6 July 2009
New sites added to World Heritage list
Posted by Cecilia under: Culture; Nature .
At its 33rd session on June 28, 2009 the World Heritage Committee added 2 natural sites and 11 cultural sites to the World Heritage list.
These are the 2 new natural sites:
The Wadden Sea in Germany and Netherlands: one of the last remaining natural large-scale, intertidal ecosystems. We wrote about it in our last Monday post.
The Dolomites in Italy: a mountain range in the northern Italian Alps featuring some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes with a high density of narrow, deep and long valleys. The site also represents one of the best places to discover Mesozoic carbonate platform systems with fossil records.
This is the first of the 11 new cultural sites:
Stoclet House in Belgium: one of the most accomplished and homogeneous buildings which marked a turning point in Art Nouveau, foreshadowed Art Deco and the Modern Movement in architecture. Bearing testimony to the artistic renewal of European architecture, the house retains a high level of design integrity.
The remaining 10 new cultural sites added to the World Heritage list will be discussed in our next Monday post.
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