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Valletta - The Maltese Fortress (1/418)

The capital of the Republic of Malta is irrevocably linked to the history of the military and charitable order of St John of Jerusalem. Ruled successively by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and the Order of the Knights of St John, its 320 monuments, confined within an area of 55 hectares, make it one of the most concentrated historic areas in the world.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Machu Picchu - Ruined City of the Incas, Peru (2/418)

At 2,430 m above sea level, on a mountain site of extraordinary beauty, in the middle of a tropical mountain forest, Machu Picchu was probably the most amazing urban creation of the Inca Empire at its height, with its giant walls, terraces and ramps, which appear as though they have been cut naturally in the continuous rock escarpments. The natural setting on the eastern slope of the Andes encomp..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Antonio Gaudi - Barcelona's Great Architect, Spain (3/418)

Truly universal works in view of the diverse cultural sources from which they are inspired, the creations of Antonio Gaudí (1852- 1926) in Barcelona represent an eclectic as well as very personal architectural style which led to new styles, not only as regards architectural style but also for gardens, sculpture and all forms of decorative art.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Cuzco - City of the Incas, City of the Spanish, Peru (4/418)

Located in the Peruvian Andes, Cuzco developed, under the Inca ruler Pachacutec, into a complex urban centre with distinct religious and administrative functions. It was surrounded by clearly delineated areas for agricultural, artisan and industrial production. When the Spaniards conquered it in the 16th century, they maintained its structure but built Baroque churches and palaces over the ruins o..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Alhambra - Palace of the Moors, Spain (5/418)

Rising above the modern lower town, the Alhambra and the Albayzin placed on two adjacent hills, form the medieval part of Granada. To the east of the Alhambra fortress and residence are the magnificent gardens of the Generalife, the former rural residence of the Emirs who ruled this part of Spain in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Albayzin, a residential quarter, is a rich repository of Moorish v..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Malta's Megalithic Temples (6/418)

Seven megalithic temples are to be found on the islands of Malta and Gozo, each a result of an individual development. The Ggantija complex on the island of Gozo is remarkable for its superhuman achievements dating from the Bronze Age. On the island of Malta, the temples of Hagar Qin, Mnajdra and Tarxien are unique architectural masterpieces, given the very limited resources of their builders. The..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Angkor Vat in Cambodia - Shiva's Heavenly Palace (7/418)

Angkor is one of the main archaeological sites of South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 square kilometres, including forested area, the Angkor Archeological Park contains the splendid remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th centuries, including the famous temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon temple with its countless sculpted decorations...

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Maulbronn Cistercian Abbey, Germany (8/418)

Founded in 1147, the Cistercian Maulbronn Monastery is considered the most complete and best-preserved medieval monastery complex north of the Alps. Surrounded by fortified walls, the main buildings were constructed between the 12th and 14th centuries. The monastery's church, built in the transitional Romanesque-Gothic style, had significant influence on the spread of Gothic architecture over muc..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Home of the Vienna Secession, Austria (9/418)

With its striking domes , the home of the Vienna Secession is, today, appreciated as one of the most prominent examples of European architecture on the brink of the Modernism of the twentieth century. The "Association of Graphic Artists of Austria - Secession" decided to build the house when the group, linked with Gustav Klimt, was founded in 1897. Shortly before, they had resigned from the influe..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Angkor Thom - Cambodia's Great Temple City (10/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Fontenay - The Monastery of Poverty, France (11/418)

This stark Burgundian monastery, founded in 1119 by Saint Bernard, with its church, cloister, refectory, sleeping quarters, bakery and ironworks, is a wonderful illustration of the ideal of self-sufficiency in the earliest communities of Cistercian monks.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Hildesheim - The Work of a Saint, Germany (12/418)

St. Michael's Church was built between 1010 and 1020, following a symmetrical plan with two apses, characteristic of Romanesque Ottoman art in Old Saxony. Its interior, in particular the wooden ceiling and painted stuccowork, along with the treasures of St. Mary's Cathedral, famous for its doors and Bernward bronze column, are an outstanding testimony to the Romanesque churches of the Holy Roman E..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Belem - From Portugal's Days of Glory (13/418)

Standing at the entrance to Lisbon's harbour, the Monastery of the Hieronymites - construction of which began in 1502 - exemplifies Portuguese art at its best, while the nearby Tower of Belem, built to commemorate Vasco de Gama's expedition, is a reminder of the great maritime discoveries that laid the foundations of the modern world.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Tomar - Portugal's Largest Monastery (14/418)

Originally designed as a monument symbolizing the Reconquista, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar, transferred in 1344 to the Knights of the Order of Christ, came to symbolise just the opposite during the Manueline period - the opening up of Portugal to other civilizations.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Bath - Hot Springs for High Society, Great Britain (15/418)

Founded by the Romans as a thermal spa, Bath became an important centre of the wool industry in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, under George III, it developed into an elegant town with neo-classical buildings inspired by Palladio, which blended harmoniously with the Roman thermal complex.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Stonehenge - A Mystery from the Distant Past, Great Britain (16/418)

Stonehenge and Avebury, in Wiltshire, are among the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. These two sanctuaries are formed of circles of menhirs arranged in a pattern whose astronomical significance is still unexplained. These holy places and the various nearby neolithic sites offer an incomparable testimony to prehistoric times.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Westminster - Centre Stage of British Imperial History, Great Britain (17/418)

Rebuilt starting in 1840 around striking medieval remains, Westminster Palace is an eminent example, coherent and complete, of the neo-Gothic style. With the small medieval church of Saint Margaret, built in a perpendicular Gothic style, and the prestigious Westminster Abbey, where all the sovereigns since the 11th century have been crowned, the historic and symbolic significance of this site is..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Mont St. Michel - The Miracle in the Sign of the Conch, France (18/418)

Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sandbanks exposed to powerful tides between Normandy and Brittany stand the 'Wonder of the West', a Gothic-style Benedictine abbey dedicated to the archangel St Michael, and the village that grew up in the shadow of its great walls. Built between the 11th and 16th centuries, the abbey is a technical and artistic tour de force, having had to adapt to t..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Fontainebleau - France's Royal Fountain of Beautiful Water (19/418)

Used by the kings of France from the 12th century, the medieval royal hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, standing at the heart of a vast forest in the Ile-de-France, was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the 16th century by François I, who wanted to make a 'New Rome' of it. Surrounded by an immense park, the Italianate palace combines Renaissance and French artistic traditions.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Romania's Horezu Monastery, Romania (20/418)

Founded in 1690 by Prince Constantine Brancovan, the monastery of Horezu, in Walachia, is a masterpiece of "Brancovan" style, known for its architectural purity and balance, the richness of its sculpted detail, its treatment of religious compositions, its votive portraits and its painted decorative works. The school of mural and icon painting established at the monastery of Horezu in the 18th cent..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Nancy's Stanislaw Squares, France (21/418)

Nancy, the temporary residence of a king without a kingdom - Stanislas Leszczynski, who later became the Duke of Lorraine - is paradoxically the oldest and most typical example of a modern capital where an enlightened monarch proved to be conscious of the needs of the public. Constructed between 1752 and 1756 by a brilliant team under the direction of the architect Héré, this was a project of extr..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Romanias Fortified Biertan Church (22/418)

Founded by the Saxons of Transylvania, in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, Biertan has retained its medieval elements which include the church, built in the 16th century, a number of old houses around the central square, and the triple layer fortification system of the church, which is one of the best preserved in Europe and still stands in its original urban context.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari, Bulgaria (23/418)

Discovered in 1982, this 3rd-century B.C. Thracian tomb inspired by Greek design has a unique architectural decor with polychromed half- human, half-plant caryatids and painted murals. It is a remarkable reminder of the culture of the Getes, Thracian populations in contact with the Hellenistic and Hyperborean worlds, according to ancient geography.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Church of Boyana, Bulgaria (24/418)

Located in the outskirts of Sofia, Boyana Church is composed of three buildings. The eastern church was built in the 10th and 11th centuries. The middle - Kayolan - church, contains two superimposed sanctuaries. It is covered with frescoes, painted in 1259, making it one of the most important collections of medieval paintings.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Rila Monastery, Bulgaria (25/418)

The Convent of Rila, rebuilt between 1834 and 1860, incorporates the legacies of Saint Ivan of Rilski, 10th-century evangelist of the Slavs, and the remains of a medieval monastery into a distinctive neo- Byzantine monument. Characteristic of the Bulgarian Renaissance, this monument symbolises the awareness of a Slavic cultural identity following centuries of occupation.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Budapest - Danube Shore and Castle Hill, Hungary (26/418)

This site, with the remains of monuments such as the Roman city of Aquincum and the Gothic castle of Buda, which have exercised considerable architectural influence over various periods, is one of the world's outstanding urban landscapes and illustrates the great periods in the history of the Hungarian capital.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Warsaw's Old City, Poland (27/418)

Located at the foot of the Wawel, 250 km south-east of Warsaw, Cracow, the former capital of Poland, has a rich historic centre made up of the medieval site of Kazimierz in the southern part of the town with remnants of the 14th-century fortifications, the 13th-century site of Cracow with the largest market square in Europe, the City Hall, the Jagellonian University, the Royal Castle and the Cathe..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Salt Mines of Wieliczka, Poland (28/418)

Mined since the 13th century, this deposit of rock salt in Wielicz- Bochniz is still actively worked. With over nine levels and 300 km of galleries with famous works of art, altars, and statues sculpted in salt, it constitutes a fascinating pilgrimage into the past of a major industrial undertaking.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Prague - A Journey through History, Czech Republic (29/418)

Built between the 11th and the 18th century, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town with their magnificent monuments, such as the Hradcani Castle, the St Vitus Cathedral, the Charles Bridge, numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV, speak of the great architectural and cultural influence this city had since the Middle Ages.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

St. Petersburg - The Venice of the North, Russia (30/418)

The "Venice of the North" with its numerous canals and more than 400 bridges is foremost the result of a vast urban project begun in 1703 under Peter the Great. Known later as Leningrad (in the former USSR), it is closely associated with the October Revolution. Its architectural heritage reconciles the opposite styles of baroque and pure neo- classicism, as seen in the Admiralty, the Winter Palace..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Trinity Monastery of Sergiyev Posad, Russia (31/418)

This is a striking example of a working Orthodox monastery, with military features typical of the 15th to 18th centuries, the period during which it developed. The main church of the Lavra, the Cathedral of the Assumption, echoing the Kremlin Cathedral of the same name, contains the tomb of Boris Godunov. Among the treasures of the Lavra is the famous icon "The Trinity" by Andrei Rublev.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Mexico-City - City of the Aztecs, City of the Spaniards (32/418)

Built in the 16th century by the Spanish upon the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, the city is today one of the largest and most densely populated cities of the world. Besides the five Aztec temples, there is also the cathedral, and 19th- and 20th- century public edifices such as the Palacio de las Bellas Artes. Xochimilco, 28 km south of the city, with its network of canals and artif..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Brasilia - Pilot Design for the Modern Age, Brazil (33/418)

Brasilia, a capital created ex nihilo in the centre of the country in 1956, is a landmark in the history of town-planning. Urban planner Lucio Costa and architect Oscar Niemayer intended that everything, from the layout of the residential and administrative districts -often compared with the shape of a bird - to the symmetry in the buildings themselves, should reflect the harmonious design of the..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Salvador de Bahia - City of a Thousand Churches, Brazil (34/418)

As the first capital of Brazil, from 1549 to 1763, Salvador de Bahia witnessed the blending of European, African and Amerindian cultures. It was also the first slave market in the New World, with slaves arriving in 1558 to work on the sugar plantations. The city has managed to preserve many outstanding examples of Renaissance architecture. A special feature of the old town are the bright, polychro..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Palenque - Ruined City of the Maya, Mexico (35/418)

A prime example of a Mayan sanctuary of the classical period, Palenque was at its height between 500 and 700 A.D. and had a great influence in the entire basin of the Usumacinta River. The elegance and craftsmanship of the construction, as well as the lightness of the sculpted reliefs illustrating Mayan mythology, attest to the creative genius of this civilization.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Copán - A Center of Mayan Culture, Honduras (36/418)

Discovered in 1570 by Diego García de Palacio, the ruins of Copán, one of the most important sites of Mayan civilization, were not excavated until the 19th century. Its citadel and imposing public squares characterize its three main stages of development, before the city was abandoned in the early 10th century.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Lübeck - The Queen of the Hanseatic League, Germany (37/418)

The former capital of the Hanseatic League, founded in the 12th century, prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for Northern Europe. It remains, even today, a centre for maritime commerce, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damages it suffered during World War II, the structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences,..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Wies Pilgrimage Church, Germany (38/418)

Miraculously preserved in the beautiful setting of an alpine valley, the white Church of Wies (1745-54), the work of architect Dominikus Zimmermann, is a masterpiece of Bavarian rococo - exuberant, colourful and joyful.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Sanssouci - The Palaces and Gardens of Potsdam, Germany (39/418)

With 500 hectares of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, the complex of palaces and parks of Potsdam form an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks which line the banks of the Havel and the Glienicke Lakes. Voltaire stayed in the Sans-Souci Palace, built under Fre..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Delos - The Island of Heavenly Light, Greece (40/418)

According to Greek mythology, Apollo is said to have been born on this tiny island in the Cyclades archipelago. Apollo's sanctuary attracted pilgrims from all over Greece and Delos was a prosperous trading port. The island bears traces of the succeeding civilizations in the Aegean world, from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the Paleochristian era. The archaeological site is exceptionally extense and ri..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV],English [DUB],Spanish [DUB]

Mistra - Byzantine Ruined City, Greece (41/418)

Mystras, the "wonder of the Morea", was built as an amphitheatre around the raised fortress in 1249 by the prince of Achaïe, William of Villehardouin. Reconquered by the Byzantines, then occupied by the Turks and the Venetians, the city was abandoned in 1832, leaving only the medieval ruins, breathtaking against a very beautiful landscape.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Crag perched Monasteries of the Metéora, Greece (42/418)

In a region of almost inaccessible sandstone peaks, monks settled on these "columns of the sky" from the 11th century on. At the time of the great revival of the eremitic ideal in the 15th century, twenty-four of these monasteries were built, despite incredible difficulties. Their 16th-century frescoes are a fundamental stage in the development of post-Byzantine painting.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Epidauros - Ancient Sanctuary and Centre of Healing, Greece (43/418)

In a small valley in the Peloponnesus, the site of Epidaurus sprawls out over several levels. The cult of Asclepius first began there, in the 6th century B.C., but the main monuments, particularly the Theatre, considered one of the purest masterpieces of Greek architecture, date from the 4th century. The vast site is a tribute to the healing cults of Greek and Roman times, with temples and hospita..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Taj Mahal - A Monument to Undying Love, India (44/418)

An immense funerary mosque of white marble, built in Agra between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favourite wife, the Taj Mahal is the most perfect jewel of Moslem art in India and is one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Mogul Splendour - The Red Fort in Agra, India (45/418)

Just next to the gardens of the Taj Majal, the Red Fort of Agra, an important Mogul monument of the 17th century, is a powerful fortress of red sandstone which encompasses, within its enclosure walls of 2.5 km, the imperial city of the Mogul rulers. It comprises many fairy-like palaces, such as the Jahangir Palace or the Khas Mahal, built by Shah Jahan, the reception rooms, such as the Diwan-i-Kha..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Quito - City of Churches and Cloisters , Ecuador (46/418)

Founded in the 16th century on the ruins of an Inca city, at an altitude of 2,850 m, the capital of Ecuador has, despite the 1917 earthquake, the best preserved and least modified historic centre in Latin America. The monasteries of San Francisco and Santo Domingo, and the Church and the Jesuit College of La Compania with their rich interior decorations are pure examples of the "Baroque School of..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Santo Domingo - City of Christopher Columbus, Dominican Republic (47/418)

After the discovery of the island in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, which was founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern, which became the model for almost all town-planners in the New World.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Cartagena - Spain's Fortress in the Caribbean, Columbia (48/418)

Situated in a bay of the Caribbean Sea, Cartagena has the most extensive fortifications in South America. A system of zones divides the city into three quarters: San Pedro with the Cathedral and many Andalusian-style palaces, San Diego where merchants and middle-class lived and Gethsemani, the "popular quarter".

