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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2Chapel of St. Roch, Bingen
The Chapel of St. Roch is a German pilgrimage chapel, dedicated to Saint Roch, on the Rochusberg southeast of Bingen am Rhein.
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8Chengde Mountain Resort
The Mountain Resort in Chengde or Ligong, is a large complex of imperial palaces and gardens situated in the city of Chengde in Hebei, China.
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10Chesters Bridge (Roman bridge), Hadrian's Wall
Chesters Bridge was a Roman bridge over the River North Tyne at Chollerford, Northumberland, England, and adjacent to Chesters Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall.
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10Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Victoria Terminus)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly Victoria Terminus, historic railway station in Mumbai Maharashtra, India which serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways.
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6Chogha Zanbil
Chogha Zanbil is an ancient Elamite complex in the Khuzestan province of Iran. It is one of the few existent ziggurats outside of Mesopotamia.
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5Chor-Bakr
The memorial complex of Chor-Bakr was built over the ostensible burial place of Abu-Bakr-Said, who died in the year 360 of the Muslim Calendar, and who was one of the four of Abu-Bakrs - descendants of Muhammad. The complex includes the necropolis of family tombs, and courtyards enclosed with walls.
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10Church of Our Lady, Trier
Church of Our Lady in Trier, is, along with the Cathedral of Magdeburg the earliest Gothic church in Germany and falls into the architectural tradition of the French Gothic cathedrals. It is located next to the Trier Dom. It is designated as part of the Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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2Church of Peace, Jawor
The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648.
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4Church of Peace, Swidnica
The Churches of Peace in Jawor and Swidnica in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648.
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10Church of Prophet Elijah
The Church of Prophet Elijah is a 14th-century church in Thessaloniki, Greece, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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10Church of St. Catherine
The Church of Saint Catherine is a late Byzantine church in the northwestern corner of the old city of Thessaloniki, Greece. The church dates to the Palaiologan period, but its exact dating and original dedication are unknown.
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1Church of St. George, Staro Nagoricane
The Church of St. George is a Macedonian Orthodox church in the village of Staro Nagoricane, near Kumanovo in the Republic of Macedonia.
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10Church of St. Mary's, Wittenberg
Town and Parish Church of St. Mary's is the civic church of the German town of Lutherstadt Wittenberg. The reformers Martin Luther and Johannes Bugenhagen preached there and the building also saw the first celebration of the mass in German rather than Latin and the first ever distribution of the bread and wine to the congregation - it is thus considered the mother-church of the Protestant Reformation.
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1Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Brunary
The Greek Catholic Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Brunary Wyzne (currently the Roman Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption of the BVM) dates from 1797.
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8Church of St. Nicholas Orphanos
The Church of Saint Nicholas Orphanos is an early 14th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
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10Church of St. Panteleimon
The Church of Saint Panteleimon is a late Byzantine church in Thessaloniki, Greece, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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3Church of the Acheiropoietos
The Church of the Acheiropoietos is a 5th-century Byzantine church in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki. It is located in the city's centre, at Agias Sofias street opposite Makedonomachon square.
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1Church of the Archangel Michael, Uzhok
Wooden St. Michael Church was built in suburb of Uzhok, Ukraine in 1745. The structure consisits of three wooden naves and a brick sacristy.
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9Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist
The Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and Saint John the Baptist is a Gothic and Baroque Gothic church north-east of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic and is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List together with the Chapel of All Saints and its ossuary and other monuments in Kutna Hora.
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10Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, Macau
The Igreja da Se is the current cathedral of the Diocese of Macau in Macau, China. The cathedral is also called the "Church of the Nativity of Our Lady".
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10Church of Wies
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann, who lived nearby for the last eleven years of his life. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, in the municipality of Steingaden in the Weilheim-Schongau district, Bavaria, Germany.
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2Cilurnum (Chester's Roman For), Hadrian's Wall
Cilurnum or Cilurvum was a fort on Hadrian's Wall mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum. It is now identified with the fort found at Chesters near the village of Walwick, Northumberland, England. It was built in 123 AD, just after the wall's completion.
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4Citadel (Fortifications of Vauban), Arras
Built by Vauban between 1667 and 1672, the Citadel has been nicknamed La belle inutile (the beautiful useless one) by residents as it has never been directly involved in heavy fighting and didn't prevent the Germans from occupying the city in either World War.
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7Citadel (Fortifications of Vauban), Besancon
The Citadel of Besancon in Franche-Comte, France, is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban.
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9Citadel of Derbend
Derbent resembles a huge museum and has magnificent mountains and shore nearby.
