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Join our tours and explore Europe's fascinating heritage and culture! Our selection of guided & independent tours depart from cities like London, Paris, and Amsterdam, taking you to major cultural sites across Europe.

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Established in 1991, International Heritage Tours has grown into one of North America's top tour operators. We customize group and individual travel to religious and heritage destinations worldwide. With over 10,000 satisfied travelers from North America to Israel each year, we are a division of Peerless Travel employing 80 travel specialists.

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Buzz building for autumn pilgrimages

• June 26, 2021

Canada’s Catholic pilgrimage industry is poised to make a comeback this autumn as long as the COVID-19 metrics keep trending in the right direction.

International Heritage Tours and QS Travel & Tours Inc. are a couple of the enterprises with Catholic tours earmarked for the third quarter of the year. It’s been a tough past 16 months for both tour agencies, and for the industry as a whole. Pandemic restrictions had brought the travel industry to a standstill as borders closed around the world to combat COVID-19.

But there is a light beginning to shine. Representatives from both Ontario-based organizations report that registration momentum has picked up substantially in recent weeks as there is a growing confidence the nation is finally getting ahead of the pandemic as vaccines roll out.

“People really want to go and have a renewed spiritual experience,” said Halina Jablonski, the director of Catholic tours at International Heritage Tours for the past 11 years. “A few months ago, we had zero registrations, but people are starting to sign up and book the last two weeks.”

QS Travel and Tours travel consultant Steven Skoczek says his company also experienced “a period of quiet” when the pandemic was at its peak during the early months of 2021, but now fortunes appear to be changing.

“Restrictions are easing and I genuinely get a sense that people are eager to reconnect with their faith and one of the ways to do so is going on a pilgrimage,” said Skoczek. “In particular, people supposed to travel with us in 2020 are starting to reach out to us.”

International Heritage Tours is devising a bigger comeback in 2021 as 14 separate tours are scheduled between Sept. 15 and Nov. 14, including seven journeys to the Holy Land.

International Heritage Tours also has trips scheduled that will jet pilgrims to religious landmarks in Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, among others. The company is opening the door for western and eastern Canadians to access these adventures by arranging departures in Alberta and Ontario respectively.

Jablonski is confident these tours will be successful for multiple reasons.

“Right now, things are moving really fast because right now you don’t have to have a vaccine passport — you only need to have a negative test,” Jablonski said. “All these hotels and bus companies have taken extra precautions to make sure people are in a clean, well-maintained environment. And all these hotels are great hotels that we have been working with for many years.”

QS Travel and Tours has organized a more modest schedule as its first pilgrimage with confirmed dates — a two-week adventure to Egypt, Jordan and the Holy Land — is not poised to commence until Remembrance Day in November. A tour in Mexico to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe from Dec. 10-13 is also on the books.

The company could get into the Canadian game sooner if inter-provincial travel conditions become sufficiently less stringent between Ontario and Quebec as this opens the door to executing a bus tour to the shrines of Quebec. Travel between the two provinces has just recently re-opened.

Skoczek himself is looking forward to being among the pilgrims venturing to the Holy Land. He was registered for a group scheduled to leave on March 24, 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic snuffed out that possibility. He’s heard amazing testimonials about ventures to the Holy Land.

“People I’ve spoken with say being in those places really brings the Bible to life. You get a chance to be baptized in the Jordan River and see all the various places Catholics hold dear.”

The travel consultant adds that he’ll constantly monitor the travel conditions laid out by the Government of Canada and foreign entities like the Israeli Ministry of Tourism in the weeks ahead.

Due to the pandemic, the entire slate of Oberammergau Passion Plays scheduled to occur in 2020 will be performed in 2022. This play depicting the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross has been performed every 10 years since 1634 by the inhabitants of Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany. The villagers vowed to perform the play each decade if God spared them of continued bubonic plague devastation.

International Heritage Tours and QS Travel and Tours are offering a combined total of 25 opportunities to see Oberammergau Passion Play.

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Be not afraid…” “Come and see” and you can enrich your ministry and enhance your community’s understanding of Gospel by visiting Israel and walking the message of Christ and the disciples or by visiting the Bible Lands in Asia Minor. We want to invite you to walk in the footsteps of Christ let me remind you that the bible says “there is nothing new under the sun” the visit is unique but millions have done this before you and millions will do this after you. One of the earliest pilgrims was Abram (not Abraham, not yet) out of the blue God says to him:“Now the LORD said unto Abram: Get thee out of thy country, and from thy father’s house, unto the land that I will show thee.” Visit Israel and like the Psalmist you too will say “I rejoiced when they said unto me come let us go to the house of the Lord.

EVER WISHED OF WALKING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS? EVER DREAMED ABOUT VISTING ONE OF THE MANY WORLD HERITAGE DESTINATIONS? EVER WONDERED ABOUT LEADING A GROUP ON A UNIQUE AND INSPIRING JOURNEY?

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Founded in 1991, and with the grace of God, International Heritage Tours has transformed from a small travel company into a leading North American tour operator. Today we are one of the most successful Tour Operators in North America, consistently ranked among the most influential in the country. A division of Peerless Travel International Heritage Tours is a full service tour operator specialising in group travel to worldwide heritage destinations. We annually account for over 10,000 satisfied travelers from North America to Israel alone. Offering an extensive array of unique and inspiring journeys we are blessed with.

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Welcome to catholic heritage tours, your answer to catholic group pilgrimages..

Have you ever wished you could go on the pilgrimage of a lifetime with like-minded travelers? Do you wish you could make a deeply spiritual journey, strengthen your faith and have countless opportunities for grace?

Look no further. We are excited to offer you a unique way to discover some of the world’s most inspirational and spiritual destinations.

We are a Catholic family-owned pilgrimage company proudly offering extensive knowledge in the field of Catholicism. Our itineraries give preference to significant religious sites while providing leisure time to immerse in the culture of the visited countries.

Going on 20 years of solely organizing Catholic tours, we take care of all the details so that you can enjoy and draw fruit from your pilgrimage.

Our destination sites mainly include Europe, the Holy Land, and Mexico.

We specialize in customized group travel for Catholic parishes, educational centers, and organizations.

We offer unique religious travel itineraries specifically tailored to your group’s needs, thus ensuring a truly rewarding and spiritually enriching travel experience.

We do not offer pre-packaged tours. Each Catholic tour is designed and prepared from the ground up, choosing destinations, activities, and arrangements for each particular group’s interests and needs.

OUR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE BEAUTIFUL CATHOLIC PILGRIMAGES THAT FOSTER A DEEPER KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF OUR CATHOLIC HERITAGE.

Our Catholic pilgrimages include round-trip airfare from your departure city, first-class hotel accommodations, all breakfasts and dinners including welcome and farewell dinners, services of a professional Tour Escort throughout the trip, and private motor-coach transfers.

Parish groups have their pastor accompany them to act as their chaplain and spiritual director. They celebrate Holy Mass and provide spiritual direction and support, thus making the trip a true pilgrimage.

Catholic Heritage Tours’ all-inclusive religious tours allow you to savor the comfort, safety, and ease of group travel. We take care of all the details so you can enjoy an unforgettable trip.