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Würzburg Residence, Germany (49/418)

Under the patronage of two successive bishop-princes, this sumptuous Baroque palace, one of the largest and most beautiful in Germany, surrounded by magnificent gardens, was built and decorated in the 18th century by an international corps of architects, painters (including Tiepolo), sculptors and stucco workers, led by Balthasar Neumann.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Cliff Temples of Abu Simbel, Egypt (50/418)

This exceptional archaeological area is bordered by such magnificent monuments as the temples of Ramses II in Abu Simbel and the Sanctuary of Isis in Philae, which were saved from the Nile's rising waters thanks to an International Campaign launched by UNESCO.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Mystery of the Great Zimbabwe Ruin (51/418)

The ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which, according to an age-old legend, was the capital of the Queen of Sheba, are a unique testimony to the Bantu civilization of the Shona between the 11th and 15th centuries. This city, covering an area of nearly 80 hectares, was an important trading centre, renowned since the Middle Ages.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Old Bern, Switzerland (52/418)

Founded in the 12th century on a hill site surrounded by the Aar River, Berne became the Swiss capital in 1848. The buildings in the old city, from a variety of periods, include 16th-century arcades and fountains. The major part of the Medieval town was renovated in the 18th century but its original character was preserved.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Venice and its Lagoon, Italy (53/418)

Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 small islands, Venice became a major maritime power in the 10th century. It is, as a whole, an extraordinary architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest of its buildings contains the works of some of the world's greatest artists such as Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Verononese and others.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Cairo's Islamic Old City, Egypt (54/418)

Tucked away amid the modern urban area of Cairo lies one of the world's oldest Islamic cities, with its famous mosques, médersas, hammams, and fountains. Founded in the 10th century it became the new centre of the Islamic world, reaching its Golden Age in the 14th century.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

The Great Wall of China (55/418)

In about 220 B.C., under Qin Shin Huang, sections of fortifications which had been built earlier were joined together to form a united defence system against invasions from the north. Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural value.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Victoria Falls, Zambia / Zimbabwe (56/418)

These are among the most spectacular waterfalls in the world. The Zambezi River, more than two kilometres wide at this point, plunges noisily down a series of basalt gorges and raises an iridescent mist that can be seen more than 20 km away.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

St Peter's and the Vatican City of Rome, Italy (57/418)

One of the most sacred places in Christendom, the Vatican City attests to a great history and a formidable spiritual venture. A unique collection of masterpieces of art and architecture can be found within the boundaries of this small state. At its centre is St Peter's Basilica, with the double colonnade and circular piazza in front and bordered by palaces and gardens. The Basilica, erected over..

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Chartres Cathedral, France (58/418)

Partly built starting in 1145 and reconstructed 26 years later after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral is a reference point of French Gothic art. Its vast nave, in pure ogival style, its porches presenting admirable sculptures from the middle of the 12th century, and its sparkling 12th and 13th-century stained-glass windows, all in remarkable condition, make it a masterpiece.

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Year Of Production	1996
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Old City of Rome, Italy (59/418)

Founded, according to legend, by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C., Rome was first the centre of the Roman Republic, then of the Roman Empire, and it became the capital of the Christian World in the 4th century. The World Heritage Site, extended in 1990 to the walls of Urban VIII, includes some of the major monuments of Antiquity such as the Augustus Mausoleum, the Hadrian Mausoleum, the Pantheon, the..

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Year Of Production	1996
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The Old City of Jerusalem and Christianity, Israel (60/418)

As the holy city for Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Jerusalem has always had a high symbolic value. Among the 220 historic monuments, is the stunning Dome of the Rock, built in the 7th century and decorated with beautiful geometric and floral motifs. It is recognized by all three religions as the site of Abraham's sacrifice. The Wailing Wall delimits the quarters of the different religious commu..

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Year Of Production	1996
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The Peking Man Site, China (61/418)

Scientific work at the site, 42 km southwest of Beijing is still underway. So far, it has led to the discovery of the remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis, who lived in the middle Pleistocene era, along with various objects, and the remains of Homo sapiens sapiens, dating as far back as 18,000 to 11,000 B.C. The site is not only an exceptional reminder of the human societies of the Asian continent v..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Old Bamberg, Germany (62/418)

From the 10th century onwards, this town became an important link with the Slav peoples, especially those of Poland and Pomerania. During its prosperity, from the 12th century onwards, the architecture of Bamberg strongly influenced northern Germany and Hungary. In the late 18th century it was the centre of the Enlightenment in Southern Germany with eminent philosophers such as Hegel and Hoffmann..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Serengeti, Land of the Creation, Tanzania (63/418)

In the vast plains of Serengeti, comprising 1.5 million hectares of savannah, immense herds of herbivores -- wildebeests, gazelles and zebras -- followed by their predators in their annual migration to permanent water holes, offer a sight from another age, one of the most impressive in the world.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Féz, Labyrinth and Paradise, Morocco (64/418)

Founded in the 9th century, Fez reached its height first in the 14th century under the Marinides and again in the 17th century. In 1912, when France established Rabat as the new capital, its political importance declined, but its religious and cultural role continues today, centered as it is around the two famous mosques of Al-Qarawiyin and Al-Andalus in the heart of the medina.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Gorée - The Slave Island, Senegal (65/418)

Off the coast of Senegal, facing Dakar, Gorée was, from the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave trading centre on the African coast. Ruled, in succession, by Portuguese, Dutch, English and French powers, its architecture is characterized by the contrast between the dark slave-quarters and the elegant houses of the slave traders. Today it continues to serve as a reminder of human exploitati..

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Year Of Production	1997
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Borobudur - Mountain of the Thousand Buddhas, Indonesia (66/418)

This famous Buddhist temple, restored with UNESCO's help, is built in three layers - a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, a cone with three circular platforms and at the top, a monumental stupa. The walls and balustrades are decorated with bas-reliefs, covering a total surface of 2,500 square m. Around the circular platform are seventy-two openwork stupas, each containing a statu..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Ngorongoro - Noah's Crater, Tanzania (67/418)

A large permanent concentration of wild animals can be found in the huge and perfect crater of Ngorongoro. Nearby, the crater of Empakaai, filled by a deep lake, and the active volcano of Oldonyo Lenga can be seen. Excavations carried out in the Olduvai Gorge, not far from there, have resulted in the discovery of one of man's more distant ancestors, Homo Habilis.

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Year Of Production	1997
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Marrakech - Pearl of the South, Morocco (68/418)

Marrakesh, founded in 1071-1072, was the capital of the Almoravids and later the Almohades. The lively medina contains an impressive number of architectural masterpieces, including the walls and the monumental gates, the Kutubiya Mosque with its 77-metre-high minaret, the Saadian tombs and characteristic old houses.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Galápagos Islands - The Garden of Eden, Ecuador (69/418)

Located some 1,000 km from the South American continent in the Pacific Ocean, these nineteen volcanic islands have been called a unique "living museum and showcase of evolution". The presence of unusual animal life - such as the land iguana, the giant tortoise, and the many types of finches - inspired Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution, following his visit there in 1835.

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Year Of Production	1997
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The Acropolis of Athens, Greece (70/418)

Illustrating the civilizations, myths and religions that flourished in Greece over a period of more than a thousand years, the Acropolis, which contains four of the greatest masterpieces of classical Greek art - the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheum and the temple of Athena Nike - can be considered to symbolise the idea of world heritage.

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Year Of Production	1997
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The Seychelles - Valleé de Mai (71/418)

In the heart of the small island of Praslin, the reserve shelters the vestiges of a natural palm forest preserved in close to its original state. The famous "coco de mer" (palm tree), once believed to come from a tree growing in the depths of the sea, bears the largest seed in the plant kingdom.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Sankt Gallen Abbey, Switzerland (72/418)

The perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, this convent, rebuilt during the period of Abbot Gozbert (816-837), contains precious manuscripts in its Baroque library, including the earliest-known architectural plan drawn on parchment.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Mount Kilimandjaro - Throne of the White Snake, Tanzania (73/418)

The highest point in Africa, Kilimandjaro is a volcanic massif 5,963 m high which stands, isolated, above the surrounding plains, with its snowy peak looming over the savannah. The mountain is encircled by mountain forest, and numerous mammals, many of which are endangered, live in the park.

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Year Of Production	1997
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The Forbidden City in Peking, China (74/418)

Seat of supreme power for over five centuries, the Forbidden City, with its landscaped gardens and many buildings whose 9,000 rooms contain furniture and works of art, constitutes a priceless testimony to Chinese civilization during the Ming and Qing dynasties.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Bandiagara - Land of the Dogon, Mali (75/418)

These cliffs protect architectural structures of great beauty (houses, granaries, altars, sanctuaries and toguna -- meeting places), which have been for centuries the soul of traditional, secular Dogon culture. The Bandiagara plateau is one of the most impressive geological and landscape features in West Africa.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Los Glaciares - The Magic of the Ice, Argentina (76/418)

The Los Glaciares National Park is an area of exceptional natural beauty, with rugged, towering mountains and numerous glacial lakes, including Lake Argentino, a hundred miles long; at its farther end three glaciers meet to dump their effluvia into the milky grey glacial water, launching massive igloo icebergs into the lake with thunderous splashes.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Djenné - City of Clay, Mali (77/418)

Inhabited since 250 B.C., Djenné developed into a market centre and a link in the trans-Saharan gold trade. In the 15th and 16th centuries, it became one of the spiritual centres for the dissemination of Islam. Its traditional houses, of which close to 2000 have survived, are built on hillocks (toguere) and adapted to the environment of seasonal floods.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Tai - The Last Jungle, Ivory Coast (78/418)

This park is one of the last important remnants of the primary tropical forest of West Africa. Its rich natural flora, and threatened mammal species, such as the pygmy hippopotamus and eleven species of monkeys, are of great scientific interest.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Timbuktu - The Adventure of Arrival, Mali (79/418)

Home of the prestigious Koranic Sankore University and other médersas, Timbuktu was in the 15th and 16th centuries an intellectual and spiritual capital and a centre for the expansion of Islam throughout Africa. Its three great mosques, the Djingareyber, Sankore and Sidi Yahia, speak of Timbuktu's Golden Age. Although restored in the 16th century, these monuments are today threatened by the encroa..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Iguacu Falls, Brazil/Argentina (80/418)

The park shares with Iguazu National Park in Argentina one of the world's largest and most impressive waterfalls, extending over some 2,700 m in length. Many rare and endangered species of flora and fauna are sheltered in the park, among others the giant otter and the giant ant-eater. The clouds of spray produced by the waterfall are conducive to the growth of lush vegetation.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Völklingen - Memories Cast in Iron, Germany (81/418)

The ironworks, which cover 6 hectares, lie above the city of Völklingen, in Saarland. They are the only integrated ironworks, built and equipped in the 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and North America, that went out of production in the recent past and that have remained intact.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Havanna's Old Town, Cuba (82/418)

Founded in 1519 by the Spanish, Havana had become, by the 17th century, a prime centre for naval construction in the Caribbean. Although it is today a sprawling metropolis of two million inhabitants, its old centre retains an interesting mix of baroque and neo-classical monuments, and a homogenous ensemble of civilian houses with arcades, balconies, wrought-iron gates and interior courtyards.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Santa Maria delle Grazie and "The Last Supper", Milan, Italy (83/418)

An integral part of the architectural complex built in Milan beginning in 1463 and reworked at the end of the 15th century by Bramante, the rectory of the convent of Saint Mary of the Graces still has on its northern wall a masterpiece without equal - The Last Supper, painted between 1495 and 1497 by Leonardo da Vinci, whose work heralded a new era in the history of art.

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Year Of Production	1997
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Haein-sa, The Temple of the Black Art, South Korea (84/418)

The Temple of Haeinsa, on Mount Kaya, is home to the Tripitaka Koreana, the most complete collection of Buddhist texts, engraved on 80,000 woodblocks between 1237 and 1249. The buildings of Changgyong P'ango, which date from the 15th century, were constructed to house the woodblocks, which are also revered as an exceptional work of art. As the oldest depository of the Tripitaka, they reveal an ast..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Old Siena, Italy (85/418)

Siena is the embodiment of a medieval city. Its inhabitants, transposing their rivalry with Florence to the area of urban planning, pursued a Gothic dream down the centuries, preserving the appearance their city had acquired between the 12th and 15th centuries. During this period Duccio, the Lorenzetti brothers and Simone Martini were shaping the paths of Italian and, more broadly, European art. T..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Old Florence, Italy (86/418)

Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance assumed its economic and cultural predominance under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries. Its 600 years of extraordinary artistic creativity can be seen above all in its 13th- century Cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore, the Santa Croce Church, the Uffizi Palace and the Pitti Palace which are the work of ar..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Sokkuram - The Cave of Enlightenment, South Korea (87/418)

Established on the slopes of Mount T'oham in the 8th century, the Sokkuram cave contains a monumental statue of Buddha looking at the sea in the bhumisparsha mudra position. With the surrounding portrayals of gods, Bodhisattvas and disciples, realistically and delicately sculpted in haut relief and bas relief, it makes up a masterpiece of Buddhist art in the Far East. The Temple of Pulguksa, built..

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Year Of Production	1997
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Dubrovnik - The Cosmopolitan Fortress, Croatia (88/418)

Situated on the Dalmatian coast, the "Pearl of the Adriatic", became an important Mediterranean sea power from the 13th century onwards. Although severely damaged by an earthquake in 1667, Dubrovnik managed to preserve its beautiful Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque churches, monasteries, palaces and fountains. Damaged again in the 1990's by armed conflict, it is being repaired as part of a major re..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Chongmyo (Jongmyo) - The Shrine of the Kings, South Korea (89/418)

Chongmyo is the oldest and most authentic of the Confucian royal shrines that have been preserved. Consecrated to the forefathers of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), it has existed in its current form since the 16th century and houses tablets bearing the teachings of members of the former royal family. Ritual ceremonies linking music, song and dance still take place there, perpetuating a tradition..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Split - The City in the Palace, Croatia (90/418)

The ruins of Diocletian's Palace, built between the late 3rd century and the early 4th century A.D. can be found throughout the city. The Cathedral was constructed in the Middle Ages out of the ancient mausoleum. Romanesque churches from the 12th and 13th centuries, medieval fortifications, Gothic palaces of the 15th century, and other palaces in Renaissance and Baroque style make up the rest of t..

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Year Of Production	1997
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Anthony Island - Home of the Haida, Canada (91/418)

With its houses and its 32 totem and mortuary poles, the village of Ninstints, on Anthony Island, which was abandoned towards the end of the 19th century, offers a unique view of the activity of the autochthonous Indian hunters and fishermen who once lived on the North Pacific coast.

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Year Of Production	1998
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Schönbrunn - Palace and Park in Vienna, Austria (92/418)

This residence of the Habsburg emperors, from the 18th century until 1918, was built by architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Nicolaus Pacassi and is full of important decorative art. With its gardens, site of the world's first zoo in 1752, it makes a remarkable baroque ensemble and a perfect example of Gesamtkunstwerk.

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Year Of Production	1998
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Strasbourg's Old Town, France (93/418)

Surrounded by two arms of the Ill, the "Grande Ile" (Big Island) is the historic centre of the Alsatian capital which, within a restricted area, contains an outstanding complex of monuments. The Cathedral, the four ancient churches and the Palais Rohan - former residence of the prince-bishops, far from appearing as isolated monuments, form a district which is very characteristic of a medieval town..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Old Salzburg, Austria (94/418)

Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric developed between the Middle Ages and the 19th century, while it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its striking Gothic art drew many craftsmen and artists before it became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of i..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Journey to the Dawn of Time, The Messel Pit, Germany (95/418)

Messel Pit is the richest site for understanding the living environment of the Eocene era, between 57 million and 36 million years B.C.. In particular, it provides unique information about the early stages of the evolution of mammals and includes exceptionally well preserved mammal fossils, ranging from fully articulated skeletons to stomach contents.

