🏛️ UNESCO 2024: 42 new World Heritage Sites

At the extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, changes were made to the list of protected sites. The Burial Ground of the Buganda Kings at Kasubi in Uganda has been removed from the list of sites under threat. Restoration work was carried out on its territory.

However, two new objects located in Ukraine were immediately added – “St. Sophia Cathedral and associated monastery buildings, Kiev-Pechersk Lavra” and “Ensemble of the historical center of Lviv”.

42 sites have been added to the general UNESCO World Heritage List – 8 from Africa, 19 from Asia, 13 from Europe, 5 from North America, 2 from South America. Of these, 33 are classified as cultural , the remaining 9 as natural. Now there are 1199 items in the list.

New objects:

• Turan temperate deserts (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
• Uruk Bani Maarid (Saudi Arabia) – a sandy reserve with a unique landscape
• Tugai forests of the Tigrovaya Balka nature reserve (Tajikistan)
• Genocide Memorial Sites: Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisero (Rwanda)
• Funeral and memorial complexes of the First World War (Belgium, France)
• Ancient city of Si Thep and associated monuments of Dvaravati (Thailand)
• Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker (Netherlands)
• Wooden hypostyle mosques of medieval Anatolia (Turkey)
• Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (United States of America)
• Evaporite karst and caves of the Northern Apennines (Italy)
• Jodensavannah Archaeological Site: Jodensavannah Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery (Suriname) are the ruins of the earliest synagogue of architectural significance in the Americas, as well as cemeteries, boat docks, and a military post.
• Zagori Cultural Landscape (Greece) – stone villages located in remote rural areas in northwestern Greece.
• Anticosti (Canada) is the island with the most complete and well-preserved fossil record of the first mass extinction of the animal world 447-437 million years ago.
• ESMA Museum and Memorial, former clandestine detention, torture and extermination center (Argentina)
• Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda)
• Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939. (Lithuania)
• Gordion (Turkey) is a multi- layered ancient settlement, including the remains of the ancient capital of Phrygia (an independent kingdom of the Iron Age).
• Žatec and the landscape of Žatec hops (Czech Republic)
• Pre- historical monuments of Talayot ​​Minorca (Spain)
• Cultural landscape of the Khinalig people and the route of cattle transhumance “Koch-Yolu” (Azerbaijan)
• National Archaeological Park Takalik Abaj (Guatemala)
• Bale Mountains National Park (Ethiopia)
• Djerba: Evidence of a settlement system on an island territory (Tunisia) – settlements with a unique road structure.
• The Hoysala Sacred Ensembles (India) are three of the most representative examples of Hoysala-style temple complexes in southern India, dating from the 12th and 13th centuries.
• Cosmological axis of Yogyakarta and its historical landmarks (Indonesia)
• Astronomical observatories of the Kazan Federal University (Russia)
• Maison Carré in Nîmes (France) – an early example of a Roman temple
• Ancient Jericho /Tell es-Sultan (Palestine) is a mound containing archaeological finds from thousands of years of human activity, and the adjacent perennial spring of Ain es-Sultan.
• Silk Road: Zarafshan-Karakum corridor (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
• Gedeo Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia) is the territory of the Gedeo people with sacred forests and ancient religious monuments.
• Koh Ker: The archaeological site of ancient Lingapura or Chok Gargyar (Cambodia) is a sacred urban complex including numerous temples and shrines.
• Deer stones and associated Bronze Age objects (Mongolia)
• Tumulus Kai (Republic of Korea) – archaeological cemeteries with mounds related to the Kaya Confederation, which existed in the south of the Korean Peninsula from the 1st to 6th centuries. AD
• Cultural landscape of ancient tea forests of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er (China)
• Shantiniketan (India) is a center of art based on ancient Indian traditions and a vision of the unity of humanity.
• Persian Caravanserai (Islamic Republic of Iran) – inns along the roads.
• Trondek Klondike (Canada) is the territory of the Trondek Khwe Ch'in First Nation.
• Viking Age ring fortresses (Denmark)
• Jewish medieval heritage of Erfurt (Germany) – three monuments: Old Synagogue, Mikveh and Stone House.
• Old town of Kuldiga (Latvia)
• The Odzala-Kokua forest (Congo) is an example of post-glacial forest recolonization of savannah ecosystems.
• Volcanoes and forests of Mont Pelée and mountain peaks of northern Martinique (France)

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