Heritage

Barbados has 1 UNESCO World Heritage Site — a figure that understates the island’s layered colonial, agricultural, and geological history. A single…

Vanuatu has one UNESCO World Heritage Site: a landscape of oral tradition, chiefly authority, and early seventeenth-century social reform spread across three…

Saint Lucia has 1 UNESCO World Heritage Site — a single volcanic landscape so geologically distinctive that it secured inscription on its first and, to date…

Angola has one UNESCO World Heritage Site — a single inscription that carries the weight of an entire civilisation. Mbanza Kongo, the ancient capital of the…

The Czech Republic’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites range from medieval royal towns and a Mies van der Rohe villa to a Baroque hop landscape and a fragment of Europe’s ancient beech forest — one of Central Europe’s most varied heritage lists.

Poland’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites range from the medieval royal city of Kraków and a vast prehistoric flint mine to the last primeval lowland forest in Europe and a concentration camp that stands as a permanent warning.

Portugal’s 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span prehistoric Palaeolithic rock art, Manueline monasteries, Atlantic island vineyards, and the only surviving laurel forest of its kind in the world.

Iran holds 29 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, spanning Achaemenid ceremonial capitals, Bronze Age cities, living cave settlements, and two exceptional natural landscapes along the Caspian coast and in the arid south-east.

Turkey’s 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites span Cappadocia’s rock-cut churches, Istanbul’s Byzantine and Ottoman monuments, Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Lycian ruins, and Lydian royal tombs — one of the densest archaeological landscapes on earth.