They bear testimony to the transformation of an essentially oral southern African culture, through the assimilation of the Portuguese language and its repercussion on both Portugal and Brazil.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The store signs in Messina, a town near the South African border with Zimbabwe, bear garish testimony to the boost that migrant traders give the local economy.

ECONOMIST: A ticket to prosperity

Cyprus has inscribed on the World Heritage List ten churches which bear outstanding testimony to Byzantine civilization, are well-conserved examples of rural religious architecture and provide evidence for the links between eastern and western Christian art.

UNESCO: Painted Churches in the Troodos Region