UNESCO World Heritage Sites are places of ‘outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity’.
The first list of just 12 sites was compiled by UNESCO in 1978. This has now expanded to 1007 sites, comprising 779 cultural, 197 natural, and 31 mixed properties.
Many of these sites have been included in articles on this website:
British Isles
• UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the UK
• Albert Dock, Liverpool, England
• Edinburgh Old Town and New Town, Scotland
• Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, England
Rest of Europe
• Agrigento, Sicily
• Budapest, Hungary
• Burgos Cathedral, Spain
• Catania, Sicily
• Český Krumlov, Czech Republic
• Gracanica Monastery, Kosovo
• Ggantija Temples, Gozo, Malta
• Koblenz and the Upper Middle Rhine Valley
• Kutná Hora, Czech Republic
• Mont Saint-Michel, France
• Mt Etna, Sicily
• Pompeii and Herculaneum, Italy
• Syracuse, Sicily
• Villa del Casale, Sicily
• Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Italy
Rest of the World
• Changdeokgung Palace, South Korea
• Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay
• Île de Gorée, Senegal
• Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa
• Lima, Peru
• Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, India
• Levuka, Fiji
