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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Mining Sites of Wallonia
The Major Mining Sites of Wallonia — Grand-Hornu, Bois-du-Luc, Bois du Cazier, and Blegny-Mine — are a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 2012…
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Flint Mines at Spiennes
The Neolithic Flint Mines at Spiennes near Mons are the oldest and largest prehistoric mining complex in north-western Europe — 100 hectares of chalk…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Ouro Preto, Brazil
Ouro Preto — inscribed 1980, Brazil's first UNESCO site — is the Americas' most complete Baroque colonial city: 13 churches funded by the 18th-century…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp is the world's only intact 16th-century printing house — a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005 — containing the…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Stoclet Palace, Brussels
The Stoclet Palace in Brussels is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed for a building the public cannot enter. Built between 1905 and…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Dessau-Wörlitz, Germany
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, is an 18th-century landscape park of 142 square kilometres in Saxony-Anhalt created…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Bauhaus in Dessau and Weimar
The Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 and relocated to Dessau in 1925 generated a cluster of buildings inscribed as…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Konya, Turkey
Konya holds Turkey's holiest Islamic shrine: the Mevlana Museum, turquoise-tiled tomb of Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1273), founder of the Whirling Dervishes (Sema, UNESCO Intangible…
August 2026
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UNESCO Heritage Sites Near Melaka, Malaysia
Melaka — inscribed 2008 jointly with George Town (Penang) — is Southeast Asia's most layered colonial trading city: Malay Sultanate (1400), Portuguese fortress (1511),…
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