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Friday, February 16, 2018

Yungang Grottoes (China)

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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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona (Spain)

These are two of the finest contributions to Barcelona's architecture by the Catalan art nouveau architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

The Palau de la Música Catalana is an exuberant steel-framed structure full of light and space, and decorated by many of the leading designers of the day.

The Hospital de Sant Pau is equally bold in its design and decoration, while at the same time perfectly adapted to the needs of the sick.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Lena Pillars Nature Park (Russia)

Lena Pillars Nature Park is marked by spectacular rock pillars that reach a height of approximately 100 m along the banks of the Lena River in the central part of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).

They were produced by the region’s extreme continental climate with an annual temperature range of almost 100 degrees Celsius (from –60 °C in winter to +40 °C in summer).

The pillars form rocky buttresses isolated from each other by deep and steep gullies developed by frost shattering directed along intervening joints.

Penetration of water from the surface has facilitated cryogenic processes (freeze-thaw action), which have widened gullies between pillars leading to their isolation.

Fluvial processes are also critical to the pillars.

The site also contains a wealth of Cambrian fossil remains of numerous species, some of them unique.

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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Portovenere, Cinque Terre, and the Islands (Palmaria, Tino and Tinetto) - Italy

The Ligurian coast between Cinque Terre and Portovenere is a cultural landscape of great scenic and cultural value.

The layout and disposition of the small towns and the shaping of the surrounding landscape, overcoming the disadvantages of a steep, uneven terrain, encapsulate the continuous history of human settlement in this region over the past millennium.

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Monday, February 12, 2018

Champaner-Pavagadh (India)

A concentration of largely unexcavated archaeological, historic and living cultural heritage properties cradled in an impressive landscape which includes prehistoric (chalcolithic) sites, a hill fortress of an early Hindu capital, and remains of the 16th-century capital of the state of Gujarat.

The site also includes, among other vestiges, fortifications, palaces, religious buildings, residential precincts, agricultural structures and water installations, from the 8th to 14th centuries.

The Kalikamata Temple on top of Pavagadh Hill is considered to be an important shrine, attracting large numbers of pilgrims throughout the year.

The site is the only complete and unchanged Islamic pre-Mughal city.

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Sunday, February 11, 2018

Reichenau (Germany)

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 paintings bear witness to impressive artistic activity.

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