UNESCO and its Advisory Bodies, ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN, have launched the first field pilot of the Climate Action Toolkit for World Heritage (CAT) in the West Norwegian Fjords – Geirangerfjord and ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre honors the memory of the Grand Imam of the Djingareyber Mosque in Timbuktu, Abderahamane Ben ...

Celebrated on 11 December, International Mountain Day reminds us of the essential role mountains play in sustaining life.

After seventeen years of grassroots youth activities and international cooperation, the World Heritage Volunteers (WHV) ...

UNESCO expresses strong concern over the renewed tensions between Cambodia and Thailand, including in the vicinity of the Preah Vihear Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site. UNESCO calls for urgent ...

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Situated at the heart of the city of Singapore, the site demonstrates the evolution of a British tropical colonial botanic garden that has become a modern world-class scientific institution used for ...

The Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas, contains an exceptional assemblage of cave art, executed between 13,000 and 9,500 years ago. It takes its name (Cave of the Hands) from the stencilled outlines of ...

Nice, located on the Mediterranean, at the foot of the Alps, near the Italian border, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, reflects the development of a city devoted to winter tourism, making the ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of ...

This special issue of World Heritage is about interlinkages between nature and culture. One of the defining characteristics of the World Heritage Convention is that the governance of both natural and ...