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Year Of Production	1998
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Lorsch and Altenmünster - The Search for the Lost Abbey, Germany (96/418)

The abbey, together with its monumental entrance, the famous "Torhall", are a rare architectural vestige of the Carolingian era. The sculptures and paintings from this period have remained in remarkably good condition.

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Year Of Production	1998
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Eisleben and Wittenberg in Germany - Commemorating Martin Luther, Germany (97/418)

These places in Saxony-Anhalt illustrate the lives of Martin Luther and his disciple Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house in Wittenberg, the houses in Eisleben where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546 and his room in Wittenberg, the church in that town and the castle church where, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted his famous 95 Theses which launched the Reformation and a new era in..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Cologne Cathedral, Germany (98/418)

Begun in 1248, the building of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. Over seven centuries, its successive builders were inspired by the same faith and by a spirit of absolute fidelity to the original plans. Apart from its exceptional intrinsic value and the artistic masterpieces it contains, Cologne cathedral bears witness to the strength and endura..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Quedlinburg's Old Town Quarter, Germany (99/418)

Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was the capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ruling dynasty. It has been a prosperous trading town since the Middle Ages. The number and quality of its well-preserved timber-framed buildings make Quedlinburg an exceptional example of a medieval European town. Its collegiate church of St Servatius is a Romanesq..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Trier - Germany's Oldest City (100/418)

A Roman colony since the 1st century A.D. and then a trading centre beginning in the next century, Trier, along the Moselle River, became one of the capitals of the Tetrachy at the end of the 3rd century and was called the "second Rome". It is an excellent testimony to Roman civilization, because of the density and quality of the preserved monuments.

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Year Of Production	1998
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The "Bauhaus" - Myth and Misunderstanding (101/418)

Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus School, based first in Weimar and then in Dessau, revolutionized the architectural and aesthetic concepts and practices inherited from the Renaissance. The buildings put up and decorated by the school's professors (Walter Gropius or Hannes Meyer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy or Wassily Kandinsky) launched the Modern Movement which has shaped much of the architecture of the..

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Year Of Production	1998
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Augustusburg and Falkenlust in Brühl, Germany (102/418)

Set against the idyllic setting of a garden landscape, the Augustusburg Castle - sumptuous residence of the prince-archbishops of Cologne - and the Falkenlust hunting lodge - a small rural folly - are among the first illustrations of rococo architecture in 18th century Germany.

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Year Of Production	1998
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The Rammelsberg and Goslar - A mountain of Minerals and its City, Germany (103/418)

Situated near the Rammelsberg Mines, Goslar held an important place in the Hanseatic League because of the rich Rammelsberg metallic ore deposits. From the 10th to the 12th century it was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Its historic centre, dating from the Middle Ages, is perfectly preserved with some 1,500 semi-timbered houses between the 15th and 19th centuries.

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Year Of Production	1998
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The Speyer Cathedral - The Church of the Salian Emperors, Germany (104/418)

Founded by Conrad II in 1030 and remodelled at the end of the 11th century, the Speyer Cathedral, a basilica with four towers and two domes, is one of the main Romanesque monuments of the Holy Roman Empire. Its architectural structure strikes a perfect balance between eastern and western influences.

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Year Of Production	1998
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The Windmills of Kinderdijk, Netherlands (105/418)

The contribution made by the people of "the low countries" to the technology of handling water is enormous, and this is admirably demonstrated by the installations in the Kinderdijk-Elshout area. Hydraulic works to drain the land for agriculture and settlement began in the Middle Ages and have continued uninterruptedly to the present day. The site contains all the relevant elements of this technol..

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Year Of Production	1998
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Ayutthaya - The Siamese Capital, Thailand (106/418)

Founded in about 1350, Ayutthaya became the second Siamese capital after Sukhotai. It was destroyed by the Burmese in the 18th century. Its remains, characterized by its prang or reliquary towers, and gigantic monasteries, give an idea of its past splendour.

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Year Of Production	1999
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The Ruins of the Old Royal City at Sukhothai, Thailand (107/418)

Capital of the first Kingdom of Siam in the 13th and 14th centuries, a number of notable monuments, which illustrate the beginnings of Thai architecture, can be seen in Sukhotai.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Aachen Cathedral - a Symbol of Spiritual and Temporal Power, Germany (108/418)

Construction of this Palatine chapel, with its octagonal basilica and cupola, began between 790 and 800 under the Emperor Charlemagne. Originally inspired by eastern churches of the Roman Empire, splendid facings were added in the Middle Ages.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Hallstatt - 3,000 Years of Salt Mining, Austria (109/418)

Human activity in the magnificent natural landscape of the Salzkammergut began in prehistoric times, when its deposits of salt began to be exploited as early as the 2nd millennium B.C.. This resource formed the basis of the prosperity of the area up to the middle of the 20th century, a prosperity that is reflected in the fine architecture of the town of Hallstatt.

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Year Of Production	1999
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Cesky Krumlow - Jewel on the Vltava, Czech Republic (110/418)

Situated on the banks of the Vltava River, the town was built around a 13th-century castle bearing Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque imprints. It is an outstanding example of a small medieval town of central Europe whose architectural heritage has remained intact thanks to its peaceful evolution for more than five centuries.

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Year Of Production	1999
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The Statue of Liberty - Symbol of Freedom, USA (111/418)

Made in Paris by the French sculptor Bartholdi, with help on the metalwork from Gustave Eiffel, this symbolic monument to liberty was a gift from France on the centenary of American independence. Standing at the entrance of New York Harbor it has welcomed millions of immigrants to the United States of America since it was inaugurated in 1886.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Quebec - The French Heart of North America, Canada (112/418)

Founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century, the former capital of Nouvelle-France came under English rule from the middle of the 18th century until the middle of the 19th century. Its upper town, built on the cliff, has remained the religious and administrative centre with its churches, convents and other monuments such as the Citadel, the Parliament and Chateau Frontenac...

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Year Of Production	1999
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Naples - The City of Extremes, Italy (113/418)

From the Neapolis founded by Greek settlers in 470 B.C. to the city of today, Naples has received and retains the stamp of the cultures that emerged one after the other in the Mediterranean Basin and in Europe. These layers of influence and its continuing role in history have made the site unique, containing such remarkable monuments as the Santa Chiara Church and the Castel Nuovo, to name but tw..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Pompeji - A Journey Back in Time, Italy (114/418)

When Vesuvius erupted on 24 August 79 A.D. it engulfed the two flourishing Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as the many rich villas in the area. Since the mid 18th century these have been progressively uncovered and made accessible to the public. The vast expanse of the commercial town of Pompeii contrasts with the restricted but better preserved remains of the holiday resort of Her..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Ferrara - Centre of Power and the Muses, Italy (115/418)

Ferrari, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Piero della Francesca, Jacopo Bellini and Mantegna decorated the palaces of the House of Este. The humanist concept of the ideal city came to life here in the quarters built after 1492 by Biagio Rossetti acco..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Vicenza - The Town of Palladio, Italy (116/418)

The great architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) not only created the image of Vicenza but also, scattered throughout the Veneto region, summer villas for aristocrats and houses from which they managed their estates. As with his urban buildings, these country houses had a decisive influence on the development of architecture.

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Year Of Production	1999
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Paphos -The Birthplace of Aphrodite, Cyprus (117/418)

Inhabited since the Neolithic Age, Paphos was a site of worship of Aphrodite and prehistoric fertility deities. Aphrodite's legendary birthplace was on this island, where her temple was erected by the Myceneans in the 12th century B.C. The remains of villas, palaces, theatres, fortresses and tombs give the site its exceptional architectural and historic value. The mosaics of Nea Paphos are among t..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Kairouan - Sacred City of the Maghreb, Tunisia (118/418)

Founded in 670, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabide dynasty in the 9th century. Despite the transfer of the political capital to Tunis in the 12th century, Kairouan remained the first holy city of the Maghreb. Its rich architectural heritage includes the Great Mosque with its columns in marble and porphyry and the 9th- century Mosque of the Three Gates.

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Year Of Production	1999
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The Coliseum of El Djem - The Golden Crown of Africa, Tunisia (119/418)

The impressive ruins of the largest coliseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheatre which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, can be found in the small village of El Jem. This 3rd-century construction illustrates the extent and grandeur of Imperial Rome.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Sousse - The Fortress of the Aghlabids, Tunisia (120/418)

Sousse, an important commercial and military port in the times of the Aghlabites (800-909), is a typical example of a town dating from the first centuries of Islam. With its kasbah, its ramparts, its medina (with the Great Mosque), the Bu Ftata Mosque and its typical ribat, at the same time a fort and religious building, Sousse formed part of a coastal defence system.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Leptis Magna - A Roman Trading Center on the African Coast, Lybia (121/418)

Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimio Severo, who was born there and later became emperor. It was one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman Empire, with its imposing public monuments, man- made harbour, market place, storehouses, shops and residential districts.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Ghadames - The Underground Oasis, Libya (122/418)

Built in an oasis, Ghadamès, "the pearl of the desert", is one of the oldest pre-Saharan cities and an outstanding example of a traditional settlement. Its architecture is characterised by the different functions assigned to each storey - the ground floor used to store supplies, another floor extending over dark enclosed passages forming a system of passageways, and the open-air terraces reserved..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Pont du Gard - The Roman Aqueduct of Nîmes, France (123/418)

The Pont du Gard was built shortly before the Christian era to allow the aqueduct of Nîmes, almost 50 kilometres long, to cross the Gard River. The hydraulic engineers and Roman architects who conceived this bridge, which is almost 50 m high over three levels - the longest measuring 275 m - created a technical as well as artistic masterpiece.

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Year Of Production	1999
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Arles - Stones of Rome and Strokes of van Gogh, France (124/418)

Arles is a good example of the adaptation of an ancient city to medieval European civilization, with its impressive Roman monuments, of which the earliest, the Arena, the Roman Theatre and the Cryptoportica (subterranean galleries) date back to the 1st century B.C. During the 4th century Arles saw a second golden age, as the baths of Constantine and the necropolis of Alyscamps attest to. In the 11..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Carcassonne - The Fairy Tale of a Castle, France (125/418)

Since the pre-Roman period a fortified settlement has existed on the hill where Carcassonne now stands. In its present form it is an outstanding example of a medieval fortified town, with massive defences encircling the castle, its associated houses, streets and the fine Gothic cathedral. Carcassonne is also of exceptional importance because of the long campaign of restoration carried out by Violl..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Mérida - Provincial Roman Capital, Spain (126/418)

The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Mérida in the Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C., at the end of the Spanish Campaign, and was the capital of Lusitania. The remains of the old city, complete and well-preserved, include, in particular, a large bridge over the Guadiana, an amphitheatre, a theatre, a vast circus and an exceptional water supply system. It is an excellent exampl..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Teruel - Moorish Architecture, Spain (127/418)

Remains of an era where, until the 15th century, Christian, Jewish and Moslems lived in harmony, the four towers of Teruel - especially San Salvador and San Martin, built respectively at the end of the 12th and the beginning of the 13th centuries - form a characteristic complex of mudéjar architecture following the Reconquest. The Christian churches used the structure and decor of Almohades minare..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Córdoba -The Grand Mosque and the Great Cathedral, Spain (128/418)

Cordoba's glorious period began in the 8th century when, conquered by the Moors, some 300 mosques, innumerable palaces and public buildings were constructed to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the 13th century, under Ferdinand III the Saint, Cordoba's Great Mosque was turned into a Cathedral and new defensive structures, particularly the Alcazar de los Reyes Cristia..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Potosí - The Devil's Silver, Bolivia (129/418)

Considered, in the 16th century, to be the biggest industrial complex in the world, the extraction of minerals relied on a series of hydraulic mills. The site consists of the industrial monuments, the Cerro Rico, where water is provided by an intricate system of aqueducts and artificial lakes, the colonial town with the Casa de la Moneda, the Church of San Lorenzo, patrician houses and the "barrio..

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Year Of Production	1999
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Sucre - Simón Bolivar's Legacy, Bolivia (130/418)

The former capital of Bolivia, founded by the Spanish in the first half of the 16th century, has many 16th-century religious buildings, such as San Lazaro, San Francisco, and Santo Domingo, which offer a well- preserved illustration of the architectural blending of local traditions and styles imported from Europe.

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Year Of Production	1999
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Historic Tallinn - The Old Hanseatic Port of Reval, Estonia (131/418)

The origins of Tallinn date back to the 13th century, when a castle was founded by the crusading knights of the Teutonic Order. It developed as a major centre of the Hanseatic League, and its wealth is demonstrated by the opulence of the public buildings (its churches in particular) and the domestic architecture of the merchants' houses, which have survived to a remarkable degree despite the ravag..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Old Town in Vilnius - The Rome of the East, Lithuania (132/418)

Political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the end of the 18th century, Vilnius has had a profound influence on the cultural and architectural development of much of Eastern Europe. Despite invasions and partial destruction, it has preserved an impressive complex of historic Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Aleppo - Thousand and One Bazaars, Syria (133/418)

Located at the crossroads of various trade routes since the 2nd millenium B.C., Aleppo was ruled successively by the Hittites, Assyrians, Arabs, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans. Its 13th-century citadel, its 12th-century Great Mosque and various 17th-century medersas, palaces, caravanserais and hammams give it a cohesive and unique urban fabric, now threatened by overpopulation.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Palmyra - The Queen of the Desert, Syria (134/418)

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. The art and architecture of Palmyra, at the crossroads of several civilizations from the 1st to the 2nd century, married Graeco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Petra - The Nabataean City of the Dead, Jordan (135/418)

Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan city was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Pétra, half-built, half-carved in the rock within a ring of mountains and riddled with passages and gorges, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, where ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Quasr Amra, Jordan (136/418)

Built in the early 8th century, this desert castle, which is exceptionally well-preserved, was a fortress that from time to time was used both as a garrison and a residence for the Omayyad caliphs. The most outstanding features of this small pleasure palace are the reception halls and the baths, all richly decorated with figurative murals that reflect the secular art of the time.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Baalbek - The Pillars of Jupiter, Lebanon (137/418)

This Phoenician city, the seat of a worship to a triad of deities, was known as Heliopolis during the Greek period. It retained its religious function in Roman times when the sanctuary of Heliopolitan Jupiter drew thousands of pilgrims. Baalbek, with its colossal structures, is one of the most impressive examples of Imperial Roman architecture at its apogee.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Durham Cathedral, Great Britain (138/418)

Built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the relics of St. Cuthbert, the evangelist of Northumbria, and the Venerable Bede, the Cathedral attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and best example of Norman-style architecture in England. The innovative audacity of its vaulting foreshadowed Gothic architecture. Behind the Cathedral is t..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Edinburgh - The Capital of Scotland, Great Britain (139/418)

Edinburgh, capital of Scotland since the 15th century, presents the dual face of an old city dominated by a medieval fortress and a new neoclassic city whose development from the 18th century onwards exerted a far-reaching influence on European urban planning. The harmonious juxtaposition of these two highly contrasting historic areas, each containing many buildings of great significance, is what..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Blenheim Palace and Park - Home of the Duke of Marlborough, Great Britain (140/418)

Near Oxford, in a romantic park created by the well-known landscape gardener "Capability" Brown, is Blenheim Palace, given by the English nation to John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, in recognition of his victory in 1704 over French and Bavarian troops. Built between 1705 and 1722, characterised by eclectic inspiration and a return to national roots, it is a perfect example of an 18th-cent..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Segovia - The Setting for Power Games, Spain (141/418)

he Roman aqueduct of Segovia, probably built around 50 A.D., is remarkably well preserved. This impressive construction, with its two tiers of arches, forms part of the setting of the magnificent historic city of Segovia, where one can also visit the Alcazar, begun around the 11th century, and the 16th-century Gothic cathedral.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Avila - City of Saints, City of Stone, Spain (142/418)

Founded in the 11th century to protect the Spanish territories from the Moors, this "City of Saints and Stones", the birthplace of Saint Theresa and the burial ground of the Great Inquisitor Torquemada, has kept its medieval austerity. This purity of form can still be seen in its Gothic cathedral and its fortifications which, with 82 semi-circular towers and 9 gates, are the most complete in Spain..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Weimar -The City Inside a Park, Germany (143/418)

n the late 18th and early 19th centuries the small Thuringian town of Weimar witnessed a remarkable cultural flowering, attracting to it many writers and scholars, notably Goethe and Schiller. This development is reflected in the high quality of many of its buildings and of the parks in the surrounding area.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bukhara - Pearl of the Silk Road, Uzbekistan (144/418)

