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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Valparaíso: the Victorian Cape Horn Port City, Its Funicular Railways and Pablo Neruda’s La Sebastiana

UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Valparaíso: the Victorian Cape Horn Port City, Its Funicular Railways and Pablo Neruda’s La Sebastiana

Valparaíso’s Historic Quarter (inscribed 2003) is the most complete surviving Pacific coast port city from the Cape Horn maritime era (1850–1914): 42 named cerros (hills), 30 funicular railways (ascensores), Victorian corrugated-iron painted facades, and the densest street art concentration in South America. Pablo Neruda’s La Sebastiana house is on Cerro Florida.

UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Harar: the Fortified Islamic City, 82 Mosques and the Awash Valley Where Lucy Was Found

UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Harar: the Fortified Islamic City, 82 Mosques and the Awash Valley Where Lucy Was Found

Harar Jugol (inscribed 2006) is sub-Saharan Africa’s most important Islamic city: 82 mosques and 102 shrines within 48 hectares — the highest mosque density in the world — plus the Arthur Rimbaud trading house and the nightly hyena-feeding ritual outside the 1551 Jugol wall. Ethiopia’s Lucy fossil site (Awash Valley, inscribed 1980) is accessible 200 km northwest.

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