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UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site provides prima facie evidence that such culturally sensitive sites are legally protected pursuant to the Law of War, under the Geneva Convention, its Articles, Protocols and Customs, together with other treaties including the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and international law.
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The modern-day inhabitants of Røros still work and live in the characteristic 17th and 18th century buildings which have led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Although the government believed that the ancient capital's hundreds of ( unrestored ) temples and large corpus of stone inscriptions were more than sufficient to win the designation of UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has not been so designated, allegedly mainly on account of the restorations.
The museum also played a major role in securing designation of the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset as a UNESCO World Heritage site and has subsequently been a lead partner in the Lyme Regis Fossil Festivals.
Fort Henry has been designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, and in 2007 was included in the designation of the Rideau Canal as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Unité in Marseille is pending designation as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.
In 2005, UNESCO added the Nilgiri Mountain Railway as an extension to the original designation.
Important factors contributing to the recent boom of the tourism industry are the increasing popularity of the Way of St. James (; a pilgrimage route that goes from France to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia ), the designation in 1997 of Las Médulas as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the development of rural tourism lodging and wineries in the area.
** UNESCO Honor Selection designation, 2003
A non-profit organization, " The Way to World Heritage Gunkanjima " ( represented by Doutoku Sakamoto ), is proposing the designation of the Gunkanjima island as a UNESCO World Heritage site as one of The Modern Industrial Heritage Sites in Kyushu and Yamaguchi.
A portion of the river in northern Côte d ' Ivoire is the source of the vegetative richness that earned the area a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, Comoé National Park.
These have led to its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of three in the country.
The UNESCO is using the designation " Uvs Lake site " as an umbrella term to summarize twelve separate clusters of protected sites, each a representative of a major eastern Eurasian biome.
The designation of Baa Atoll as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve in June 2011 was a significant achievement for the Maldives.
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ( 明清皇家陵寝 ) is the designation under which the UNESCO has included several tombs and burial complexes into the list of World Heritage Sites.
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There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site " Works of Antoni Gaudí ".
* UNESCO World Heritage Sites Works of Antoni Gaudí
In 1984, it was declared World Heritage by UNESCO.
* The building is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site " Works of Antoni Gaudí ".
Aachen Cathedral has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
* UNESCO World Heritage Centre — Acropolis, Athens
UNESCO inscribed Ibsen's autographed manuscripts of A Doll's House on the Memory of the World Register in 2001, in recognition of their historical value.
The Museum Island in the River Spree houses five museums built from 1830 to 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 ).
The historic part of the city is on the UNESCO World Heritage List as " an outstanding urban and architectural ensemble " of the 18th century.
Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Generally regarded as Sweden's oldest town, Birka ( along with Hovgården ) has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
Mousa, Old Scatness and Jarlshof: The Crucible of Iron Age Shetland is a combination of three broch sites in Shetland that are on the United Kingdom " Tentative List " of possible nominations for the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind.
The Madeira Islands laurel forest was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999.
Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site near the centre of Liverpool, England, where a system of intertwining waterways and docks is now being developed for mainly residential and leisure use.
In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Three specific UNESCO World Heritage sites at Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa by themselves account for over 1, 000 dolmen.
The largest of these, the World Esperanto Association, has an official consultative relationship with the United Nations and UNESCO, which recognized Esperanto as a medium for international understanding in 1954.
* 1954: UNESCO establishes consultative relations with the World Esperanto Association.
It was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.
The beguinages, as well as the belfry and adjacent cloth hall, were recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites in 1998 and 1999.
One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The house has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
In 2007, the Hudson's Bay Company Archives became part of the United Nations " Memory of the World " project, under UNESCO.
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On November 16, 2010 UNESCO declared flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
A traditional farmhouse built in the 1810s in Hälsingland, Sweden, painted i traditional Falu red, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland
Butrint, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The rediscovered Greek city of Buthrotum () ( modern-day Butrint ), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is probably more significant today than it was when Julius Caesar used it as a provisions depot for his troops during his campaigns in the 1st century BC.
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