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World Heritage Site is a site such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city. A World Heritage Site is a place of either cultural or physical significance. The programmed catalogues, names, and conserves sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humanity.

 

 
 
 
Pachacamac

The temple of Pachacamac is an archaeological site 40 km ...



Painted Churches in the Troodos Region

This region is characterized by one of the largest groups ...



Palace and Park of Fontainebleau

Used by the kings of France from the 12th century, ...



Palace and Park of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the ...



Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin

With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between ...



Panama Viejo

Founded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarías Dávila, Panamá Viejo ...



Pantanal Conservation Area

The Pantanal Conservation Complex consists of a cluster of four ...



Paphos

Paphos has been inhabited since the Neolithic period. It was ...



Parthian Fortresses of Nisa

The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of ...



Pasargadae

Is today an archaeological site and one of only five ...



Pasargadae

Pasargadae was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, ...



Pekshevo (Russia)

Pekshevo is one of great Scythian culture Middle Don ...



Peninsula Valdes

Peninsula Valdes in Patagonia is a site of global significance ...



Persepolis

Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest remains of Persepolis date ...



Persepolis

Founded by Darius I in 518 B.C., Persepolis was the ...



Petajavesi Old Church

Petajavesi Old Church, in central Finland, was built of logs ...



Petra

Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the ...



Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly

Set around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, amidst the vast, arid ...



Philae

Called The Pearl of Egypt Philae was an island in ...



Pilgrimage Church of Wies

Miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, ...



Pingvellir National Park

Ţingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing – ...



Pirin National Park

Extending over an area of 27,400 ha and lying at ...



Pisac

Pisac is a Peruvian village in the Sacred Valley on ...



Pitons Management Area

The 2,909-ha site near the town of Soufriere includes the ...



Place Stanislas

Nancy, the temporary residence of a king without a kingdom ...



Plantin Moretus House

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house ...



Plitvice Lakes National Park

The waters flowing over the limestone and chalk have, over ...



Pompeii

Pompeii is the ruined and partially buried Roman town ...



Pont du Gard

The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian ...



Portobelo-San Lorenzo

Magnificent examples of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture, these Panamanian ...



Portuguese City of Mazagan

The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city ...



Prambanan Temple Compounds

Built in the 10th century, this is the largest temple ...



Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians

The Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian, an outstanding example ...



Provins

The fortified medieval town of Provins is situated in the ...



Puerto-Princesa Subterranean River National Park

This park features a spectacular limestone karst landscape with an ...



Purnululu National Park

The 239,723 ha Purnululu National Park is located in the ...



Pyrenees - Mont Perdu

This outstanding mountain landscape, which spans the contemporary national borders ...





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