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• Ancient Ferrous Metallurgy Sites of Burkina Faso
• Cidade Velha, Historic Centre of Ribeira Grande
• Temple of Preah Vihear
• Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Archaeological Site of Ancient Ishanapura
• Koh Ker: Archaeological Site of Ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar
• Dja Faunal Reserve
• Sangha Trinational *
• L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site
• Nahanni National Park #
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 6
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• S G ang Gwaay
• Wood Buffalo National Park
• Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks # 7
• Historic District of Old Québec
• Gros Morne National Park
• Old Town Lunenburg
• Waterton Glacier International Peace Park *
• Miguasha National Park
• Rideau Canal
• Joggins Fossil Cliffs
• Landscape of Grand Pré
• Red Bay Basque Whaling Station
• Mistaken Point
• Pimachiowin Aki
• Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi
• Tr’ondëk-Klondike

Central African Republic

• Manovo-Gounda St Floris National Park
• Lakes of Ounianga
• Ennedi Massif: Natural and Cultural Landscape
• Rapa Nui National Park
• Churches of Chiloé
• Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso
• Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works
• Sewell Mining Town
• Settlement and Artificial Mummification of the Chinchorro Culture in the Arica and Parinacota Region
• Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang
• Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
• Mogao Caves
• Mount Taishan
• Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
• The Great Wall
• Mount Huangshan
• Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area
• Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area
• Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area
• Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
• Historic Ensemble of the Potala Palace, Lhasa 8
• Mountain Resort and its Outlying Temples, Chengde
• Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu
• Lushan National Park
• Mount Emei Scenic Area, including Leshan Giant Buddha Scenic Area
• Ancient City of Ping Yao
• Classical Gardens of Suzhou
• Old Town of Lijiang
• Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in Beijing
• Temple of Heaven: an Imperial Sacrificial Altar in Beijing
• Dazu Rock Carvings
• Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui – Xidi and Hongcun
• Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
• Longmen Grottoes
• Mount Qingcheng and the Dujiangyan Irrigation System
• Yungang Grottoes
• Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas
• Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom
• Historic Centre of Macao
• Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains
• Kaiping Diaolou and Villages
• South China Karst
• Fujian Tulou
• Mount Sanqingshan National Park
• Mount Wutai
• China Danxia
• Historic Monuments of Dengfeng in “The Centre of Heaven and Earth”
• West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou
• Chengjiang Fossil Site
• Site of Xanadu
• Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
• Xinjiang Tianshan
• Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor *
• The Grand Canal
• Hubei Shennongjia
• Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape
• Kulangsu, a Historic International Settlement
• Qinghai Hoh Xil
• Fanjingshan
• Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City
• Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China (Phase I)
• Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China
• Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er
• Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
• Los Katíos National Park
• Historic Centre of Santa Cruz de Mompox
• National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
• San Agustín Archaeological Park
• Malpelo Fauna and Flora Sanctuary
• Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia
• Chiribiquete National Park – “The Maloca of the Jaguar”
• Forest Massif of Odzala-Kokoua
• Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park *
• Cocos Island National Park
• Area de Conservación Guanacaste
• Precolumbian Chiefdom Settlements with Stone Spheres of the Diquís

Côte d'Ivoire

• Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve *
• Taï National Park
• Comoé National Park
• Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
• Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire
• Historical Complex of Split with the Palace of Diocletian
• Old City of Dubrovnik
• Plitvice Lakes National Park #
• Episcopal Complex of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Centre of Poreč
• Historic City of Trogir
• The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
• Stari Grad Plain
• Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar *
• Old Havana and its Fortification System
• Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
• San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba
• Desembarco del Granma National Park
• Viñales Valley
• Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
• Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
• Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
• Historic Centre of Camagüey
• Painted Churches in the Troodos Region
• Choirokoitia
• Historic Centre of Český Krumlov
• Historic Centre of Prague
• Historic Centre of Telč
• Pilgrimage Church of St John of Nepomuk at Zelená Hora
• Kutná Hora: Historical Town Centre with the Church of St Barbara and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec
• Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
• Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž
• Holašovice Historic Village
• Litomyšl Castle
• Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc
• Tugendhat Villa in Brno
• Jewish Quarter and St Procopius' Basilica in Třebíč
• Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region *
• Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at Kladruby nad Labem
• Žatec and the Landscape of Saaz Hops

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

• Complex of Koguryo Tombs
• Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Virunga National Park #
• Kahuzi-Biega National Park
• Garamba National Park
• Salonga National Park
• Okapi Wildlife Reserve
• Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
• Roskilde Cathedral
• Kronborg Castle
• Ilulissat Icefjord
• Wadden Sea *
• Stevns Klint
• Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement
• The par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
• Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap
• Aasivissuit – Nipisat. Inuit Hunting Ground between Ice and Sea
• Viking-Age Ring Fortresses
• Morne Trois Pitons National Park

Dominican Republic

• Colonial City of Santo Domingo
• City of Quito
• Galápagos Islands
• Sangay National Park #
• Historic Centre of Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
• Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
• Historic Cairo
• Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
• Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
• Saint Catherine Area
• Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)

El Salvador

• Joya de Cerén Archaeological Site
• Asmara: A Modernist African City
• Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
• Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
• Simien National Park
• Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
• Lower Valley of the Awash
• Lower Valley of the Omo
• Harar Jugol, the Fortified Historic Town
• Konso Cultural Landscape
• Bale Mountains National Park
• The Gedeo Cultural Landscape
• Levuka Historical Port Town
• Fortress of Suomenlinna
• Petäjävesi Old Church
• Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
• Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki
• High Coast / Kvarken Archipelago *
• Chartres Cathedral
• Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay
• Palace and Park of Versailles
• Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
• Vézelay, Church and Hill
• Amiens Cathedral
• Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
• Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
• Palace and Park of Fontainebleau
• Roman Theatre and its Surroundings and the "Triumphal Arch" of Orange
• From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt
• Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
• Gulf of Porto: Calanche of Piana, Gulf of Girolata, Scandola Reserve #
• Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy
• Pont du Gard (Roman Aqueduct)
• Strasbourg, Grande-Île and Neustadt
• Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Former Abbey of Saint-Rémi and Palace of Tau, Reims
• Paris, Banks of the Seine
• Bourges Cathedral
• Historic Centre of Avignon: Papal Palace, Episcopal Ensemble and Avignon Bridge
• Canal du Midi
• Historic Fortified City of Carcassonne
• Pyrénées - Mont Perdu *
• Historic Site of Lyon
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
• Belfries of Belgium and France * 9
• Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion
• The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes 10
• Provins, Town of Medieval Fairs
• Le Havre, the City Rebuilt by Auguste Perret
• Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
• Fortifications of Vauban
• Lagoons of New Caledonia: Reef Diversity and Associated Ecosystems
• Episcopal City of Albi
• Pitons, cirques and remparts of Reunion Island
• The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
• Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
• Decorated Cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche
• Champagne Hillsides, Houses and Cellars
• The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy
• Taputapuātea
• Chaîne des Puys - Limagne fault tectonic arena
• French Austral Lands and Seas
• Cordouan Lighthouse
• Nice, Winter Resort Town of the Riviera
• The Maison Carrée of Nîmes
• Volcanoes and Forests of Mount Pelée and the Pitons of Northern Martinique
• Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda
• Ivindo National Park
• Kunta Kinteh Island and Related Sites
• Stone Circles of Senegambia *
• Gelati Monastery
• Historical Monuments of Mtskheta
• Upper Svaneti
• Colchic Rainforests and Wetlands
• Aachen Cathedral
• Speyer Cathedral
• Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square
• Pilgrimage Church of Wies
• Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl
• St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim
• Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 11
• Hanseatic City of Lübeck
• Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
• Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
• Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System #
• Maulbronn Monastery Complex
• Town of Bamberg
• Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
• Völklingen Ironworks
• Messel Pit Fossil Site
• Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau
• Cologne Cathedral
• Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
• Classical Weimar
• Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
• Wartburg Castle
• Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
• Monastic Island of Reichenau
• Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen
• Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar
• Upper Middle Rhine Valley
• Dresden Elbe Valley Delisted 2009
• Muskauer Park / Park Mużakowski *
• Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen
• Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof
• Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
• Fagus Factory in Alfeld
• Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
• Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
• Carolingian Westwork and Civitas Corvey
• Speicherstadt and Kontorhaus District with Chilehaus
• Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
• Archaeological Border complex of Hedeby and the Danevirke
• Naumburg Cathedral
• Water Management System of Augsburg
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Lower German Limes *
• Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
• ShUM Sites of Speyer, Worms and Mainz
• Jewish-Medieval Heritage of Erfurt
• Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions
• Asante Traditional Buildings
• Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
• Acropolis, Athens
• Archaeological Site of Delphi
• Medieval City of Rhodes
• Mount Athos
• Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika
• Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus
• Archaeological Site of Mystras
• Archaeological Site of Olympia
• Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
• Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
• Archaeological Site of Aigai (modern name Vergina)
• Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns
• The Historic Centre (Chorá) with the Monastery of Saint-John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse on the Island of Pátmos
• Old Town of Corfu
• Archaeological Site of Philippi
• Zagori Cultural Landscape
• Antigua Guatemala
• Tikal National Park
• Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua
• National Archaeological Park Tak’alik Ab’aj
• National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 12
• Vatican City
• Maya Site of Copan
• Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve
• Budapest, including the Banks of the Danube, the Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue
• Old Village of Hollókő and its Surroundings
• Caves of Aggtelek Karst and Slovak Karst *
• Millenary Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma and its Natural Environment
• Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
• Early Christian Necropolis of Pécs (Sopianae)
• Tokaj Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape
• Þingvellir National Park
• Vatnajökull National Park - Dynamic Nature of Fire and Ice
• Ajanta Caves
• Ellora Caves
• Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
• Sun Temple, Konârak
• Kaziranga National Park
• Keoladeo National Park
• Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
• Churches and Convents of Goa
• Fatehpur Sikri
• Group of Monuments at Hampi
• Khajuraho Group of Monuments
• Elephanta Caves
• Great Living Chola Temples 13
• Group of Monuments at Pattadakal
• Sundarbans National Park
• Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
• Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi
• Humayun's Tomb, Delhi
• Qutb Minar and its Monuments, Delhi
• Mountain Railways of India
• Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya
• Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
• Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)
• Red Fort Complex
• The Jantar Mantar, Jaipur
• Western Ghats
• Hill Forts of Rajasthan
• Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area
• Rani-ki-Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) at Patan, Gujarat
• Archaeological Site of Nalanda Mahavihara at Nalanda, Bihar
• Khangchendzonga National Park
• Historic City of Ahmadabad
• Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai
• Jaipur City, Rajasthan
• Dholavira: a Harappan City
• Kakatiya Rudreshwara (Ramappa) Temple, Telangana
• Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas
• Santiniketan
• Borobudur Temple Compounds
• Komodo National Park
• Prambanan Temple Compounds
• Ujung Kulon National Park
• Sangiran Early Man Site
• Lorentz National Park
• Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra
• Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy
• Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
• The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta and its Historic Landmarks

