominate long-distance land travel. Image Credit © Historic Scotland.
Bonn, Germany, 8 July 2015—The World Heritage Committee ended its meeting today. During this year’s session the Committee, which was chaired by Maria Bohmer, Minister of State at the German Federal Foreign Office and member of the Bundestag, inscribed 24 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List and approved extensions to three existing sites. It also added three World Heritage sites to the List of World Heritage in Danger and took one off that List.
The following sites were added to the List of World Heritage in Danger:
- Hatra (Iraq)
- Old City of Sana’a (Yemen)
- Old Walled City of Shibam (Yemen)
- Los KatÃos in Colombia was taken off the List of World Heritage in Danger to which it had been added in 2009.
The Committee inscribed a new mixed, cultural and natural site, to the World Heritage List: Blue and John Crow Mountains alongside 23 cultural sites:
- Tusi sites (China)
- Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement (Denmark)
- The Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand (Denmark)
- The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy (France)
- Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars (France)
- Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus (Germany)
- Susa (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Cultural Landscape of Maymand (Islamic Republic of Iran)
- Necropolis of Beth She’arim—a Landmark of Jewish Revival (Israel)
- Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale (Italy)
- Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining (Japan)
- Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) (Jordan)
- Baekje Historic Areas (Republic of Korea)
- Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System (Mexico)
- Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape (Mongolia)
- Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site (Norway)
- Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia
- Singapore Botanical Gardens (Singapore)
- Ephesus (Turkey)
- Diyarbakir Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape (Turkey)
- Fray Bentos Cultural-Industrial Landscape (Uruguay)
- The Forth Bridge (United Kingdom)
- San Antonio Missions (United States of America)
The World Heritage Committee approved extensions to three sites:
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas (South Africa)
- Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Frances and Routes of Northern Spain (Spain)
- Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Viet Nam)
The new inscriptions bring to 1031 the number of sites inscribed in 163 countries on the World Heritage List.
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