Kilwa Kisiwani, which means “Kilwa Island,” is an island, historic site, and small village community located in the township of Kilwa Masoko. This township is the main town of Kilwa District in the Lindi region of southern Tanzania. Kilwa Kisiwani is the largest of the nine villages in Kilwa Masoko but has the fewest people, with about 1,150 residents.
The Royal Monastery of Saint Mary of Guadalupe (Spanish: Real Monasterio de Santa María de Guadalupe) is a Roman Catholic monastery built in the 1300s. It is located in Guadalupe, Extremadura, Spain, at the base of the eastern side of the Sierra de las Villuercas. For more than four centuries, it was one of the most important and well-known monasteries in the country.
The Royal Exhibition Building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was built between 1879 and 1880 as part of a global movement to hold international exhibitions, which took place more than 50 times between 1851 and 1915. The building covers about 26 hectares (64 acres), is 150 meters (490 feet) long, and is surrounded by four city streets.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a government organization in the United Kingdom supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. It is a globally important place for plant research and education, with 1,100 employees. The organization’s governing board is led by Dame Amelia Fawcett.
The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of St. James, is a series of paths that people walk to reach the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. This shrine is believed to hold the remains of the apostle.
In December 1998, UNESCO named the Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France as a World Heritage Site. These routes pass through the following regions of France: Aquitaine, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie, Bourgogne, Centre, Champagne-Ardenne, Ile-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Limousin, Midi-Pyrénées, Picardie, Poitou-Charentes, and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. UNESCO highlights the routes’ importance in “religious and cultural exchange,” the construction of “specialized buildings” along the routes, and their role as “exceptional evidence of the power and influence of the Christian faith among people of all classes and countries in Europe during the Middle Ages.” UNESCO identified 71 structures along the routes and seven sections of the Chemin du Puy as a World Heritage Site.
Rohtas Fort (Punjabi: روہتاس قلعہ; Urdu: قلعہِ روہتاس) is a fortress built in the 16th century near the city of Dina in the Jhelum district of Punjab province, Pakistan. It was ordered to be built by Sur emperor Sher Shah Suri, and Raja Todar Mal helped oversee its construction. Today, it is one of the largest and strongest forts in Punjab.
The Acacus Mountains, also known as Tadrart Akakus (Arabic: تدرارت أكاكوس / ALA-LC: Tadrārt Akākūs), are a mountain range located in the Ghat District of western Libya, which is part of the Sahara Desert. They are found east of the city of Ghat, Libya, and extend north from the border with Algeria, covering about 100 kilometers (62 miles). The area is known for having a large collection of ancient rock art.
The rock drawings in Valcamonica, located in the Province of Brescia, Italy, are the largest collection of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world. UNESCO named them a World Heritage Site in 1979, making them Italy’s first such site. UNESCO officially counted more than 140,000 figures and symbols, but new discoveries have increased the number of recorded carvings to between 200,000 and 300,000.
The group of more than 700 sites known as the Prehistoric Rock Art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, a type of Levantine art, was officially named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998. These sites are located in the eastern part of Spain and include rock art created during the Upper Paleolithic or more likely the Mesolithic periods of the Stone Age. The artwork features small painted images of humans and animals, which are among the most advanced and widespread examples from that time, especially in Europe and possibly the world in earlier works.