Japan
Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region
Twelve sites across the Nagasaki region and Amakusa Islands that bear witness to an extraordinary episode of cultural…
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Egypt
Hierakonpolis (Nekhen)
Hierakonpolis — ancient Nekhen, the City of the Falcon — is the largest known Predynastic settlement in Egypt…
Turkey
Hierapolis-Pamukkale
Turkey’s most visually extraordinary UNESCO site — the cotton-white travertine terraces of Pamukkale (Turkish: “cotton castle”) cascade 160…
Japan
Hiraizumi
A twelfth-century Fujiwara capital in northern Japan where a gold-leafed hall and a Pure Land garden survive as…
Curacao
Historic Area of Willemstad, Inner City and Harbour
The pastel-painted Dutch colonial streetscapes of Willemstad — their vivid yellows, pinks, and blues reflected in the waters…
Turkey
Historic Areas of Istanbul
The only city in the world that straddles two continents and the only city that has been capital…
Barbados
Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison
Bridgetown's Careenage, Parliament Buildings and 17th-century Garrison together tell the story of the Caribbean's earliest English colonial city…
Belgium
Historic Centre of Bruges
The most perfectly preserved medieval city in northern Europe and the former commercial capital of the known world…
Uzbekistan
Historic Centre of Bukhara
The most intact Silk Road city in Central Asia — a living museum of Islamic architecture in the…
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