Inscriptions in 1997
The following sites were inscribed in the 1997 WHC Session.
Complete List in 1997
In 1997 the World Heritage list consisted of 550 sites.
- Aachen Cathedral
- Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch
- Abbey of St Gall
- Abu Mena
- Acropolis
- Aggtelek and Slovak Karst
- Agra Fort
- Agrigento
- Air and Téneré
- Ajanta Caves
- Aksum
- Al Qal'a of Beni Hammad
- Aldabra Atoll
- Aleppo
- Altamira Cave
- Amiens Cathedral
- Amphitheater of El Jem
- Ancient Ksour
- Ancient Kyoto
- Ancient Thebes
- Andrefana Dry Forests
- Angkor
- Angra do Heroismo
- Anjar
- Antigua Guatemala
- Anuradhapura
- Arabian Oryx Sanctuary
- Archaeological Site of Aigai
- Archaeological Site of Delphi
- Arles
- Asante Traditional Buildings
- Asturian Monuments
- Auschwitz Birkenau
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites
- Avignon
- Avila
- Ayutthaya
- Baalbek
- Bagerhat
- Bahla Fort
- Bamberg
- Ban Chiang
- Banc d'Arguin
- Banska Stiavnica
- Baroque Churches
- Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
- Bauhaus Sites
- Belem
- Belize Barrier Reef
- Benedictine Convent of St. John
- Białowieża Forest
- Birka and Hovgarden
- Blenheim Palace
- Borobudur
- Bosra
- Botanical Garden, Padua
- Bourges Cathedral
- Boyana Church
- Brasilia
- Brú na Bóinne
- Bryggen
- Budapest
- Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur
- Bukhara
- Burgos Cathedral
- Butrint
- Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Byblos
- Caceres
- Cahokia Mounds
- Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
- Canaima National Park
- Canal du Midi
- Canterbury
- Carlsbad Caverns
- Cartagena
- Carthage
- Castel del Monte
- Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chaco Culture
- Chan Chan
- Changdeokgung Palace Complex
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chavin
- Chichen-Itza
- Chitwan National Park
- Chola Temples
- Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
- Churches and Convents of Goa
- Churches of Moldavia
- Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
- City of Bath
- City of Luxembourg
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou
- Cliff of Bandiagara
- Cocos Island
- Cologne Cathedral
- Colonia del Sacramento
- Comoé National Park
- Congonhas
- Convent of Christ in Tomar
- Copán
- Cordoba
- Coro and its Port
- Costiera Amalfitana
- Crespi d'Adda
- Cuenca
- Cuzco
- Cyrene
- Damascus
- Danube Delta
- Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios
- Darien National Park
- Delos
- Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Divrigi
- Dja Faunal Reserve
- Djémila
- Djenné
- Djoudj
- Donana National Park
- Dougga/Thugga
- Drottningholm
- Dubrovnik
- Durham Castle and Cathedral
- Durmitor National Park
- Dutch Water Defence Lines
- Edinburgh
- El Escurial
- El Tajin
- Elephanta Caves
- Ellora Caves
- Engelsberg Ironworks
- Epidaurus
- Euphrasian Basilica in Porec
- Everglades
- Evora
- Fasil Ghebbi
- Fatehpur Sikri
- Ferrara
- Florence
- Fontainebleau
- Fort and Shalamar Gardens
- Fortified City of Carcassonne
- Fortress of Suomenlinna
- Forts and Castles Gold Coast
- Fraser Island
- Frontiers of the Roman Empire
- Galapagos Islands
- Gammelstad
- Garajonay
- Garamba National Park
- Gelati Monastery
- Genbaku Dome
- Ghadames
- Giant's Causeway
- Glacier parks
- Gondwana Rainforests
- Göreme NP and Cappadocia
- Gough and Inaccessible Islands
- Granada
- Grand Canyon
- Great Barrier Reef
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Great Wall
- Great Zimbabwe
- Gros Morne National Park
- Guanajuato
- Gulf of Porto
- Gwynedd Castles
- Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago
- Haeinsa Temple
- Haghpat and Sanahin
- Hal Saflieni Hypogeum
- Hallstatt-Dachstein
- Hampi
- Hatra
- Hattusha
- Hawaii Volcanoes
