Human activity, Cultural landscape

Alto Douro
Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro region for some 2000 years. Since the 18th century its main product, port wine, has been world famous for its quality.
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Ambohimanga
Ambohimanga is an archeological site that contains a ruined city, burial sites, and assorted sacred places.
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Aranjuez
The Palacio Real de Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain, one of the Spanish royal sites. It is located in Aranjuez (province of Madrid).
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Bam Cultural Landscape
The ancient citadel of Arg-é Bam probably has a history dating back around 2000 years ago, to the Parthian dynasty (248 BC-224 AD), but most buildings were built during the Safavid dynasty.
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Bamiyan Valley
The kingdom of Bamiyan was a Buddhist state positioned at a strategic location along the trade routes that for centuries linked China and Central Asia with India and the west.
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon town owes its existence to the early production of iron and coal in its mines and ironworks.
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Cilento and Vallo di Diano
The Cilento is a cultural landscape that has blossomed in prehistoric times and the Middle Ages. Because of its geographical location, it played an important role in Mediterranean trade, culture and politics.
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Cliff of Bandiagara
It was inscribed both for natural and cultural reasons, as the Unesco-report rates the exceptional combinations of natural and cultural elements.
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Costiera Amalfitana
The Amalfi Coast has been put on the list because it is recognized as a landscape with exceptional cultural and natural scenic values.
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Dresden Elbe Valley
The Dresden Elbe Valley is a World Heritage Site in Dresden, Germany. The valley, spreading some 20 kilometres through the city of Dresden, is one of the both cultural landscapes along the central-european river Elbe.
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Ferrara
Ferrara is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River.
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Fertö/Neusiedlersee
Lake Neusiedl (German: Neusiedlersee; Hungarian: Fertő tó) is the second largest steppe lake in Central Europe, straddling the Austrian–Hungarian border.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein
The Salzkammergut is a resort area with numerous lakes and mountains east of Salzburg. Its name means "estate of the salt chamber" and is so-called because it belonged to the Imperial Salt Chamber, the authority charged with running the precious salt mines in the Habsburg empire.
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Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta
The Hortobágy is Hungary's largest protected area, and the biggest grassland that remained in Central Europe.
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km˛ in the South Moravian Region.
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Lopé-Okanda
The Lopé-Okanda Park in Gabon can be characterized by the co-existence of tropical rainforest and savannah ecosystems.
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Lushan National Park
Lushan National Park is a cultural landscape known for its natural beauty. It has inspired many Chinese artists, writers, philosophers and scientists.
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Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley is a valley of glacial origin which drains the largest secondary basin in Andorra.
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Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Mapungubwe was a city that flourished from AD 1050 to AD 1270. It marked the center of a pre-Shona kingdom which covered parts of modern-day Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Matobo Hills
The Matobo Hills are a living cultural landscape in south-western Zimbabwe, where people have interacted for over 100.
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Orkhon Valley
The Orkhon Valley encompasses 121.967 hectares, and can be found in Central-Mongolia. It also includes Kharkhorum, the 13th and 14th century capital of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s vast Empire.
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Pico Island
Pico Island is an island of the Azores. It has a notable wine, the Pico Wine (Vinho do Pico). The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture has been made UNESCO World Heritage Site because it 'reflects a unique response to viniculture on a small volcanic island and one that has been evolving since the arrival of the first settlers in the 15th century.
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Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value.
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Pyrénées - Mount Perdu
Monte Perdido (Mont Perdu in French, both meaning lost mountain) is the third highest mountain in the Pyrenees.
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Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui is the indigenous name of Easter Island, and the name of the national park on the island - in fact, the whole island is part of the national park.
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Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
The Rice Terraces of the Cordilleras (on the island of Luzon) ar a cultural landscape developed 2000 years ago by the Ifugao people.
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Richtersveld
The Richtersveld Community Conservancy is a mountainous desert in the north-west part of South Africa.
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Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
The nine Sacri Monti (Sacred Mountains) of northern Italy are groups of chapels and other architectural features created in the late 16th and 17th centuries and dedicated to different aspects of the Christian faith.
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Sintra
The Cultural landscape of Sintra, as the site is officially known, dates from the 19th century. Ferdinand II then turned a ruined monastery into castle, with parks, gardens and villas around it.
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Southern Öland
Southern Öland is a limestone barren plain. A great assortment of vegetation is found including numerous rare species.
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Sukur
Sukur is located in the Northeastern part of Nigeria. Sukur is mainly praised as an exceptional cultural landscape, with its palace, terraced fields, and village.
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Tamgaly
Tamgaly is a petroglyph site located 170 km. to northwest of Almaty. Its the best researched and documented example of rock art in Central Asia, providing insight into the culture of the traditional steppes civilisations of Central Asia.
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The Laponian Area
Lapland’s world heritage, Laponia, stretches over an impressive 9400 square kilometres of cultural wilderness.
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The Loire Valley
The Castle of Chambord was already a separate WHS since 1981. In 2000, this site was extended with the culture landscape of the Loire Valley, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands.
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Thingvellir
Ţingvellir is a place in the southwest of Iceland near the peninsula of Reykjanes and the Hengill volcanic area.
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Tokaji Wine Region
Tokaj-Hegyalja is a historic wine region located in present-day Northeastern Hungary. The region consists of 28 named villages and 7,000 hectares of classified vineyards, of which an estimated 5,000 are currently planted.
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Tongariro National Park
Tongariro is a national park with active volcanic mountains and a number of Maori religious sites. It is situated on the North Island of New Zealand.
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Transylvanian villages
Transylvanian villages were often organised around a fortified church. A group of six former Saxon and one Székely villages is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site: Biertan, Câlnic, Dârjiu, Prejmer, Saschiz, Valea Viilor and Viscri.
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Upper Middle Rhine Valley
The Middle Rhine Valley stretches between Koblenz and Mainz, in central Germany. This area is full off medieval castles, historic towns and vineyards.
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Val d’Orcia
The Val d’Orcia, or Valdorcia, is a region of Tuscany, central Italy, which extends from the hills south of Siena to Monte Amiata.
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Vegařyan
The Vega Archipelago, or Vegařyan in Norwegian, is a cluster of around 6,500 small islands in Nordland just south of the arctic circle that surrounds the main island of Vega and is habitated since the Stone Age.
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Vińales Valley
Vińales Valley is a karstic depression in Cuba, where tobacco and other crops are cultivated on the bottom of the valley, mostly by traditional agriculture techniques.
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Wachau Cultural Landscape
The Wachau is an Austrian valley with a landscape of high visual quality formed by the Danube river. The Wachau is well known for its production of apricots and grapes, both of which are used to produce specialty liquors and wines.
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