Situated on The Silk Road, Bukhara is more than two thousand years old. It is the most complete example of a medieval city in Central Asia, with an urban fabric that has remained largely intact. The monuments of interest include the Ismail Samani's famous tomb, a masterpiece of 10th-century Moslem architecture, and a number of 17th-century médersas.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Rauma - Wooden Town by the Sea, Finland (145/418)

Situated on the Gulf of Botnia, Rauma is one of the oldest harbours in Finland. Built around a Franciscan monastery, where the mid-15th-century Holy Cross Church still stands, it is an outstanding example of an old Nordic city constructed in wood. Although ravaged by fire in the late 17th century, it has preserved its ancient vernacular architectural heritage.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Petäjävesi - Upon these Logs We Built Our Church, Finland (146/418)

Petäjävesi Old Church, in Central Finland, built from logs between 1763-1765, is a Lutheran country church, typical of an architectural tradition unique to eastern Scandinavia. The church combines the layout of a Renaissance central church conception with older forms deriving from Gothic groined ceilings.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Drottningholm - The Queens Island, Sweden (147/418)

On an island in Lake Mälar in a suburb of Stockholm, the Royal Domain of Drottningholm, with its castle, its perfectly-preserved theatre, built in 1766, its Chinese pavilion and its gardens, is the best example of a northern European 18th-century royal residence inspired by the model of the Palace of Versailles.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Visby - The Rise and Fall of the Hanseatic City, Sweden (148/418)

A former Viking site on the island of Gotland, Visby was the main centre of the Hanseatic League of the Baltic from the 12th to the 14th century. Its 13th-century ramparts and more than 200 warehouses and trading establishments from the same period make it the best preserved fortified commercial city in Northern Europe.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Riga - Hanseatic League, Amber and Art Nouveau, Latvia (149/418)

Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League and prospered from its trade with central and eastern Europe in the 13th-15th centuries. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects this prosperity, although most of its earlier buildings have been destroyed by fire and war. In the 19th century it became a very important economic centre, and the suburbs of the medieval town were built, first in..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Roskilde Cathedral - Burial Place of Kings, Denmark (150/418)

Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was the first Gothic cathedral built of brick in Scandinavia and it inspired the spread of this style throughout Northern Europe. It became the mausoleum of the Danish royal family from the 15th century onwards. Porches and side chapels were added to it up until the end of the 19th century. It now provides a visible summary of the development of European..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Isfahan - A Reflection of Paradise, Iran (151/418)

Built by Shah Abbas I the Great at the beginning of the 17th century and bordered on all sides by monumental buildings linked by a series of two-storeyed arcades, the site is known for its Royal Mosque, the Mosque of Sheyx Lotfollah, the magnificent Portico of Qeyssariyeh and the 15th century Timurid Palace. All bear witness to Persian socio-cultural life during the Safawid era.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Persepolis - Ancient Center of Power, Iran (152/418)

Founded by Darius I in 518 B.C., Persépolis, the capital of the Achaemenid Empire was built on an immense half-artificial, half-natural terrace, where the king of kings built an impressive palace complex inspired by Mesopotamian models. The importance and quality of its monumental ruins make it a unique archaeological site.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Roeros - Copper Town, Norway (153/418)

Located on a mountainous site, its history is linked to the exploitation of copper mines, discovered in the 17th century and used for 333 years until 1977. Completely rebuilt after its destruction by Swedish troops in 1679, the city includes some eighty wooden houses, most of which are grouped around courtyards. Many of them still retain their dark pitch log façades which give the town a medieval..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bryggen - The Hanseatic League's Northernmost Bridgehead, Norway (154/418)

Bryggen, the old wharf of Bergen, is a reminder of the town's importance as part of the Hanseatic League's trading empire from the 14th to the mid-16th century. Many fires, the last in 1955, have ravaged the beautiful wooden houses of Bryggen but its main structure has been preserved. Many of the remaining 58 buildings are now used as artists' studios.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Gwynedd - The Welsh Castles of Edward I, Great Britain (155/418)

In the former principality of Gwynedd, in northern Wales, the castles of Beaumaris and Harlech, thanks largely to the greatest military engineer of the time, James of Saint George, and the fortified complexes of Caernarvon and Conway, all extremely well-preserved, bear witness to the works of colonisation and defence carried out throughout the reign of Edward I, king of England (1272-1307), and to..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Ironbridge - A World First, Great Britain (156/418)

In Ironbridge, known worldwide as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution, all the elements of progress developed in an 18th century industrial region can be found, from the mines themselves to the railway lines. Nearby, the blast furnace of Coalbrookdale, built in 1708, is a reminder of the discovery of coke, which, together with the bridge at Ironbridge, the first metallic bridge in the world, h..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Kakadu National Park - Images of the Dream Time, Australia (157/418)

A unique archaeological and ethnological reserve, located in the Northern Territory, the region has been inhabited continuously for more than 40,000 years. The cave paintings, rock carvings and archaeological sites present a record of the skills and life ways of the region's inhabitants, from the hunters and gatherers of prehistoric times to the Aboriginal people still living there. It is a unique..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Oaxaca and Monte Alban - The White Mountain, Mexico (158/418)

Inhabited over a period of 1500 years by a succession of peoples - Olmecs, Zapotecs and Mixtecs - the terraces, dams, canals, pyramids and artificial mounds of Monte Alban were literally carved out of the mountain and are the symbols of a sacred topography. Nearby, the checkerboard design of Oaxaca is a good example of the Spanish colonial architecture.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Tikal - Lost City of the Maya, Guatemala (159/418)

In the heart of the jungle, surrounded by lush vegetation, lies one of the major sites of Mayan civilization, inhabited from the 6th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D. Its ceremonial centre contains superb temples and palaces, and ramps leading to public squares. Remains of dwellings are scattered throughout the surrounding countryside.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Great Place of Brussels - The Most Beautiful Theatre of the World, Belgium (160/418)

The Brussels Grand-Place is a remarkably homogeneous body of public and private buildings, dating mainly from the late 17th century, whose architecture encapsulates and vividly illustrates the social and cultural quality of this important political and commercial centre.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Chambord - A Castle in the Air, France (161/418)

Constructed in the midst of a vast forest in the Loire valley, the Château of Chambord is a unique masterpiece of the French Renaissance which associates traditional medieval forms with classical Italian structures in an extremely imaginative way.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Val Müstair - Where Charlemagne is a Saint, Switzerland (162/418)

Characteristic of Christian monastic renovation during the Carolingian period, the Convent of Müstair, located in a valley in the centre of les Grisons, contains the greatest series of figurative murals in Switzerland, painted around 800 A.D., along with frescoes and stuccos from Romanesque times.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Luxemburg - Europe's "Little Fortress" (163/418)

Because of its strategic position, Luxembourg was from the 16th century until 1867, when it became neutral, one of Europe's greatest fortresses. Repeatedly fortified as it passed from one great European power to another (the House of Burgundy, the Habsburgs, the French and Spanish Kings, and the Holy Roman Emperors), its fortifications were, until their partial dismantlement, an epitome of militar..

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Istanbul - Capital of Three Empires, Turkey (164/418)

Strategically located on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul has been associated with major political, religious and artistic events for more than two thousand years. Its masterpieces include the ancient Hippodrome of Constantine, the 6th-century Hagia Sophia and the 16th- century Suleymaniye Mosque, which are now jeopardized by o..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Pamukkale, Turkey (165/418)

From springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale ("cotton palace" in Turkish) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified waterfalls and a series of terraced basins. At the end of the 2nd century B.C. the dynasty of the Attalides, the kings of Pergame, set up the thermal station of Hierapolis. The site includes the ruins..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Alberobello - Capital of the Trulli, Italy (166/418)

The Trulli, limestone dwelling houses in the southern Italian region of Puglia, are remarkable examples of drywall (mortarless) construction, a prehistoric building technique still in use in this region. These structures, dating from as early as the mid 14th century, were constructed using roughly worked limestone boulders collected from neighbouring fields. Characteristically, they feature pyrami..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Everglades - A Dying Paradise, USA (167/418)

This site at the southern tip of Florida has been called "a river of grass flowing imperceptibly from the hinterland into the sea". The exceptional variety of its water habitats has made it a sanctuary for a considerable number of birds and reptiles, as well as for threatened species such as the manatee.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Monticello - A Concrete Utopia, USA (168/418)

Excellent examples of Neoclassicism, seen in the relationship of the buildings with nature and the blending of functionalism and symbolism, the mansion of Monticello and the University of Virginia reflect the design of their architect, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), who was strongly influenced by the Enlightenment.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Thebes - The City of Amon, Egypt (169/418)

The capital of Egypt during the period of the Middle and New Kingdoms, Thebes was the city of the god Amon. With the temples and palaces at Karnak and Luxor and the necropolises of the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the Queens, Thebes is a striking testimony to Egyptian civilization at its height.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Pyramids of Giza and Memphis, Egypt (170/418)

Extraordinary funerary monuments remain around the capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. In ancient times, the site was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Khajuraho - Temple of Divine Procreation, India (171/418)

Built during the Chandella Dynasty, at its height between 950 and 1050, the temples of Khajuraho, of which only about 20 remain and which fall under three distinct groups, belong to two different religions - Brahmanism and Jainism. They strike a perfect balance between architecture and sculpture. The Temple of Kandariya is decorated with a profusion of sculptures that are among the greatest master..

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Year Of Production	2000
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The Temple of Thanjavur - The Lust of the Gods, India (172/418)

Under the reign of the great King Rajaraja, founder of the Chola empire which stretched over all of southern India and ist neighbouring islands, the great Temple of Tanjore (Thanjavur) was constructed between 1003 and 1010. Surrounded by two rectangular enclosures, the Brihadisvar, built from blocks of granite and, in part, from bricks, is crowned with a pyramidal 13-storey tower, the vimana, 61 m..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Moscow - The Kremlin and Red Square, Russia (173/418)

Inseparably linked to all of the most important historical and political events in Russia since the 13th century, the Kremlin, built between the 14th and 17th centuries by outstanding Russian and foreign architects, was the residence of the Great Prince and a religious centre. At the foot of its ramparts, on Red Square, the Saint Basil Basilica is one of the most beautiful monuments of Russian Ort..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Kizhi-Pogost - The Warmth of the Wood, Russia (174/418)

The "pogost" of Kizhi - the Kizhi enclosure - is located on one of the many islands on Lake Onega, in Karelia. Two wooden 18th-century churches, and an octagonal clock tower, also in wood, made in 1862, can be seen there. These unusual constructions, in which the science of carpentry led to a bold visionary architecture, perpetuate an ancient model of parish space and are in total harmony with the..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Solovetsky Islands - Bastion of God, Russia (175/418)

The Solovetsky archipelago is composed of six islands in the western part of the White Sea, covering 300 square kilometres. Inhabited since the 5th century B.C., important traces of human life from as far back as the 3rd millennium B.C. can be found there. Since the 15th century, the archipelago has been the site of fervent monastic activity, and several churches, constructed between the 16th and..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Vladimir, Susdal and Kideksha - The Cradle of Russia (176/418)

These two centres of art in central Russia, Vladimir and Suzdal, with their magnificent 12th and 13th-century public and religious buildings, above all the masterpieces of the Saint Demetrios collegiate church and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, hold an important place in Russian architectural history.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Ouro Preto - The City of Black Gold, Brazil (177/418)

Founded at the end of the 17th century, Ouro Preto ("Black Gold"), was the focal point of the gold rush and "Brazil's Golden Age" in the 18th century. With the exhaustion of the gold mines in the 19th century, Ouro Preto's influence declined but many churches, bridges and fountains remain as a testimony to its past prosperity and the exceptional talent of the Baroque sculptor Aleijadinho.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Olinda - City of Monasteries, Brazil (178/418)

Founded in the 16th century by the Portuguese, its history is linked to the sugar cane industry. Rebuilt after its pillage by the Dutch, its essential urban fabric dates from the 18th century. The balance maintained between the buildings, gardens, the twenty Baroque churches, convents and numerous small "passos" (chapels), give Olinda a particular atmosphere.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Cracow - Poland's Secret Capital, Poland (179/418)

Located at the foot of the Wawel, 250 km south-east of Warsaw, Krakow, the former capital of Poland, has a rich historic centre made up of the medieval site of Kazimierz in the southern part of the town with remnants of the 14th-century fortifications, the 13th-century site of Krakow with the largest market square in Europe, the City Hall, the Jagellonian University, the Royal Castle and the Cath..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Burg Malbork- Residence of the Teutonic Order, Poland (180/418)

When the seat of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order moved from Venice to what was then known as Marienburg, the earlier castle was greatly enlarged and embellished. It became the supreme example of the medieval brick castle. It fell into decay later, but in the 19th and early 20th century was meticulously restored; it was here that many of the conservation techniques now accepted as standard w..

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Year Of Production	2000
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The Semmering Railway and Mystery Mountain, Austria (181/418)

The Semmering Railway, built over 41 km of high mountains between 1848 and 1854, is one of the greatest feats of civil engineering of this pioneering phase of railway building. The quality of its tunnels, viaducts and other works have ensured the continuous use of the line up to the present day. It runs past a background of a spectacular mountain landscape containing many fine recreational buildin..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Auschwitz, Poland (182/418)

The fortified walls, the barbed wire, the platforms, the barracks, the gallows, the gas chambers and the cremation ovens all bear witness to the conditions within which the Hitlerian genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most extensive of the Third Reich. Four million persons, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Castel del Monte - The Stony Crown of Apulia, Italy (183/418)

The location, the mathematical and astronomical precision of its layout and its perfect shape reflect the symbolic ambition which inspired Emperor Frederick II when he built this southern Italian castle in the 13th century. A unique piece of medieval military architecture, Castle del Monte is a completely successful blending of classical antiquity, the Islamic Orient and northern European Cisterci..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Cinque Terre - Homeland between Rock and Sea, Italy (184/418)

The Ligurian coastal region between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of high scenic and cultural value. The form and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the landscape surrounding them, overcoming the disadvantages of a steep and broken terrain, graphically encapsulate the continuous history of human settlement in this region over the past millennium.

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Year Of Production	2000
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The End of the Way of St. James - The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (185/418)

This famous pilgrimage site in the North-West of Spain became a symbol in the Spanish Christians' struggle against Islam. Destroyed by the Muslims at the end of the 10th century, it was completely rebuilt in the following century. The Old Town of Santiago forms one of the world's most beautiful urban areas with Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque buildings. The oldest monuments are grouped around St Ja..

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Year Of Production	2000
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The Way of St. James - The Pilgrims' Road to Santiago de Compostela, Spain (186/418)

Proclaimed the first European Cultural Capital by the Council of Europe, this is the route, from the French-Spanish border, which was - and still is - taken by pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela. Some 1800 buildings along the route, both religious and secular, are of great historic interest. The route played a fundamental role in facilitating cultural exchanges between the Iberian peninsula and..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Kathmandu - Royal Towns at the Foot of the Himalaya, Nepal (187/418)

At the crossroads of the great civilizations of Asia, seven groups of Hindu and Buddhist monuments, as well as the three residential and palace areas of the royal cities of Kathmandu, Patan and Bhadgaon, illustrate Nepalese art at its height. Among the 130 monuments are pilgrimage centres, temples, shrines, bathing sites and gardens - all sites of veneration by both religious groups.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Luang Prabang - Old Royal City on the Mekong, Laos (188/418)

This town reflects the exceptional fusion of traditional architecture and urban structures built by 19th and 20th century European colonial rulers. Its unique township is remarkably well preserved, illustrating a key stage in the blending of these two distinct cultural traditions.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Qufu - Where Confucius Lived and Taught, China (189/418)

The Temple, Cemetery and Family mansion of Confucius, the great philosopher, politician and educator of the 6th-5th century B.C., is located at Qufu, in Shandong Province. The Temple built in his commemoration in 478 B.C., destroyed and reconstructed over the centuries, today comprises more than 100 buildings. The Cemetery contains Confucius' tomb, and the remains of more than 100,000 of his desc..

