The UNESCO–Africa–China Symposium on World Heritage Capacity-Building and Cooperation concluded in Quanzhou after a week of exchanges and hands-on training from 19 to 25 October ...

The States Parties to the World Heritage Convention, meeting during the 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference, have ...

Wazee wa Mazingira, the Council of Elders, has been awarded the 2025 edition of the UNESCO–Greece Melina Mercouri ...

Centred Smart Cities,” the UNESCO World Heritage Cities Programme is releasing a new set of case studies on the UNESCO Urban Heritage Atlas. Building on last ...

To the north-east of Kumasi, these are the last material remains of the great Asante civilization, which reached its high point in the 18th century. Since the dwellings are made of earth, wood and ...

This famous Buddhist temple, dating from the 8th and 9th centuries, is located in central Java. It was built in three tiers: a pyramidal base with five concentric square terraces, the trunk of a cone ...

The Potala Palace, winter palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, symbolizes Tibetan Buddhism and its central role in the traditional administration of Tibet. The complex, comprising the White ...

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 ...

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 ...

Socotra Archipelago, in the northwest Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden, is 250 km long and comprises four islands and two rocky islets which appear as a prolongation of the Horn of Africa. The site ...

A prehistoric site near Lake Turkana, the lower valley of the Omo is renowned the world over. The discovery of many fossils there, especially Homo gracilis, has been of fundamental importance in the ...

Quanzhou, Chine, 25 octobre 2025 — Le Symposium UNESCO-Afrique-Chine sur le renforcement des capacités et la coopération en matière de patrimoine mondial s'est achevé à Quanzhou après une semaine d'éc ...