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UNESCO says there are 1,248 World Heritage properties. But look closer, and you’ll find they’re spread across at least 5,506 separate locations....
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Posts in this “Abstracts” category deals with lessons and perspectives from travelling around the world for more than four decades. The articles are resumes of specific or non-specific aspects of the world around us.
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The New World Heritage Sites of 2025
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 26 new World Heritage Sites in 2025. The List now includes 1248 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed...
Geological Heritage Sites
Geological Heritage Sites are key places with extraordinary geological elements or processes of the highest scientific relevance. They are used as a...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2024
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 24 new World Heritage Sites in 2024. The List now includes 1223 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2022 and 2023
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 42 new World Heritage Sites in 2022 and 2023. The List now includes 1199 sites of a cultural, natural or...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2021
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee announced 34 new World Heritage Sites in 2021. The List now includes 1154 sites of a cultural, natural or mixed...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2019
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee held its 2019 annual meeting in Baku. It promoted 29 sites to the rank of World Heritage. The List now includes...
Horizontal lines on world maps – the special ones
Maps of the Earth include many latitudes. They are the lines which divide the globe horizontally. Five of them have names. Sandalsand has crossed...
The New World Heritage Sites of 2018
In 2018 we welcomed 19 new World Heritage Sites. UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has held its annual meeting, this time in Bahrain. The new...
If Facebook was to shape our image of the world
The Facebook image of the world is not real. The physical world with continents, coastlines, islands and rivers has been with us for longer than we...
Another 10 European city breaks
Here are another 10 European city breaks. This is the third article in my series of European city breaks, the places you can fly or drive to in a...
World Heritage Day 18 April
Today is the World Heritage Day. 18th of April is the “International Day for Monuments and Sites”. In 1982 the International Council for...
The world’s documentary heritage
Everyone is familiar with the UNESCO World Heritage List. It has over a thousand places of unprecedented universal cultural or natural value. The...
Intangible cultural heritage, what is it?
It's like a mystery: What part of our cultural heritage is characterised by the representations, the expressions, the knowledge and the skills that...
Nature: Air
This is the last part in my series of photo essays dealing with the classic four elements of nature. The fourth element is Air. It goes without...