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Year Of Production	2000
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The Grand Canyon - A Cross Section of the Ages, USA (190/418)

Carved out by the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, nearly 1,500 m deep, is the most spectacular gorge in the world. Located in the state of Arizona, it cuts across the Grand Canyon National Park. Its horizontal strata retrace the geological history of the past 2 billion years. Prehistoric traces also remain of human adaptation to a particularly harsh environment.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Taos Pueblo - Native American Culture on the Rio Grande, USA (191/418)

Situated in the valley of a small tributary of the Rio Grande, this adobe settlement consists of dwellings and ceremonial buildings, representing the culture of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Sanchi - For the Veneration of Buddha, India (192/418)

On a hill which overlooks the plain, about 40 km from Bhopal, the site of Sânchi groups Buddhist monuments (monolithic pillars, palaces, temples and monasteries), all in different states of conservation, dating for the most part back to the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C. This oldest existing Buddhist sanctuary was a principle centre of Buddhism in India until the 12th century A.D.

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Year Of Production	2000
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The Shore Temple of Mahabalipuram, India (193/418)

This group of sanctuaries, founded by the Pallava kings, was carved out of rock along the Coromandel coast in the 7th and 8th centuries. It is known especially for its rathas (temples in the form of chariots), mandapas (cave sanctuaries), giant open-air reliefs such as the famous "Descent of the Ganges" and the temple of Rivage, with thousands of sculptures to the glory of Siva.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Maritime Greenwich - The Heart of Seafaring, Great Britain (194/418)

The ensemble of buildings at Greenwich, near London, and the park in which they are set, are distinguished symbols of English artistic and scientific endeavour in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Queen's House of Inigo Jones was the first Palladian building in the British Isles, whilst the complex that was until recently the Royal Naval College was designed by Christopher Wren. The Park, laid out..

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Year Of Production	2000
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Hue - Where Mourning Smiles, Vietnam (195/418)

Established as the capital of unified Vietnam in 1802, Hué was not only the political but also the cultural and religious centre under the Nguyen Dynasty until 1945. The Perfume River winds its way through the Capital City, the Imperial City, the Forbidden Purple City and Inner City, adding natural beauty to this unique feudal capital.

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Year Of Production	2000
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Halong-Bay - Bizarre World of Islands, Vietnam (196/418)

Ha Long Bay, located in the Gulf of Tonkin, includes some 1600 islands and islets forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars. Because of their precipitous nature, most of the islands are uninhabited and unaffected by man. The exceptional aesthetic values of this site are complimented by its great biological interest.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Royal Park of Studley and the Ruins of Fountain Abbey - Cultivated Wilderness, Great Britain (197/418)

A striking landscape was created around the ruins of the Cistercian abbey of Fountains and Fountains Hall Castle, in Yorkshire. The landscaping, the gardens and canal dating from the 18th century, the plantations and vistas from the 19th century and the neo-Gothic castle of Studley Royal Park make this a site of exceptional value.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Abomey - The Kingdom of the Slave Traders, Benin (198/418)

From 1625 to 1900 twelve kings succeeded one another at the head of the powerful Kingdom of Abomey. With the exception of King Akaba, who used a separate enclosure, they each had their palaces built within the same cob-wall area, in keeping with previous palaces as regards the use of space and materials. The royal palaces of Abomey are a unique reminder of this vanished kingdom.

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Air and Ténére - A Wilderness of Sand and Rock, Niger (199/418)

This is the largest protected area in Africa, covering some 7.7 million hectares. The area considered as a protected sanctuary is only one- sixth of the total area. It includes the volcanic rock mass of the Aïr, a small Sahelian pocket, isolated as regards its climate and flora and fauna in the Saharan desert of Ténéré. The reserve boasts an outstanding variety of landscapes, plant species and wi..

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Year Of Production	2000
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Berlin's Museum Island - Prussia's Treasure House, Germany (200/418)

The museum as a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century. The five museums on the Museumsinsel in Berlin, built between 1824 and 1930, represent the realisation of a visionary project and the evolution of approaches to museum design over the century. Each museum has been designed with a view to establishing an organic connection to the art it houses. The i..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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New Lanark - The Right to a Better Life, Scotland (201/418)

New Lanark is a small 18th century village set in a sublime Scottish landscape where the philanthropist and Utopian idealist Robert Owen moulded a model industrial community in the early 19th century. The imposing cotton mill buildings, the spacious and well-designed workers' housing, and the dignified educational institute and school still testify to Owen's humanism.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Blaenavon - Tough as Steel and as Black as Coal, Great Britain (202/418)

The area around Blaenavon bears eloquent and exceptional testimony to the pre-eminence of South Wales as the world's major producer of iron and coal in the 19th century. All the necessary elements can be seen in site - coal and ore mines, quarries, a primitive railway system, furnaces, the homes of the workers, and the social infrastructure of their community.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Lalibela - Jerusalem at the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia (203/418)

The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century 'New Jerusalem' are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings. Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilgrimage and devotion.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Fasil Ghebbi - a Fortress-Camp, Ethiopia (204/418)

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded by a 900-m-long wall, the city contains palaces, churches, monasteries and unique public and private buildings marked by Hindu and Arab influences, subsequently transformed by the Baroque style brought to Gondar by the Jesuit missionaries.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Sanaa, An Ancient City with New Buildings, Yemen (205/418)

Located in a mountain valley at an altitude of 2200 m, Sana'a has been inhabited for more than 2500 years. In the 7th and 8th centuries the town became a major centre for the spread of Islam. This religious and political heritage can be seen in its 106 mosques, 12 hammams and 6500 houses, all built before the 11th century. Sana'a's many-storeyed tower or pisé houses add to the beauty o..

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Year Of Production	2001
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Shibam - In the Manhattan of the Desert, the Clay is Crumbling, Yemen (206/418)

Surrounded by a fortified wall, the 16th-century city of Shibam is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based on the principle of vertical construction. Its impressive tower-like structures rise out of the cliff and have given the city the nickname of 'the Manhattan of the desert'.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Damascus - Paradise in the Desert, Syria (207/418)

Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East. In the Middle Ages, it was the centre of a flourishing craft industry, specializing in swords and lace. The city has some 125 monuments from different periods of its history - one of the most spectacular is the 8th-century Great Mosque of the Umayyads, built on the site of an Assyrian sanctuary.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Bosra - Bastion in the Orient, Syria (208/418)

Bosra, once the capital of the Roman province of Arabia, was an important stopover on the ancient caravan route to Mecca. A magnificent 2nd-century Roman theatre, early Christian ruins and several mosques are found within its great walls.

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Year Of Production	2001
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The Frankincense Route in Dhofar, Tears of the Gods, Sultanate of Oman (209/418)

The frankincense trees of Wadi Dawkah and the remains of the caravan oasis of Shisr/Wubar and the affiliated ports of Khor Rori and Al-Balid vividly illustrate the trade in frankincense that flourished in this region for many centuries, as one of the most important trading activities of the ancient and medieval world.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Zanzibar - the Sultan's Island Pearl, Tanzania (210/418)

The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa. It retains its urban fabric and townscape virtually intact and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture, which has brought together and homogenized disparate elements of the cultures of Africa, the Arab region, India, and Europe over more than a millennium.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Canadian Rocky Mountains - A Journey back to the Ice Age, Canada (211/418)

The contiguous national parks of Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho, as well as the Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber provincial parks, studded with mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves, form a striking mountain landscape. The Burgess Shale fossil site, well known for its fossil remains of soft-bodied marine animals, is also found there.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Lunenburg - Life after Cod, Canada (212/418)

Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangular grid pattern drawn up in the home country. The inhabitants have managed to safeguard the city's identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses, some of which..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Sighisoara - The Town of Little Eternities, Romania (213/418)

Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighisoara is a fine example of a small, fortified medieval town which played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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North Moldavian Monasteries - World of Religious Images, Romania (214/418)

With their painted exterior walls, decorated with 15th- and 16th- century frescoes that are considered masterpieces of Byzantine art, these seven churches in northern Moldavia are unique in Europe. Far from being merely wall decorations, the paintings represent complete cycles of religious murals on all facades. Their outstanding composition, elegant outline and harmonious colours blend perfectly..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Pisa - Advent of a New Era, Italy (215/418)

Standing in a large green expanse, Piazza del Duomo houses a group of monuments known the world over. These four masterpieces of medieval architecture - the cathedral, the baptistery, the campanile (the 'Leaning Tower') and the cemetery - had a great influence on monumental art in Italy from the 11th to the 14th century.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Paris - Pomp and Poetry by the Seine, France (216/418)

From the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower, from the Place de la Concorde to the Grand and Petit Palais, the evolution of Paris and its history can be seen from the River Seine. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame and the Sainte Chapelle are architectural masterpieces while Haussmann's wide squares and boulevards influenced late 19th- and 20th-century town planning the world over.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Kyoto - Form and Emptiness, Emptiness and Form, Japan (217/418)

Built in A.D. 794 on the model of the capitals of ancient China, Kyoto was the imperial capital of Japan from its foundation until the middle of the 19th century. As the centre of Japanese culture for more than 1,000 years, Kyoto illustrates the development of Japanese wooden architecture, particularly religious architecture, and the art of Japanese gardens, which has influenced landscape gardeni..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Hiroshima, Japan (218/418)

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind;..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Kandy - Living Buddhism, Sri Lanka (219/418)

This sacred Buddhist site, popularly known as the city of Senkadagalapura, was the last capital of the Sinhala kings whose patronage enabled the Dinahala culture to flourish for more than 2,500 years until the occupation of Sri Lanka by the British in 1815. It is also the site of the Temple of the Tooth Relic (the sacred tooth of the Buddha), which is a famous pilgrimage site.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Sigirya - the Legendary Cliff Fortress, Sri Lanka (220/418)

The ruins of the capital built by the parricidal King Kassapa I (477-95) lie on the steep slopes and at the summit of a granite peak standing some 370 m high (the 'Lion's Rock', which dominates the jungle from all sides). A series of galleries and staircases emerging from the mouth of a gigantic lion constructed of bricks and plaster provide access to the site.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Djoudj - Watery Wilderness on the Edge of the Sahara, Senegal (221/418)

Situated in the Senegal river delta, the Djoudj Sanctuary is a wetland of 16,000 ha, comprising a large lake surrounded by streams, ponds and backwaters. It forms a living but fragile sanctuary for some 1.5 million birds, such as the white pelican, the purple heron, the African spoonbill, the great egret and the cormorant.

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Summer Palace - Garden of the Heavenly Empress, China (222/418)

The Summer Palace in Beijing - first built in 1750, largely destroyed in the war of 1860 and restored on its original foundations in 1886 - is a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Flemish Béguinages of Prayer, Life, and Work, Belgium (223/418)

The Béguines were women who dedicated their lives to God without retiring from the world. In the 13th century they founded the béguinages, enclosed communities designed to meet their spiritual and material needs. The Flemish béguinages are architectural ensembles composed of houses, churches, ancillary buildings and green spaces, with a layout of either urban or rural origin and built in styles sp..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Canal du Midi - Where Ships Have to Climb, France (224/418)

This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil engineering in modern times. Built between 1667 and 1694, it paved the way for the Industrial Revolution. The care that its creator, Pierre-Paul Riquet, took in the design and the way it blends with its..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Palace of the Popes - Avignon, France (225/418)

In the 14th century, this city in the South of France was the seat of the papacy. The Palais des Papes, an austere-looking fortress lavishly decorated by Simone Martini and Matteo Giovanetti, dominates the city, the surrounding ramparts and the remains of a 12th-century bridge over the Rhone. Beneath this outstanding example of Gothic architecture, the Petit Palais and the Romanesque Cathedral of..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Saint-Emilion - Where Wine Reigns Supreme, France (226/418)

Viticulture was introduced to this fertile region of Aquitaine by the Romans, and intensified in the Middle Ages. The Saint-Emilion area benefited from its location on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and many churches, monasteries and hospices were built there from the 11th century onwards. It was granted the special status of a 'jurisdiction' during the period of English rule in th..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Vézère - The Wonder of Lascaux, France (227/418)

The Vézère valley contains 147 prehistoric sites dating from the Palaeolithic and 25 decorated caves. It is particularly interesting from an ethnological and anthropological, as well as an aesthetic point of view because of its cave paintings, especially those of the Lascaux Cave, whose discovery in 1940 was of great importance for the history of prehistoric art. The hunting scenes show some 100 a..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Easter Island - Mysterious Giants, Chile (228/418)

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative, original tradition of monumental sculpture and architecture, free from any external influence. From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai,..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Ibiza - Of Phoenicians and Pirates, Spain (229/418)

Ibiza provides an excellent example of the interaction between the marine and coastal ecosystems. The dense prairies of oceanic Posidonia (seagrass), an important endemic species found only in the Mediterranean basin, contain and support a diversity of marine life. Ibiza preserves considerable evidence of its long history. The archaeological sites at Sa Caleta (settlement) and Puig des Molins (nec..

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Year Of Production	2001
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Wouda Pumping Station - Water, Steel, and Steam, Netherlands (230/418)

The Wouda Pumping Station at Lemmer in the province of Friesland opened in 1920. It is the largest steam-pumping station ever built and is still in operation. It represents the high point of the contribution made by Netherlands engineers and architects in protecting their people and land against the natural forces of water.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Troy - Of Poetry and Archeology in Turkey (231/418)

Troy, with its 4,000 years of history, is one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. The first excavations at the site were undertaken by the famous archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1870. In scientific terms, its extensive remains are the most significant demonstration of the first contact between the civilizations of Anatolia and the Mediterranean world. Moreover, the siege of..

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Goreme, Turkey - Stone City of Early Christianity (232/418)

In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculptured by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post- Iconoclastic period. Dwellings, troglodyte villages and underground towns - the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century - can also be seen there.

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Itsukushima - The Voice of Nature, Japan (233/418)

The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present shrine dates from the 13th century and the harmoniously arranged buildings reveal great artistic and technical skill. The shrine plays on the contrasts in colour and form between mountains and sea and i..

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Robben Island, South Africa (234/418)

Robben Island was used at various times between the 17th and 20th centuries as a prison, a hospital for socially unacceptable groups and a military base. Its buildings, particularly those of the late 20th century such as the maximum security prison for political prisoners, witness the triumph of democracy and freedom over oppression and racism.

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Lednice - Princely Splendour and Horticultural Art, Czech Republic (235/418)

Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque architecture (mainly the work of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) and the classical and neo-Gothic style of the castles of Lednice and Valtice with countryside fashioned according to English romantic principles of landscape architectu..

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Telc - Where Buildings Wear Their Sunday Best, Czech Republic (236/418)

The houses in Telc, which stands on a hilltop, were originally built of wood. After a fire in the late 14th century, the town was rebuilt in stone, surrounded by walls and further strengthened by a network of artificial ponds. The town's Gothic castle was constructed in High Gothic style in the late 15th century.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Taxila - Buddha's Serious Face, Pakistan (237/418)

From the ancient Neolithic tumulus of Saraikala to the ramparts of Sirkap 2nd century B.C. and the city of Sirsukh (1st century A.D.), Taxila illustrates the different stages in the development of a city on the Indus that was alternately influenced by Persia, Greece and Central Asia and which, from the 5th century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D., was an important Buddhist centre of learning.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Lahore - The Clouded Mirror of the Past, Pakistan (238/418)

These are two masterpieces from the time of the brilliant Mughal civilization, which reached its height during the reign of the Emperor Shah Jahan. The fort contains marble palaces and mosques decorated with mosaics and gilt. Near the city of Lahore, the elegance of the splendid gardens, built on three terraces with lodges, waterfalls and large ornamental ponds, is unequalled.

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Year Of Production	2001
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The Rice Terraces of the Ifugao - Steps Up to Heaven, Philippines (239/418)

For 2,000 years, the high rice fields of the Ifugao have followed the contours of the mountains. The fruit of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next, and the expression of sacred traditions and a delicate social balance, they have helped to create a landscape of great beauty that expresses the harmony between humankind and the environment.