Iran (Islamic Republic of)

• Meidan Emam, Esfahan
• Tchogha Zanbil
• Takht-e Soleyman
• Bam and its Cultural Landscape
• Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran
• Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System
• Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil
• Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex
• The Persian Garden
• Gonbad-e Qābus
• Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
• Golestan Palace
• Shahr-i Sokhta
• Cultural Landscape of Maymand
• The Persian Qanat
• Historic City of Yazd
• Sassanid Archaeological Landscape of Fars Region
• Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat
• Trans-Iranian Railway
• The Persian Caravanserai
• Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat)
• Samarra Archaeological City
• Erbil Citadel
• The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities
• Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne
• Sceilg Mhichíl
• Old City of Acre
• White City of Tel-Aviv – the Modern Movement
• Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
• Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev
• Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
• Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
• Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves
• Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of Jewish Renewal
• Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
• Church and Dominican Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie with “The Last Supper” by Leonardo da Vinci
• Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura * 14
• Historic Centre of Florence
• Piazza del Duomo, Pisa
• Venice and its Lagoon
• Historic Centre of San Gimignano
• The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera
• City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto
• Crespi d'Adda
• Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta 15
• Historic Centre of Naples
• Historic Centre of Siena
• Castel del Monte
• Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna
• Historic Centre of the City of Pienza
• The Trulli of Alberobello
• 18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex
• Archaeological Area of Agrigento
• Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
• Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
• Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena
• Costiera Amalfitana
• Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto)
• Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
• Su Nuraxi di Barumini
• Villa Romana del Casale
• Archaeological Area and the Patriarchal Basilica of Aquileia
• Cilento and Vallo di Diano National Park with the Archeological Sites of Paestum and Velia, and the Certosa di Padula
• Historic Centre of Urbino
• Villa Adriana (Tivoli)
• Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
• City of Verona
• Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands)
• Villa d'Este, Tivoli
• Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto (South-Eastern Sicily)
• Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
• Monte San Giorgio *
• Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia
• Val d'Orcia
• Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica
• Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli
• Mantua and Sabbioneta
• Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes *
• The Dolomites
• Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568-774 A.D.)
• Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
• Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato
• Arab-Norman Palermo and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalú and Monreale
• Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century
• Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene
• Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles
• The Porticoes of Bologna
• Evaporitic Karst and Caves of Northern Apennines
• Blue and John Crow Mountains
• Buddhist Monuments in the Horyu-ji Area
• Shirakami-Sanchi
• Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto (Kyoto, Uji and Otsu Cities)
• Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome)
• Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
• Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara
• Shrines and Temples of Nikko
• Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
• Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range
• Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine and its Cultural Landscape
• Hiraizumi – Temples, Gardens and Archaeological Sites Representing the Buddhist Pure Land
• Ogasawara Islands
• Fujisan, sacred place and source of artistic inspiration
• Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
• Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
• Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region
• Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
• Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan
• Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island
• Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

Jerusalem (Site proposed by Jordan)

• Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls
• Quseir Amra
• Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a)
• Wadi Rum Protected Area
• Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas)
• As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality
• Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
• Petroglyphs of the Archaeological Landscape of Tanbaly
• Saryarka – Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan
• Western Tien-Shan *
• Cold Winter Deserts of Turan *
• Lake Turkana National Parks
• Mount Kenya National Park/Natural Forest
• Lamu Old Town
• Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests
• Fort Jesus, Mombasa
• Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley
• Thimlich Ohinga Archaeological Site
• Phoenix Islands Protected Area
• Sulaiman-Too Sacred Mountain

Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Town of Luang Prabang
• Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape
• Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars
• Historic Centre of Riga
• Old town of Kuldīga
• Ouadi Qadisha (the Holy Valley) and the Forest of the Cedars of God (Horsh Arz el-Rab)
• Rachid Karami International Fair-Tripoli
• Maloti-Drakensberg Park *
• Archaeological Site of Cyrene
• Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
• Archaeological Site of Sabratha
• Rock-Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus
• Old Town of Ghadamès
• Vilnius Historic Centre
• Curonian Spit *
• Kernavė Archaeological Site (Cultural Reserve of Kernavė)
• Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939
• City of Luxembourg: its Old Quarters and Fortifications
• Andrefana Dry Forests
• Royal Hill of Ambohimanga
• Rainforests of the Atsinanana
• Lake Malawi National Park
• Chongoni Rock-Art Area
• Gunung Mulu National Park
• Kinabalu Park
• Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca
• Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
• Old Towns of Djenné
• Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons)
• Tomb of Askia
• City of Valletta
• Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
• Megalithic Temples of Malta 16

Marshall Islands

• Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site
• Banc d'Arguin National Park
• Ancient Ksour of Ouadane, Chinguetti, Tichitt and Oualata
• Aapravasi Ghat
• Le Morne Cultural Landscape
• Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco
• Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán
• Historic Centre of Puebla
• Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque
• Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan
• Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines
• Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza
• Historic Centre of Morelia
• El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City
• Historic Centre of Zacatecas
• Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
• Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
• Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl
• Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro
• Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal
• Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
• Archaeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes
• Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan
• Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco
• Historic Fortified Town of Campeche
• Ancient Maya City and Protected Tropical Forests of Calakmul, Campeche
• Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro
• Luis Barragán House and Studio
• Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
• Agave Landscape and Ancient Industrial Facilities of Tequila
• Central University City Campus of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
• Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
• Protective town of San Miguel and the Sanctuary of Jesús Nazareno de Atotonilco
• Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
• Prehistoric Caves of Yagul and Mitla in the Central Valley of Oaxaca
• El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve
• Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque Hydraulic System
• Archipiélago de Revillagigedo
• Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley: originary habitat of Mesoamerica

Micronesia (Federated States of)

• Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia
• Uvs Nuur Basin *
• Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape
• Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
• Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape
• Landscapes of Dauria *
• Deer Stone Monuments and Related Bronze Age Sites
• Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor
• Durmitor National Park
• Medina of Fez
• Medina of Marrakesh
• Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou
• Historic City of Meknes
• Archaeological Site of Volubilis
• Medina of Tétouan (formerly known as Titawin)
• Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)
• Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida)
• Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
• Island of Mozambique
• Pyu Ancient Cities
• Twyfelfontein or /Ui-//aes
• Namib Sand Sea
• Kathmandu Valley
• Sagarmatha National Park
• Chitwan National Park
• Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha

Netherlands (Kingdom of the)

• Schokland and Surroundings
• Dutch Water Defence Lines
• Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour, Curaçao
• Mill Network at Kinderdijk-Elshout
• Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal (D.F. Wouda Steam Pumping Station)
• Droogmakerij de Beemster (Beemster Polder)
• Rietveld Schröderhuis (Rietveld Schröder House)
• Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring Area of Amsterdam inside the Singelgracht
• Van Nellefabriek
• Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker

New Zealand

• Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand 17
• Tongariro National Park #
• New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
• Ruins of León Viejo
• León Cathedral
• Air and Ténéré Natural Reserves
• Historic Centre of Agadez
• Sukur Cultural Landscape
• Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

North Macedonia

• Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region * 18
• Urnes Stave Church
• Røros Mining Town and the Circumference
• Rock Art of Alta
• Vegaøyan – The Vega Archipelago
• West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord
• Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site
• Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
• Arabian Oryx Sanctuary Delisted 2007
• Land of Frankincense
• Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman
• Ancient City of Qalhat
• Archaeological Ruins at Moenjodaro
• Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol
• Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore
• Historical Monuments at Makli, Thatta
• Rohtas Fort
• Rock Islands Southern Lagoon
• Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo
• Darien National Park
• Archaeological Site of Panamá Viejo and Historic District of Panamá
• Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection

Papua New Guinea

• Kuk Early Agricultural Site
• Jesuit Missions of La Santísima Trinidad de Paraná and Jesús de Tavarangue
• City of Cuzco
• Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu
• Chavin (Archaeological Site)
• Huascarán National Park #
• Chan Chan Archaeological Zone
• Manú National Park
• Historic Centre of Lima 19
• Río Abiseo National Park
• Lines and Geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa
• Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
• Sacred City of Caral-Supe
• Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex

Philippines

• Baroque Churches of the Philippines
• Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park
• Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
• Historic City of Vigan
• Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park
• Mount Hamiguitan Range Wildlife Sanctuary
• Historic Centre of Kraków
• Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
• Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945)
• Historic Centre of Warsaw
• Old City of Zamość
• Castle of the Teutonic Order in Malbork
• Medieval Town of Toruń
• Kalwaria Zebrzydowska: the Mannerist Architectural and Park Landscape Complex and Pilgrimage Park
• Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
• Wooden Churches of Southern Małopolska
• Centennial Hall in Wrocław
• Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian Region in Poland and Ukraine *
• Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System
• Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region
• Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroismo in the Azores
• Convent of Christ in Tomar
• Monastery of Batalha
• Monastery of the Hieronymites and Tower of Belém in Lisbon
• Historic Centre of Évora
• Monastery of Alcobaça
• Cultural Landscape of Sintra
• Historic Centre of Oporto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar
• Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 20
• Laurisilva of Madeira
• Alto Douro Wine Region
• Historic Centre of Guimarães and Couros Zone
• Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture
• Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
• University of Coimbra – Alta and Sofia
• Royal Building of Mafra – Palace, Basilica, Convent, Cerco Garden and Hunting Park ( Tapada )
• Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga
• Al Zubarah Archaeological Site

Republic of Korea

• Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon, the Depositories for the Tripitaka Koreana Woodblocks
• Jongmyo Shrine
• Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
• Changdeokgung Palace Complex
• Hwaseong Fortress
• Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites
• Gyeongju Historic Areas
• Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes
• Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
• Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong
• Namhansanseong
• Baekje Historic Areas
• Sansa, Buddhist Mountain Monasteries in Korea
• Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies
• Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats
• Gaya Tumuli

Republic of Moldova

• Danube Delta
• Churches of Moldavia
• Monastery of Horezu
• Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania 21
• Dacian Fortresses of the Orastie Mountains
• Historic Centre of Sighişoara
• Wooden Churches of Maramureş
• Roșia Montană Mining Landscape

Russian Federation

• Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments
• Kizhi Pogost
• Kremlin and Red Square, Moscow
• Cultural and Historic Ensemble of the Solovetsky Islands
• Historic Monuments of Novgorod and Surroundings
• White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
• Architectural Ensemble of the Trinity Sergius Lavra in Sergiev Posad
• Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
• Virgin Komi Forests
• Lake Baikal
• Volcanoes of Kamchatka 22
• Golden Mountains of Altai
• Western Caucasus
• Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery
• Historic and Architectural Complex of the Kazan Kremlin
• Central Sikhote-Alin
• Citadel, Ancient City and Fortress Buildings of Derbent
• Ensemble of the Novodevichy Convent
• Natural System of Wrangel Island Reserve
• Historical Centre of the City of Yaroslavl
• Putorana Plateau
• Lena Pillars Nature Park
• Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex
• Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk
• Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
• Petroglyphs of Lake Onega and the White Sea
• Astronomical Observatories of Kazan Federal University
• Memorial sites of the Genocide: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero
• Nyungwe National Park

Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park

Saint Lucia

• Pitons Management Area
• San Marino Historic Centre and Mount Titano

Saudi Arabia

• Hegra Archaeological Site (al-Hijr / Madā ͐ in Ṣāliḥ)
• At-Turaif District in ad-Dir'iyah
• Historic Jeddah, the Gate to Makkah
• Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia
• Al-Ahsa Oasis, an Evolving Cultural Landscape
• Ḥimā Cultural Area
• ‘Uruq Bani Ma’arid
• Island of Gorée
• Niokolo-Koba National Park
• Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary
• Island of Saint-Louis
• Saloum Delta
• Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
• Stari Ras and Sopoćani
• Studenica Monastery
• Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
• Gamzigrad-Romuliana, Palace of Galerius
• Aldabra Atoll
• Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve
• Singapore Botanic Gardens
• Historic Town of Banská Štiavnica and the Technical Monuments in its Vicinity
• Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments
• Bardejov Town Conservation Reserve
• Wooden Churches of the Slovak part of the Carpathian Mountain Area
• Škocjan Caves #
• Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija *
• The works of Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana – Human Centred Urban Design

Solomon Islands

• East Rennell

South Africa

• Fossil Hominid Sites of South Africa
• iSimangaliso Wetland Park
• Robben Island
• Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
• Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
• Vredefort Dome
• Richtersveld Cultural and Botanical Landscape
• ǂKhomani Cultural Landscape
• Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains
• Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada 23
• Burgos Cathedral
• Historic Centre of Cordoba 24
• Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid
• Works of Antoni Gaudí 25
• Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
• Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias 26
• Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
• Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct
• Santiago de Compostela (Old Town)
• Garajonay National Park
• Historic City of Toledo
• Mudejar Architecture of Aragon 27
• Old Town of Cáceres
• Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville
• Old City of Salamanca
• Poblet Monastery
• Archaeological Ensemble of Mérida
• Routes of Santiago de Compostela: Camino Francés and Routes of Northern Spain
• Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
• Doñana National Park
• Historic Walled Town of Cuenca
• La Lonja de la Seda de Valencia
• Las Médulas
• Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona
• San Millán Yuso and Suso Monasteries
• Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde * 28
• Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
• University and Historic Precinct of Alcalá de Henares
• Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture
• San Cristóbal de La Laguna
• Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco
• Archaeological Site of Atapuerca
• Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí
• Palmeral of Elche
• Roman Walls of Lugo 29
• Aranjuez Cultural Landscape
• Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza
• Vizcaya Bridge
• Teide National Park
• Tower of Hercules
• Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana
• Antequera Dolmens Site
• Caliphate City of Medina Azahara
• Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape
• Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro, a landscape of Arts and Sciences
• Prehistoric Sites of Talayotic Menorca
• Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
• Ancient City of Sigiriya
• Sacred City of Anuradhapura
• Old Town of Galle and its Fortifications
• Sacred City of Kandy
• Sinharaja Forest Reserve 30
• Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
• Central Highlands of Sri Lanka

