Links about the World Heritage


ICOMOS documentation:
ICOMOS: Filling the gaps - an action plan for the future of the World Heritage List
Link: http://www.international.icomos.org/world_heritage/whlgaps.htm.

Photography:
Our Place - A Photographic Celebration of the Worlds Heritage
Link: http://www.ourplaceworldheritage.com/index.cfm.

World Heritage photo collection by Leonard Frank
Link: http://leonardfrank.com/Worldheritage/WorldheritageA.html.

Private websites with a World Heritage theme:
List (with photos) of all world heritages visited by two Dutch brothers: Reissite van Jos & Clim Schmitz
Link: http://www.josenclim.nl/Werelderfgoed/.

The World Heritage website of Lynn & John Salmon contains an extensive list of links for all WHS and their own travel experiences.
Link: http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html.

World Heritage sites in panographies - 360 degree imaging
Link: http://www.world-heritage-tour.org/.

An amazing collection: World Heritage as seen through postage stamps
Link: http://worldheritage.heindorffhus.dk/.

UNESCO documentation:
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Official Website
Link: http://whc.unesco.org/.

Nine countries elected to UNESCO World Heritage Committee
Link: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24412&Cr=heritage&Cr1=.

Various:
County rejects U.N. listing for Carrizo Plain: d esignation of Carrizo Plain near San Luis Obispo as a World Heritage site may have brought tourism dollars but residents are leery.
Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-carrizo31mar31,1,7555405.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california.

Lecture by Peter Fowler, an expert advising to UNESCO and ICOMOS, on the subject of cultural landscapes and World Heritage
Link: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/cba/weekend/Fowler_de%20_Cardi_lecture20061006.pdf.