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Vigan - "Earthquake-Baroque" and Shell Windows, Philippines (240/418)

Established in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia. Its architecture reflects the coming together of cultural elements from elsewhere in the Philippines, from China and from Europe, resulting in a culture and townscape that have no parallel anywhere in East and South-East Asia.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Delphi - The Oracle of Power, Greece (241/418)

The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the oracle of Apollo spoke, was the site of the omphalos, the 'navel of the world'. Blending harmoniously with the superb landscape and charged with sacred meaning, Delphi in the 6th century B.C. was indeed the religious centre and symbol of unity of the ancient Greek world.

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Rhodes - The Fort and Hospital of the Knights of St. John, Greece (242/418)

The Order of St John of Jerusalem occupied Rhodes from 1309 to 1523 and set about transforming the city into a stronghold. It subsequently came under Turkish and Italian rule. With the Palace of the Grand Masters, the Great Hospital and the Street of the Knights, the Upper Town is one of the most beautiful urban ensembles of the Gothic period. In the Lower Town, Gothic architecture coexists with m..

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Year Of Production	2001
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Spissky Hrad - A Fortress at the Crossroads of Cultures, Slovak Republic (243/418)

Spissky Hrad has one of the largest ensembles of 13th- and 14th- century military, political and religious buildings in eastern Europe, and its Romanesque and Gothic architecture has remained remarkably intact.

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Vlkolinec - A Log Village in Slovakia (244/418)

Vlkolínec, situated in the centre of Slovakia, is a remarkably intact settlement of 45 buildings with the traditional features of a central European village. It is the region's most complete group of these kinds of traditional log houses, often found in mountainous areas.

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Year Of Production	2001
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Trinidad and the Valle de los Ingenios - Bitter Sugar, Cuba (245/418)

Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead for the conquest of the American continent. Its 18th- and 19th-century buildings, such as the Palacio Brunet and the Palacio Cantero, were built in its days of prosperity from the sugar trade.

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Santiago de Cuba, Cuba (246/418)

Commercial and political rivalries in the Caribbean region in the 17th century resulted in the construction of this massive series of fortifications on a rocky promontory, built to protect the important port of Santiago. This intricate complex of forts, magazines, bastions and batteries is the most complete, best- preserved example of Spanish-American military architecture, based on Italian and Re..

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Year Of Production	2001
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Orkney - Graffiti of the Vikings, Great Britain (247/418)

The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archi..

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Wartburg Castle - Where Romanticism Dreams of the Middle Ages, Germany (248/418)

Wartburg Castle blends superbly into its forest surroundings and is in many ways 'the ideal castle'. Although it has retained some original sections from the feudal period, the form it acquired during the 19th-century reconstitution gives a good idea of what this fortress might have been at the height of its military and seigniorial power. It was during his exile at Wartburg Castle that Martin Lu..

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San Juan de Puerto Rico - Spain's Bulwark in the Caribbean, USA (249/418)

Between the 15th and 19th centuries, a series of defensive structures was built at this strategic point in the Caribbean Sea to protect the city and the Bay of San Juan. They represent a fine display of European military architecture adapted to harbour sites on the American continent.

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Mesa Verde - The Spirit of the Anasazi, USA (250/418)

A great concentration of ancestral Pueblo Indian dwellings, built from the 6th to the 12th century, can be found on the Mesa Verde plateau in south-west Colorado at an altitude of more than 2,600 m. Some 4,400 sites have been recorded, including villages built on the Mesa top. There are also imposing cliff dwellings, built of stone and comprising more than 100 rooms.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Reichenau - The Monastic Island in Lake Constance, Germany (251/418)

The island of Reichenau on Lake Constance preserves the traces of the Benedictine monastery, founded in 724, which exercised remarkable spiritual, intellectual and artistic influence. The churches of St Mary and Marcus, St Peter and St Paul, and St George, mainly built between the 9th and 11th centuries, provide a panorama of early medieval monastic architecture in central Europe. Their wall paint..

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Year Of Production	2002
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The Loire Valley - Between Radiance and Misery - The Fate of the Fairer Sex, France (252/418)

The Loire Valley is an outstanding cultural landscape of great beauty, containing historic towns and villages, great architectural monuments (the châteaux), and cultivated lands formed by many centuries of interaction between their population and the physical environment, primarily the river Loire itself. The site includes the Château and Estate of Chambord, which was inscribed on the World Herita..

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Lyon - When Beauty Hangs by a Silken Thread, France (253/418)

The long history of Lyons, which was founded by the Romans in the 1st century B.C. as the capital of the Three Gauls and has continued to play a major role in Europe's political, cultural and economic development ever since, is vividly illustrated by its urban fabric and the many fine historic buildings from all periods.

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The Old Town in Graz - "As if you had come to peace?", Austria (254/418)

Graz is a particularly fine example of the living heritage of a central European urban complex that was under Habsburg rule for many centuries. The old city is a harmonious blend of the architectural styles and artistic movements that have succeeded each other since the Middle Ages, together with cultural influences from the neighbouring regions.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Pingyao - Money and Gods Behind High Walls, China (255/418)

Ping Yao is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional Han Chinese city, founded in the 14th century. Its urban fabric shows the evolution of architectural styles and town planning in Imperial China over five centuries. Of special interest are the imposing buildings associated with banking, for which Ping Yao was the major centre for the whole of China in the 19th and early 20th cen..

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Year Of Production	2002
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Valle de Vinales - Home of the Havana, Cuba (256/418)

The Viñales valley is encircled by mountains and its landscape is interspersed with dramatic rocky outcrops. Traditional techniques are still in use for agricultural production, particularly of tobacco. The quality of this cultural landscape is enhanced by the vernacular architecture of its farms and villages, where a rich multi-ethnic society survives, illustrating the cultural development of the..

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Bialowieza - Wilderness under the Canopy of the Forest Giants, Poland/Belarus (257/418)

Situated on the watershed of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, this immense forest range, consisting of evergreens and broad- leaved trees, is home to some remarkable animal life, including rare mammals such as the wolf, the lynx and the otter, as well as some 300 European Bison, a species which has been reintroduced into the park.

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Accra - Where Gold and People were shipped away, Ghana (258/418)

The remains of fortified trading-posts, erected between 1482 and 1786, can still be seen along the coast of Ghana between Keta and Beyin. They were links in the trade routes established by the Portuguese in many areas of the world during their era of great maritime exploration.

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The Chief, the Gold and the King- Ashanti Land, Ghana (259/418)

To the northeast of Kumasi, these are the last material remains of the great Asante civilization, which reached its peak in the 18th century. The dwellings, made of earth, wood and straw, are gradually being destroyed by the effects of time and weather.

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Vall de Boi - a Valley, A Lifan and Other Mysteries, Spain (260/418)

The steep-sided, narrow Vall de Boí, is situated in the high Pyrénnées, in the Alta Ribagorça region. Each of the villages in the valley contains a Romanesque church, and is surrounded by a pattern of enclosed fields. There are extensive seasonally used grazing lands on the higher slopes.

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Caracas University, A Dream in Concrete, Venezuela (261/418)

The Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, built to the design of the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva from the 1940s to the 1960s, is an outstanding example of the Modern Movement in architecture. The university campus integrates the large number of buildings and functions into a clearly articulated ensemble, including masterpieces of modern architecture and visual arts, such as the Aula Magna with the..

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Willemstad - Little Amsterdam in the Caribbean, Netherlands Antilles (262/418)

The Dutch established a trading settlement at a fine natural harbour on the Caribbean island of Curaçao in 1634. The town developed continuously over the succeeding centuries. The modern town consists of several distinct historic districts whose architecture reflects both the European planning and styles of the Netherlands and the Spanish and Portuguese colonial towns with which Willemstad engage..

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The Rietveld-Schroeder House in Utrecht, the Architect and his Muse, Netherlands (263/418)

The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was commissioned by Ms Truus Schröder-Schräder, designed by the architect Gerrit homas Rietveld, and built in 1924. This small one-family house, with its interior, the flexible spatial arrangement, and the visual and formal qualities, was a manifesto of the ideals of the De Stijl group of artists and architects in the Netherlands in the 1920s and has since be..

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The Horta Houses in Brussels - Under Glass Canopies, Belgium (264/418)

The four major town houses - Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde, and Maison & Atelier Horta - located in Brussels and designed by the architect Victor Horta, one of the earliest initiators of Art Nouveau, are some of the most remarkable pioneering works of architecture of the end of the 19th century. The stylistic revolution presented by these works is characterised by their open plan,..

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Goa - Cathedrals in the Jungle, India (265/418)

The churches and convents of Goa, the former capital of the Portuguese Indies - particularly the Church of Bom Jesus, which contains the tomb of St Francis-Xavier - illustrate the evangelisation of Asia. These monuments were influential in spreading forms of Manueline, Mannerist and Baroque art in all the countries of Asia where missions were established.

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Himalayian Mountain Railway to Darjeeling - A Trip into the Clouds, India (266/418)

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is the first, and still the most outstanding, example of a hill passenger railway. Opened in 1881, it applied bold, ingenious engineering solutions to the problem of establishing an effective rail link across a mountainous terrain of great beauty. It is still fully operational and retains most of its original features.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Fatehpur Sikri, the Ghost Town of the Moghul Emperor, India (267/418)

Built during the second half of the 16th century by the Emperor Akbar, Fatehpur Sikri (the City of Victory) was the capital of the Mughal Empire for only some 10 years. The complex of monuments and temples, all in a uniform architectural style, includes one of the largest mosques in India, the Jama Masjid.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Yosemite National Park - Seasons of a Wonder of Nature, USA (268/418)

Located in the heart of California, Yosemite National Park, with its "hanging" valleys, many waterfalls, cirque lakes, polished domes, moraines and U-shaped valleys, offers a view of all kinds of granite reliefs fashioned by glaciations. At 600 to 4,000 metres high, a great variety of flora and fauna can also be found here.

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Independence Hall in Philadelphia - The Sound of Liberty, USA (269/418)

The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed in this hall in the heart of Philadelphia, in 1776 and 1787 respectively. Since then, the universal principles set forth in these two documents of fundamental importance to American history have continued to guide lawmakers all over the world.

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Great Barrier Reef - The Paradise in the Sea, Australia (270/418)

The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world's largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and 4,000 types of mollusc. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat of species such as the dugong ('sea cow') and the large green turtle, which are threatened with extinction.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Fraser Island - The Sleeping Goddess, Australia (271/418)

Fraser Island lies just off the east coast of Australia. At 122 km long, it is the largest sand island in the world. Majestic remnants of tall rainforest growing on sand and half the world's perched freshwater dune lakes are found inland from the beach. The combination of shifting sand-dunes, tropical rainforests and lakes makes it an exceptional site.

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Bellinzona - Gateway to Italy, Switzerland (272/418)

The Bellinzone site consists of a group of fortifications centring on the castle of Castelgrande, which stands on the rocky peak looking out over the entire Ticino valley. Running from the castle, a series of fortified walls protect the ancient town and block the passage through the valley. A second castle forms an integral part of the fortifications; a third but separate castle (Sasso Corbaro)..

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Skellig Michael - The Edge of the World, Ireland (273/418)

This monastic complex, perched since about the 7th century on the steep sides of the rocky island of Skellig Michael, some 12 km off the coast of south-west Ireland, illustrates the very spartan existence of the first Irish Christians. Since the extreme remoteness of Skellig Michael has until recently discouraged visitors, the site is exceptionally well preserved.

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Ohrid - a World of Colour and Images, Macedonia (274/418)

Situated on the shores of Lake Ohrid, the town of Ohrid is one of the oldest human settlements in Europe. Built mainly between the 7th and 19th centuries, it has the oldest Slav monastery (St Pantelejmon) and more than 800 Byzantine-style icons dating from the 11th to the end of the 14th century. After those of the Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow, this is considered to be the most important collection..

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Butrint - Health Resort and Festival Venue of the Ancient World, Albania (275/418)

Butrint occupies a small peninsula between the Straits of Corfu and Lake Butrint. Inhabited since prehistoric times, Butrint has been the site of a Greek colony, a Roman city, and a bishopric. Following a period of prosperity under Byzantine administration, then a brief occupation by the Venetians, the city was abandoned in the late Middle Ages after marshes formed in the area. The present archaeo..

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Sintra - The Eternal Imperial Dream, Portugal (276/418)

In the 19th century Sintra became the first centre of European Romantic architecture. Ferdinand II turned a ruined monastery into a castle where this new sensitivity was displayed in the use of Gothic, Egyptian, Moorish and Renaissance elements and in the creation of a park blending local and exotic species of trees. Other prestigious homes built along the same lines in the surrounding Serra creat..

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Porto - Impressions of a Defiant City, Portugal (277/418)

The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with a 1,000-year history. Its continuous growth, linked to the sea (the Romans gave it the name Portus, or port), can be seen in the many and varied monuments, from the cathedral with its Romanesque choir, to the neoclassical Stock Exchange and the typically Portuguese Manueli..

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Angra do Heroismo - the Azores and Europe's Discovery of the World, Portugal (278/418)

Situated on one of the islands in the Azores archipelago, this was an obligatory port of call from the 15th century until the advent of the steamship in the 19th century. The 400-year-old San Sebastião and San João Baptista fortifications are unique examples of military architecture. Damaged by an earthquake in 1980, Angra is now being restored.

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Year Of Production	2002
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The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz - Utility in Beauty, Germany (279/418)

The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.

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Mtskheta - The Miracle of St. Nina, Georgia (280/418)

The historic churches of Mtskheta, former capital of Georgia, are outstanding examples of medieval religious architecture in the Caucasus. They show the high artistic and cultural level attained by this ancient kingdom.

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Baku - In the Land of Fire, Azerbaijan (281/418)

Built on a site inhabited since the Palaeolithic period, the Walled City of Baku reveals evidence of Zoroastrian, Sassanian, Arabic, Persian, Shirvani, Ottoman, and Russian presence in cultural continuity. The Inner City (Icheri Sheher) has preserved much of its 12th-century defensive walls. The 12th-century Maiden Tower (Giz Galasy) is built over earlier structures dating from the 7th to 6th cent..

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The Wachau - The Region That Smiles, Austria (282/418)

The Wachau is a stretch of the Danube Valley between Melk and Krems of high visual landscape quality. It preserves intact and visible many traces, in terms of architecture, urban design, and agricultural use, principally for the cultivation of vines, of its continuous and organic evolution since prehistoric times.

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Chichen Itza - The Mystery of the Decline of the Maya, Mexico (283/418)

This site is one of the most impressive testimonies to the Mayan-Toltec civilization of the Yucatan (10th to 15th centuries). It contains some of the most outstanding examples of Central American architecture, combining Mayan construction techniques and Toltec sculpted decoration.

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Year Of Production	2002
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Puebla - City of Churches and Beetles, Mexico (284/418)

About 100 kilometres east of Mexico City, at the foot of Popocatépetl volcano, Puebla was founded ex nihilo in 1531. The great religious buildings of Puebla, such as the Cathedral (16th and 17th centuries), superb palaces like the old Archbishop's Palace, as well as a host of houses whose walls are covered in tiles (azulejos), have been preserved.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Zollverein Colliery - from Coal to Culture, Germany (285/418)

The Zollverein industrial landscape in Land Nordrhein- Westfalen consists of the complete infrastructure of a historical coal-mining site, with some 20th-century buildings of outstanding architectural merit. It constitutes remarkable material evidence of the evolution and decline of an essential industry over the past 150 years.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Lamu - the Magical Stone City, Kenya (286/418)

Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. Built in coral stone and mangrove timber, the town is characterized by the simplicity of structural forms enriched by such features as inner courtyards, verandas, and elaborately carved wooden doors. Lamu has hosted major Muslim religious festivals since the 19th century, and has..

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Year Of Production	2003
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The Aletsch Glacier - The Long Recessional, Switzerland (287/418)

This is the most glaciated part of the Alps, containing Europe's largest glacier and a range of classic glacial features such as U-shaped valleys, cirques, horn peaks and moraines. It provides an outstanding geological record of the uplift and compression that formed the High Alps. The diversity of flora and wildlife is represented in a range of Alpine and sub-Alpine habitats and plant colonizatio..

