Santiniketan, established by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, becomes the 41st site to be declared a world heritage site in India in September 2023. The UNESCO also included the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas in Karnataka in the list in September 2023. This takes the total number of ...
Sanchi is a small village in Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh and known as one of the important tourist attraction for its world famous Buddhist Stupas. The world heritage site has India’s oldest stone structure known as Great Stupa commissioned by Ashoka the Great. Mandu is another pl...
Kaziranga National Park is a famous UNESCO World Heritage site in india, in Assam’s Golaghat and Nagaon districts. The national park is renowned for the rhino populations, and according to the latest census conducted by the Forest Department of Assam, more than 2401 rhinos live in this forest...
India is a magnificent country, blessed with 36 World Heritage Sites. These sites are listed by UNESCO and make India one of the top countries in terms of the number of world heritage sites. Considered to be of immense cultural and natural importance, all of these heritage sites in India re...
Mixed World Heritage Site in India List of cultural world heritage sites in India 1) Taj Mahal, Agra It is located at the bank of river Yamuna in the city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It wasbuilt by Mughal emperor Shah Jahanas a magnificent ...
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There are a total of 1,223 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world (as of 2024: 952 Cultural, 231 Natural, and 40 Mixed) in 168 countries. Here are the top 20 countries having the most UNESCO World Heritage sites. What is a UNESCO World Heritage Site? A UNESCO World Heritage Site ...
The paper discusses about the characterization of ancient mortar of an 800 year old heritage site in Southern India. The repair of heritage structures is largely neglected and even if attended, incompatible materials were used in the previous repairs. Hence, characterization of ancient mortar of ...
Each World Heritage Site is the property of the state on whose territory the site is located, but it is considered in the interest of the international community to preserve each site. Convention and background The United States initiated the idea of combining cultural conservation with nature con...
NEW DELHI, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Jaipur, known as the pink city of India, was declared as a world heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Saturday, officials said. "In yet another landmark achievement, India's nomination of the Jaipur...