State of Palestine

• Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
• Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines – Cultural Landscape of Southern Jerusalem, Battir
• Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town
• Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan
• Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region
• Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe
• Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park
• Central Suriname Nature Reserve
• Historic Inner City of Paramaribo
• Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery
• Royal Domain of Drottningholm
• Birka and Hovgården
• Engelsberg Ironworks
• Rock Carvings in Tanum
• Skogskyrkogården
• Hanseatic Town of Visby
• Church Town of Gammelstad, Luleå
• Laponian Area
• Naval Port of Karlskrona
• Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland
• Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun
• Grimeton Radio Station, Varberg
• Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland

Switzerland

• Abbey of St Gall
• Benedictine Convent of St John at Müstair
• Old City of Berne
• Three Castles, Defensive Wall and Ramparts of the Market-Town of Bellinzona
• Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
• Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces
• Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
• La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning

Syrian Arab Republic

• Ancient City of Damascus
• Ancient City of Bosra
• Site of Palmyra
• Ancient City of Aleppo
• Crac des Chevaliers and Qal’at Salah El-Din
• Ancient Villages of Northern Syria
• Proto-urban Site of Sarazm
• Tajik National Park (Mountains of the Pamirs)
• Silk Roads: Zarafshan-Karakum Corridor *
• Tugay forests of the Tigrovaya Balka Nature Reserve
• Historic City of Ayutthaya
• Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns
• Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries
• Ban Chiang Archaeological Site
• Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest Complex
• Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex
• The Ancient Town of Si Thep and its Associated Dvaravati Monuments
• Amphitheatre of El Jem
• Archaeological Site of Carthage
• Medina of Tunis
• Ichkeul National Park
• Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis
• Medina of Sousse
• Dougga / Thugga
• Djerba: Testimony to a settlement pattern in an island territory
• Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
• Great Mosque and Hospital of Divriği
• Historic Areas of Istanbul
• Hattusha: the Hittite Capital
• Hierapolis-Pamukkale
• Xanthos-Letoon
• City of Safranbolu
• Archaeological Site of Troy
• Selimiye Mosque and its Social Complex
• Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
• Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire
• Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape
• Diyarbakır Fortress and Hevsel Gardens Cultural Landscape
• Archaeological Site of Ani
• Aphrodisias
• Göbekli Tepe
• Arslantepe Mound
• Wooden Hypostyle Mosques of Medieval Anatolia

Turkmenistan

• State Historical and Cultural Park “Ancient Merv”
• Kunya-Urgench
• Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
• Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
• Rwenzori Mountains National Park
• Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi
• Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra
• L'viv – the Ensemble of the Historic Centre
• Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
• Ancient City of Tauric Chersonese and its Chora
• The Historic Centre of Odesa

United Arab Emirates

• Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

• Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
• Durham Castle and Cathedral
• Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast
• Ironbridge Gorge
• Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites
• Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey
• Blenheim Palace
• City of Bath
• Frontiers of the Roman Empire * 31
• Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret’s Church
• Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church
• Henderson Island
• Tower of London
• Gough and Inaccessible Islands 32
• Old and New Towns of Edinburgh
• Maritime Greenwich
• Heart of Neolithic Orkney
• Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
• Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda
• Derwent Valley Mills
• Dorset and East Devon Coast
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City Delisted 2021
• Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape
• Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal
• The Forth Bridge
• Gorham's Cave Complex
• The English Lake District
• Jodrell Bank Observatory
• The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales

United Republic of Tanzania

• Ngorongoro Conservation Area 33
• Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
• Serengeti National Park
• Selous Game Reserve
• Kilimanjaro National Park
• Stone Town of Zanzibar
• Kondoa Rock-Art Sites

United States of America

• Mesa Verde National Park
• Yellowstone National Park
• Everglades National Park
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Independence Hall
• Kluane / Wrangell-St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek # * 34
• Redwood National and State Parks
• Mammoth Cave National Park
• Olympic National Park
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
• Statue of Liberty
• Yosemite National Park #
• Chaco Culture
• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park #
• Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
• Taos Pueblo
• Carlsbad Caverns National Park
• Papahānaumokuākea
• Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point
• San Antonio Missions
• The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
• Historic Quarter of the City of Colonia del Sacramento
• Fray Bentos Industrial Landscape
• The work of engineer Eladio Dieste: Church of Atlántida
• Itchan Kala
• Historic Centre of Bukhara
• Historic Centre of Shakhrisyabz
• Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures
• Chief Roi Mata’s Domain

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

• Coro and its Port
• Canaima National Park
• Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
• Complex of Hué Monuments
• Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago
• Hoi An Ancient Town
• My Son Sanctuary
• Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park
• Central Sector of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long - Hanoi
• Citadel of the Ho Dynasty
• Trang An Landscape Complex
• Old Walled City of Shibam
• Old City of Sana'a
• Historic Town of Zabid
• Socotra Archipelago
• Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib
• Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls # *
• Mana Pools National Park, Sapi and Chewore Safari Areas
• Great Zimbabwe National Monument
• Khami Ruins National Monument
• Matobo Hills

In 1979, the Committee decided to inscribe the Ohrid Lake on the World Heritage List under natural criteria (iii). In 1980, this property was extended to include the cultural and historical area, and cultural criteria (i)(iii)(iv) were added.

Extension of the "Australian East Coast Temperate and Subtropical Rainforest Park".

name changed 2007 from 'Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves (Australia)'

Renomination of "Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park" under cultural criteria.

The “Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia” which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the transnational property “The Belfries of Belgium and France”.

Extension of "Jaú National Park".

Extension of the "Glacier Bay/Wrangell/St Elias/Kluane" property.

The "Burgess Shale" property, which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks".

Extension of "The Potala Palace and the Jokhang Temple Monastery, Lhasa" to include the Norbulingka area.

The "Chateau and Estate of Chambord", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes".

The “Hadrian’s Wall” which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the transnational property “Frontiers of the Roman Empire”.

At the time the property was extended, cultural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

The "Brihadisvara Temple, Tanjavur", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Great Living Chola Temples".

At the time the property was extended, criteria (iii) and (v) were also found applicable.

The Committee decided to extend the existing cultural property, the "Temple of Ggantija", to include the five prehistoric temples situated on the islands of Malta and Gozo and to rename the property as "The Megalithic Temples of Malta".

The Westland and Mount Cook National Park and the Fiordland National Park, which were previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, are part of the "Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand".

The "Convent Ensemble of San Francisco de Lima", which was previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the "Historic Centre of Lima".

Extension de « Sites d'art rupestre préhistorique de la vallée de Côa », Portugal

Extension of "Biertan and its Fortified Church".

At the time the property was extended, natural criterion (iv) was also found applicable.

Extension of the "Alhambra and the Generalife, Granada", to include the Albayzin quarter.

Extension of the "Mosque of Cordoba".

The property “Parque Güell, Palacio Güell and Casa Mila in Barcelona”, previously inscribed on the World Heritage List, is part of the “Works of Antoni Gaudí”.

Extension of the "Churches of the Kingdom of the Asturias", to include monuments in the city of Oviedo.

Extension of the "Mudejar Architecture of Teruel".

Following a survey of ownership carried out in the late 1960s, ownership of the totality of the walls was vested in 1973 in the Spanish State, through the Ministry of Education and Science. It was transferred to the Xunta de Galicia by Royal Decree in 1994.

