Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards

This serial property combines 28 sites, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, western Serbia, western Montenegro and central and southern Croatia, representing these cemeteries and regionally distinctive medieval tombstones, or stećci. 

The cemeteries, which date from the 12th to 16th centuries CE, are laid out in rows, as was the common custom in Europe from the Middle Ages. 

The stećci are mostly carved from limestone. 

They feature a wide range of decorative motifs and inscriptions that represent iconographic continuities within medieval Europe as well as locally distinctive traditions.

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Piedmont

Piedmont is a region in northwestern Italy. 

The capital is Turin. 

The current state of Italy emerged from Piedmont in the 19th century.

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Sanganeb Marine National Park and Dungonab Bay – Mukkawar Island Marine National Park - Sudan

The property consists of two separate areas: Sanganeb is an isolated, coral reef structure in the central Red Sea and the only atoll, 25 km off the shoreline of Sudan. 

The second component of the property is made up of Dungonab Bay and Mukkawar Island, situated 125 km north of Port Sudan. 

It includes a highly diverse system of coral reefs, mangroves, seagrass beds, beaches and islets. 

The site provides a habitat for populations of seabirds, marine mammals, fish, sharks, turtles and manta rays. 

Dungonab Bay also has a globally significant population of dugongs.

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Sulawesi Selatan

South Sulawesi, formerly known as South Celebes, is a province of Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi. 

The capital of the province is Makassar. 

Between 1971 and 1999, this provincial capital was called Ujung Pandang.

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Pampulha Modern Ensemble - Brazil

The Pampulha Modern Ensemble was the centre of a visionary garden city project created in 1940 at Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais State. 

Designed around an artificial lake, this cultural and leisure centre included a casino, a ballroom, the Golf Yacht Club and the São Francisco de Assis church. 

The buildings were designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer, in collaboration with innovative artists. 

The Ensemble comprises bold forms that exploit the plastic potential of concrete, while fusing architecture, landscape design, sculpture and painting into a harmonious whole. 

It reflects the influence of local traditions, the Brazilian climate and natural surroundings on the principles of modern architecture.

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Punjab

Punjab is a state of India located in the northwest of the country. 

The state is located on the Pakistani border, at the height of the city of Lahore, the capital of the Pakistani province of the same name, Punjab. 

The capital of Punjab is Chandigarh.

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Nan Madol: Ceremonial Centre of Eastern Micronesia

Nan Madol is a series of more than 100 islets off the south-east coast of Pohnpei that were constructed with walls of basalt and coral boulders. 

These islets harbour the remains of stone palaces, temples, tombs and residential domains built between 1200 and 1500 CE. 

These ruins represent the ceremonial centre of the Saudeleur dynasty, a vibrant period in Pacific Island culture. 

The huge scale of the edifices, their technical sophistication and the concentration of megalithic structures bear testimony to complex social and religious practices of the island societies of the period. 

The site was also inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to threats, notably the siltation of waterways that is contributing to the unchecked growth of mangroves and undermining existing edifices.

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Austurland

Austurland is also called Austfirðir and is one of the eight regions of Iceland. 

It is the least populated region of Iceland. 

The capital is the town of Egilsstaðir in the municipality of Fljótsdalshérað.

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Mistaken Point - Canada

This fossil site is located at the south-eastern tip of the island of Newfoundland, in eastern Canada. 

It consists of a narrow, 17 km-long strip of rugged coastal cliffs. 

Of deep marine origin, these cliffs date to the Ediacaran Period (580-560 million years ago), representing the oldest known assemblages of large fossils anywhere.

These fossils illustrate a watershed in the history of life on earth: the appearance of large, biologically complex organisms, after almost three billion years of micro-dominated evolution.

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Udder board

Udder board is cut from the udder of a slaughtered cow. 

It was a staple food until about 1950, but is now considered a delicacy in some places.

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