Hadrians-Wall.org
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The Official Hadrian's Wall Country Website
Description
World Heritage Sites (WHS) are places of outstanding universal importance to humankind, both cultural and natural. Some sites have attributes which are both cultural and natural. In 1972, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation) drew up the World Heritage Convention under which governments of member states identify such sites and put them forward to the World Heritage Committee to be inscribed on a list maintained by UNESCO.
Sites have to satisfy one or more of a list of criteria and also be assessed against tests of their authenticity and a management framework for their effective protection.
Once a WHS is inscribed, the “state party” (UNESCO’s terminology for the government) has a duty under the Convention to protect, conserve, present and transmit WHS’s to future generations. The are 812 WHS’s in 137 states including 628 cultural sites, 160 natural sites and 24 mixed sites. Examples include the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef, Gothic cathedrals and the historic centres of a number of cities. The UK currently has 26 sites inscribed, a full list of which can be found on the UNESCO website.
Languages
English
Contact
- Hadrians Wall Tourism Partnership
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- Hexham Northumberland
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland NE463NJ
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- +44.1434602505
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