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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6Boat Lift No-1, Houdeng-Goegnies
The lifts on the old Canal du Centre are a series of four hydraulic boat lifts near the town of La Louviere in the Sillon industriel of Wallonia, classified both as Wallonia's Major Heritage and as a World Heritage Site. Boat Lift No-1, Houdeng-Goegnies.
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6Boat Lift No-2, Houdeng-Aimeries
The lifts on the old Canal du Centre are a series of four hydraulic boat lifts near the town of La Louviere in the Sillon industriel of Wallonia, classified both as Wallonia's Major Heritage and as a World Heritage Site. Boat Lift No-2, Houdeng-Aimeries.
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6Boat Lift No-3, Strepy-Bracquegnies
The lifts on the old Canal du Centre are a series of four hydraulic boat lifts near the town of La Louviere in the Sillon industriel of Wallonia, classified both as Wallonia's Major Heritage and as a World Heritage Site. Boat Lift No-3, Strepy-Bracquegnies.
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6Boat Lift No-4, Thieu
The lifts on the old Canal du Centre are a series of four hydraulic boat lifts near the town of La Louviere in the Sillon industriel of Wallonia, classified both as Wallonia's Major Heritage and as a World Heritage Site. Boat Lift No-4, Thieu.
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3Bochnia Salt Mine (Hotel Sutoris)
The Bochnia Salt Mine in Bochnia, Poland is one of the oldest salt mines in the world and the oldest one in Poland. The mine was established between the 12th and 13th centuries after salt was first discovered in Bochnia and became part of the Royal mining company zupy krakowskie (Krakow salt works).
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7Bogd Khan Mountain
The Bogd Khan Mountain is a mountain in Mongolia that overlooks the nation's capital, Ulaanbaatar, from a height of 914 m above and to the south of the city.
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10Bolghar
Bolghar was intermittently capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th to the 15th centuries, along with Bilyar and Nur-Suvar.
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10Boppard Castle (Electoral Castle)
The castle in Boppard is one of the important fortified complexes at the Middle Rhine. It was built by Balduin the archbishop of Trier as a stronghold after he had conquered the town in 1327. The tower with pouring holes belonged to the original building, the four wings and the yard date from the 17th Century.
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10Boyana Church
The Boyana Church is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. In 1979, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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10Bremen Roland
The Bremen Roland is a statue of Roland, erected in 1404. It stands in the market square (Rathausplatz) of Bremen, Germany, facing the cathedral, and shows Roland, paladin of the first Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and hero of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.
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10Brihadeeswarar Temple
Brihadeeswarar Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva located in Thanjavur in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is also known as RajaRajeswara Temple Rajarajeswaram and Brihadeshwara Temple.
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10Bryggen
Bryggen, also known as Tyskebryggen, is a series of Hanseatic commercial buildings lining the eastern side of the Vagen harbour in Bergen, Norway. Bryggen has since 1979 been on the UNESCO list for World Cultural Heritage sites.
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10Buddhas of Bamiyan
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were in 4th and 5th-centuries monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat by Hazaras region of central Afghanistan.
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10Bulguksa
Bulguksa is located on the slopes of mount Toham. It is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and encompasses seven National treasures of South Korea, including Dabotap and Seokgatap stone pagodas, Cheongun-gyo, and two gilt-bronze statues of Buddha.
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9Bundala National Park
Bundala National Park is an internationally important wintering ground for migratory water birds in Sri Lanka.
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10Burgos Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in the Spanish city of Burgos. Its construction began in 1221, following French Gothic patterns.
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10Buthrotum
Buthrotum was an ancient Greek and later Roman city and bishopric in Epirus. In modern times it is an archeological site in Vlore County, Albania, some 14 kilometres south of Sarande and close to the Greek border and became a Latin Catholic titular see.
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10Caernarfon Castle
Caernarfon Castle is a medieval fortress in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, north-west Wales cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. There was a motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Caernarfon from the late 11th century until 1283 when King Edward I of England began replacing it with the current stone structure.
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10Caernarfon town walls
Caernarfon's town walls are a medieval defensive structure around the town of Caernarfon in North Wales. The walls were constructed between 1283 and 1292 after the foundation of Caernarfon by Edward I, alongside the adjacent castle.
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10Cahokia (Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site)
The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site is located on the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (c. 600–1400 AD) situated directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri. This historic park lies in southern Illinois between East St. Louis and Collinsville.
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10Calnic Fortress (Citadel)
The Calnic Citadel is a citadel located in Calnic, Alba County, in the Transylvania region of Romania. It was built by a nobleman whose family later sold it to the local ethnic German Transylvanian Saxon community at a time when the area belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary.
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3Camboglanna (Roman Fort), Hadrian's Wall
Camboglanna (with the modern name of Castlesteads) was a Roman fort. It was the twelfth fort on Hadrian's Wall counting from the east, between Banna (Birdoswald) to the east and Uxelodunum (Stanwix) to the west.
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9Canglang Pavilion
The Canglang Pavilion, variously translated as the Great Wave Pavilion, Surging Wave Pavilion, or Blue Wave Pavilion, is one of the Classical Gardens of Suzhou that are jointly recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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10Canterbury
Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent in the United Kingdom. It lies on the River Stour.
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10Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site.