 The Spanish Constitution reserves certain rights in relation to the heritage to the central government. However, these are delegated to the competent agencies in the Autonomous Communities, in this case the Xunta de Galicia. For the Lugo walls the Xunta is in the position of both owner and competent agency. Under the Galician Heritage Law the Xunta is required to cooperate with the municipal authorities in ensuring the protection and conservation of listed monuments, and certain functions are delegated down to them. The Xunta operates through its General Directorate of Cultural Heritage (Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural), based in Santiago de Compostela.

The Master Plan for the Conservation and Restoration of the Roman Walls of Lugo (1992) covered proposals for actions to be taken in respect of research and techniques of restoration. This was followed in 1997 by the Special Plan for the Protection and Internal Reform of the Fortified Enceinte of the Town of Lugo, which is concerned principally with the urban environment of the historic town. However, it has a direct impact on the protection afforded to the walls, in terms of traffic planning, the creation of open spaces, and regulation of building heights. Another planning instrument which affects the walls is the Special Plan for the Protection of the Miño [river], approved by the municipality at the beginning of 1998.

There is at the present time no management plan sensu stricto for the walls in operation in Lugo: work is continuing on the basis of the 1992 plan. Nor is there a technical unit specifically responsible for the conservation and restoration of the walls. It is against this background that serious consideration is being given to the creation of an independent foundation, under royal patronage and with representatives from government, academic, voluntary, and business institutions, to work with the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of Galicia. The work plan of this body would include the development and implementation of integrated conservation, restoration, and maintenance programmes.

The WH area is managed directly by the Divisional Forest Officer from the Forest Dept. A national steering Committee co-ordinates institutions for Sinharaja as a National Wilderness Area, Biosphere Reserve (1988), and WH site. There are two management plans, prepared in 1985/86 and 1992/94, which emphasise conservation, scientific research, buffer zone management, benefit-sharing, and community participation.

Extension of "Gough Island Wildlife Reserve".

(renomination under cultural criteria)

*: transboundary property

# : As for 19 Natural and Mixed Properties inscribed for geological values before 1994, criteria numbering of this property has changed. See Decision 30.COM 8D.1

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Finding pride in your child's birth culture is both important for your family and your child.  Our heritage programs are available to support your family into creating connections with your child's birth culture.

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Korea heritage tours.

Dillon has been honored to have some amazing Korea Tour leaders over the years enhancing the personal experience of participants. This past summer, Dukkyung Um, and Katie Speicher spent a month in Korea helping over 60 tour participants navigate travel, receive a rich experience of the Korean culture, and provide a safe space to process with people who understand the complexities of an adoption-related tour. Dukkyung and Katie are considering moving forward with creating future tours for adoptees and adoptive families.

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Bridge to Korea Birthland Tours: https://www.adopteebridge.org/bridge-to-korea-birthland-tours

Me and Korea: https://meandkorea.org/

Holt International: https://www.holtinternational.org/travel/

Adoptive Family Travel: https://www.adoptivefamilytravel.com/asia/korea

Asia Families: https://www.asiafamilies.org/korea-tour

Children’s Home Society of Minnesota: https://chlss.org/tourkorea/

Seoul Sisters Tours: https://www.seoulsisterstours.com/adoptee--family-tours.html

Barker Adoption Foundation: https://www.barkeradoptionfoundation.org/adoption-services/family-post-adoption-services/korea-homeland-tour

China Heritage Tours

China Educational Tours: https://www.chinaeducationaltours.com/tour/china-heritage-tour.htm

Adoptive Family Travel: https://www.adoptivefamilytravel.com/asia/china

Legacy Journey: https://www.legacyjourney.org/

Lotus Travel: http://www.lotustours.net/travel/for_American.html

The Park: https://theparkcommunity.org/heritagetours/

Motherland Travel: https://motherlandtravel.com/heritage-journeys/china-heritage-journey/

Barker Adoption Foundation: https://www.barkeradoptionfoundation.org/barker-homeland-tour

Guatemala Heritage Tours

Adoptive Family Travel: https://www.adoptivefamilytravel.com/latin-america/guatemala

Our Guatemalal: https://www.facebook.com/p/Our-Guatemala-Travel-with-Purpose-100054482769057/

India Heritage Tours

Adoptive Family Travel: https://www.adoptivefamilytravel.com/asia/india

Catalyst Foundation: https://catalystfoundation.org/cultural-tour/#:~:text=Catalyst%20Foundation's%20%E2%80%9CVietnam%20Cultural%20Tour,Catalyst%20Foundation%20Vietnam%20Culture%20Camp.

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Lotus Tours: http://www.lotustours.net/travel/heritage/vietnam/VietnamTour1A.shtml

Motherland Travel: https://motherlandtravel.com/vietnam/

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We offer trips for adult adoptees as well as trips for the whole family, including children as young as 10. Read about our annual tours to Korea, China and Mongolia.

China Heritage Tour

On Holt’s annual heritage tour of China, adoptees and their families have the opportunity to experience the culture, customs and history of China as presented by the local people. They get to see everyday life in China, from big cities to rural villages, and participate in cultural activities. They visit a number of famous Chinese tourist sites such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, the Terracotta Warriors and the mountains of Guilin. From local experts, they learn about adoption, orphanages and child welfare in China. Whenever possible, adoptees also have a chance to visit their former orphanage, foster family and/or sites significant to their adoption story and meet people who touched their early lives before they joined their adoptive families. The China tour is open to families of children adopted from any province and through any agency.

Korea Heritage Tour

From Seoul to Gyeongju, Busan and Jeju Island, tour participants experience Korea together as they visit national and historic sites, and learn about Korea’s rich cultural heritage. This tour typically includes visits to the Korean Folk Village, Seoul Tower, DMZ, the fish market in Busan, Mt. Hallasan in Jeju, and much more. Tour participants also visit Holt sponsor and donor-supported programs such as the Ilsan Center for children and adults with special needs, a children’s care center, and a shelter for single mothers and their children. This tour is open to all Korean adoptees and adoptive families, whether or not their placing agency was Holt. Adoptees of all ages are able to visit their birth city or orphanage. If an adoptee lived in foster care in Seoul before joining their adoptive family, we also try to arrange a meeting with their former foster family. Adoptees ages 13 and older are able to review their adoption file with a Holt Korea social worker and discuss any questions they have about their roots. And for adult adoptees, ages 19 and older, we can also initiate a birth family search.

Mongolia Heritage Tour

In 2017, adoptees and their families traveled on Holt’s first heritage tour of Mongolia. Designed to be both a personal as well as a shared experience for adoptees, this tour gives adoptees and their loved ones the opportunity, if possible, to visit their orphanages, the locations where they were found, and to meet individuals who may have cared for them before they joined their adoptive families in the U.S. Together, the tour participants learn about the amazing history and rich cultural heritage of this remarkable nation. They travel outside of Ulaanbaatar, ride camels and horses, visit historic sites and spend the night under the stars sleeping in traditional Mongolian homes called gers .

Vision Trips

These trips are open to anyone with an interest in Holt and a passion to serve children.

Korea Gift Team Tour

Every year, Holt’s Korea Gift Team travels to Korea to help create a magical, joyous Christmas for a special group of children, plus residents with disabilities at the Ilsan Center! On this special tour, you will also get the opportunity to explore Holt’s history and see Holt’s vision in action – through parties at Ilsan and the Jeonju Babies’ Home, as well as a visit to an unwed mothers’ shelter, and a ceremony to honor foster mothers.

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Mongolia Vision Trip

Join us on a special journey to Mongolia to experience the culture and visit children and families in Holt’s Mongolia programs. You’ll interact with children at the Red Stone school, visit a Holt-supported orphanage, and meet a family who has received a ger home thanks to Holt supporters like you. View the itinerary and learn how to register for this incredible opportunity.

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The tournament in south carolina was suspended at 4.28 p.m et, with scottie scheffler at the top of the leaderboard. play resumed at 7 p.m..

