Abu Mena, also known as Abu Mina, was a town, monastery, and important place for Christian pilgrimages in ancient Egypt. It is located about 50 kilometers southwest of Alexandria, near the city of New Borg El Arab. The site was named a World Heritage Site in 1979 because of its significance in early Christianity.
The Kingdom of Aksum, also called the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom in Northeast Africa and South Arabia during ancient times and the Middle Ages. It was located in what is now Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, and it covered parts of modern-day Djibouti, Sudan, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. The kingdom began after the earlier Dʿmt civilization and was founded in the 1st century.
The W-Arly-Pendjari Complex, also called the “WAP Complex,” is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. It covers a large area across these three countries. Since 2005, this area has been recognized as a Lion Conservation Unit and is considered an important place for protecting lion populations.
Zagori (Greek: Ζαγόρι; Aromanian: Zagori) is a region, a municipality, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus, northwestern Greece. The main office of the municipality is in the village of Asprangeloi. Zagori covers an area of about 1,000 square kilometers and includes 46 villages known as Zagori villages (or Zagorochoria or Zagorohoria).
Yosemite National Park is a national park in the United States located in California. It is near the Sierra National Forest to the southeast and the Stanislaus National Forest to the northwest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an area of 1,187 square miles (3,070 square kilometers) across four counties—Tuolumne and Mariposa are central, while Mono and Madera are to the north, east, and south.
Xinjiang Tianshan Leopard F.C. (Chinese: 新疆天山雪豹; pinyin: Xīnjiāng Tiānshān Xuěbào) was a professional Chinese soccer team that no longer exists. It played in the China League One division with permission from the Chinese Football Association (CFA).
The Würzburg Residence (German: Würzburger Residenz) is a palace located in Würzburg, Germany. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, who were known for the Austrian/Southern German Baroque style, helped build the palace. Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand, who followed the French style, also contributed to its construction.
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet ( / ɡ aʊ ˈ d i / gow- DEE , / ˈ ɡ aʊ d i / GOW -dee ; Catalan: [ənˈtɔni ɣəwˈði] ; 25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain. He is widely recognized as the most important example of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí’s works have a unique style, with most located in Barcelona, including his most famous project, the Sagrada Família church.
The Wooden tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine are a group of wooden Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches (Polish: cerkwie; Ukrainian: церкви, tserkvy) located in Poland and Ukraine. These churches were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.
Carpathian Wooden Churches is the name of a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes nine wooden religious buildings built between the 1600s and 1700s in eight places in Slovakia. These buildings include two Roman Catholic churches in Hervartov and Tvrdošín, three Protestant churches called Articular churches in Hronsek, Leštiny, and Kežmarok, three Greek Catholic churches in Bodružal, Ruská Bystrá, and Ladomirová, and one belfry in Hronsek. In addition to these nine churches, there are about 50 more wooden churches in the area of modern-day Slovakia, mostly in the northern and eastern parts of the Prešov Region (see e.g.