The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony refers both to a group of Jugendstil artists as well as to the buildings in Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt in which these artists lived and worked. The artists were largely financed by patrons and worked together with other members of the group who ideally had concordant artistic tastes. UNESCO has recognized the Mathildenhöhe...

The Dinorwic quarry (/dɪˈnɔːrwɪɡ/din-OR-wig; Welsh: [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]; also known as Dinorwig quarry) is a large former slate quarry, now home to the Welsh National Slate Museum, located between the villages of Llanberis and Dinorwig in North Wales. It was[when?] the second largest slate quarry in Wales, indeed in the world, after the neighbouring Penrhyn quarry near Bethes...

Dyffryn Ogwen, or Ogwen Valley, is a valley mostly located in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. The upper section of the valley, east of Llyn Ogwen, lies in the county of Conwy. The valley lies to the south of Bangor. It is bordered one side by the Glyderau mountain range and on the other by the Carneddau. The River Ogwen (Afon Ogwen in Welsh) flows through it, separating ...

In 1873, the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog was described as “dinas y llechi” [“slate city”], as it was the largest town in the slate quarrying areas. Investors from England and Ireland developed a series of quarries around the town – and some of these still operate. The five quarries that form part of the nominated area were owned by differe...

Františkovy Lázně ([ˈfraɲcɪʃkovɪ ˈlaːzɲɛ] (listen); German:Franzensbad) is a spa town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 5,400 inhabitants. Together with neighbouring Karlovy Vary and Mariánské Lázně, it is part of the renowned West Bohemian Spa Triangle. The town centre is well preserved ...

Frederiksoord is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Westerveld, and lies about 24 km northwest of Hoogeveen. It was the headquarters of the 19th century Society of Humanitarianism. In 2001, the town of Frederiksoord had 254 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.24 km², and contained 481 residences. The statisti...

It covers almost 600km of the whole Roman Empire’s Danube frontier. The property formed part of the much large frontier of the Roman Empire that encircled the Mediterranean Sea. The Danube Limes (Western Segment) reflects the specificities of this part of the Roman Frontier through the selection of sites that represent key elements from road, legionary fortresse...

The Futatsumori Site, known primarily in Japanese as the Futatsumori Shell Mound (二ツ森貝塚,Futatsumori Kaizuka), is an archaeological site consisting of a series of large shell middens and the remains of an adjacent settlement from the Jōmon period, located in what is now part of the town of Shichinohe in Aomori Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has b...

Situated in the eastern Yellow Sea on the southwestern and southern coast of the Republic of Korea, the site comprises four component parts: Seocheon Getbol, Gochang Getbol, Shinan Getbol and Boseong-Suncheon Getbol. The site exhibits a complex combination of geological, oceanographic and climatologic conditions that have led to the development of coastal diverse sedi...

Both the Gorseddau and Prince of Wales quarries were developed between 1850 and 1870, the “Golden Age” of the slate industry in Gwynedd. Their development testifies to the fact that everyone that invested in the slate industry expected to make a fortune. Huge sums of money were invested in these two quarries from 1850 onwards. But both failed within a few ...

Goshono ruins (御所野遺跡,Goshono iseki) is a middle Jōmon period archaeological site in the town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. Discovered during the construction of an industrial park in 1989, the area was designated a National Historic Site in 1993 by the Japanese government. The Goshono ruins consist of a large scale residential ...

Mosque in Kong, Côte d'Ivoire

Running along the ditches of the former medieval walls of the Novi trg, was designed by Jože Plečnik as an important cultural axis, along which there are the buildings of the University, the former Realka secondary school, the Music Society, and the National and University Library. The Vegova Street is part of Plečnik’s idea of a city feature running from the Tr...

Grigoleti is a small seaside village located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. It is situated in the Guria lowlands, 1.24 miles (2 km) south of Poti, approximately 186.4 miles (300 km) west of Georgia's capital, Tbilisi, and just south of Kolkheti National Park. The village is 4 meters above sea level. The area is covered by perennial pine trees, and its shoreline is...

Jomon Prehistoric Site