The RBC Heritage was suspended in the final round on Sunday, April 21, due to risk of lightning. The players were called off the course at 4.28 p.m. ET as the rain continued to lash down, with the precipitation having started around 4 p.m. Play resumed at 7 p.m.

While the rains were heavy, the PGA Tour’s representative Mark Dusbabek said the suspension was for the risk of lightning, not because of the rain itself.

All the grandstands were closed, along with concessions and services within temporary structures.

Play resumes at 8 a.m. Monday

Play resumed at 7 p.m. ET but was quickly called for the day as night fell. Play will continue on Monday at 8 am ET.

Round 4 of the RBC Heritage has been suspended due to darkness and will resume tomorrow at 8am ET. The course will be closed to fans on Monday due to the limited time of play and safety concerns. We appreciate your understanding. pic.twitter.com/pbsPsde0si — RBC Heritage (@RBC_Heritage) April 22, 2024

Initially the plan was to resume play at 6 p.m. ET, however with there still being a risk of lightning the PGA Tour updated that to say that play would NOT resume at 6 p.m. ET, pushing it back to 7 p.m. Once play resumed, it was soon determined that the poor light conditions would be unsafe so play was ended for the day and will resume at 8 am ET on Monday.

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Leaderboard at the RBC Heritage

Scottie Scheffler, leading at 20 under, had just finished the 15th when play was ended for the day.

Four players were tied for second at 15 under at that point.

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Cambodia’s relocation of people from UNESCO site raises concerns

Chhem Hay, 37, stands at a main door of her house under construction at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. She decided last June to take the opportunity to move from the village where she’d lived since she was a young teenager to the new settlement. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Tourists visit Bayon temple at Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The Angkor site is one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, spread across some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) in northwestern Cambodia. It contains the ruins of Khmer Empire capitals from the 9th to 15th centuries, including the temple of Angkor Wat, featured on several Cambodian banknotes, such as the 2,000 riel note depicting rice farmers working fields around the temple, as well as the country’s flag. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Yun Chantha, 40, right, and his wife Yem Srey Pin, 35, left, stand at their home in Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia on April 2, 2024. It’s been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia’s Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A view of Bayon temple at Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Tuesday, April 2, 2024. The Angkor site is one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, spread across some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) in northwestern Cambodia. It contains the ruins of Khmer Empire capitals from the 9th to 15th centuries, including the temple of Angkor Wat, featured on several Cambodian banknotes, such as the 2,000 riel note depicting rice farmers working fields around the temple, as well as the country’s flag. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Boys, who are among the families relocated from Cambodia’s archaeological site, ride bicycle at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Yem Sam-eng, 43, who is among the families relocated from Cambodia’s archaeological site, takes his cow for drinking water in a jar behind his new home at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Children of Yem Srey Pin who moved from Cambodia’s Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site, sit on the ground at their home in Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Long Kosal, spokesperson for APSARA, the Cambodian office that oversees the Angkor archaeological site, speaks to The Associated Press at his office in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 1, 2024. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Chhem Hay, 37, pumps water behind her home at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. She decided last June to take the opportunity to move from the village where she’d lived since she was a young teenager to the new settlement. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Kheang Pichphanith, 24, who is among the families relocated from Cambodia’s archaeological site, sits next to her one-month-old twin babies at her home in Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. Cambodia’s program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they’re doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — It’s been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia’s Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away.

A tattered Cambodian flag flaps gently in the scorching midday sun on her corner lot, its depiction of the Angkor Wat temple barely still visible, while her brother scoops water from a clay cistern onto a neighbor’s cow that he tends during the day.

Hers is one of about 5,000 families relocated from the sprawling archaeological site, one of Southeast Asia’s top tourist draws, by Cambodian authorities in an ongoing program that Amnesty International has condemned as a “gross violation of international human rights law.” Another 5,000 families are still due to be moved.

The allegations have drawn strong expressions of concern from UNESCO and a spirited rebuttal from Cambodian authorities , who say they’re doing nothing more than protecting the heritage land from illegal squatters.

Yem Srey Pin’s single-room home, its reused corrugated steel siding perforated by rust and old nail holes, is a far cry better than the makeshift tent she lived in with her husband and five children when they first arrived, which did little to protect from the monsoon rains and blew down in the winds.

And their 600-square-meter (6,500-square-foot) property is significantly bigger than the 90-square-meter (1,000-square-foot) plot they occupied illegally in the village of Khvean on the Angkor site.

But the 35-year-old is also in debt from building the new house. Her husband finds less construction work nearby and his wages are lower, and there are no wild fruits or vegetables she can forage, nor rice paddies where she can collect crabs to sell at her mother’s stand.

“After more than a year here I haven’t been able to save any money and I haven’t earned anything,” she said, as her 12-year-old son rocked her 8-month-old daughter in a hammock in front of a fan to take the edge off midday heat nearing 40 degrees Celsius (topping 100 degrees Fahrenheit).

“Living here is just hand to mouth because the income we do have goes to pay for the rice, food and my children’s school.”

The Angkor site is one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, spread across some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) in northwestern Cambodia. It contains the ruins of Khmer Empire capitals from the 9th to 15th centuries, including the temple of Angkor Wat, featured on several Cambodian banknotes, such as the 2,000 riel note depicting rice farmers working fields around the temple, as well as the country’s flag.

UNESCO calls it one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, and it is critical to Cambodia’s tourism industry.

When it was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1992, it was named a “living heritage site” whose local population observed ancestral traditions and cultural practices that have disappeared elsewhere.

Still, UNESCO at the time noted that Angkor was under “dual pressures” from some 100,000 inhabitants in 112 historic settlements who “constantly try to expand their dwelling areas,” and from encroachment from the nearby town of Siem Reap.

Cambodia’s answer was a plan to entice the 10,000 families illegally squatting in the area to resettle at Run Ta Ek and another site, as well as to encourage some from the 112 historic settlements to relocate as their families grow in size.

“People got married, they had children, so the number of people were on the rise, including those coming illegally,” said Long Kosal, deputy director general and spokesperson for the Cambodian agency known as APSARA that’s responsible for managing the Angkor site .

“What we did was that we provided an option.”

Cambodia began moving people to Run Ta Ek in 2022, giving those who volunteered to leave their homes in the Angkor area plots of land, a two-month supply of canned food and rice, a tarp and 30 sheets of corrugated metal to use to build a home. Benefits also included a Poor Card, essentially a state welfare program giving them around 310,000 riel (about $75) monthly for 10 years.

In a November report, Amnesty questioned how voluntary the relocations actually were, saying many people they interviewed were threatened or coerced into moving and that the relocations were more “forced evictions in disguise.”

The rights group cited a speech from former Prime Minister Hun Sen in which he said people “must either leave the Angkor site soon and receive some form of compensation or be evicted at a later time and receive nothing.”

Amnesty also noted Hun Sen’s track record, saying that under his long-time rule Cambodian authorities had been responsible for several forced evictions elsewhere that it alleged “constituted gross violations of human rights.” It said Run Ta Ek — with dirt roads, insufficient drainage, poor sanitation and other issues — did not fulfil international obligations under human rights treaties to provide people adequate housing.

That has now changed: Homes with outhouses have been built, roads paved, and sewers installed. Primitive hand pumps made of blue PVC piping provide water, and electricity has been run in.

There’s a school, a health center, a temple; bus routes were added, and a market area was built but is not yet operating, Long Kosal said.

Hun Sen’s successor, his son Hun Manet , traveled to Run Ta Ek in December to meet with residents and highlight infrastructure improvements in an attempt to allay the growing international concerns surrounding Cambodia’s most important tourist site .

Tourists visit Bayon temple at Angkor Wat temple complex in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

He reiterated his father’s contention that if the squatters are not removed, the site risks being delisted by UNESCO — something UNESCO has never threatened.

Amnesty itself concedes life has gotten better for the residents of Run Ta Ek, but maintains there are major concerns.

