In fact, Italy has the highest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites of any country in the world.
While all of these places are of the luxury calibre, the emphasis is on eco-tourism and preservation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
This short video is part of Tides of Time, 2009, an interactive DVD that features eight of UNESCO World Heritage sites around the world.
The citadel of Madiq and the ancient villages in the north of Syria, all of which are Unesco World Heritage Sites, could become collateral damage.
Roman-built medieval fortress city of Carcassonne (both UNESCO World Heritage Sites).
And it is a spectacular one, encompassing UNESCO World Heritage sites, pirate coves, dinosaur fossils, surf beaches, seal-basked rocks and enough Cornish pasty parlours to sustain your hiking between them.
Slightly farther afield, Sri Lanka's so-called "cultural triangle" - comprising the area bounded by Kandy, Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa - hosts Sri Lanka's most celebrated archaeological and cultural sites, and four more of its Unesco World Heritage sites.
In recent years, some of the nation's real-estate developers and even government officials have been churning out detailed counterfeits of the West's greatest architectural hits, from Unesco World Heritage sites to Le Corbusier gems to Manhattan skyscrapers.
National Parks on both sides of the border and falls are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and between them, boast a wide assortment of falls view hotels, hiking trails, walkways, sightseeing buses, an eco-railway and even helicopter rides.
The obvious first step on a Sri Lanka architectural itinerary is the 17th-century walled Galle Fort, one of seven Unesco World Heritage sites on the island, and set just steps away from those glorious beaches on the south coast.
Edinburgh is home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites separated by the steep-sided greenery of the Princes Street Gardens: the Old Town with its imposing Castle Rock and Royal Mile, and the New Town, just a bit younger than Old Town, with a posh Georgian grid laid out in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
Using the Aldabra atoll as an example, Frauke Fleischer-Dogley (CEO, Seychelle Islands Foundation) noted that no other international protected areas system holds its sites accountable for its conservation efforts as does the UNESCO World Heritage Marine Sites.
It explores in detail the economic, social, institutional and legal considerations that govern the diverse categories of UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites.
Today UNESCO and its values have a strong presence in the UK. From UNESCO Chairs to World Heritage Sites, UNESCO is more a part of our lives in the UK than many people realise.
Today UNESCO and its values have a strong presence in the UK. From UNESCO Chairs to World Heritage Sites to its inaugural Creative Cities, UNESCO is more a part of our lives in the UK than many people realise.
To raise the professional capacity of guides at heritage sites, particularly, World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO-ICCROM Asian Academy for Heritage Management developed the Cultural Heritage Specialist Guide Programme in 2005.
There are a large number of UNESCO sites and programmes active in the UK, including 28 World Heritage Sites, eight Biosphere Reserves, three UNESCO Creative Cities, 18 UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks at UK Higher Education Institutions, and 66 UNESCO Schools, among many others.
They have included the granting of the National Monument Conservation and Restoration Award, a National Workshop on the 1972 Convention, a travelling photograph exhibit of Cuban spots declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Old Havana and its colonial fortress system as World Heritage Sites.
International, regional and national registers list items of world significance in the same way as the UNESCO World Heritage List identifies precious natural sites and buildings.
This conference is part of the Making Sense of Our Sites initiative, launched by the UK National Commission for UNESCO in 2009, which supports UK World Heritage Sites to communicate messages of World Heritage effectively to schools.
The UK Government has announced that in future it will be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status, with a streamlined application system to help ensure success.
This follows the 2009 DCMS World Heritage Policy Review Consultation and the announcement in February 2010 that the UK would be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status.
UNESCO: Next step in finding new UK World Heritage sites announced
This opening of applications follows an earlier announcement by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) that the UK will be putting forward fewer sites for consideration by UNESCO for World Heritage status, with a streamlined application system.
Examples of how the Conventions contribute to development include the UNESCO designated sites, such as the nearly 1000 World Heritage properties and over 500 Biosphere Reserves, which provide ideal laboratories where innovative heritage-driven approaches to sustainable development are tested.
During the session, the Committee approved the inscription of 27 sites on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
Correspondents say Unesco membership would allow Palestinians to apply to classify their monuments as World Heritage Sites at a time when the heritage of much of the region is under dispute.
The UK Government is preparing a new Tentative List of natural, cultural and mixed sites for potential nomination for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be submitted to UNESCO in 2011, with a view to putting forward nominations to the World Heritage Committee from 2012.
The UK Government is currently preparing a new Tentative List of natural, cultural and mixed sites for potential nomination for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List, to be submitted to UNESCO in 2011, with a view to putting forward nominations to the World Heritage Committee from 2012.
On the 40th anniversary of the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the 30th anniversary of the declaration of Old Havana and its fortress system as World Heritage Sites, and the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO Programme "Memory of the World", a press conference was held on Tuesday, November 30.
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