UNESCO World Heritage Site #168: Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City
From the World Heritage inscription: The city and port of Liverpool are exceptional testimony to the development of maritime mercantile culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, and played an important role in the growth of the British Empire. Liverpool is an outstanding example of a world mercantile port city, which represents the early development [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #167: Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
From the World Heritage inscription: The set of housing estates in the Berlin Modern Style provides outstanding testimony to the implementation of housing policies during the period 1910 – 1933 and especially during the Weimar Republic, when the city of Berlin was characterized by its political, social, cultural and technical progressiveness. The housing estates reflect, [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #166: Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
From the World Heritage inscription: The art museum is a social phenomenon that owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment and its extension to all people to the French Revolution. The Museumsinsel is the most outstanding example of this concept given material form and a symbolic central urban setting, and one that illustrates the [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #165: Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin
From the World Heritage inscription: The ensemble of the chateaux and parks of Potsdam is an exceptional artistic achievement whose eclectic and evolutionary features reinforce its uniqueness: from Knobelsdorff to Schinkel and from Eyserbeck to Lenné, a series of architectural and landscaping masterpieces were built within a single space, illustrating opposing and reputedly irreconcilable styles [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #164: Luther Memorials in Eisleben and Wittenberg
From the World Heritage inscription: These memorials are of outstanding universal value as bearing unique testimony to the Protestant Reformation, which was one of the most significant events in the religious and political history of the world, and as outstanding examples of 19th-century historicism. They are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and [...]
UNESCO World Heritage Site #163: Dresden Elbe Valley
From the World Heritage inscription: The 18th- and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley extends some 18 km along the river from Übigau Palace and Ostragehege fields in the north-west to the Pillnitz Palace and the Elbe River Island in the south-east. It features low meadows, and is crowned by the Pillnitz Palace and [...]
This Week In Travel – Episode 103
This week’s guests are Johnny Jet and Alastair McKenzie. Subscribe on iTunes | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download the iPhone app | Download
