The World’s Heritage
The definitive guide to all the 1199 World
Heritage sites
1032 pages, 160 x 210 mm (paperback)
UNESCO Publishing/Collins
The World Heritage List includes properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value.
In 1972 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Since then, 1199 sites in 168 States Parties have been inscribed onto the list, 933 of which are cultural, 227 natural and 39 mixed properties.
- Descriptions of all the UNESCO World Heritage sites
- Location map for every site
- More than 850 colour photographs