Lesotho has no standalone UNESCO sites but is part of the transboundary Maloti-Drakensberg inscription (2013 extension of uKhahlamba). San rock art sites and the Sani Pass are 150 km from Maseru.
Eswatini has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: uKhahlamba/Drakensberg Park in South Africa (35,000 San rock paintings, 200 km south) and iSimangaliso Wetland Park (200 km east).
South Sudan has no UNESCO sites. Near Juba: the Sudd (one of the world’s largest freshwater wetlands, home to the shoebill stork) and Boma NP (up to 1 million White-eared kob migration).
The standard dictionary of Venetian, published in 1856, contains none of these words in the sense you will hear tonight. Yet the osteria at the sign of the two swords is documented from 1414.
Five places between Rialto, San Marco, Castello and Cannaregio where Venice has eaten and drunk standing up: an osteria documented since the fifteenth century, the arcades built after the fire of 1514, the oldest café in Italy, a bacaro of 1978, and the house where Titian lived for forty-five years.
A Presbyterian congregation serving Scotland’s expatriate community in Lausanne, where Sunday worship unfolds in English as part of the Church of Scotland’s International Presbytery.
A Grade II listed building in Rhosddu, Wrexham, transformed from private residence to council office to hotel and restaurant, exemplifying adaptive heritage reuse in North Wales.
A Grade II listed Unitarian chapel in Nottingham, now operating as a public house, that exemplifies the city’s nonconformist religious heritage and the adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
An 18th-century water well in Warsaw’s New Town, built from 1770 under King Stanislaus Augustus, it served as a vital public resource for residents and travellers.
A Gothic Revival parish church rebuilt in 1830 during Oldham’s industrial expansion, housing Victorian ecclesiastical artworks and a historic peal of bells.
