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World Heritage


Kairouan inscription - world heritage:

On December 9, 1988, Kairouan was included on UNESCO's list of World Heritage sites because the city fulfills five of the six criteria; in fact, fulfilling only one criterion is enough to be considered for the category. Only Venice fulfills all six, and very few can, like the city of Kairouan , Florence , and the Great Wall of China , boast of satisfying five. Rome and Cordua fulfill four categories, and Cairo , Tunis , and Paris only three. For more information, click here

The five categories regarding the Medina of Kariouan are as follows :

  1. The Great Mosque of Kairouan is one of the major monuments of Islam, and also a universal masterpiece of architecture. It was the model for several other mosques in the Maghreb , particularly as far as decorative motifs are concerned.
  2. The Mosque with Three Doors (866) is the oldest mosque in Islam having a sculpted facade.
  3. Kairouan bears exceptional witness to the civilization of the early centuries of the Hegira of Ifriqiyya.
  4. Kairouan's traditional Muslim architecture and its spatial configuration, both precious examples of world heritage, have become susceptible to loss because of economical factors and other threats.
  5. Kairouan is one of Islam's holiest cities and a spiritual capital to Muslims worldwide.

The following is a list of UNESCO's World Heritage sites established by the « Convention concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage » adopted by the General Conference in 1972 (signed by Tunisia on October 3, 1975) and among which can be counted seven Tunisian sites. They are Carthage ; El Jem; the Medinas of Kairouan, Sousse , and Tunis ; Kerkouane, and Dougga.

1 Abomey BENIN
2 Acropole d'Athènes GREECE
3 Agra INDIA
4 Aix-la-chapelle GERMANY
5 Ajantà INDIA
6 Alcobaça PORTUGAL
7 Alep SYRIA
8 Alger ALGERIA
9 Alhambra SPAIN
10 Altamira SPAIN
11 Amiens FRANCE
12 Angkor CAMBODIA
13 Anuradhapura SRI-LANKA
14 Arc-et-Senans FRANCE
15 Arles FRANCE
16 Athos GREECE
17 Auschwitz POLAND
18 Avila SPAIN
19 Axoum ETHIOPIA
20 Ayers Rock AUSTRALIA
21 Ayuthia THAILAND
22 Baalbek LIBANON
23 Baïkal SIBERIA
24 Bamberg GERMANY
25 Bandiagara MALI
26 Barcelone SPAIN
27 Barrière-Grande AUSTRALIA
28 Bassae GREECE
29 Batalha PORTUGAL
30 Bath ENGLAND
31 Bergen NORWAY
32 Berne SWITZERLAND
33 Bogazkale TURKEY
34 Boukhara OUZBEKISTAN
35 Bonages FRANCE
36 Brasilia BRASIL
37 Budapest HUNGARY
38 Burgos SPAIN
39 Byblos LIBANON
40 Càceres SPAIN
41. le Caire EGYPT
42 Canterbury GREAT BRITAIN
43 Cartagena COLOMBIA
44

Carthage

TUNISIA

45 Castel del Monte ITALY
46 Chambord FRANCE
47 Chartres FRANCE
48 Chaussée des Géants NORTHERN IRELAND
49 Chaven de Huantar PERU
50 Chichen Itzà MEXICO
51 Capan HONDURAS
52 Cordoue SPAIN
53 Cracovie POLAND
54 Cuenca SPAIN
55 Cuzco PERU
56 Cyrène CYRENIA
57 Damas SYRIA
58 le Danube EUROPE
59 Delhi INDIA
60 Delos GREECE
61 Delphes GREECE
62

