This property is a unit of the National Park System that includes more than 58,000 hectares (143,733 acres) at the northern end of the Chihuahuan desert. It was established to protect vast dunes of gypsum sand that have engulfed more than 176,000 acres--along with the plants and animals that have adjusted to this changed environment.
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A l'est de la Belgique, le plateau hercynien pénéplané, puis à nouveau exhaussé, forme la série des collines ardennaises. Les plus élevées dessinent une ligne de crête, d'orientation sud-ouest nord-ouest, que l'on peut suivre depuis la Croix Scaille (505m), par la Barrière de Charnplon (589m), la Baraque de Fraiture (652m), la Baraque Michel (672m), le signal de Botrange (694m)' le Bovel (660m) jusqu'au massif de Hoscheit (600m). Les altitudes les plus élevées du pays s'observent à l'extrémité nord est de cette dorsale. A l'est, la région des collines se prolonge dans l'Eifel où l'altitude atteint 747m.
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The Srebrna Góra Fortress is the largest mountain fortress in Europe in terms of the length of its defensive lines and the area of its transformed terrain. The fortress was built in the second half of the 18th century (1765–1785) near Srebrna Góra in Lower Silesia, crowning the development of mountain fortresses and constituting the example of the European phenomenon of the evolution of early modern mountain fortifications.
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The nominated property is the Stuttgart television tower, including the buildings at the base of the tower. The television tower stands in the Degerloch district of the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, above the Stuttgart valley. Measurements taken when constructing an efficient transmission network for the new medium of television at the beginning of the 1950s identified the Bopser mountain as a favourable location. Given the uneven topography of Stuttgart and its surroundings, an antenna height of around 200 metres was required.
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The Olympic Park, built for the XX Olympic Summer Games 1972 in Munich, covers an area of 289 hectares in the northern centre of the Bavarian state capital. The main sports facilities lie at the heart of an architectural and park landscape moulded by their roof shape and the terrain topography in the southern part of the Olympic Park. This part also incorporates the pre-existing buildings of the ice rink and the Olympic Tower. The latter as well as the top of the Olympic Hill offer views over the entire site.
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Spinalonga is a barren, arid rocky islet, with an area of 85,000 sq. m., lying in the mouth of the natural harbour of Elounda in Lasithi Prefecture, Crete. The islet was fortified in antiquity, to protect the ancient city of Olous. Towards the end of the 16th century, the Venetians, as part of their great fortification works to defend Crete, built on Spinalonga one of the most important bastion-type seaward fortresses of the Mediterranean, designed according to the bastion system of fortification by Genese Bressani and Latino Orsini. At strategic points in the fortifications are set the Michel and Moceniga or Barbariga demilunes, major works of fortification architecture.
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The nominated property is the village of Sidi Bou Said, a coastal village on the southern shore of the Mediterranean, located on a promontory overlooking Carthage and the Gulf of Tunis and offering panoramic views of Cape Bon (Promontory of Mercury) and the islands of Zembra and Zembretta (the Aegimures) to the northeast, and Cape Sidi Ali Mekki (Promontory of Apollo) to the north. Located about twenty kilometers northeast of the city of Tunis, the village, named after the Sufi saint Abou Said Khalaf Ibn Yahya El Tamimi El Beji, developed from the 18th century . Religious monuments, palaces, emblematic public spaces, a network of public fountains and cemeteries form an architectural ensemble of a very diverse range of styles and influences that have succeeded one another over time in Tunisia and up to the present day.
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The Lonjsko Polje Nature Park is situated in the alluvial plain of the Sava River in the central Sava River basin region, between the cities of Sisak and Stara Gradiška and represents a unique landscape and ecological systems of flooded river plain of the Danubian basin. The Sava River begins to meander in this area creating typical wet areas that greatly determine its flow and the appearance of the surrounding region. With a total surface of 50 650 ha, the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park is one of the largest wetland area in the entire Danubian basin. The most significant ecological element in the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park is flooding which can appear any time of the year, because of the extraordinary constellation of the Sava River and its tributaries.
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After abdicating at Fontainebleau and obtaining sovereignty over the island of Elba, Napoleon landed at Golfe-Juan (France) on March 1, 1815. He reached Paris on March 20 and raised an army of 200,000 men to confront the English and Prussian troops massed in Belgium. His goal was to confront each adversary separately before taking control of Brussels.
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High cliffs, whose walls face north, dominate the savannah of this northern part of Togo with their sheer drop. They are the last high reliefs before this immense expanse of savannah that extends into Burkina. This formation, commonly called Boumbouaka sandstone, presents cliff escarpments of Upper Proterozoic age of rare beauty with at the base an alternation of pellites (argillites) and psammites, the whole resting on a crystalline base dating from the Birrimian. Horizontal crevices open up in the last upper quarter of their height; difficult to access, they served as shelter and refuge for the indigenous populations during the periods of various insecurities that raged in the region from the 17th to the 19th century.
