Human activity Cultural landscape

Human activity, Cultural landscape

Alto Douro
Wine has been produced by traditional landholders in the Alto Douro region for some 2000 years. Since the 18th century its main product, port wine, has been world famous for its quality.
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Ambohimanga
Ambohimanga is an archeological site that contains a ruined city, burial sites, and assorted sacred places.
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Aranjuez
The Palacio Real de Aranjuez is a residence of the King of Spain, one of the Spanish royal sites. It is located in Aranjuez (province of Madrid).
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Bam Cultural Landscape
Bam and its Cultural Landscape is an outstanding example of a Central Asian trading settlement. The town had its heyday from the 7th to 11th centuries.
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Bamiyan Valley
The kingdom of Bamiyan was a Buddhist state positioned at a strategic location along the trade routes that for centuries linked China and Central Asia with India and the west.
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Blaenavon Industrial Landscape
Blaenavon town owes its existence to the early production of iron and coal in its mines and ironworks.
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Butrint
Butrint is an archaeological site that provides valuable evidence of ancient and medieval civilizations on the territory of modern Albania.
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Chief Roi Mata’s Domain
Chief Roi Mata’s Domain is a group of archeological sites associated with the oral traditions surrounding the late chief.
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Cilento and Vallo di Diano
The Cilento is a cultural landscape that has blossomed in prehistoric times and the Middle Ages. Because of its geographical location, it played an important role in Mediterranean trade, culture and politics.
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Cliff of Bandiagara
Cliff of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons) was inscribed both for natural and cultural reasons, as the Unesco-report rates the exceptional combinations of natural and cultural elements.
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Costiera Amalfitana
The Amalfi Coast has been put on the list because it is recognized as a landscape with exceptional cultural and natural scenic values.
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Dresden Elbe Valley
The Dresden Elbe Valley is a cultural landscape that extends for 18 kilometres along the Elbe river and through the city of Dresden.
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Ferrara
Ferrara is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River.
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Fertö/Neusiedlersee
Fertö/Neusiedlersee Cultural Landscape is the result of the symbiotic process of human interaction with second largest steppe lake in Central Europe.
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Hallstatt-Dachstein
The Hallstatt-Dachstein Salzkammergut Cultural Landscape is an area of great prosperity originating from salt production, which is "reflected in the fine architecture of the town of Hallstatt.
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Hortobágy
Hortobágy National Park - the Puszta is the biggest grassland that remained in Central Europe. Hortobágy is similar to a steppe, a grassy plain with cattle, sheep, oxen, horses, tended by herdsmen, and it provides habitat for various different species (342 bird species have been registered to appear).
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Laponian Area
Lapland’s world heritage, Laponia, stretches over an impressive 9400 square kilometres of cultural wilderness.
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Le Morne
Le Morne Cultural Landscape consists of the areas on Le Morne mountain that have been used as hiding places for escaped slaves (maroons).
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Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
The Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape is a cultural-natural complex of 283,09 km² in the South Moravian Region.
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Loire Valley
The Castle of Chambord was already a separate WHS since 1981. In 2000, this site was extended with the culture landscape of the Loire Valley, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands.
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Lopé-Okanda
The Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape of Lopé-Okanda has seen over 400.000 years of almost continuous human settlement.
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Lushan National Park
Lushan National Park is a cultural landscape known for its natural beauty. It has inspired many Chinese artists, writers, philosophers and scientists.
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Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
The Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley is a valley of glacial origin which drains the largest secondary basin in Andorra.
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Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe was a city that flourished from AD 1050 to AD 1270. It marked the center of a pre-Shona kingdom which covered parts of modern-day Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Matobo Hills
The Matobo Hills are a living cultural landscape in south-western Zimbabwe, where people have interacted for over 100.
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Mijikenda Kaya Forests
The Mijikenda Kaya Forests consist of 11 separate forest sites spread over some 200 km along the coast containing the remains of numerous fortified villages, known as kayas, of the Mijikenda people.
