Berlin Modernism Housing Estates (Germany)

The property consists of six housing estates that testify to innovative housing policies from 1910 to 1933, especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was particularly progressive socially, politically and culturally. 

The property is an outstanding example of the building reform movement that contributed to improving housing and living conditions for people with low incomes through novel approaches to town planning, architecture and garden design. 

The estates also provide exceptional examples of new urban and architectural typologies, featuring fresh design solutions, as well as technical and aesthetic innovations. 

Bruno Taut, Martin Wagner and Walter Gropius were among the leading architects of these projects which exercised considerable influence on the development of housing around the world.

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Fig

The fig is the syconium of trees of the genus Ficus.
Known is the fruit of the fig tree.
Originally it is relatively dry and sweet in taste, but is mainly eaten in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Albi (France)

On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. 

Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). 

Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. 

Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red and orange colours, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy. 

Alongside the Cathedral is the vast bishop’s Palais de la Berbie, overlooking the river and surrounded by residential quarters that date back to the Middle Ages. 

The Episcopal City of Albi forms a coherent and homogeneous ensemble of monuments and quarters that has remained largely unchanged over the centuries.

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South China Karst (China)

South China Karst is one of the world’s most spectacular examples of humid tropical to subtropical karst landscapes. 

It is a serial site spread over the provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Chongqing and covers 176,228 hectares. 

It contains the most significant types of karst landforms, including tower karst, pinnacle karst and cone karst formations, along with other spectacular characteristics such as natural bridges, gorges and large cave systems. 

The stone forests of Shilin are considered superlative natural phenomena and a world reference. 

The cone and tower karsts of Libo, also considered the world reference site for these types of karst, form a distinctive and beautiful landscape. 

Wulong Karst has been inscribed for its giant dolines (sinkholes), natural bridges and caves.

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San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Spain)

San Cristóbal de La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, has two nuclei: the original, unplanned Upper Town; and the Lower Town, the first ideal 'city-territory' laid out according to philosophical principles. 

Its wide streets and open spaces have a number of fine churches and public and private buildings dating from the 16th to the 18th century.

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Cilento e Vallo di Diano (Italy)

The Cilento is an outstanding cultural landscape. 

The dramatic groups of sanctuaries and settlements along its three east–west mountain ridges vividly portray the area's historical evolution: it was a major route not only for trade, but also for cultural and political interaction during the prehistoric and medieval periods. 

The Cilento was also the boundary between the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia and the indigenous Etruscan and Lucanian peoples. 

The remains of two major cities from classical times, Paestum and Velia, are found there.

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Hill Forts of Rajasthan (India)

The serial site, situated in the state of Rajastahan, includes six majestic forts in Chittorgarh; Kumbhalgarh; Sawai Madhopur; Jhalawar; Jaipur, and Jaisalmer. 

The ecclectic architecture of the forts, some up to 20 kilometres in circumference, bears testimony to the power of the Rajput princely states that flourished in the region from the 8th to the 18th centuries. 

Enclosed within defensive walls are major urban centres, palaces, trading centres and other buildings including temples that often predate the fortifications within which developed an elaborate courtly culture that supported learning, music and the arts. 

Some of the urban centres enclosed in the fortifications have survived, as have many of the site's temples and other sacred buildings. 

The forts use the natural defenses offered by the landscape: hills, deserts, rivers, and dense forests. They also feature extensive water harvesting structures, largely still in use today.

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Old town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof (Germany)

Located on the Danube River in Bavaria, this medieval town contains many buildings of exceptional quality that testify to its history as a trading centre and to its influence on the region from the 9th century. 

A notable number of historic structures span some two millennia and include ancient Roman, Romanesque and Gothic buildings. 

Regensburg’s 11th- to 13th-century architecture – including the market, city hall and cathedral – still defines the character of the town marked by tall buildings, dark and narrow lanes, and strong fortifications. 

The buildings include medieval patrician houses and towers, a large number of churches and monastic ensembles as well as the 12th-century Old Bridge. 

The town is also remarkable for the vestiges testifing to its rich history as one of the centres of the Holy Roman Empire that turned to Protestantism.

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Ugli

An ugli is a cross between grapefruit and mandarin (Citrus reticulata × paradisi), also the fruit of it, which looks like a grapefruit with a very lumpy, irregular, yellow-green or yellow-brown thick skin that is rather loose around the flesh and is easy to peel .

It is sweet in taste, juicy and easy to eat, as the fruit decomposes into small segments that are virtually seedless.

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Fortifications of Vauban (France)

Fortifications of Vauban consists of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the western, northern and eastern borders of France. 

They represent the finest examples of the work of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV. 

The serial property includes towns built from scratch by Vauban, citadels, urban bastion walls and bastion towers. 

There are also mountain forts, sea forts, a mountain battery and two mountain communication structures. 

This property is inscribed as bearing witness to the peak of classic fortifications, typical of western military architecture. Vauban also played a major role in the history of fortification in Europe and on other continents until the mid-19th century.

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