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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6St. Michael Catholic Church, Nagasaki
St. Michael Catholic Church in Nagasaki city, Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
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1St. Michael the Archangel Church, Binarowa
This Gothic church was built in 1500. It is decorated with numerous sculptures and paintings of angels, which makes it a magical place.
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1St. Michael the Archangel Church, Debno
The church, together with other wooden churches in southern Poland and the Podkarpacie region, was listed on the UNESCO List of World.
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1St. Michael the Archangel Church, Turzansk
Orthodox church of St. Michael the Archangel in Turzańsk - wooden church (in its history also served Greek Catholics and Roman Catholics), built between 1801-1803. Located on route Podkarpackie Wooden Architecture (route No. IV: Sanocko-Dukla). Object of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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8St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim
The Church of St. Michael is an early-Romanesque church in Hildesheim, Germany. It has been on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1985. It is now a Lutheran church.
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1St. Paraskeva Church, Kwiaton
Orthodox Church of St. Paraskeva in Kwiaton (now the Church, since 1991, has also a second name – of Our Lady Queen) is considered to be the most beautiful, but also very typical of the western Lemkowszczyzna.
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10St. Peter's Church, Leuven
Saint Peter's Church of Leuven, Belgium, is situated on the city's Grote Markt (main market square), right across the ornate Town Hall.
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1St. Procopius Basilica, Trebic
St. Procopius Basilica is a Romanesque-Gothic Christian church in Trebic, Czech Republic. It was built on the site of the original Virgin Mary's Chapel of the Benedictine monastery in 1240–1280. It became a national cultural monument in 2002 as a part of the "monastery with St. Procopius church". The basilica together with the Jewish Quarter in Trebic were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.
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3St. Rumbold's Cathedral, Mechelen
St. Rumbold's Cathedral is the Belgian metropolitan archiepiscopal cathedral in Mechelen, dedicated to Saint Rumbold, Christian missionary and martyr who had founded an abbey nearby.
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1Stahlberg Castle Ruins
The Stahlberg Castle is a ruined castle in a side spur on a mountain spur above the hamlet Steeg the city Bacharach, Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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4Stari Grad Plain, Hvar
The Stari Grad Plain on the island of Hvar is an agricultural landscape that was set up by the ancient Greek colonists in the 4th century BC, and remains in use.
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10Stari Most (Old Bridge)
Stari Most (Old Bridge) is a reconstruction of a 16th-century Ottoman bridge in the city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina that crosses the river Neretva and connects two parts of the city.
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10Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.
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3Stoclet Palace
The Stoclet Palace is a mansion in Brussels, Belgium. It was built by architect Josef Hoffmann for banker and art lover Adolphe Stoclet between 1905 and 1911 and is located in the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre area of Brussels.
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5Stolzenfels Castle
Stolzenfels Castle is a castle or palace near Koblenz on the left bank of the Rhine, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Stolzenfels was a ruined 13th-century castle, gifted to the Prussian Crownprince, Frederick William in 1823.
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10Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a Neolithic and grounded until at least the Bronze Age-used building located near Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, about 13 kilometers north of Salisbury. It consists of a grave complex, which surrounds a Megalith structure, which in turn is composed of several concentric stone circles.
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10Stonehenge Avenue
Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, UK. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in the 18th century, it measures nearly 3 kilometers, connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon. It was built during the Stonehenge 3 period of 2600 to 1700 BCE.
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6Stora Alvaret
>Stora Alvaret is a limestone barren plain on the island of Oland, Sweden. Because of the thin soil mantle and high pH levels, a great assortment of vegetation is found including numerous rare species.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Avasaksa (Ylitornio)
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Baelljasvarri
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Baranowka
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Beresnaki (Paliepiukai)
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Felshtyn
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve Monument, Tartu (Tartu Observatory)
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
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1Struve Geodetic Arc, Fuglenes
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian.
