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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Boyana Church, Bulgaria
Boyana Church, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, stands 8 km south of Sofia at the foot of Vitosha Mountain. Its 1259 fresco…
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Lavaux Terraces, Switzerland
Lavaux's 830 hectares of vineyard terraces above Lake Geneva, UNESCO World Heritage since 2007, were first cut by Cistercian monks in the 11th century,…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Brimstone Hill, Saint Kitts
Brimstone Hill Fortress on Saint Kitts, UNESCO World Heritage since 1999, took a century to build using enslaved labour, withstood a month-long French siege…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.
Santo Domingo's Zona Colonial, UNESCO World Heritage since 1990, was founded in 1498 by Bartholomew Columbus and contains the oldest cathedral, oldest fort, and…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Rila Monastery, Bulgaria
Rila Monastery, UNESCO World Heritage since 1983, sits at 1,147 metres in the Bulgarian Rila Mountains — a 10th-century foundation that preserved Bulgarian culture…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Wooden Churches of Maramureș
Eight UNESCO-listed wooden Orthodox churches in Maramureș County, northern Romania, combine log-built naves constructed without nails with dramatically tall Gothic spires — the tallest…
September 2026Breda and the ETR.200: High-Speed Train Heritage
Advertising sheet for Breda, pairing the factory with the train it built. Photo: Luigi De Marchi. A factory skyline in silhouette, chimneys and cranes…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Madara Rider, Bulgaria
The Madara Rider, a 23-metre bas-relief carved into a northeastern Bulgarian limestone cliff around 705–710 CE by Khan Tervel of the First Bulgarian Empire,…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Citadel of Erbil, Iraq
The Citadel of Erbil — UNESCO-listed since 2014 — rises on a 6,000-to-8,000-year-old archaeological tell at the centre of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq's…
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