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The Heritage Walk: Crossing the Giudecca in Venice
On 27 September 2008 a heritage walk crossed the Giudecca — boatyard, cloister, villa, rooftops. The photographs are now documents, and the walks are…
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Olinda, Brazil
Olinda, Pernambuco — a Baroque hilltop colonial town 6 km from Recife, founded 1535 and rebuilt after Dutch burning in 1630 — was the…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near São Luís, Brazil
São Luís do Maranhão, founded by France in 1612 and the only French colonial city in Brazil, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Mompox, Colombia
Mompox (Santa Cruz de Mompox), founded 1537 on a Magdalena River island in Colombia, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Sighișoara, Romania
Sighișoara's medieval Saxon citadel in Transylvania — the only continuously inhabited medieval hilltop citadel in Europe — was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Telč, Czechia
Telč's perfectly preserved Renaissance square — rebuilt after a 1530 fire by Zacharias of Hradec with Italian architects — was inscribed on the UNESCO…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Toruń, Poland
Toruń's Gothic brick Old Town, birthplace of Copernicus in 1473 and site of the Peace of Toruń (1466), was inscribed on the UNESCO World…
September 2026
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Italy’s Wrought Iron: Historical Blacksmith Craft
Grilles, gates, balconies, lamps, andirons: wrought iron is one of the most common decorative crafts on Italian facades, and one of the least documented.…
September 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Cuenca, Ecuador
Cuenca Ecuador (inscribed 1999) was built in 1557 on the ruins of Tomebamba — the "Second Cuzco," the Inca Empire's northern capital (2,560m altitude).…
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