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36 COM 8B.13
Mixed Properties - Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves (Israel)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: The Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara Caves
Country: Israel
36 COM 8B.16
Cultural Properties - Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes (Senegal)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Bassari Country: Bassari, Fula and Bedik Cultural Landscapes
Country: Senegal
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B.Add and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
2. Inscribes the Historic Town of Grand-Bassam, Côte d’Ivoire, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The historic town of Grand-Bassam is an example of a colonial town built at the end of the 19th century and during the early 20th century. It follows a planning concept based on the specialisation of quarters for ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Historic Town of Grand-Bassam
Country: Côte d'Ivoire
36 COM 8B.18
Cultural Properties - Rabat, modern capital and historic city: a shared heritage (Morocco)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: a Shared Heritage
Country: Morocco
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B.Add and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1.Add,
2. Inscribes Pearling, testimony of an island economy, Bahrain, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iii);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The traditional sea-use of harvesting pearls from oyster beds in the Persian Gulf shaped the island of Bahrain’s economy for millennia. As the best-known source of pearls since ancient times, the Gulf industry reached the apex of ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Country: Bahrain
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy
Country: Bahrain
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Site of Xanadu, China, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii), (iii), (iv) and (vi);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value;
Brief synthesis
The Site of Xanadu is the site of a grassland capital characteristic of cultural fusion, witnessing clashes and mutual assimilation between the nomadic and agrarian civilisations in northern Asia. Located on the southeast edge of the Mongolian ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Site of Xanadu
Country: China
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Site of Xanadu
Country: China
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), on the World Heritage List, on the basis of criterion (ii);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Masjed-e Jāme’ is the oldest Friday (congregational) mosque in Iran, located in the historical centre of Isfahan. The monument illustrates a sequence of architectural construction and decorative styles of different periods in Iranian Islamic architecture, covering 12 ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes Gonbad-e Qābus, Iran (Islamic Republic of), on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Visible from great distances in the surrounding lowlands near the ancient Ziyarid capital, Jorjan, the 53-metre high Gonbad-e Qābus tower dominates the town laid out around its base in the early 20th century. The tower’s ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Gonbad-e Qābus
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Gonbad-e Qābus
Country: Iran (Islamic Republic of)
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley, Malaysia, on the World Heritage List, on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The lush Lenggong Valley on the Malay Peninsula contains evidence in open-air and cave sites along the Perak River spanning all the periods of hominid history outside Africa from 1.83 million to 1,700 years ago.
Undisturbed ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Country: Malaysia
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley
Country: Malaysia
36 COM 8B.26
Cultural Properties - Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy (Indonesia)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy
Country: Indonesia
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Landscape of Grand Pré, Canada, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (v) and (vi);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Grand Pré ‘marshland’ and the remains of the associated old villages constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to a remarkable effort, over many centuries, using the polder technique to ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Landscape of Grand Pré
Country: Canada
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Landscape of Grand Pré
Country: Canada
36 COM 8B.28
Cultural Properties - Sacral Complex on the remains of the Roman Forum in Zadar (Croatia)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Country: Croatia
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin, France, on the World Heritage List as a cultural landscape on the basis of criteria (ii), (iv) and (vi);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin corresponds to the French part of the northwest European coal seam. On a broad open plain, it extends some 120 km, through the two administrative departments of Nord and ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Country: France
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin
Country: France
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, Germany, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (i) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The 18th century Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is a masterwork of Baroque theatre architecture, commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine of Brandenburg as a venue for opera seria over which the princely couple ceremonially presided. The ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Country: Germany
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Margravial Opera House Bayreuth
Country: Germany
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications, Portugal,on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Guarding the key border crossing between Portugal’s capital Lisbon and Spain’s capital Madrid, in an undulating, riverine landscape, the Garrison Town of Elvas was fortified extensively from the 17th to the 19th ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
Country: Portugal
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Garrison Border Town of Elvas and its Fortifications
Country: Portugal
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
The vast archaeological site of Çatalhöyük comprises two tells rising up to 20 meters above the Konya plain on the Southern Anatolian Plateau. Excavations of the Eastern tell have revealed 18 levels of Neolithic ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Country: Turkey
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük
Country: Turkey
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija, Slovenia, Spain, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criteria (ii) and (iv);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
Mercury is a relatively rare metal, whose use has long been irreplaceable in a variety of technical, chemical and industrial processes. It has only been produced in substantial quantities and over a long period by a ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Heritage of Mercury. Almadén and Idrija
The World Heritage Committee,
1. Having examined Documents WHC-12/36.COM/8B and WHC-12/ 36.COM/INF.8B1,
2. Inscribes the Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland, Sweden, on the World Heritage List on the basis of criterion (v);
3. Adopts the following Statement of Outstanding Universal Value:
Brief synthesis
In a comparatively small area of north-eastern Sweden, bordering the Gulf of Bothnia and known as Hälsingland, are a concentration of large richly decorated, wooden farmhouses and associated farm buildings reflecting the peak of ...
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Country: Sweden
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Country: Sweden
36 COM 8B.42
Cultural Properties - Rio de Janeiro, Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea (Brazil)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea
Country: Brazil
36 COM 8B.65
Statements of Outstanding Universal Value of the twelve properties inscribed at the 35th session of the World Heritage Committee (UNESCO, 2011)
Session: 36th session of the World Heritage Committee (36 COM)
Year: 2012
Sites: Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe Archaeological Sites of the Island of Meroe Citadel of the Ho Dynasty Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia Cultural Landscape of the Serra de Tramuntana Cultural Sites of Al Ain (Hafit, Hili, Bidaa Bint Saud and Oases Areas) Fort Jesus, Mombasa Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison Konso Cultural Landscape Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans Wadi Rum Protected Area
Country: Barbados Colombia Ethiopia Germany Jordan Kenya Mongolia Slovakia Spain Sudan Ukraine United Arab Emirates Viet Nam
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