Heritage list: 13 new sites, 3 site extensions and 1 site removed

One of  the new sites s,  was included as a cultural landscape: Mount Wutai (China) . With its five flat peaks, this is a sacred Buddhist mountain where there are 53 monasteries, presenting a catalogue of the way Buddhist architecture developed and influenced palace building in much of China over more than one millennium..

 

For the second time since the World Heritage Convention was adopted in 1972, the Committee decided to remove a site from the List, considering that Dresden Elbe Valley (Germany) has failed to keep its outstanding universal value as inscribed, following the construction of a four-lane bridge in the heart of the cultural landscape.

 

 

 

One of the three site extensions concerns a French site: Saline d'Arc-et-Senans becomes  " From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the production of open-pan salt "  with consideration of the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains which has been extracting brine since the Middle Ages, if not before.

 

Presented by France, the application of the region " Les Causses et les Cévennes", submitted as a changing and living cultural landscape that promotes agro-pastoralism, was not included this year.