UNESCO World Heritage sites

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.

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    Town Hall and Belfry, Herentals

    Built in the 15th century by the bed sheet makers and wool painters as a dry hall. Before 1430 called 'gulde huys', 'Meethuys' and 'loterhuys', used as town hall since 1430.

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    Town Hall and Belfry, Lille

    Inaugurated in 1932 and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005, the Belfry of the City Hall dominates Lille from its height of 104 meters.

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    Town Hall and Belfry, Lo

    The Old Town Hall of Lo is a historic landmark in the municipality of Lo-Reninge, in the Belgian province of West Flanders. Formerly the seat of the municipal government, the building is now a hotel and restaurant.

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    Town Hall and Belfry, Loos

    The town hall of Loos was constructed in the 1880s to the design of architect Louis Marie Cordonnier. Its Flemish-style belfry belongs to the set of 56 "Belfries of Belgium and France" inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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    Town Hall and Belfry, Roeselare

    The rococo city hall on the central market square dates from the 18th century. The city hall, market hall, and belfry are classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site (part of Belfries of Belgium and France).

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    Town Hall, Brussels

    The Town Hall of the City of Brussels is a Gothic building from the Middle Ages. It is located on the famous Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium.

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    Town Hall, Goslar

    The Goslar Town Hall is, indeed, a building of the centuries: the east wing with the arcades opening onto the Market Square was begun in the middle of the 15th century and over the following 400 years the Town Hall was continually extended and enlarged.

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    Town Hall, Oudenaarde

    The Town Hall of Oudenaarde, Belgium was built by architect Hendrik van Pede in 1526–1537 to replace the medieval Schepenhuis (Aldermen's House) that occupied the same site.

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    Town Hall, Sint-Truiden

    The 18th century Town Hall was built around the medieval hall and hall tower. The tower houses a newly (2002) restored 50-bell carillon and has been acknowledged by UNESCO as World Heritage.

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    Troy

    Troy was a city situated in what is known from Classical sources as Asia Minor, now northwest Anatolia in modern Turkey, located south of the southwest end of the Dardanelles/Hellespont and northwest of Mount Ida at Hisarlık.

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    Turret 26B (Brunton), Hadrian's Wall

    Turret 26B (Brunton) is located just to the west of Brunton House, between it and the A6079. It is preserved with upstanding remains up to 2.8 metres (9.2 ft) high, and forms part of a 69 metres (75 yd) extant section of Hadrian's Wall.

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    Turret 52A (Banks East), Hadrian's Wall

    Turret 52A (Banks East) is situated by the road east of Banks village. Excavations in 1933 uncovered remains of the demolished Turf Wall abutting the turret's east wall. The turret was in use from around the early 2nd century until at least the end of the 3rd century.

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    Turret 7A, Hadrian's Wall

    Turret 7A is located in Denton Burn, in between Thorntree Drive and Brignall Gardens off the A186. During the construction of a nearby house in 1923 a sestertius coin dating to the reign of Emperor Trajan was discovered. Another coin was found in 1929.

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    Ubeda

    Ubeda is a town in the province of Jaén in Spain's autonomous community of Andalusia.

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    Ulugbek Madrasah

    The Ulugbek Madrasah was built in 1417 by Ismail Isfagani and Najmeddin Bukhari, the best architects of the time. The structure shows harmonious proportions and forms of its elements; it has little decoration and yet looks impressive and even majestic.

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    Ulugh Beg Madrasah

    The Ulugbek Madrasa in Samarkand is a religious educational institution in Uzbekistan. It was built by Ulugh Beg during the Timurid dynasty at the Registan in the heart of the ancient city of Samarkand.

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    Umm ar-Rasas

    Umm ar-Rasas is located 30 km southeast of Madaba, which is the capital city of the Madaba Governorate in central Jordan. It was once accessible by branches of the King's Highway (ancient), and is situated in the semi-arid steppe region of the Jordanian Desert

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    UNESCO-IHE

    The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education is the prestigious and largest international postgraduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, Netherlands. The Institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees, and PhD degrees in collaboration with partners in the Netherlands. Since 1957 the Institute has provided postgraduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries.

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    University of Coimbra

    The University of Coimbra is a Portuguese public university in Coimbra, Portugal. Established in 1290 in Lisbon, it went through a number of relocations until it was moved permanently to its current city in 1537, being one of the oldest universities in continuous operation in the world, the oldest university of Portugal, and one of its largest higher education and research institutions.

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    University of Virginia

    The University of Virginia (UVA, U.Va. or Virginia), is a research university founded by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and located in Charlottesville, Virginia. UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code, and secret societies.

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    Upper Nagacadan Rice Terraces

    Upper Nagacadan Rice Terraces. The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995, the first-ever property to be included in the cultural landscape category of the World Heritage List.

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    Urnes Stave Church

    Urnes Stave Church is a 12th-century stave church at Ornes, along the Lustrafjorden in the municipality of Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It sits on the eastern side of the fjord, directly across the fjord from the village of Solvorn and about 5 kilometres east of the village of Hafslo.