PATRIMONIUL MONDIAL UNESCO. Situri naturale si culturale

This book looks at UNESCO’s World Heritage sites. These are places of great cultural or natural worth. They span old city centres and ancient ruins. They also include sacred places and wild habitats. This guide uses pictures to show places across countries and cultures. It is part of the National Geographic series.

The old cities include Rome, Dubrovnik and Havana. Salvador da Bahia is in the book too. Ancient sites include Thebes, Persepolis, Angkor and Machu Picchu. The book also shows Eastern markets. It covers the Buddhist monuments at Sanchi. In Romania, it shows northern Moldavia’s painted churches. It also covers the Danube Delta’s plants and wildlife.

Wild sites include the volcanoes of Kamchatka. The Great Barrier Reef is another site. Congo’s Virunga National Park appears with its rare gorillas. The book also covers sites linked to industry. It includes gardens and art from before written records. It shows forms in rock and other earth features. Sea reserves and species at risk appear too.

The book presents care for these sites as a shared duty. It links this aim to the World Heritage Convention. Nations adopted this plan in Paris in 1972. It sought to protect cultural and natural places of great worth. The book describes a list of over 1,050 sites. These sites span 165 countries.