Families have had to take on heavy debt to build even their basic houses, there is little work to be found, and the village — without any significant tree cover — is swelteringly hot during the day and has little shelter from winds or monsoon rains, said Montse Ferrer, the head of Amnesty’s research team investigating the Angkor Wat resettlements.

“People no longer have income,” she said in an interview in Geneva. “They had a clear source of income at the time — tourism — but also other sources of income linked to the location at Angkor. They are now at least 30 minutes away from the site and can no longer access these sources.”

Following Amnesty’s scathing report, UNESCO moved up the timeline for Cambodia’s submission of its own report on the state of conservation at the Angkor site, specifically asking for the allegations to be addressed.

In that report, submitted to UNESCO in March, Cambodia said it had not violated any international laws with the relocations, saying it was only moving people involved in the “illegal occupation of heritage land” and that in Run Ta Ek many were now property owners for the first time in their lives.

UNESCO said it would not comment on the situation until it has been able to analyze Cambodia’s response, but referred The Associated Press to previous comments from Lazare Eloundou Assomo, director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center.

Speaking after Amnesty released its report, he stressed the agency had “always categorically rejected the use of forced evictions as a tool for management of World Heritage listed sites.”

“Since the Cambodian authorities announced their population relocation program in 2022, UNESCO has repeatedly and publicly recalled the importance of full respect for human rights,” he said.

Ferrer said Cambodia’s response avoids addressing many of the issues raised by Amnesty, and that UNESCO — even though it says it has little ability to change national policies — has not yet used the significant leverage it does have.

“They could decide that the site is in danger, which they haven’t. They can advise the World Heritage Committee, which is the ultimate body that can decide to take specific action against the state of Cambodia,” she said. “It can also conduct its own investigation and make public recommendations about what the state can be doing.”

Run Ta Ek resident Chhem Hay decided in June to take the opportunity to move from the village where she’d lived since she was a young teenager to the new settlement, enticed by the prospect of owning her own land, and a larger property than she’d ever had.

Her situation has improved since the austere early days living with her husband and teenage daughter in a tent on a dirt lot surviving on rice and prahok — a fermented fish paste that is an inexpensive staple for many Cambodians — paid for by charity handouts from Buddhist monks.

“I didn’t dare eat anything much,” she said. “I tried to save money to buy bricks and sand.”

She was able to get a bank loan for $1,000 for the materials for a house, and now lives in a single-room brick structure built by her construction-worker husband and other family.

The income from the government Poor Card is enough for the monthly payments on the high-interest 2-year loan, which will have cost her almost double the principle when it’s paid off. She has four chickens and some newly hatched chicks, though had to kill six others to feed the men building her house.

But the 37-year-old lost her work as a garbage collector in her village, and her husband has to drive in to Siem Reap for construction work, setting out at 5 a.m. to make it on time and spending about a third of his 35,000 riel ($8.70) daily income on gas for his motorbike.

She’s looking forward to the day when the village market is opened, and hopes the government will establish a factory or similar business that will provide jobs.

“I don’t know what will happen at the moment,” she said, standing in her doorway. “I’m just living day by day.”

For residents like Chhem Hay, Cambodia plans to offer vocational training, but does not envision further financial compensation, Long Kosal said.

“Once you have education, once you have a vocational skill, you can find a job easily,” he said. “Where you just remain there waiting for support, then you’re not going to go anywhere. You’re not going to make it.”

Meanwhile, villagers say many have already given up on Run Ta Ek, putting padlocks on their new homes and moving away — presumably back closer to Siem Reap and the Angkor site where it is easier to make a living.

Yem Srey Pin said even though Run Ta Ek has slowly improved since she arrived in February 2023, and her new home will be paid off fairly soon, she’d rather return to her village if it were possible.

But the village of Khvean is already slowly being reclaimed by the jungle, with grass growing through the foundations of houses, all that remains of the former homes. A hair curler, tattered blue playing cards and a trampled baseball cap lying on the ground are among the last vestiges of the lives left behind.

With almost all of the village’s 400 families moving out, aside from a few who work at a neighboring military facility, Yem Srey Pin says there’s nothing left for her there, even if APSARA would let her return.

“I can’t live in my old village alone,” she said.

Associated Press writer Jamey Keaten contributed to this report from Geneva.

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Anthony Albanese has challenged Peter Dutton to finally outline where the Liberals would plan to build nuclear power stations, after the opposition leader said yesterday that the long-awaited unveiling of their alternative energy policy may be delayed.

Dutton and the Coalition have repeatedly raised expectations that they would detail their nuclear alternative around the May budget. But the opposition leader said on Insiders yesterday that the events of the recent Sydney stabbings had “meant that part of our programme couldn’t be rolled out” and “we’ll announce it in due course”.

Reports this morning in the Nine newspapers indicate there may be tension inside the Coalition partyroom on locking in the locations for the power stations.

Albanese said the Liberals should say “who will fund them, what’s the timeframe, and what they’ll do to fill in the gap that will be there with the closure of coal fired power plants, which is scheduled regardless of who’s in power, in coming years”.

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PM says it is ‘extraordinary’ X not complying with takedown order

Anthony Albanese says it is “extraordinary” that X, formerly known as Twitter, did not comply with orders from the eSafety Commissioner to take down footage of the Wakeley church stabbing.

Elon Musk ’s platform said over the weekend that Australia “does not have the authority to dictate what content X’s users can see globally”, claiming it would challenge the order in court. Musk himself criticised eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant as the “Australian censorship commissar”.

In a press conference in Mackay, Albanese has claimed “the pain of many people has been exacerbated by what occurred on social media” after the recent Sydney stabbings.

Social media has a social responsibility. In addition to that, of course, we know some of the misinformation, including naming some innocent bloke as the perpetrator, is just extraordinary, that that occurred and that that was replicated. We need to recognise that, and social media has a responsibility. By and large, people responded appropriately to the calls by the eSafety Commission. X chose not to. I find it extraordinary X chose not to comply, and are trying to argue their case. We know, I think overwhelmingly, Australians want misinformation and disinformation to stop. This isn’t about freedom of expression. This is about the dangerous implications that can occur when things that are simply not true, that everyone knows is not true, are replicated and weaponised in order to cause division, and in this case, to promote negative statements.

Musk an ‘egotistical billionaire’ for ignoring X takedown requests: Plibersek

Labor’s frontbench are coming out in full force against X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk , after he accused Australia’s online safety watchdog of being a “censorship commissar” for ordering the social media company to take down graphic footage of a stabbing attack at a Sydney church.

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek , is the latest minister to have a dig at the tech billionaire, calling him “egotistical” for ignoring Australia’s lawful request to take the violent imagery off the site.

Plibersek accused Musk of caring more about getting his way rather than extending respect to victims of the crime on Sunrise this morning:

It just beggars belief, really, doesn’t it, that this guy, this egotistical billionaire, thinks that it’s more important for him to be able to show whatever he wants on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it today, it’s more important for him to have his way than to respect the victims of the crimes that are being shown on social media and to protect our Australian community from the harmful impact of showing this terrible stuff on social media … We need to keep Australians safe from this terrible stuff on social media. And Elon Musk doesn’t dictate to the Australian government what we are doing here domestically with our laws.

Chalmers expects funding for western Sydney to ‘continue to grow’

Jim Chalmers also responded to accusations the government was abandoning western Sydney on infrastructure. The front page of today’s Daily Telegraph said Labor was defunding upgrades for roads which are crucial to the success of western Sydney’s international airport.

Chalmers said western Sydney would be a “big priority in the budget”, with $14bn already spent there:

That’s more than the Liberals and Nationals did and we expect that investment to continue to grow. Funding for infrastructure in NSW went up by around $1.3bn in Myefo, and one of the reasons why we want to get the budget in much better nick is so that we can afford to invest in really important parts of Australia like western Sydney. I’m a huge believer in western Sydney. I think western Sydney is, in many ways, the hope … when it comes to the way [that] we want to build an economy that delivers for more people, and you should expect to see that reflected in the decisions that we take in the budget.

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