A World Heritage Site is a place (such as a building, city, complex, desert, forest, island, lake, monument, or mountain) that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as being of special cultural or physical significance. The list is maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 UNESCO member states which are elected by the General Assembly.
UNESCO World Heritage sites
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6Sirsukh
Sirsukh is the name of an archaeological site near the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan.
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7Sitorai Makhi Khosa
Sitorai Mokhi-Khosa Palace was built in 1912-1918, by order of the last Emir of Bukhara Mir Sayyd Muhammad Alim Khan.
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5Skara Brae
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. It consists of eight clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BCE–2500 BCE.
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10Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
Skellig Michael (Irish: Sceilig Mhichil), or Great Skellig (Irish: Sceilig Mhor) is the larger of the two Skellig Islands located 11.6 km west of the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland.
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9Skogskyrkogarden
Skogskyrkogarden is a cemetery located in the Enskededalen district south of central Stockholm, Sweden. Its design, by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, reflects the development of architecture from Nordic Classicism to mature functionalism.
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4Slovak Karst National Park
Slovak Karst National Park is a national park in the Slovak Karst mountain range in South East Slovakia. It lies in the Gelnica, Roznava and Kosice-okolie districts in the Kosice region. The National Park covers an area of 346.11 km² and its buffer zone covers 117.41 km².
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10Soltaniyeh
Soltaniyeh is the capital city of Soltaniyeh District of Abhar County, Zanjan Province, Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran.
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10Somapura Mahavihara
Somapura Mahavihara in Paharpur, Badalgachhi Upazila, Naogaon District, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist viharas in the Indian Subcontinent and is one of the most important archeological sites in the country.
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10Speicherstadt, Hamburg
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg—within the HafenCity quarter—and was built from 1883 to 1927.
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10Speyer Cathedral
The Speyer Cathedral, officially the Imperial Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption and St Stephen, in Speyer, Germany, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Speyer and is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Bamberg.
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10Spis Castle
The ruins of Spis Castle in eastern Slovakia form one of the largest castle sites in Central Europe. The castle is situated above the town of Spisske Podhradie and the village of Zehra, in the region known as Spis.
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4Srebarna Nature Reserve
The Srebarna Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in northeastern Bulgaria (Southern Dobruja), near the village of the same name, 18 km west of Silistra and 2 km south of the Danube. It comprises Lake Srebarna and its surroundings and is located on the Via Pontica, a bird migration route between Europe and Africa.
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10St Margaret's Church, Westminster
The church of St Margaret, Westminster Abbey, is situated in the grounds of Westminster Abbey on Parliament Square, and is the Anglican parish church of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom in London. It is dedicated to Margaret of Antioch.
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1St. Agnes Beguinage, Sint-Truiden
Founded in 1258, the St. Agnes Beguinage of Sint-Truiden is one of thirteen Flemish beguinages inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It includes a Gothic church, now a museum of religious art, in a rectangular courtyard bordered by centuries-old houses that were once occupied by semi-monastic women known as Beguines.
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10St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh
St. Andrew Square is a city square in Edinburgh, Scotland located at the east end of George Street. The construction of St. Andrew Square began in 1772, as the first part of the New Town, designed by James Craig. Within six years of its completion St. Andrew Square became one of the most desirable and most fashionable residential areas in the city.
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9St. Augustine’s Church, Macau
St. Augustine’s Church was built by Italian catholic Augustine priests in 1586 and three years later taken over by Portuguese. It is one of oldest churches of Macau as well as Macau’s first church for English Mass.
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1St. Dmytro's Church, Matkiv
St. Dmytro's Church, built in 1838, in 2013 inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with other wooden tserkvas of Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine.
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10St. Dominic's Church, Macau
St. Dominic's Church is a late 16th century Baroque-style church that serves within the Cathedral Parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau. It is located in the peninsular part of the city at the Largo de Sao Domingos, situated near the Leal Senado Building.
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1St. George's Church, Drohobych
St. George's Church in Drohobych is one of the oldest and best preserved timber churches of Galicia. The church, dating from ca. 1500, consists of three parts.
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4St. Germanus Church, Tienen
The church is also an example of the region's building stones, especially the Overlaar quartzite. The tower (65 metres) and its carillon (54 bells) can occasionally be visited. UNESCO has recognised the tower as a world heritage site.
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1St. James the Less Church, Powroznik
The Orthodox Church of St. James the Less the Apostle in Powroznik is the oldest Lemko shrine in Poland and one of the oldest ones in the Carpathians.
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10St. Joseph's Seminary and Church, Macau
The St. Joseph's Seminary and Church is a seminary and church located in Macau, China. The seminary was established in 1728 followed by the church in 1758.
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1St. Leonard's Church, Lipnica Murowana
It was built at the end of 15th century using larch wood in place of an old church. It has been preserved until toady in an unchanged form and it is one of the most valuable wooden Gothic buildings in Poland.
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1St. Leonard's Church, Zoutleeuw
The Saint Leonard's Church in Zoutleeuw, Belgium, stands on the former site of a Romanesque chapel erected in 1125 by Benedictines from Vlierbeek Abbey near Leuven. Construction of the present church began around 1231, and additions continued into the 16th century.
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10St. Mary's Cathedral (Hildesheim Cathedral), Hildesheim
Hildesheim Cathedral, officially the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, is a medieval Catholic cathedral in Hildesheim, Germany, that has been on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1985, together with the nearby St. Michael's Church.
