The Studenica Monastery was established in the late 12th century by Stevan Nemanja, founder of the medieval Serb state, shortly after ...
In the 4th century, a remarkable series of decorated tombs were constructed in the cemetery of the Roman provincial town of ...
Seat of supreme power for over five centuries (1416-1911), the Forbidden City in Beijing, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings ...
It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 ...
Classical Chinese garden design, which seeks to recreate natural landscapes in miniature, is nowhere better illustrated than in the nine gardens ...
The grottoes and niches of Longmen contain the largest and most impressive collection of Chinese art of the late Northern Wei ...
In c. 220 B.C., under Qin Shi Huang, sections of earlier fortifications were joined together to form a united defence system ...
The Summer Palace in Beijing – first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its ...
The Temple of Heaven, founded in the first half of the 15th century, is a dignified complex of fine cult buildings ...
No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin ...
The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China, running from Beijing in the ...
The site, a cultural landscape located on the slopes of Mount Espinho, overlooking the city of Braga in the north of ...
The people of the Netherlands established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in ...
The Wadden Sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. The site covers the ...
The narrow Vall de Boí is situated in the high Pyrénées, in the Alta Ribagorça region and is surrounded by steep ...
Located in a limestone plateau of the Ardèche River in southern France, the property contains the earliest-known and best-preserved figurative drawings ...
The property includes the mining sites of Almadén (Spain), where mercury (quicksilver) has been extracted since antiquity, and Idrija (Slovenia), where ...
The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany, represent examples of on-going post-glacial biological and ecological evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and are indispensable ...