The Unesco World Heritage Committee today closed its forty-fourth session in the southeastern Chinese city of Fuzhou, although the edition was mostly held virtually, with the inscription of 34 new sites on the World Heritage list .
Of them, 29 are of a cultural nature and five are natural.
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The World Heritage Committee evaluated 45 proposals from 2020, the year in which it was not celebrated due to the pandemic, and from 2021.
Among the added candidatures is the one known under the name “Landscape of Light”, which includes, in Madrid, the Paseo del Prado, the Buen Retiro Garden and the architectural, artistic and natural complex that surrounds it.
The Monastery and Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption of Tlaxcala, in central Mexico, and the Chankillo archaeoastronomical complex of Peru also entered the Franciscan Conventual Complex.
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Salonga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was removed from the list of endangered sites, while Liverpool was removed as a World Heritage Site “due to the irreversible loss of the attributes for which it had been inscribed”.
Unesco’s next annual session will take place in 2022 in the Russian city of Kazan.
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