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A UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] is a site that has been nominated for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's international World Heritage program. The program aims to catalogue and preserve sites of outstanding importance, either cultural or natural, to the common heritage of humankind. See ... UNESCO Creative Cities, describing a recently instituted program recognizing entire cities with some similar characteristics.
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A World Heritage Site is an area that is deemed to have outstanding natural or cultural value and is therefore worthy of protection. Protection takes place as a result of being inscribed in the World Heritage List of the World Heritage Committee in terms of the World Heritage Convention, established in 1972 by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation).
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The World Heritage Site has much to offer all tastes and interests. There are walks and nature trails, shopping centres and high quality eating establishments - all the ingredients for a great day out!
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The uKhahlamba � Drakensberg Park, a World Heritage Site, has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts. Managed by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife the Park is only 2 hours from Durban and four from Gauteng.
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At the very heart of the World Heritage Site stands the famous Iron Bridge built by Abraham Darby III and designed by Shrewsbury architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard. The bridge was completed in 1781 and as the first bridge in the world to be built completely of iron, it immediately became a visitor attraction. It attracted artists, engineers, entrepreneurs and sightseers from across the world, all of whom wanted to view this wonder of the industrial age.
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World Heritage Site status recognises Maritime Greenwich’s importance as a place of international significance. A management plan, reviewed every five years, aims to preserve its character and promote its cultural and educational resources. Guidelines have been set to conserve and interpret the Site for future generations. The opening of the Old Royal Naval College and the restoration of the Dreadnought Hospital are part of the regeneration that has taken place within the site since 1997.
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