On Feb. 1, the Unesco National Commission of the Philippines (Unacom) submitted to the World Heritage Center the country’s updated tentative list, which includes 14 natural sites, eight cultural ...

UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

Nine new sites nominated for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List were reviewed Friday at the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee, chaired by Bulgaria. During the morning session, the ...

The question of how to preserve heritage sites of the Philippines isn’t exactly new, but its importance was underscored by the recent fire that gutted the century-old Manila Central Post Office.

Sibuyan Island, too, deserves to be declared as World Heritage Site, with its biodiversity and geological history. In the language of Unesco’s criteria for World Heritage Sites, Sibuyan is an ...

Serving as an advisory body to Unesco on the preservation of world heritage sites, Icomos Philippines made its own survey of heritage structures in Vigan following last year’s tremor, following ...

Proposed biocultural reclassification of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. As of July 2024, the World Heritage List (WHL) includes 1,223 sites, of which 159 (13%) are classified as cultural landscapes ...

The World Heritage List has designated 42 global treasures as UNESCO World Heritage sites. See which ones were added to the list in 2023. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has wrapped up its deliberations related to sites that are in danger and began adding new sites on Saturday to its prestigious World Heritage List. Sites in ...

Lamu Town, along the Kenyan coast, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2001. That list was established in the 1970s, and now includes 1,157 sites around the world.