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- Henderson Island
- Hierapolis-Pamukkale
- Hildesheim Cathedral and Church
- Himeji-jo
- Historic Cairo
- Hollókö
- Horyu-ji Area
- Hospicio Cabañas
- Huanglong
- Huangshan
- Huascaran National Park
- Hué
- Humayun's Tomb
- Hwaseong Fortress
- Ichkeul National Park
- Iguacu
- Iguazu National Park
- Imperial Palace
- Independence Hall
- Ironbridge Gorge
- Island of Gorée
- Island of Mozambique
- Istanbul
- Itchan Kala
- Itsukushima Shrine
- Jelling
- Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis
- Jesuit Missions of Trinidad and Jesus
- Jiuzhaigou Valley
- Jongmyo Shrine
- Joya de Ceren
- Kahuzi-Biega National Park
- Kairouan
- Kakadu National Park
- Kandy
- Kasbah of Algiers
- Kathmandu Valley
- Kaziranga National Park
- Keoladeo National Park
- Kerkuane
- Khajuraho Group of Monuments
- Khami Ruins
- Kilimanjaro National Park
- Kinderdijk
- Kizhi Pogost
- Komodo National Park
- Kotor
- Kraków
- Kremlin and Red Square
- Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou
- Kutna Hora
- Kyiv Cathedral and Lavra
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- La Fortaleza and San Juan
- La Lonja de la Seda
- Lake Baikal
- Lake Malawi
- Lake Turkana
- Lalibela
- Laponian Area
- Las Medulas
- Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape
- Leptis Magna
- Lima
- Lord Howe Island
- Los Glaciares
- Los Katios National Park
- Lower Valley of the Awash
- Lower Valley of the Omo
- Luang Prabang
- Lübeck
- Lumbini
- Lushan National Park
- Luther Memorials
- M'Zab Valley
- Machu Picchu
- Macquarie Island
- Madara Rider
- Mahabalipuram
- Makli, Thatta
- Malbork Castle
- Mammoth Cave
- Mana Pools
- Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
- Manovo-Gounda St. Floris
- Manu National Park
- Maritime Greenwich
- Matera
- Maulbronn Monastery
- Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Medina of Fez
- Medina of Marrakesh
- Medina of Sousse
- Medina of Tétouan
- Medina of Tunis
- Megalithic Temples of Malta
- Meidan Emam, Esfahan
- Meknes
- Mérida
- Mesa Verde
- Messel Pit
- Meteora
- Mexico City and Xochimilco
- Modena
- Moenjodaro
- Mogao Caves
- Monastery of Alcobaça
- Monastery of Batalha
- Monastery of Horezu
- Mont-Saint-Michel
- Monticello
- Morelia
- Morne Trois Pitons
- Mount Athos
- Mount Emei, including Leshan Giant Buddha
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Nimba
- Mount Taishan
- Mountain Resort, Chengde
- Mtskheta
- Mudejar Architecture of Aragon
- Mystras
- Nahanni National Park
- Nancy
- Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers
- Naples
- Nasca Lines
- National History Park
- Nemrut Dag
- Nessebar
- Ngorongoro
- Niokolo-Koba National Park
- Novgorod
- Nubian Monuments
- Oaxaca and Monte Alban
- Ohrid Region
- Okapi Wildlife Reserve
- Old City of Berne
- Old City of Jerusalem
- Old Havana
- Old Rauma
- Old Town Lunenburg
- Old Town of Galle
- Old Town of Lijiang
- Olinda
- Olympia
- Olympic National Park
- Oporto
- Orange
- Ouro Preto
- Painted Churches in the Troödos Region
- Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
- Palenque
- Palmyra
- Panamá
- Pannonhalma
- Paphos
- Paris, Banks of the Seine
- Pattadakal
- Peking Man Site
- Persepolis
- Petäjävesi Old Church
- Petra
- Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
- Pienza
- Pilgrimage Church of St. John of Nepomuk
- Pilgrimage Church of Wies
- Ping Yao
- Pirin National Park
- Plitvice Lakes
- Poblet Monastery
- Polonnaruva
- Pompei
- Pont du Gard
- Popocatepetl monasteries
- Portobelo-San Lorenzo
- Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands
- Potala Palace
- Potosi
- Potsdam
- Prague
- Prambanan
- Puebla
- Pyramids (Memphis)
- Pyrénées - Mont Perdu
- Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
- Québec
- Quedlinburg
- Querétaro