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The Tugendhat House - Living in a Work of Art, Czech Republic (288/418)

The Tugendhat Villa in Brno, designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe, is an outstanding example of the international style in the modern movement in architecture as it developed in Europe in the 1920s. Its particular value lies in the application of innovative spatial and aesthetic concepts that aim to satisfy new lifestyle needs by taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by modern indu..

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Vienna - Death's City, Austria (289/418)

Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It played an essential role as a leading European music centre, from the great age of Viennese Classicism through the early part of the 20th century. The historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, as well as..

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Year Of Production	2003
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Abu Mena - Waiting for the Final Miracle, Egypt (290/418)

The church, baptistry, basilicas, public buildings, streets, monasteries, houses and workshops in this early Christian holy city were built over the tomb of the martyr Menas of Alexandria, who died in A.D. 296.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Samarkand - The Blue Domes of Tamburlaine, Uzbekistan (291/418)

The historic town of Samarkand is a crossroad and melting pot of the world's cultures. Founded in the 7th century B.C. as ancient Afrasiab, Samarkand had its most significant development in the Timurid period from the 14th to the 15th centuries. The major monuments include the Registan Mosque and madrasas, Bibi-Khanum Mosque, the Shakhi-Zinda compound and the Gur-Emir ensemble, as well as Ulugh-Be..

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Year Of Production	2003
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The Historic Port of Hoi An, Vietnam (292/418)

Hoi An Ancient Town is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Uluru (Ayer's Rock) - Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia (293/418)

This park, formerly called Uluru (Ayers Rock - Mount Olga) National Park, features spectacular geological formations that dominate the vast red sandy plain of central Australia. Uluru, an immense monolith, and Kata Tjuta, the rock domes located west of Uluru, form part of the traditional belief system of one of the oldest human societies in the world. The traditional owners of Uluru-Kata Tjuta are..

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Year Of Production	2003
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The Bay of Kotor - An Adriatic Fjord, Montenegro (294/418)

In the Middle Ages, this natural harbour on the Adriatic coast in Montenegro was an important artistic and commercial centre with its own famous schools of masonry and iconography. A large number of the monuments (including four Romanesque churches and the town walls) were seriously damaged by the 1979 earthquake but the town has been restored, largely with UNESCO's help.

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Wismar and Stralsund - The Same but Different, Germany (295/418)

The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Balt..

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Year Of Production	2003
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The Valley of the Middle Rhine - Waterway and Myth, Germany (296/418)

The 65km-stretch of the Middle Rhine Valley, with its castles, historic towns, and vineyards, graphically illustrates the long history of human involvement with a dramatic and varied natural landscape. It is intimately associated with history and legend and for centuries has exercised a powerful influence on writers, artists and composers.

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Sassi di Matera - Where People are still Cave-dwellers, Italy (297/418)

This is the most outstanding, intact example of a troglodyte settlement in the Mediterranean region, perfectly adapted to its terrain and ecosystem. The first inhabited zone dates from the Palaeolithic, while later settlements illustrate a number of significant stages in human history. Materia is in the southern region of Basilicata.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Head-Smashed-In - The Bison Precipice, Canada (298/418)

In south-west Alberta, the remains of marked trails and an aboriginal camp, and a tumulus where vast quantities of buffalo (American Bison) skeletons can still be found, are evidence of a custom practised by aboriginal peoples of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 years. Using their excellent knowledge of the topography and of buffalo behaviour, they killed their prey by chasing them over..

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Year Of Production	2003
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Tsingy de Bemaraha - In the Land of the Gondwana, Madagascar (299/418)

Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve is made up of karstic landscapes and limestone uplands cut into impressive "tsingy" peaks and a "forest" of limestone needles, the spectacular canyon of the Manambolo River, rolling hills and high peaks. The undisturbed forests, lakes and mangrove swamps are the habitat for rare and endangered lemurs and birds.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Ambohimanga - The Hill of the Kings, Madagascar (300/418)

The Royal Hill of Ambohimanga consists of a royal city and burial site, and an ensemble of sacred places. It is associated with strong feelings of national identity, and has maintained its spiritual and sacred character both in ritual practice and the popular imagination for the past 500 years. It remains a place of worship to which pilgrims come from Madagascar and elsewhere.

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Year Of Production	2003
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Ruins of Olympia, Greece (301/418)

The site of Olympia, in a valley in the Peloponnesus, has been inhabited since prehistoric times. In the 10th century B.C., Olympia became a centre for the worship of Zeus. The Altis - the sanctuary to the gods - has one of the highest concentrations of masterpieces from the ancient Greek world. In addition to temples, there are the remains of all the sports structures erected for the Olympic Game..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Cathedral of Sibenik, Croatia (302/418)

The Cathedral of St James in ¦ibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the considerable exchanges in the field of monumental arts between Northern Italy, Dalmatia and Tuscany in the 15th and 16th centuries. The three architects who succeeded one another in the construction of the Cathedral - Francesco di Giacomo, Georgius Mathei Dalmaticus and Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino - d..

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Year Of Production	2004
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Verona - A Slice of Heaven on Earth, Italy (303/418)

The historic city of Verona was founded in the 1st century CE. It flourished particularly under the rule of the Scaliger family in the 13th and 14th centuries and as part of the Republic of Venice from the 15th to 18th centuries. Verona, a city of culture and art, has preserved a remarkable amount of monuments from antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods, and represents an outstanding e..

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New Zealand's Sacred Mountain (304/418)

In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised criteria describing cultural landscapes. The mountains at the heart of the park have cultural and religious significance for the Maori people and symbolize the spiritual links between this community and its environment. The park has active and extinct volcanoes, a diverse range of ecosystems an..

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Year Of Production	2004
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The Old City of Panama - 500 Years of Good Business, Panama (305/418)

Founded in 1519 by the conquistador Pedrarías Dávila, Panamá Viejo is the oldest European settlement on the Pacific coast of the Americas. It was laid out on a rectilinear grid and marks the transference from Europe of the idea of a planned town. Abandoned in the mid-17th century, it was replaced by a 'new town' (the 'Historic District'), which has also preserved its original street plan, its arch..

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Antigua Guatemaly - Dangerous Beauty (306/418)

Antigua, the capital of the Captaincy-General of Guatemala, was founded in the early 16th century. Built 1,500 m above sea-level, in an earthquake- prone region, it was largely destroyed by an earthquake in 1773 but its principal monuments are still preserved as ruins. In the space of under three centuries the city, which was built on a grid pattern inspired by the Italian Renaissance, acquired a..

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Sanct Catherine's Cloister, Egypt (307/418)

The Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine stands at the foot of Mount Horeb where, the Old Testament records, Moses received the Tablets of the Law. The mountain is known and revered by Muslims as Jebel Musa. The entire area is sacred to three world religions: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The Monastery, founded in the 6th century, is the oldest Christian monastery still in use for its initial fu..

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The Ruins of Byblos, Lebanon (308/418)

The ruins of many successive civilizations are found at Byblos, one of the oldest Phoenician cities. Inhabited since Neolithic times, it has been closely linked to the legends and history of the Mediterranean region for thousands of years. Byblos is also directly associated with the history and diffusion of the Phoenician alphabet.

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Qin Shi Huang - Tomb of the First Emperor of China (309/418)

No doubt thousands of statues still remain to be unearthed at this archaeological site, which was not discovered until 1974. Qin (d. 210 B.C.), the first unifier of China, is buried, surrounded by the famous terracotta warriors, at the centre of a complex designed to mirror the urban plan of the capital, Xianyan. The small figures are all different; with their horses, chariots and weapons, they ar..

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The Yungang Grottoes, China (310/418)

The Yungang Grottoes, in Datong city, Shanxi Province, with their 252 caves and 51,000 statues, represent the outstanding achievement of Buddhist cave art in China in the 5th and 6th centuries. The Five Caves created by Tan Yao, with their strict unity of layout and design, constitute a classical masterpiece of the first peak of Chinese Buddhist art.

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The Old City of Tunis - A Day in Ramadan, Tunisia (311/418)

Under the Almohads and the Hafsids, from the 12th to the 16th century, Tunis was considered one of the greatest and wealthiest cities in the Islamic world. Some 700 monuments, including palaces, mosques, mausoleums, madrasas and fountains, testify to this remarkable past.

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The Stave Churches of Urnes, Norway (312/418)

The wooden church of Urnes (the stavkirke) stands in the natural setting of Sogn og Fjordane. It was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and is an outstanding example of traditional Scandinavian wooden architecture. It brings together traces of Celtic art, Viking traditions and Romanesque spatial structures.

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The Island of Öland, Sweden (313/418)

The southern part of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea is dominated by a vast limestone plateau. Human beings have lived here for some five thousand years and adapted their way of life to the physical constraints of the island. As a consequence, the landscape is unique, with abundant evidence of continuous human settlement from prehistoric times to the present day.

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Yasawi Mausoleum, Kazakhstan (314/418)

The Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, in the town of Yasi, now Turkestan, was built at the time of Timur (Tamerlane), from 1389 to 1405. In this partly unfinished building, Persian master builders experimented with architectural and structural solutions later used in the construction of Samarkand, the capital of the Timurid Empire. Today, it is one of the largest and best-preserved constructions of..

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Amalfi Coast, Italy (315/418)

The Amalfi coastal strip is one of great physical beauty and natural diversity. It has been intensively settled by human communities since the early Middle Ages. It contains a number of towns such as Amalfi and Ravello which contain architectural and artistic works of great significance, and its rural areas demonstrate the versatility of its occupants in adapting their utilization of the terrain t..

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Historical City Trogir, Croatia (316/418)

Trogir is a remarkable example of urban continuity. The orthogonal street plan of this island settlement dates back to the Hellenistic period and it was embellished by successive rulers with many fine public and domestic buildings and fortifications. Its beautiful Romanesque churches are complemented by the outstanding Renaissance and Baroque buildings from the Venetian period.

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Lake Neusiedel - Nowhere Is the Sky Vaster, Austria and Hungary (317/418)

The Fertö/Neusiedler Lake area has been the meeting place of different cultures for eight millennia. This is graphically demonstrated by its varied landscape, the result of an evolutionary symbiosis between human activity and the physical environment. The remarkable rural architecture of the villages surrounding the lake and several 18th- and 19th-century palaces adds to the area's considerable cu..

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Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City - A Tribute to Modernism, Mexico (318/418)

Built in 1948, the House and Studio of architect Luis Barragán in the suburb of Mexico City represents an outstanding example of the architect's creative work in the post-Second World War period. The concrete building, totalling 1161-m2, consists of a ground floor and two upper stories, as well as a small private garden. Barragán's work integrated modern and traditional artistic and vernacular cur..

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The Victoria Station in Mumbai - Transit Point for Millions, India (319/418)

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formerly known as Victoria Terminus in Mumbai, is an outstanding example of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture in India, blended with themes deriving from Indian traditional architecture. The building, designed by the British architect F.W. Stevens, became the symbol of Bombay as the 'Gothic City' and the major international mercantile port of India. The termin..

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Year Of Production	2005
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Bremen: The Town Hall and the Roland - A Stronghold of Civil Freedom, Germany (320/418)

The Town Hall and Roland on the marketplace of Bremen in northwest Germany are outstanding representations of the civic and trading rights as they developed in the Holy Roman Empire in Europe. The old town hall was built as in the Gothic style in the early 15thcentury, after Bremen joined the Hanseatic League. The building was renovated in the so-called Weser Renaissance style in the early 17th ce..

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The River Elbe at Dresden - On Saxony's Canale Grande, Germany (321/418)

The 18th and 19th century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley extends some 18-km along the river from Übigau Palace and Ostragehege fields in the northwest to the Pillnitz Palace and the Elbe River Island in the southeast. It features low meadows, and is crowned by the Pillnitz Palace and the centre of Dresden with its numerous monuments and parks from the 16th to the 20th centuries. The lan..

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Masada - A Story of Survival, Israel (322/418)

Masada is a rugged natural fortress, of majestic beauty, in the Judaean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a symbol of the ancient kingdom of Israel, its violent destruction and the last stand of Jewish patriots in the face of the Roman army, in 73 A.D. It was built as a palace complex, in the classic style of the early Roman Empire, by Herod the Great, King of Judaea, (reigned 37 - 4 B.C.). T..

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The White City Tel Aviv, Israel (323/418)

Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting modern organic planning principles. The buildings were designed by architects who were trained in Europe where they practised their profession before immigrating. They..

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Akko - Harbour to Paradise, Israel (324/418)

Acre is a historic walled port-city with continuous settlement from the Phoenician period. The present city is characteristic of a fortified town dating from the Ottoman 18th and 19th centuries, with typical urban components such as the citadel, mosques, khans and baths. The remains of the Crusader town, dating from 1104 to 1291, lie almost intact, both above and below today's street level, provid..

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The Prince Pückler Park in Bad Muskau - A German Dandy and His Garden, Germany (325/418)

A landscaped park of 559.90-ha astride the Neisse river and the border between Poland and Germany, it was created by Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau from 1815 to 1844. Blending seamlessly with the surrounding farmed landscape, the park pioneered new approaches to landscape design and influenced the development of landscape architecture in Europe and America. Designed as a 'painting with plants',..

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Monte San Giorgio - The Mountain of the Dinosaurs, Switzerland/Italy (326/418)

The pyramid-shaped, wooded mountain (1,096 m above sea level), to the south of Lake Lugano in Canton Ticino is regarded as the best fossil record of marine life from the Triassic Period (245-230 million years ago). The sequence records life in a tropical lagoon environment, sheltered and partially separated from the open sea by an offshore reef. Diverse marine life flourished within this lagoon, i..

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Grimeton Radio Station - The Early Days of Wireless Communication, Sweden (327/418)

The Varberg Radio Station at Grimeton in southern Sweden (built in 1922-24) is an exceptionally well preserved monument to early wireless transatlantic communication. It consists of the transmitter equipment, including the aerial system of six 127-m high steel towers. Though no longer in regular use, the equipment has been maintained in operating condition. The 109.9-ha site comprises buildings ho..

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The Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin , Armenia (328/418)

The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is set into a landscape of great natural beauty, surrounded by towering cliffs at the entrance to the Azat Valley.

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Axum - Of the Glory of Kings, Ethiopia (329/418)

The ruins of the ancient city of Aksum are found close to Ethiopia's northern border. They mark the location of the heart of ancient Ethiopia, when the Kingdom of Aksum was the most powerful state between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and the 13th century A.D., include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient cast..

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Hawaii, USA - Home of Pele, Goddess of Fire (330/418)

This site contains two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Mauna Loa (4,170 m high) and Kilauea (1,250 m high), both of which tower over the Pacific Ocean. Volcanic eruptions have created a constantly changing landscape, and the lava flows reveal surprising geological formations. Rare birds and endemic species can be found there, as well as forests of giant ferns.

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The Koguryo Graves - Combat-Ready for All Eternity,North Korea (331/418)

The site includes several groups and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual graves - from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom, one of the strongest kingdoms in northeast China and half of the Korean peninsula between the 3rd century BC and 7th century AD. The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture. Only about 90 out of more than 10,000..

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Incense Route und Desert Cities in the Negev, Israel (332/418)

The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, are spread along routes linking them to the Mediterranean end of the Incense and Spice route. Together they reflect the hugely profitable trade in frankincense and myrrh from south Arabia to the Mediterranean, which flourished from the 3rd century B.C. unt..

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Year Of Production	2006
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The Old Bridge area of the Old City of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina (AT) (333/418)

The historic town of Mostar, spanning a deep valley of the Neretva River, developed in the 15th and 16th century as an Ottoman frontier town and during the Austro-Hungarian period in the 19th and 20th centuries. Mostar has long been known for its old Turkish houses and Old Bridge, Stari Most, after which it is named. In the 1990 conflict, however, most of the historic town and the Old Bridge, desi..

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Year Of Production	2006
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Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex, Antwerp, Belgium (AT) (334/418)

The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is associated with the history of the invention and spread of typography. Its name refers to the greatest printer-publisher of the second half of the 16th century: Christo..