These caves contain granaries carved in the same traditional architectural style from local materials (stones, clay and straw). Cylindrical, oblong or semi-spherical in shape, they open upwards, their height is generally two and a half meters, their diameter three meters.
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The spa at Luhacovice is an architecturally prominent and unique complex of buildings which, from the end of the 19th century throughout, approximately, the first three decades of the 20th century, have gradually formed the base of the present spa town situated in the east part of Moravia. The spa buildings in Luhaêovice represent, in the global contexte a unique specimen of modern spa architecture of the early 20th century, inspired by vernacular architecture. In this respect, Luhaëovice is a locality that cannot be compared to any other item on the World Heritage List included in so far.
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Slender West Lake, formerly Baozhang Lake, is located in the northwest of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, covering an area of two square kilometers. In the mid-18th century, the moats and a large number of suburban villas of salt traders along the moats built in different locations and in different historical period (Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties) were connected elaborately and delicately to welcome the south inspection of Emperor Qianlong, thus forming a beautiful belt of the lake with garden scenery combining natural and human landscapes characterized by the most famous 24 scenes of "rolling stone archway, winding water in west park, spring pillow on the long bank, bright cloud in white pagoda" etc. The typical layout of Chinese scroll-type picture was recorded by royal painters and filed in imperial storehouse due to its unique aesthetic value. Thanks to the impact of the south inspections by Emperor Qianlong and the support of its salt economy, Yangzhou had became the garden-building centre in China, represented by classical garden cluster around the Slender West Lake. As well-known as "Yangzhou Gardens is second to none in South China" and "Yangzhou Gardens is the best in China", it embodies the most advanced art in terms of layout, architecture, stone laying, water conservation, plant arrangement, etc. As a masterpiece in garden-building after Yuanmingyuan Park during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, a lot of experiences can be drawn from it in the construction of the Chengde Mountain Resort.
Western Xia Imperial Tombs are the royal mausoleums of the emperors in the Western Xia Dynasty (1038-1227). Located at the eastern slope of the Helan Mountains, western suburb about 35km away from Yinchuan City in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Tombs are the best-preserved historic cultural heritage representing the Tangut civilization at the largest scale and in the highest rank.
Innsbruck, which was founded at the junction of several important trade routes, was the residence of dukes, German kings and emperors since the Late Middle Ages who have left their traces in the form of sumptuous buildings.
In the old part, in the arcaded Herzog-Friedrich-StraRe, there is a spectacular balcony with a gilded copper roof built by emperor Maximilian c.1500, the world famous 'Goldene Dachl". He also commissioned the magnificent sculptures called the "Schwarze Mander, or black figures, designed to be his cort(age (28 bronze statues larger than life were competed, the first in 1502, representing ancestors, relatives and political examples to the emperor- they were made after models by such significant contemporary artists as Albrecht DUrer), a never finished feat eventually set up in the Court church (1 553-1563 built to accommodate the tomb) around the empty cenotaph.
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The Mayon Volcano is situated in the southern part of the main island of Luzon, 500 kilometres south of Manila. Towering at a height of 2,462 meters above sea level, it is known for its perfectly conical shape whose natural beauty has inspired a number of legends and art. The most active volcano in the Philippines and one of the most active in the world, having erupted over 51 times in the past four centuries, the most destructive of which is in 1814 when five towns in its periphery were destroyed. Nevertheless, it has developed a culture of resiliency among the inhabitants of its vicinity, who always rebuilt their towns and cultivated their fields after each destructive eruption.
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Chocolate Hills and its immediate environs are relatively flat to rolling topography with elevation ranges from 100 m to 500 m above sea level. It has been declared the country's 3rd National Geological Monument on June 18, 1988 in recognition of its scientific value and geomorphic uniqueness.
Similar to the formations found in Java, the conical and almost symmetrical and same-sized hills known as the "Chocolate Hills", are more aesthetically extensive. These were the uplift of coral deposits and the result of the action of rainwater and erosion. The hills are located throughout the towns of Carmen, Batuan and Sagbayan and consist of about 1,776 mounds of the same general shape. During the dry season when precipitation in inadequate, the grass-covered hills turn chocolate brown, hence the name in reference to a branded confection.
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The Southwest Coast, one of the few remaining well preserved coastlines in southern Europe, is located in Portugal. With an extraordinarily diverse geological and biological natural heritage, it hosts a high diversity of habitats and unique species worldwide, making it of great importance in terms of conservation. It corresponds to the entire area of the Southwest Alentejo and Vicentine Coast Natural Park.
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The Orheiul Vechi Archaeological Landscape is located in central-eastern part of Moldova and lies along the gorge of the lower course of the Răut River, 14 km upstream from the confluence of the Răut and the Dniester Rivers. This is an extremely strategic position. The Răut links it with most of central and northern Moldova, while the Dniester is the most important trade route between northeast Carpathians and the Black Sea Basin. Administratively, the Landscape comprises the territory of the Trebujeni and Butuceni villages, belonging to the Trebujeni commune of Orhei district. At the same time, the unusual and severe terrain around the Landscape render it perhaps the most naturally defensible in the region.
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