SEVEN NEW SITES REGISTERED

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE

The Unesco World Heritage Committee has no summer truce. After the announcement of the inscription of the Cordouan lighthouse on its world heritage list on Saturday, it inscribed seven new sites on Monday.

Four of them were chosen “because of their natural attributes”: Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island and Iriomote Island (Japan), Getbol, ​​Korean coastal areas (Republic of of Korea), the Kaeng Krachan Forest Complex (Thailand) and the Colchis Rainforests and Wetlands (Georgia).

The other three were added to the list for their cultural value: the archaeological site of the Arslantepe tell (Turkey), the extension of the Amsterdam Defense Line, now referred to as the “Dutch Defense Water Lines” ( The Netherlands) and a transnational site, the charitable colonies (Belgium-Netherlands). On Sunday, four new cultural sites were listed as World Heritage by Unesco, in China, India, Iran and Spain.