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See Xianling Tomb, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Hubei, China
The Xianling Mausoleum was the first imperial tomb in China to be inscribed by UNESCO on the World Cultural Heritage List. It occupies an area of 183.15 hectares while the additional defensive walls outside the city walls are 3600 meters in length. It is the largest of the 18 Ming imperial tombs. -
Visit Xidi & Hongcun, China (UNESCO site)
Hongcun and Xidi are villages in Yi County county, Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, near the southwest slope of Mount Huangshan. These cities were declared the “Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui” World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. Hongcun is arranged in the shape of an ox with the nearby hill (Leigang Hill) interpreted as the head, and... -
Visit Xingjiao Temple, China (UNESCO Site)
Xingjiao Temple is located in Shaoling Yuan, Chang'an District of Xi'an City. The five-storied Buddhist relic pagoda, preserving the relics of Xuanzang, is inside the temple, along with the pagodas of his disciples, Kuiji and Yuance. Xingjiao Temple was built in AD 669 to re-inhume Xuanzang and was one of eight famed temples in Fanchuan in Tang Dynasty. Although the o... -
Explore Xinjiang Tianshan Mountain Ranges, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan & China (UNESCO Site)
The Tian Shan, also spelled Tien Shan, is a large system of mountain ranges located in Central Asia. The highest peak in the Tian Shan is Victory Peak (Jengish Chokusu), 7,439 metres (24,406 ft). Xinjiang Tianshan comprises four components—Tomur, Kalajun-Kuerdening, Bayinbukuke and Bogda— that total 606,833 hectares. They are part of the Tianshan mountain ... -
Visit Xixia Imperial Tombs (Western Xia Mausoleums), Helan Mountains, China (UNESCO Site)
The Western Xia mausoleums occupy an area of some 50 km2 (19 sq mi) at the foot of the Helan Mountains in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwestern China, and include nine imperial mausoleums and 250 tombs of imperial relatives and officials of China's Western Xia dynasty. This burial complex lies some 40 km (25 mi) westward from capital city of the Western Xi... -
Visit Xochicalco, Mexico (UNESCO site)
Xochicalco is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Municipality of Miacatlán in the western part of the Mexican state of Morelos. The name Xochicalco may be translated from Nahuatl as "in the (place of the) house of Flowers". The site is located 38 km southwest of Cuernavaca, about 76 miles by road from Mexico City. The site is open to visitors all w... -
Visit Xochimilco, Mexico City (UNESCO Site)
Xochimilco is one of the 16mayoralities or boroughs within Mexico City. The borough is centered on the formerly independent city of Xochimilco, which was established on what was the southern shore of Lake Xochimilco in the pre-Hispanic period. Today, the borough consists of the eighteen “barrios” or neighborhoods of this city along with fourteen “pue... -
See Xylokerkos Gate (Belgrade Gate), Istanbul, Turkey (UNESCO site)
The Xylokerkos or Xerokerkos Gate (Πύλη τοῦ Ξυλοκέρκου/Ξηροκέρκου), now known as the Belgrade Gate (Belgrat Kapısı), lies between towers 22 and 23. Alexander van Millingen identified it with the Second Military Gate, which however is l... -
See Yakushi-ji Temple, Yakushi-ji Temple, Japan (UNESCO site)
The original Yakushi-ji was built in Fujiwara-kyō, Japan's capital in the Asuka period, commissioned by Emperor Tenmu in 680 to pray for recovery from illness for his consort, who succeeded him as Empress Jitō. It was disassembled and moved to Nara eight years after the Imperial Court settled in what was then the new capital. -
Explore Yakushima National Park, Japan (UNESCO site)
Yakushima, one of the Ōsumi Islands, is an island of about 500 km² and roughly 15,000 islanders to the south of Kyūshū in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island forms part of Kirishima-Yaku National Park. In 1980 an area of 18,958 ha was designated a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserve. In 1993 10 ha of wetland at Nagata-hama was designated a Ramsar Site. It is... -
Explore Yandang Mountains Geopark, China
Yandang Mountains or Yandangshan ("Wild Goose Pond Mountain(s)") refers, in the broad sense, to a coastal mountain range in southeastern Zhejiang province in eastern China, covering much of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou (from Pingyang County in the south to Yueqing County in the northeast) and extending to the county-level city of Wenling in Taizhou prefecture.... -
Visit Yanxiang Lou (Nanxi Tulou Cluster), Fujian, China (UNESCO site)
The Nanxi Tulou cluster is the name applied to a section of the Nanxi ("South Creek") Valley in Hukeng Town (Yongding County), which for a distance of several kilometers is almost continuously built up with tulous. For its striking visual effect, the area is referred to by some authors as the "Tulou Great Wall". One of the tulous in this large cluster, the Yanxiang Lo... -
Visit Yaroslavl, Russia (UNESCO site)
Yaroslavl is a city and the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located 250 kilometres (160 mi) northeast of Moscow. The historical part of the city, a World Heritage Site, is located at the confluence of the Volga and the Kotorosl Rivers. It is one of the Golden Ring cities, a group of historic cities northeast of Moscow that has played an importa... -
See Yaroslav's Court, Velikiy Novgorod, Novgorod, Russia (UNESCO site)
Yaroslav's Court was the princely compound in the city of Novgorod the Great. Today it is roughly the area around the Trade Mart, the Church of St. Nicholas, the Church of St. Procopius, and the Church of the Myrrh-bearing Women. The Trade Mart renovated and heavily modified in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, is all that is left of the princely palace itself.... -
Visit Yazd, Iran (UNESCO Site)
Yazd is the capital of Yazd Province, Iran, and a centre of Zoroastrian culture. The city is located 270 km (170 mi) southeast of Isfahan. Because of generations of adaptations to its desert surroundings, Yazd is an architecturally unique city. It is also known in Iran for the high quality of its handicrafts, especially silk weaving, and its confectionary. Yazd i...