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Orkhon Valley
The Orkhon Valley encompasses 121.967 hectares, and can be found in Central-Mongolia. It also includes Kharkhorum, the 13th and 14th century capital of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s vast Empire.
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Pico Island
Pico Island is an island of the Azores. It has a notable wine, the Pico Wine (Vinho do Pico). The Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture has been made UNESCO World Heritage Site because it 'reflects a unique response to viniculture on a small volcanic island and one that has been evolving since the arrival of the first settlers in the 15th century.
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Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value.
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Pyrénées - Mount Perdu
Monte Perdido / Mont Perdu (meaning lost mountain) is the third highest mountain in the Pyrenees. It also noted for its agricultural landscape.
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Quebrada de Humahuaca
The Quebrada de Humahuaca is a mountain valley that has been in use as a cultural route between the Andean highlands and the plains for over 11000 years.
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Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui is the indigenous name of Easter Island, and the name of the national park on the island - in fact, the whole island is part of the national park.
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Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
The Rice Terraces of the Cordilleras (on the island of Luzon) ar a cultural landscape developed 2000 years ago by the Ifugao people.
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Richtersveld
The Richtersveld Community Conservancy is a mountainous desert in the north-west part of South Africa.
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Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy
The nine Sacri Monti (Sacred Mountains) of northern Italy are groups of chapels and other architectural features created in the late 16th and 17th centuries and dedicated to different aspects of the Christian faith.
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Sintra
The Cultural landscape of Sintra, as the site is officially known, dates from the 19th century. Ferdinand II then turned a ruined monastery into castle, with parks, gardens and villas around it.
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Southern Öland
The Agricultural Landscape of Southern Öland is a site that has been in agricultural use since prehistory.
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St. Kilda
St Kilda was inscribed as a World Heritage Site for its exceptional natural beauty and for the significant natural habitats that it supports.
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Stari Grad Plain
The Stari Grad Plain is an agricultural landscape of vineyards and olive trees that has been in continuous use since Greek Antiquity.
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Sukur
The Sukur Cultural Landscape with its palace, terraced fields with ritual features and villages has survived unchanged for many centuries.
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Sulamain-Too
Sulamain-Too Sacred Mountain is an Islamic and pre-Islamic sacred mountain. The mountains has a height of ca.
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Tamgaly
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly is the best researched and documented site of rock art in Central Asia.
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Thingvellir
Þingvellir is a place in the southwest of Iceland near the peninsula of Reykjanes and the Hengill volcanic area.
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Tokaji Wine Region
The Tokaji Wine Region Historic Cultural Landscape consists of 28 named villages and 7,000 hectares of classified vineyards.
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Tongariro National Park
Tongariro is a national park with active volcanic mountains and a number of Maori religious sites. It is situated on the North Island of New Zealand.
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Transylvanian villages
The Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania date from the 13th to the 16th century. Transylvanian villages were often organised around a fortified church.
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Upper Middle Rhine Valley
The Middle Rhine Valley stretches between Koblenz and Mainz, in central Germany. This area is full off medieval castles, historic towns and vineyards.
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Val d’Orcia
The Val d’Orcia is a cultural landscape made out of farmlands and fortified villages on hilltops. The landscape as it unfolds nowadays was created by wealthy Siennese merchants in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Vegaøyan
The Vega Archipelago, or Vegaøyan in Norwegian, is a cluster of around 6,500 small islands in Nordland just south of the arctic circle that surrounds the main island of Vega and is habitated since the Stone Age.
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Viñales Valley
Viñales Valley is a karstic depression in Cuba, where tobacco and other crops are cultivated on the bottom of the valley, mostly by traditional agriculture techniques.
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Wachau Cultural Landscape
Wachau Cultural Landscape is a Danube valley distinguished by a long historical evolution. There has been human occupation in the Wachau from Palaeolithic times.
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