Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of ...
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of ...
Human habitation of this elongated sand dune peninsula, 98 km long and 0.4-4 km wide, dates back to prehistoric times. Throughout ...
Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deriving its prosperity in the 13th–15th centuries from the trade with central ...
The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries ...
Santiago de Compostela was the supreme goal for countless thousands of pious pilgrims who converged there from all over Europe throughout ...
The four hydraulic boat-lifts on this short stretch of the historic Canal du Centre are industrial monuments of the highest quality. ...
The Neolithic flint mines at Spiennes, covering more than 100 ha, are the largest and earliest concentration of ancient mines in ...
The four sites of the property form a strip 170 km long by 3–15 km wide, crossing Belgium from east to west, consisting ...
Construction of this palatine chapel, with its octagonal basilica and cupola, began c. 790–800 under the Emperor Charlemagne. Originally inspired by ...
The outstanding handling of new architectural techniques in the 13th century, and the harmonious marriage of sculptural decoration with architecture, has ...
The property encompasses sites where the method of producing sparkling wines was developed on the principle of secondary fermentation in 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 ...
Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to ...
A vast area of primary tropical forest dominated by two spectacular extinct volcanoes, Kahuzi and Biega, the park has a diverse ...
The Rwenzori Mountains National Park covers nearly 100,000 ha in western Uganda and comprises the main part of the Rwenzori mountain ...
The Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi constitute a site embracing almost 30 ha of hillside within Kampala district. Most of ...
Located in south-western Uganda, at the junction of the plain and mountain forests, Bwindi Park covers 32,000 ha and is known ...