Part of Cultural nomination rejected

Cultural WHS whose original nominations included a separate site which was rejected during the evaluation process.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Part of Cultural nomination rejected':

  • Oaxaca and Monte Alban Was originally nominated to include a 3rd element - the (unfinished) Convent of Cuilapan 10 kms south of Oaxaca. In its evaluation ICOMOS stated "(Oaxaca/Monte Ablan), situated within close proximity of one to the other, are historically complementary. On the other hand, it would appear unnecessarily redundant to include Cuilapan, which is located at some distance from the others, in a nomination to the World Heritage List.".
  • Puebla Was originally nominated to include the pre-Columbian site (Teotihuacan/Olmec/Aztec) of Cholula (around 10kms away). Cholula contains the remains of a pyramid often described as the "largest man made monument by volume in the World" (Wiki). ICOMOS/UNESCO didn't consider that it "paired" well with Puebla. As of 2009 the site is not on Mexico's T List.
  • Santo Domingo Was originally nominated to include the archaeological sites of La Isabela and Concepcion de la Vega. La Isabela is around 200kms from Sto Domingo and is regarded as the first formal European settlement in the new world (1493 by Columbus). La Vega is around 125kms from Sto Domingo and grew from a fort built by Columbus in 1494. Whilst recognising the "evident symbolic value" of properties "so closely linked to 3 significant moments in the history of Hispaniola in the period following the discovery of the island by Christopher Columbus" ICOMOS/UNESCO was (back in 1989) "disconcerted" to "find a single proposal for 3 properties so distant from one another"! As of 2009 both rejected properties are individually listed on Dominican Republic's T List.