{"id":13374,"date":"2005-06-27T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/unesco-world-heritage-sites\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T22:55:00","slug":"unesco-world-heritage-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/unesco-world-heritage-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO World Heritage Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\"><acronym title=\"United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization\">UNESCO<\/acronym><\/a> &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">seeks<\/a> to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.&rdquo; The <a href=\"http:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/pg.cfm?cid=31\" target=\"_blank\">UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites<\/a> contains an amazing array of places, and I hope that I can see but a fraction of them in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Templeton has taken the time to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templetons.com\/brad\/unesco\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Map links for all of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites<\/a>, allowing you to view satellite images and maps for all of the sites, some of which allow you to zoom in with a good amount of detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.world-heritage-tour.org\/map.html\" target=\"_blank\">The UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Panography and Virtual Reality Tours<\/a> site has collected panoramic photos of many sites; QuickTime is required to see the full panoramic photos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/geography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">geography<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/google\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">google<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/history\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">history<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/photography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-111988186927740328?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNESCO &ldquo;seeks to encourage the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity.&rdquo; The UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites contains an amazing array of places, and I hope that I can see but a fraction of them in my lifetime. Brad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/unesco-world-heritage-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UNESCO World Heritage Sites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}