Chaco Culture (United States)

For over 2,000 years, Pueblo peoples occupied a vast region of the south-western United States.

Chaco Canyon, a major centre of ancestral Pueblo culture between 850 and 1250, was a focus for ceremonials, trade and political activity for the prehistoric Four Corners area. 

Chaco is remarkable for its monumental public and ceremonial buildings and its distinctive architecture – it has an ancient urban ceremonial centre that is unlike anything constructed before or since. 

In addition to the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the World Heritage property includes the Aztec Ruins National Monument and several smaller Chaco sites managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

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Old City of Salamanca (Spain)

This ancient university town north-west of Madrid was first conquered by the Carthaginians in the 3rd century B.C. 

It then became a Roman settlement before being ruled by the Moors until the 11th century. 

The university, one of the oldest in Europe, reached its high point during Salamanca's golden age. 

The city's historic centre has important Romanesque, Gothic, Moorish, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. 

The Plaza Mayor, with its galleries and arcades, is particularly impressive.

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Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery (Russia)

The Ferapontov Monastery, in the Vologda region in northern Russia, is an exceptionally well-preserved and complete example of a Russian Orthodox monastic complex of the 15th-17th centuries, a period of great significance in the development of the unified Russian state and its culture. 

The architecture of the monastery is outstanding in its inventiveness and purity. 

The interior is graced by the magnificent wall paintings of Dionisy, the greatest Russian artist of the end of the 15th century.

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Moeraki Boulders (New Zealand)

The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along a stretch of Koekohe Beach on the wave-cut Otago coast of New Zealand between Moeraki and Hampden. 

They occur scattered either as isolated or clusters of boulders within a stretch of beach where they have been protected in a scientific reserve.

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Ogasawara Islands (Japan)

The property numbers more than 30 islands clustered in three groups and covers surface area of 7,939 hectares. 

The islands offer a variety of landscapes and are home to a wealth of fauna, including the Bonin Flying Fox, a critically endangered bat, and 195 endangered bird species. 

Four-hundred and forty-one native plant taxa have been documented on the islands whose waters support numerous species of fish, cetaceans and corals. 

Ogasawara Islands' ecosystems reflect a range of evolutionary processes illustrated through its assemblage of plant species from both southeast and northwest Asia, alongside many endemic species.

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Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna (Italy)

Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. 

It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. 

All eight buildings – the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistery, the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, the Arian Baptistery, the Archiepiscopal Chapel, the Mausoleum of Theodoric, the Church of San Vitale and the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe – were constructed in the 5th and 6th centuries. 

They show great artistic skill, including a wonderful blend of Graeco-Roman tradition, Christian iconography and oriental and Western styles.

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Group of Monuments at Pattadakal (India)

Pattadakal, in Karnataka, represents the high point of an eclectic art which, in the 7th and 8th centuries under the Chalukya dynasty, achieved a harmonious blend of architectural forms from northern and southern India. 

An impressive series of nine Hindu temples, as well as a Jain sanctuary, can be seen there. 

One masterpiece from the group stands out – the Temple of Virupaksha, built c. 740 by Queen Lokamahadevi to commemorate her husband's victory over the kings from the South.

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Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns (Greece)

The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world from the 15th to the 12th century B.C. and played a vital role in the development of classical Greek culture. 

These two cities are indissolubly linked to the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which have influenced European art and literature for more than three millennia.

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Quedlinburg (Germany)

Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a 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 high quality of the timber-framed buildings make Quedlinburg an exceptional example of a medieval European town. 

The Collegiate Church of St Servatius is one of the masterpieces of Romanesque architecture.

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Kiwi

The kiwi or Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia chinensis) is the edible fruit of a fast growing winding climbing plant.

The fruits of the ordinary kiwi are usually elongated oval in shape, have crisp white-core flesh and a ring of black pits around this core.

Slices of kiwi are often used as decorative garnish of pastries, salads and the like, but the fruit can also be eaten as a whole (with or without peel).

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