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Le Havre, the City rebuilt by Auguste Perret, France (AT) (335/418)

The city of Le Havre, on the English Channel in Normandy, was severely bombed during the Second World War. The destroyed area was rebuilt according to the plan of a team headed by Auguste Perret, from 1945 to 1964. The site forms the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of Le Havre. Amongst many reconstructed cities, Le Havre is exceptional for its unity and integrity. It combines a refl..

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Year Of Production	2006
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West Norwegian Fjords - Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, Norway (AT) (336/418)

Situated in southwestern Norway, northeast of Bergen, Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, set 120km from one another, are part of the west Norwegian fjord landscape, which stretches from Stavanger in the south to Andalsnes, 500km to the northeast. The two fjords, among the world's longest and deepest, are considered as archetypical fjord landscapes and among the most scenically outstanding anywhere. Th..

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Kunya-Urgench, Turkmenistan (AT) (337/418)

Kunya-Urgench is situated in northwestern Turkmenistan, on the south side of the Amu Daria River. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, part of the Achaemenid Empire. The old town contains a series of monuments mainly from the 11th to 16th centuries, including a mosque, the gates of a caravanserai, fortresses, mausoleums and a minaret. The monuments testify to outstanding achievements in..

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Liverpool, Great Britain (AT) (338/418)

Six areas in the historic centre and docklands of the maritime mercantile City of Liverpool bear witness to the development of one of the world's major trading centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. Liverpool played an important role in the growth of the British Empire and became the major port for the mass movement of people, e.g. slaves and emigrants from northern Europe to America. Liverpool w..

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Thingvellir National Park, Iceland (AT) (339/418)

Þingvellir (Thingvellir) is the National Park where the Althing - an open-air assembly, which represented the whole of Iceland - was established in 930 and continued to meet until 1798. Over two weeks a year, the assembly set laws - seen as a covenant between free men - and settled disputes. The Althing has deep historical and symbolic associations for the people of Iceland.The property includes t..

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Year Of Production	2006
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Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, Chile (AT) (340/418)

Humberstone and Santa Laura works contain over 200 former saltpeter works where workers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia lived in company towns and forged a distinctive communal pampinos culture. That culture is manifest in their rich language, creativity, and solidarity, and, above all, in their pioneering struggle for social justice, which had a profound impact on social history. Situated in the rem..

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Historic Quarter of the Seaport City of Valparaíso, Chile (AT) (341/418)

The colonial city of Valparaíso presents an excellent example of late19th-century urban and architectural development in Latin America. In its natural amphitheatre-like setting, the city is characterized by a vernacular urban fabric adapted to the hillsides that are dotted with a great variety of church spires. It contrasts with the geometrical layout utilized in the plain. The city has well prese..

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Island of Saint-Louis, Senegal (AT) (342/418)

Founded as a French colonial settlement in the 17th century, Saint-Louis was urbanised in the mid-19th century. It was the capital of Senegal from 1872 to 1957 and played an important cultural and economic role in the whole of West Africa. The location of the town on an island at the mouth of the Senegal River, its regular town plan, the system of quays, and the characteristic colonial architectur..

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Frontiers of the Roman Empire / Limes (German part), Germany (AT) (343/418)

The site consists of sections of the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century A.D., part of what is known as the "Roman Limes". All together, the Limes stretched over 5,000kms from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast. Vestiges in this site include remain..

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Orkhon-Valley, Mongolia (AT) (344/418)

The 121,967-ha Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape encompasses an extensive area of pastureland on both banks of the Orkhon River and includes numerous archaeological remains dating back to the 6th century. The site also includes Kharkhorum, the 13th and 14th century capital of Chingis (Genghis) Khan's vast Empire. Collectively the remains in the site reflect the symbiotic links between nomadic, pas..

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Santa Laura, Chile (AT) (345/418)

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Year Of Production	2006
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Historic Centre of Macao, China (AT) (346/418)

Macao, a lucrative port of strategic importance in the development of international trade, was under Portuguese administration from the mid 16th century until 1999, when it came under Chinese sovereignty. With its historic street, residential, religious and public Portuguese and Chinese buildings, the historic centre of Macao provides a unique testimony to the meeting of aesthetic, cultural, archi..

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Jebel Barkal - Holy Mountain of the Black Pharaohs, Sudan (347/418)

"We preserve what we love. We love what we understand. We understand what we have learnt." Under this motto, UNESCO has been protecting since 1972 as World Heritage meanwhile more than 800 unique natural and cultural sites throughout the world, such as the Taj Mahal in India, Australia's Kakadu National Park or the world's first iron bridge in Great Britain. This treasury also serves as the guide..

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bahrain Fort - Pearl on the Arabian Gulf, Bahrain (348/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Irrigation System of Oman - Controlled by the Sun and the Stars (349/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Old Town Regensburg, Germany (350/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Centennial Hall in Breslau - Trend-setting Architecture, Poland (351/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Las Médulas - Destruction as Creation, Spain (352/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Portugalete Transporter Bridge, Spain (353/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Ravenna - At the End of Classical Antiquity, Italy (354/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Paestum and Velia - Nothing Ceases to Be, Italy (355/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Essaouira - Where the Sand Meets the Sea, Morocco (356/418)

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Year Of Production	2007
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Colonia del Sacramento - Peace at Last on the Rio de la Plata, Uruguay (357/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Jesuit Missions of Córdoba, Argentina (358/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Opera House Sydney - Journey into the Unknown (359/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Tsodilo - The whispering rocks of the Kalahari, Botswana (360/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Kamchatka - An infernal paradise, Russia (361/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Bordeaux - Long live the people, France (362/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Terraced Vineyards of the Lavaux - Smiled Upon by Three Suns, Switzerland (363/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Rock Engravings of Twyfelfontein - Cryptic Messages in Stone, Namibia (364/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Palace of Catalan Music in Barcelona - A Dream In Which Music Can Be Seen, Spain (365/418)

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Year Of Production	2008
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Lviv - Resurrected from Memories, Ukraine (366/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Durmitor - Mountain with Water, Montenegro (367/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Aeolian Islands - Sisters of wind and fire, Italy (368/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Assisi - The Countryside of the Saint, Italy (369/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Hospicio Cabañas in Guadalajara - House of Charity, Mexico (370/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Tequila - The Lubricant of Machismo, Mexico (371/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Rhaetian Railway, Switzerland (372/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Berlin Modernism - Building in a New Style, Germany (373/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Drakensberg - uKhahlamba (Dragons, Rainmakers and the Power of the Gods), South Africa (374/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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The Boat Lifts on the Canal du Centre - When Boats Climb Stairs, Belgium (375/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Crespi d'Adda - The Decay of a Culture, Italy (376/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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San Marino - Freedom on the Precipice (377/418)

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Year Of Production	1995
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Ilulissat Icefjord - Where Icebergs are born, Greenland (378/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Tulou Roundhouses of Fujian - In the Heart of the Hakka Culture, China (379/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Wilderness between Sea and Steppe - The Danube Delta, Romania (380/418)

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Year Of Production	2009
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

George Town and Malacca City, Malaysia - Centres of the Far East Trade (381/418)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

A Journey through Time to the Anatolian Silk Road - Safranbolu, Turkey (382/418)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Land of the Batammariba - Koutammakou, Togo (383/418)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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A Mirror of the Sky - The Wadden Sea, Germany/Netherlands (384/418)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
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A Temple for Silk - The Valencia Silk Exchange, Spain (385/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Portugal's Springboard to India - Mozambique Island, Mozambique (386/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Time Towns - La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, Switzerland (387/418)

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Year Of Production	2010
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

A Romance between Nature and Technology - The Rideau Canal, Canada (388/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Holy City of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (389/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Wrangel Island Nature Reserve, Russia (390/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Holy Forests of the Mijikenda, Kenya (391/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Rheims Cathedral, France (392/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Bikini Atoll Nuclear Test Site, Marshall Islands (393/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Amsterdam's Singelgracht District and Canal System (394/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Cidade Velha, Cape Verde Islands (395/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Treasures of the World - Heritage of Mankind, Sacri Monti, Episode 396 (396/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Treasures of the World - Heritage of Mankind - Falun (397/418)

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
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Treasures of the World - Heritage of Mankind, Bend of Boyne (398/418)

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Year Of Production	2011
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [DUB], English [DUB]

Mantua - The Ideal City of the Renaissance Italy (399/418)

To a large extent Mantua still looks like it did in Romeo's day in around 1597, a Renaissance stronghold. For a good three hundred years, the House of Gonzaga, with its economic success and its love of art, turned Mantua into a centre of culture in its day. The town was home to the poet Virgil, the musician Claudio Monteverdi and the painter Andrea Mantegna as well as the most significant archit..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Fagus Factory in Alfeld - At the Start of Modernity, Germany (400/418)

Those who only know the Fagus Factory from the monumental black-and-white photographs of the 1920s and 30s could feel disappointed by a visit to Alfeld: they will see a small factory building, made of bricks in line with local tradition, where shoe lasts are still manufactured today. But at second glance the building reveals its true significance as the 'original building of modernism': the large..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Prehistoric Stilt Houses around the Alps (401/418)

It isn't an 'easy' heritage, because it can only be viewed in a diving suit or in museums - it's the first archaeological World Heritage Site that's under water. It's a heritage that's exceptionally rich in prehistoric discoveries, and one which is particularly significant because of its geographic dimensions. In the occupation layers of the lake floors even materials that break down rapidly, such..

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Plitvice Lakes - Water World and National Park Croatia (402/418)

There are sixteen lakes, one after the other, in among the karst mountains, all connected via countless cascades and underground watercourses. They are the Plitvice Lakes. A magnificent spectacle of nature that's constantly reinventing itself. Clean, crystal-clear bodies of water as well as the warm, wet climate create the conditions for a unique interplay between water, air, rock and vegetation...

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Year Of Production	2012
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Meroë - A Place of Elephant Gods and Lion Temples, Sudan (403/418)

For travellers who come to this remote corner of Africa, it must seem like the end of the world. Since 1994 a team of German archaeologists has been excavating a city at the foot of the Temple of Amun in Naqa whose golden age began at around the time of Christ's birth and ended half a millennium later with the decline of the Meroë civilization.A day trip further north by caravan is Musawwarat. Her..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB], Spanish [DUB]

Nemrut Dagi - The Throne of the Gods, Turkey (404/418)

In 1987 UNESCO declared the place of worship on Mount Nemrut as a World Heritage Site. The tomb of the legendary ruler Antiochos is today considered the epitome of those riddles of the past that remain unsolved to this day. Dozens of stone sculptures up to nine meters high standing on the two terraces beneath the man-made mountain summit are considered by many to be the Near East's answer to the s..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Prison Camps in Australia - Birth of a Nation (405/418)

UNESCO has protected eleven convict sites in Australia as World Heritage sites, because they represent the birth of this young nation. The British built their colony here with the blood, sweat and tears of their prisoners. The convicts could never return home to their families so far away in Europe - even after they had worked off their sentences. It is a story that should never be forgotten.The f..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Bethlehem - A Holy Place between Walls and Mass Tourism, Palestine (406/418)

Bethlehem lies on the ancient road from Jerusalem to Hebron. Like the monasteries, convents and churches around the Grotto of the Nativity, this "pilgrim road" was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Despite the fact that millions make their way to these holy sites every year, the road there is largely ignored. But the houses to the right and left of the ancient cobbles hide surprises and se..

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Year Of Production	2013
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Bruges - A Medieval Metropolis, Belgium (407/418)

A natural catastrophe gave Bruges direct access to the North Sea, with the result that it rose to become one of the most important centers of trade in medieval Europe. The city grew into one of the busiest ports in Northern Europe and was soon a hub of international commerce. Large Italian bankers like the de Medici family opened up subsidiaries here and made Bruges a center of global finance. The..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Prussian Garden - Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany (408/418)

Sanssouci Park, with the summer residence positioned above the vineyard, is almost the heart of the Prussian park landscape. It is at the center, but it is not alone. The House of Hohenzollern wanted to create an ideal landscape at the center of the Electorate of Brandenburg. Initially the sovereigns had their castles built and the parks laid out to suit themselves, each to their own taste, talent..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Oasis of Al Ain - Gateway to the Great Emptiness, United Arab Emirates (409/418)

This is a place that lives from its extremes, between lush oases and the hostile threat of the desert. Al Ain, on the eastern edge of the emirate of Abu Dhabi is a real border town. Geographically, it lies close to the national border with Oman, but geologically, the oasis was always a gateway between civilization and the "infinite nothingness" - the "great emptiness" as the Bedouin have called th..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Tabriz - The Great Bazaar, Iran (410/418)

In Tabriz, in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, where the Silk Road crosses the Mehranrud, caravans once stopped to rest and to trade goods and beasts of burden. Today the old bazaar there is the largest in the world and surely one of the liveliest World Heritage sites. Tabriz is famous for its Persian rugs and it is worth taking the time to wander through the halls and domes of the Great Bazaar..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Lake Baikal - The Earth's Blue Eye, Russia (411/418)

To the Buryats, the native people of Central Siberia, the "Baygal nuur" or the "rich lake", is a magical place, the cradle and soul of their people. The rest of the world simply sees Lake Baikal as a most magnificent body of water. Located in the heart of Siberia, on Russia's south-eastern border with Mongolia, it holds one fifth of all the liquid freshwater reserves on Earth. Baikal is the deepes..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Wilhelmshöhe Mountain Park, Kassel - The Interplay of Appearance and Reality, Germany (412/418)

Inspired by the gardens of Italy, the water features in Wilhelmshöhe Mountain Park were once the largest in the world and to this day, the park in Hessen is proudly proclaimed as the "largest mountain park in Europe". Thousands of visitors flock there on Wednesdays and Sundays during the summer months, when the fountains and streams are flowing. Built by the art-loving Charles I, Landgrave of Hess..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Sardinia - The Secrets of the Nuraghes and the Cantu a Tenore, Italy (413/418)

More than seven thousand round towers built from massive blocks of stone are scattered across the Sardinian landscape. Often, only the stumps of these megalithic buildings called nuraghi remain. The earliest examples were built around 1400 BC. Small stones were placed between the mighty blocks, a method of construction that made the stone towers highly stable. They are now mysterious witnesses to..

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Year Of Production	2014
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Iran - A Thousand Years of Islamic Art (414/418)

The Jameh Mosque is one of the largest and oldest places of worship in Iran. As early as 100 years after the death of Mohamed, there was an enclosed place of prayer on this spot in the oasis city of Isfahan. The current complex was built in the 10th and 12th centuries. From the Seljuq, through the Timurids, up to the Safavids and to this day, only the best artists and craftsmen of their era have b..

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

The Ancient Beech Forests of Germany - The Last Witnesses (415/418)

The mighty, ancient beech forests, which since the last ice age have offered our forefathers protection and food from the Black Sea to the Atlantic, from Sicily to Southern Sweden, have practically disappeared. This single species of tree once dominated vast regions of the European continent. Beech trees are indestructible and resistant to practically all forms of climate change. Rain, snow, ice a..

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Yellowstone, USA - The World's First National Park (416/418)

Yellowstone, USA - The first national park in the world, established 1872. With hundreds of geysers, thousands of thermal springs and an almost incomparable wealth of flora and fauna, it is most certainly the most diverse World Heritage Site in the USA. The park also documents how much our concepts of nature and landscape protection have changed in the last 150 years. When it was founded, the purp..

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Derwent Valley Mills, England - Where it Began. The Birth of the Industrial Age (417/418)

The old factories of the Derwent Valley have stood since the start of the Industrial Revolution. They have been in the service of many companies over the centuries - profit was their only raison d'être - and consequently they are well worn. The word "factory" did not exist then. The first factories were called mills, as they were driven by mill wheels. The poet William Blake famously referred to t..

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

Corvey, Germany - Between Heaven and Earth (418/418)

The former Benedictine abbey of Corvey was one of the most important monasteries of the Middle Ages. It owes its origins to the victory of Charlemagne at the bloody battle of Brunsberg on the Weser in 775, after which the Emperor set about subjugating and Christianizing the Saxons. His vision was to create a bastion of the faith around France; a base for the missionary work to the north and east...

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Year Of Production	2016
Country Of Origin	Germany
Language Versions	German [OV], English [DUB]

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