Places Worth Seeing: The World Heritage List
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has added 13 new locations to its World Heritage list this summer, bringing the total number of sights—both cultural and natural—deemed worthy of the honor to 890.
Among the locations added this year were Italy’s Dolomite mountains, which were noted for “a diversity of spectacular landscapes of international significance for geomorphology marked by steeples, pinnacles and rock walls, the site also contains glacial landforms and karst systems” and China’s Mount Wutai, for the “Ming Dynasty Shuxiang Temple with a huge complex of 500 statues representing Buddhist stories woven into three dimensional pictures of mountains and water.”
I plan to spend some time poring over this list, evaluating which sites I’ve seen, and those I want to explore. Which of the sites on the list have you visted? Did they live up to your expectations? —Jen Dennis
