Taj Mahal! The most sought after UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here are the others!
The beautiful tomb, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is visited by 14 lakh people in a month.
The World Heritage Site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It is a wonderful tool for culture, architecture and history buffs who travel to explore and explore important sites. This list includes 1,154 sites from around the world, although some are more popular than others.
#Zitango Travel's data shows that people are looking for the Taj Mahal more than any other UNESCO World Heritage Site in the world. The beautiful tomb, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is visited by 14 lakh people in a month. In January 2022, Raj Kumar Patel, an observational archaeologist with the #ASI of the Agra Circle, says 10,000 people visited the Taj Mahal on a Saturday.
More and more travelers are now interested in visiting sites of historical and cultural significance, and the majestic Inca city of Machu Picchu is second on the list with 11 lakh searches.
Searches for Stonehenge in the UK (7.82 million searches) and the city of Neptune in Petra, Jordan (5.75 million searches) further confirmed the fact that people are eager to travel to the ancient historical sites of various cultures around the world.
These are the top 10 UNESCO World Heritage Sites:
1. Taj Mahal (14,00,000) - India
2. Machu Picchu (11,00,000) - Peru
3. Rio de Janeiro (8,24,000) - Brazil
4. Yellowstone National Park (7,93,000) - USA
5. Stonehenge (7,82,000) - England
6. Statue of Liberty (7,57,000) - USA
7. Petra (5,75,000) - Jordan
8. Zinc #Terre (5,50,000) - Italy
9. Palace of Versailles (4,64,000) - France
10. Chichen Itza (4,45,000) - Mexico
How many UNESCO World Heritage Sites have you seen so far?
World Heritage Sites are culturally and naturally significant sites that vary in type, but include forests, lakes, monuments, buildings and cities. World Heritage Sites are a fusion of both cultural and natural areas.
There are about 900 UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world
A World Heritage Site is a site determined by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with significant cultural or natural significance to mankind. Such sites are protected and maintained by the International World Heritage Program, which is managed by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.
For example, Mount #Huangshan in China is an important place for human culture because it played a role in historical Chinese art and literature. The mountain is notable for its natural beauty.
History of World Heritage Sites
Although the idea of preserving cultural and natural heritage around the world began in the early twentieth century, the momentum for its actual creation was not until the 1950s. In 1954 Egypt began plans to build the Aswan High Dam to collect and control water from the Nile. The initial plan for the construction of the dam was to flood the valleys with Abu #Simbel temples and ancient Egyptian artifacts.
UNESCO launched an international campaign in 1959 to protect temples and the arts, calling for the demolition and movement of temples to a higher standard.
The project is valued at about $80 million, with $40 million coming from 50 different countries. Following the success of the project, UNESCO and the International Council on Monuments and Sites launched a draft conference to create an international body for the preservation of cultural heritage.
In 1965, the White House Conference in the United States called for the preservation of the historic cultural sites as the "World Heritage Foundation," but also for the preservation of significant world and natural sites. Finally, in 1968, the International Union for Conservation of Nature set similar goals and in 1972 Sweden presented them at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
Having set these goals, the World Conference on Cultural and Natural Heritage Preservation was adopted at the UNESCO General Conference on November 16, 1972.
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