giovedì 9 luglio 2009

Germany World Heritage Sites

The UNESCO (United Nations Educationel, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency estabilished in November 1945 in order to contibute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science and culture.

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place of either cultural or physical significance that has been chosen for the international program for the common heritage of humanity: the World Heritage Fund. This program has the purpose of catalogue, indicate and protect sites of extraordinary importance, so important that they have been recognized as common heritage of humanity. The sites that are chosen can receive money from the World Heritage Fund.
Actually, Italy is the country with the biggest number of Unesco sites, folowed by Spain and China.

Germany's properties inscribed on the World Heritage List are:

Aachen Cathedral (1978)
Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (1991)
Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau (1996)
Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (2008)
Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust at Brühl (1984)
Classical Weimar (1998)
Collegiate Church, Castle, and Old Town of Quedlinburg (1994)
Cologne Cathedral (1996)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz (2000)
Hanseatic City of Lübeck (1987)
Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar (2002)
Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg (1996)
Maulbronn Monastery Complex (1993)
Mines of Rammelsberg and Historic Town of Goslar (1992)
Monastic Island of Reichenau (2000)
Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin (1999)
Muskauer Park / Park Muzakowski (2004)
Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (2006)
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (1990)
Pilgrimage Church of Wies (1983)
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier (1986)
Speyer Cathedral (1981)
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim (1985)
Town Hall and Roland on the Marketplace of Bremen (2004)
Town of Bamberg (1993)
Upper Middle Rhine Valley (2002)
Völklingen Ironworks (1994)
Wartburg Castle (1999)
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square (1981)
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen (2001) Natural
Messel Pit Fossil Site (1995)
The Wadden Sea (2009)

Monastery of Maulbronn (drobnikm )

2 commenti:

  1. Foarte interesant subiectul prezentat de tine.M-am uitat pe blogul tau si imi place tare mult
    Sigur am sa mai revin. O zi buna!

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  2. Hi Cioara Andrei! I'm sorry I still can't understand you!

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