CULTURAL SITES

Individual countries with newly inscribed cultural sites include:

Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua Naval Dockyard, built with slave labor by the British Navy, and related archaeological sites.

Brazil: Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a 1940 garden complex in Belo Horizonte.

China: Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, 38 sites depicting ceremonies of the vanished Luoyue culture.

Greece: Archaeological site of Philippi, a Greco-Roman center for early Christianity.

India: Archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara, a monastery and university, in the state of Bihar.

Micronesia: Nan Madol, a ceremonial center of Eastern Micronesia that was simultaneously added to the list of World Heritage in Danger (see below).

Spain: Antequera Dolmens, mountain formations and megaliths in Andalusia.

Turkey: Archaeological site of Ani, a medieval city on the Armenian border. Two other cultural sites span multiple nations. The architecture of Le Corbusier, recognized as “an outstanding contribution to the Modern movement,” includes 17 works in Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland. Thirty cemeteries in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia featuring distinctive limestone tombstones also joined the World Heritage List as a single entry.