Situated in a bay in the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena has the most extensive fortifications in South America. A system of zones ...
Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of the Mayan ...
Inhabited since the 2nd century A.D., Quirigua had become during the reign of Cauac Sky (723–84) the capital of an autonomous ...
Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in ...
In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of Mayan civilization, inhabited from ...
The Taung Skull Fossil Site, part of the extension to the site inscribed in 1999, is the place where in 1924 ...
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain that juts into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of Mauritius was used as ...
In the district of Port Louis, lies the 1,640 m2 site where the modern indentured labour diaspora began. In 1834, the ...
The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga consists of a royal city and burial site, and an ensemble of sacred places. It is ...
Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve comprises karstic landscapes and limestone uplands cut into impressive 'tsingy' peaks and a 'forest' of ...
The fortified city of Mozambique is located on this island, a former Portuguese trading-post on the route to India. Its remarkable ...
Situated within a cluster of forested granite hills and covering an area of 126.4 km2, high up the plateau of central ...
The site encompasses a group of five frontier mission complexes situated along a stretch of the San Antonio River basin in ...
This monastic complex, perched since about the 7th century on the steep sides of the rocky island of Skellig Michael, some ...
The Giant's Causeway lies at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast on the edge of the Antrim ...
The three main prehistoric sites of the Brú na Bóinne Complex, Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, are situated on the north bank ...
Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges ...