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Historic Centre of Camagüey
One of the first seven villages founded by the Spanish in Cuba, Camaguey was an urban centre in the interior, mainly engaged in livestock and sugar production. The town was settled in 1528 on its present site and developed in an irregular urban pattern with large and small squares, winding streets, alleys and irregular urban blocks, which is very unusual for Latin American colonial towns located in the plains. The 54-hectare historic centre of Camaguey is an outstanding example of a traditional urban settlement relatively far from the main trade routes. The Spanish colonists were influenced by medieval Europe in the layout of the city and in the traditional building techniques brought to the Americas by their stonemasons and master builders. The heritage reflects the influence of many styles from various eras: neoclassicism, eclecticism, art deco, neocolonialism and some art nouveau and rationalism.
Petroglyphic Complexes of the Mongolian Altai
The extensive rock carvings and funerary monuments found at these three sites illustrate cultural development in Mongolia over a 12,000-year period. The earliest images reflect a period when the region was partly forested (11,000-6,000 BC), with valleys providing habitat for hunters of large game. Later images show a transition to pastoralism as the primary way of life. More recent images show a transition to a nomadic lifestyle dependent on horses in the early 1st millennium BC, the Scythian period, and the late Turkic period (7th and 8th centuries AD). These carvings make a valuable contribution to our understanding of prehistoric communities in North Asia.
Petroglyphs within the Archaeological Landscape of Tamgaly
Around the lush Tamgaly Gorge, in the vast and arid Chuli Mountains, are clustered some 5,000 petroglyphs (rock engravings) dating from the second half of the second millennium BC to the early 20th century. Distributed in 48 complexes with associated settlements and cemeteries, these petroglyphs bear witness to pastoralism, social organization and rituals of nomadic peoples. Human settlements at the site are often multi-layered, indicating occupation through the ages. Numerous tombs have also been found, including stone walls with chests and sarcophagi (Middle and Late Bronze Age) and stone and earth mounds (gurgans) (Early Iron Age to present day). The central gorge contains the densest concentration of engravings and what are believed to be altars, suggesting that these sites were used for rituals.
Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley
The cultural landscape of the Madriu-Perafita-Claro valleys offers a microcosm of how people have harvested the resources of the Pyrenees for thousands of years. The glacial landscape is spectacular, with steep cliffs and glaciers, tall open pastures and steep wooded valleys, and covers an area of 4,247 hectares, or 9% of the Principality’s total area. It reflects past changes in climate, economic wealth and social systems, as well as the persistence of pastoralism and a strong mountain culture, notably the survival of a system of communal land ownership dating back to the 13th century. The site features houses, summer settlements, terraces, stone roads and remains of iron smelting.
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
Located in the south of central France, this 302,319-hectare land is a mountainous landscape interspersed with deep valleys that represent the relationship between agro-pastoral systems and their biophysical environment, especially accessed by paths or less travelled roads. The villages of the Causses and the solid stone farmhouses on deep terraces reflect the organization of a large monastery from the 11th century. The Lozère Mountains within the land are one of the last places where summer migratory grazing is still carried out in the traditional way (using paths).
The English Lake District
The English Lake District is a mountainous area in northwest England, with valleys shaped by Ice Age glaciers and subsequently by agro-pastoral land use systems, characterised by fields surrounded by walls. The combination of nature and human activity has created a harmonious landscape with mountains reflected in the lakes. Mansions, gardens and parks were deliberately built to enhance the beauty of the landscape. From the 18th century, the Picturesque Movement and later the Romantic Movement greatly admired this landscape, celebrating it in paintings, drawings and writings. It also inspired awareness of the importance of beautiful landscapes and led to early efforts to preserve them.