The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over thousands of years, deposited travertine barriers, creating natural dams which in ...
The cultural landscape of Tokaj graphically demonstrates the long tradition of wine production in this region of low hills and river ...
The cultural landscape of the Hortobágy Puszta consists of a vast area of plains and wetlands in eastern Hungary. Traditional forms ...
The variety of formations and the fact that they are concentrated in a restricted area means that the 712 caves currently ...
The water management system of the city of Augsburg has evolved in successive phases from the 14th century to the present ...
Miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, the Church of Wies (1745–54), the work of architect Dominikus Zimmermann, ...
The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization ...
The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, ...
Situated in the Střední Polabí area of the Elbe plain, the site consists of flat, sandy soils and includes fields, fenced ...
Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří (Ore Mountains) spans a region in south-eastern Germany (Saxony) and north-western Czechia, which contains a wealth of several metals exploited ...
Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastic complex north of the Alps. ...
The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 11 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km along the coast containing the remains ...
The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, ...
Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. Built in coral stone ...
Large numbers of elephants, black rhinoceroses, cheetahs, giraffes, hippopotamuses and crocodiles live in this immense sanctuary, which measures 50,000 km2 and ...
The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the ...
On the eastern slopes of the Masai escarpment bordering the Great Rift Valley are natural rock shelters, overhanging slabs of sedimentary ...
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple ...
The vast plains of the Serengeti comprise 1.5 million ha of savannah. The annual migration to permanent water holes of vast ...
At 5,895 m, Kilimanjaro is the highest point in Africa. This volcanic massif stands in splendid isolation above the surrounding plains, ...
At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, which during its ...
The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley , a natural property of outstanding beauty, comprises three inter-linked relatively shallow ...
Situated north-west of the town of Migori, in the Lake Victoria region, this dry-stone walled settlement was probably built in the ...