Part of Cultural nomination rejected
Cultural WHS whose original nominations included a separate site which was rejected during the evaluation process.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Archaeological site of Philippi | The 2014 T List entry for Philippi included the Battlefield and "The rock art in the Lekani foothills, approximately two kilometres east of the city of Krenides, depicting human and animal figures and the distinctive horseman.... The important mines in the area east of Philippi and northeast of the ancient port of Neapoli (modern-day Kavala), identified with those referred to by Herodotus and Thucydides as Skapte Hyle." The latter 2 elements didn't appear in the Nomination file but the Battlefield did as a "second component". ICOMOS didn't find "authenticity" and Greece removed it. | |
| Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture | Only 10 out of the 18 nominated locations were inscribed, leaving out the Kremlin and administrative buildings which ICOMOS found had no OUV. | |
| Fortifications of Vauban | Two sites initially nominated by France were removed from the final list: - Bazoches, Nièvre: chateau - Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Morbihan: citadel and walls surrounding Le Palais | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings | Nomination went down from 10 to 8 components between Referral and final Inscription (Price Tower and Marin County Civic Centre were dropped) | |
| Hiraizumi | The Yanaginogosho Iseki (site of government offices) was part of the nomination too, but has been rejected at inscription because it had no link with the Pure Land and had no OUV of its own. | |
| 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.". | |
| Persian Caravanserai | 2 of the 56 proposed locations were left out due to authenticity issues | |
| Prehistoric Pile Dwellings | The Nomination File shows that 156 sites were nominated but ICOMOS got this reduced to 111 by the nominating countries during the evaluation process and all of these were inscribed | |
| 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. | |
| Sambor Prei Kuk | Archaeological area | |
| 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. | |
| Stećci | The World Heritage Committee welcomes acceptance of ICOMOS recommendations by the States Parties, namely in reducing the number of components proposed for inscription by removing the “Stare Kuće, Donje Breške, Tuzla” and “Mramorje in Buđ, Pale” components (no's 12 and 18). | |
| Tauric Chersonese | inscribed "with the exception of serial component no. 7 Cape Vinogradny" | |
| The Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales | Bangor University was dropped from the final nomination document | |
| Via Appia | - "ICOMOS expressed its concerns regarding the compromised conditions of authenticity of component parts 015, 016 and 020 because of the loss of substance of their attributes. (...) In its response in February 2024, the State Party took ICOMOS' concerns on board by only keeping the course of the road for component parts 016 and 020 within the boundaries of the nominated property, thereby placing the archaeological perimeters of the ancient cities in the buffer zone". + "ICOMOS does not consider the inclusion of [the Lanuvium branch road (component part 003), Norba branch road (component part 004) and San Stefano and Torre Santa Sabina branch road (component part 022)] within the boundaries of the nominated property to be sufficiently justified and recommends that they be excluded. (...) The State Party has also removed the San Stefano and Torre Santa Sabina branch roads of component part 022, but wished to maintain the Lanuvium and Norba branch roads". (AB Ev) |
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