- Quirigua
- Quito
- Quseir Amra
- Qutb Minar
- Rammelsberg and Goslar
- Rangiri Dambulla Cave Temple
- Rapa Nui
- Ravenna
- Redwood
- Reims
- Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
- Rhodes
- Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras
- Riga
- Rila Monastery
- Rio Abiseo National Park
- Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve
- Rock Art of Alta
- Rock Carvings in Tanum
- Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco
- Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
- Rohtas Fort
- Rome
- Roskilde Cathedral
- Route of Santiago de Compostela
- Royal Palace at Caserta
- Royal Palaces of Abomey
- Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
- Røros
- Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- Rwenzori Mountains
- Sabratha
- Safranbolu
- Sagarmatha National Park
- Saint-Savin sur Gartempe
- Salamanca
- Salonga National Park
- Salvador de Bahia
- Salzburg
- San Agustín
- San Gimignano
- San Pedro de la Roca Castle
- Sana'a
- Sanchi
- Sangay National Park
- Sangiran Early Man Site
- Santa Cruz de Mompox
- Santa Maria de Guadalupe
- Santa Maria delle Grazie
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santo Domingo
- São Luis
- Sceilg Mhichíl
- Schokland
- Schönbrunn
- Segovia
- Selous Game Reserve
- Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
- Serengeti
- Serra da Capivara
- Seville
- SGang Gwaay
- Shark Bay
- Shibam
- Shirakami-Sanchi
- Shirakawa-go and Gokayama
- Sian Ka'an
- Siena
- Sigiriya
- Simien National Park
- Sinharaja Forest
- Sintra
- Skocjan Caves
- Skogskyrkogarden
- Solovetsky Islands
- Speyer Cathedral
- Spissky Hrad and Levoca
- Split
- Srebarna Nature Reserve
- St. Kilda
- St. Petersburg
- Stari Ras and Sopocani
- Statue of Liberty
- Stonehenge
- Strasbourg
- Studenica Monastery
- Studley Royal Park
- Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Sucre
- Sukhothai
- Sun Temple, Konarak
- Sundarbans National Park
- Tadrart Acacus
- Taï National Park
- Taj Mahal
- Takht-i-Bahi
- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
- Tallinn
- Taos Pueblo
- Tasmanian Wilderness
- Tassili n'Ajjer
- Taxila
- Tchogha Zanbil
- Te Wahipounamu
- Telc
- Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
- Temple, Mansion and Cemetery of Confucius
- Teotihuacan
- The Sundarbans
- The trulli of Alberobello
- Thessalonika
- Thracian tomb of Kazanlak
- Thracian tomb of Sveshtari
- Thungyai-Huai Kha Khaeng
- Tierradentro
- Tikal National Park
- Timbuktu
- Timgad
- Tipasa
- Tiya
- Toledo
- Tongariro National Park
- Torun
- Tower of London
- Trier
- Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
- Trinity Sergius Lavra
- Trogir
- Tubbataha Reefs
- Tyre
- Ujung Kulon National Park
- Uluru
- Upper Svaneti
- Urnes Stave Church
- Uxmal
- Vallée de Mai
- Valletta
- Vatican City
- Venice and its Lagoon
- Verla Groundwood and Board Mill
- Versailles
- Vézelay
- Vézère Valley
- Vicenza and the Palladian Villas
- Victoria Falls
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Villages with Fortified Churches
- Vilnius
- Virgin Komi Forests
- Virunga National Park
- Visby
- Vlkolinec
- Volcanoes of Kamchatka
- Völklingen Ironworks
- Volubilis
- W-Arly-Pendjari Complex
- Warsaw
- Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Westminster
- Wet Tropics of Queensland
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino
- White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal
- Wieliczka and Bochnia Royal Salt Mines
- Willandra Lakes
- Willemstad
- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Works of Antoni Gaudí
- Wudang Mountains
- Wulingyuan
- Würzburg Residence
- Xanthos-Letoon
- Yakushima
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite National Park
- Yuso and Suso Monasteries
- Zabid
- Zacatecas
- Zamość