Corfu (city)
Corfu, also known as Kerkyra in Greek, is a city and former independent area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Islands of Greece. After a government change in 2019, Corfu became part of the larger area called Central Corfu and Diapontian Islands. It is the main city of this area and also serves as the capital of the Corfu region.
Old Havana
Old Havana (Spanish: La Habana Vieja) is the downtown area and one of 15 neighborhoods that make up Havana, Cuba. It has the second-highest number of people living in a small area and includes the heart of the original city of Havana. The locations of the original city walls now form the boundaries of Old Havana.
Old City (Zamość)
The osiedle Old City (Polish: Osiedle Stare Miasto) is the oldest historic area in the city of Zamość. It is a World Heritage Site in Poland, added in 1992. UNESCO states that its importance lies in being “an outstanding example of a Renaissance planned town from the late 16th century, which still has its original layout, fortifications, and many buildings of special interest.
Old City of Jerusalem
The Old City of Jerusalem (Hebrew: הָעִיר הָעַתִּיקָה, written in Latin letters: Ha’ír Ha’atiká; Arabic: المدينة القديمة, written in Latin letters: al-Madīna al-Qadīma) is a walled area covering 0.9 square kilometers (0.35 square miles) in East Jerusalem. A tradition, possibly starting with a British map from the 1840s, divides the Old City into four unequal sections: the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Armenian Quarter, and the Jewish Quarter. A fifth area, the Temple Mount, known to Muslims as Al-Aqsa or Haram al-Sharif, contains the Dome of the Rock, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and was once the location of the Jewish Temple.
Old City (Bern)
The Old City (German: Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. It is located on a narrow hill that is surrounded by the river Aare on three sides. The city’s tight arrangement has stayed mostly the same since it was built between the 12th and 15th centuries.
New Town, Edinburgh
The New Town is a central part of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages from 1767 to about 1850 and still has much of its original neo-classical and Georgian architecture. Its most famous street is Princes Street, which faces Edinburgh Castle and the Old Town across the geological depression of the former Nor Loch.
Okavango Delta
The Okavango Delta, also called the Okavango Grassland, is a large inland delta in Botswana. It forms where the Okavango River flows into a deep area of the Earth’s crust at an elevation of 930–1,000 meters (3,050–3,280 feet) in the central part of the Kalahari Desert’s basin, which does not drain into the ocean. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it is one of the few inland delta systems that do not flow into the sea or ocean.
Okapi Wildlife Reserve
The Okapi Wildlife Reserve (French: Réserve de faune à okapis) is a protected area located in the Ituri Forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, near the borders with South Sudan and Uganda. It covers about 14,000 square kilometers, which is roughly one-fifth of the forest’s total area. In 1996, the reserve was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its large number of endangered okapis and its rich variety of plant and animal life.
Tournai Cathedral
The Cathedral of Our Lady, also known as Notre-Dame de Tournai in French and Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Doornik in Dutch, is a Roman Catholic cathedral and the main church of the Diocese of Tournai in Tournai, Belgium. It was named a major heritage site in Wallonia in 1936. It became a World Heritage Site in 2000.
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Noel Kempff Mercado) is a national park located in the northeast part of the Santa Cruz Department, in the Province of José Miguel de Velasco, Bolivia, near the border with Brazil.