El Djem

TUNISIA
63 Djemila ALGERIA
64 Djenné MALI
65 Dougga TUNISIA
66 Dubrovnik CROATIA
67 Elephata INDIA
68 Ellora INDIA
69 Epidaure GREECE
70 El Escorial SPAIN
71 Mont Esquilin ITALY
72 Evora PORTUGAL
73 Fès MOROCCO
74 Florence ITALIY
75 Fontainebleau FRANCE
76 Fontenay FRANCE
77 Iles Galapagos EQUATOR
78 Galle SRI-LANKA
79 Le Generalife SPAIN
80 Ghadamès LIBYA
81 Grand Canyon USA
82 La Havane CUBA
83 Hildesheim GERMANY
84 Hué VIETNAM
85 Istanbul TURKEY
86 Kairouan TUNISIA
87 Kandy SRI-LANKA
88 Kerkouane TUNISIA
89 Khapunaho INDIA
90 Kiev UKRAINE
91 Kilimandjaro TANZANIA
92 Kotor MONTENEGRO
93 Le Kremlin RUSSIA
94 Leptis LIBYA
95 Londres GREAT BRITAIN
96 Lübeck GERMANY
97 Machepicchu PERU
98 Manille PHILIPPINES
99 Marrakech MOROCCO
100 Meknes MOROCCO
101 Memphis EGYPT
102 Les Météores THESSALIA
103 Mexico MEXICO
104 Canal du midi FRANCE
105 Mistra GREECE
106 Mohenpo Daro PAKISTAN
107 le Mont St Michel FRANCE
108 Moulia MEXIQUE
109 Moscou RUSSIA
110 Grande Muraille CHINA
111 Nancy FRANCE
112 Nijni Novgorod RUSSIA
113 Nimba GUINEA
114 Novgorod RUSSIA
115 Oaxaca MEXICO
116 Olinda BRASIL
117 Olympie GREECE
118 Orange FRANCE
119 Ouro Preto BRASIL
120 Palenque MEXICO
121 Palmyre SYRIA
122 Paphos CYPRUS
123 Paris FRANCE
124 Pékin CHINA
125 Persépolis IRAN
126 Pétra JORDAN
127 Philae EGYPT
128 Pise ITALY
129 Poblet SPAIN
130 Polonnaruwa SRI-LANKA
131 Porto PORTUGAL
132 Potosi BOLIVIA
133 Prague CHEKOSLOVKIA
134 Puebla de Zaragoza MEXICO
135 Québec CANADA
136 Quirinal ITALIY
137 Quito EQUADOR
138 Ravenne  ITALIY
139 Reims FRANCE
140 Rila BULGARIA
141 Rome ITALY
142 La place rouge MOSCOU
143 St Domingue DOMINICAN REP.
144 St Galle SWITZERLAND
145 St J.de compostelle SPAIN
146 St Petersbourg RUSSIA
147 St Pierre de Rome ITALY
148 St Savin FRANCE
149 Salamanque SPAIN
150 Salzbourg AUSTRIA
151 Samos  GREECE
152 Sanaa YEMEN
153 Sanchi INDIA
154 San juan PUERTO RICO
155 Ségovie SPAIN
156 Séville SPAIN
157 Sixtine VATICAN
158 Sour LIBANON
159 Sousse TUNISIA
160 Spire GERMANY
161 Split CROATIA
162 Stonehenge ENGLAND
163 Strasbourg FRANCE
164 Sucre BOLIVIA
165 Sukhothal THAILAND
166 Taj Mahal INDIA
167 Taxila PAKISTAN
168 Tertihuacan MEXICO
169 Teruel SPAIN
170 Thèbes EGYPT
171 Thessalonique GREECE
172 Tikal GUATEMALA
173 Timgad ALGERIA
174 Tipasa ALGERIA
175 Tolède SPAIN
176 Tombouctou MALI
177 Trèves GERMANY
178 Tunis TUNISIA
179 Uxmal SITE MAYA
180 La Valette MALTA
181 Varsovie POLAND
182 Vatican ITALY
183 Venise ITALY
184 Versailles FRANCE
185 Vézelay FRANCE
186 Vicence ITALY
187 Chutes Victoria ZAMBIA
188 Vladimir RUSSIA
189 Xanthos TURKEY
190 Parc Yosemite USA

 

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