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World Heritage Site

place of significance listed by UNESCO

14 dated entries naming World Heritage Site, drawn from 12 separate years between 1255 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as UNESCO World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Sites, UNESCO World heritage site, World Heritage, World Heritage List, World Heritage Sites in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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13th century

  • 1255The Gothic cathedral at Bourges in central France, is completed (it will become a UNESCO World Heritage Site).source
  • 1259The famous frescoes of the Boyana Church in Bulgaria are completed (the church and its murals are now a UNESCO World Heritage Site).source
  • 1260October 24 – The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France (the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site).source

20th century

  • 1986November – Giant's Causeway and the Causeway Coast is included in the first tranche of UNESCO World Heritage Sites designated in the UKsource
  • 1999November 30 - The Hortobágy National Park becomes a World Heritage Sitesource

21st century

  • 2007June 28: UNESCO designates 22 new World Heritage Sites, including Sydney Opera House, Canada's Rideau Canal, Japan's Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine, Turkmenistan's Parthian Fortresses of Nisa, India's Red Fort complexes, the Lope-Okanda Landscape of Gabon, the Richtersveld desert of South Africa, the rock carvings of Twyfelfontein in Namibia, the fortified tower houses of Guangdong Province in the People's Republic of China, Teide National Park in the Canary Islands, Spain, ancient beech forests of Central Europe, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bordeaux and the Port de la Lune in France, the Old Town of Corfu in Greece, the Palace of Galerius in Gamzigrad-Romuliana in Serbia.source
  • 2009June 26 – The Ruins of Loropéni were added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Ruins were the second out of three total sites in Burkina Faso to be added to the list, and was the country's first cultural UNESCO site.source
  • 2010March 16 – The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed by fire.source
  • 201515 May – Singapore Botanical Gardens gets ICOMOS nod to be the first UNESCO World Heritage Site.source
  • 2019October 31 – A fire destroys much of the 500-year-old Japanese Shuri Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.source
  • 2021August 5 – Tigray War: The Tigray Defense Forces seize the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Lalibela.source
  • 202511 July – Mount Mulanje is designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.source
  • 202513 July – The Maputo National Park is designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as part of an expansion from the ISimangaliso Wetland Park in neighbouring South Africa.source
  • 202513 July – The Gola-Tiwai complex, which includes Tiwai Island and the Gola Rainforest National Park, is designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.source

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