Criterion (i)

A masterpiece of human creative genius. 265 properties on the List meet it, 3 of them under this criterion alone.

Site	Country	Year	Type	Criteria
Aachen Cathedral	Germany	1978	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Monolithic churches in Lalibela	Ethiopia	1978	Cultural	i ii iii
Ancient City of Damascus in danger	Syria	1979	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis	Egypt	1979	Cultural	i iii vi
Islamic Cairo	Egypt	1979	Cultural	i v vi
Madara Rider	Bulgaria	1979	Cultural	i iii
Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur	Egypt	1979	Cultural	i iii vi
Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay	France	1979	Cultural	i iii vi
Naqsh-e Jahan Square	Iran	1979	Cultural	i v vi
Natural and Cultural Heritage of the Ohrid region	North Macedonia Albania	1979	Mixed	i iii iv vii ix
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor	Montenegro	1979	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Notre-Dame de Chartres	France	1979	Cultural	i ii iv
Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae	Egypt	1979	Cultural	i iii vi
Old city (Dubrovnik)	Croatia	1979	Cultural	i iii iv
Palace of Versailles	France	1979	Cultural	i ii vi
Persepolis	Iran	1979	Cultural	i iii vi
Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley	France	1979	Cultural	i iii
Stari Ras and Sopoćani	Serbia	1979	Cultural	i iii
Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak	Bulgaria	1979	Cultural	i iii iv
Tikal National Park	Guatemala	1979	Mixed	i iii iv ix x
Urnes Stave Church	Norway	1979	Cultural	i ii iii
Vézelay, Church and Hill	France	1979	Cultural	i iv vi
Ancient City of Bosra in danger	Syria	1980	Cultural	i iii vi
Axum	Ethiopia	1980	Cultural	i iv
fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo in danger	Panama	1980	Cultural	i iv
Historic Centre of Rome, the Properties of the Holy See in that City Enjoying Extraterritorial Rights and San Paolo Fuori le Mura	Italy Vatican City	1980	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Historic Town of Ouro Preto	Brazil	1980	Cultural	i iii
Palmyra in danger	Syria	1980	Cultural	i ii iv
Santa Maria delle Grazie	Italy	1980	Cultural	i ii
Tiya archaeological site	Ethiopia	1980	Cultural	i iv
Valletta	Malta	1980	Cultural	i vi
Fort and Shalamar Gardens in Lahore	Pakistan	1981	Cultural	i ii iii
Kakadu National Park	Australia	1981	Mixed	i vi vii ix x
Notre-Dame d'Amiens	France	1981	Cultural	i ii
Quiriguá	Guatemala	1981	Cultural	i ii iv
Würzburg Residence with the Court Gardens and Residence Square	Germany	1981	Cultural	i iv
From the Great Saltworks of Salins-les-Bains to the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans, the Production of Open-pan Salt	France	1982	Cultural	i ii iv
Historic Centre of Florence	Italy	1982	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Leptis Magna in danger	Libya	1982	Cultural	i ii iii
Polonnaruwa	Sri Lanka	1982	Cultural	i iii vi
Tassili n'Ajjer	Algeria	1982	Mixed	i iii vii viii
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe	France	1983	Cultural	i iii
Ajanta Caves	India	1983	Cultural	i ii iii vi
Batalha Monastery	Portugal	1983	Cultural	i ii
Convent of Christ	Portugal	1983	Cultural	i vi
Ellora Caves	India	1983	Cultural	i iii vi
Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu	Peru	1983	Mixed	i iii vii ix
Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière and Place d'Alliance in Nancy	France	1983	Cultural	i iv
Taj Mahal	India	1983	Cultural	i
Wieskirche	Germany	1983	Cultural	i iii
Alhambra, Generalife and Albayzín, Granada	Spain	1984	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Baalbek	Lebanon	1984	Cultural	i iv
Group of monuments at Mahabalipuram	India	1984	Cultural	i ii iii vi
historic centre of Córdoba	Spain	1984	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Konark Sun Temple	India	1984	Cultural	i iii vi
Liberty Island	United States	1984	Cultural	i vi
Monastery and Site of the Escurial, Madrid	Spain	1984	Cultural	i ii vi
Vatican City	Vatican City	1984	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Works of Antoni Gaudí	Spain	1984	Cultural	i ii iv
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital	Türkiye	1985	Cultural	i iv
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia	Türkiye	1985	Mixed	i iii v vii
Historic Areas of Istanbul	Türkiye	1985	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Medina of Marrakesh	Morocco	1985	Cultural	i ii iv v
Monuments of Oviedo and the Kingdom of the Asturias	Spain	1985	Cultural	i ii iv
old town of Santiago de Compostela	Spain	1985	Cultural	i ii vi
Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct	Spain	1985	Cultural	i iii iv
Petra	Jordan	1985	Cultural	i iii iv
Pont du Gard	France	1985	Cultural	i iii iv
Qasr Amra	Jordan	1985	Cultural	i iii iv
Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos	Brazil	1985	Cultural	i iv
Somapura Mahavihara	Bangladesh	1985	Cultural	i ii vi
St Mary's Cathedral and St Michael's Church at Hildesheim	Germany	1985	Cultural	i ii iii
Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari	Bulgaria	1985	Cultural	i iii
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd	United Kingdom	1986	Cultural	i iii iv
Chan Chan in danger	Peru	1986	Cultural	i iii
Fountains Abbey	United Kingdom	1986	Cultural	i iv
Great Zimbabwe	Zimbabwe	1986	Cultural	i iii vi
Hampi	India	1986	Cultural	i iii iv
Hattusha: the Hittite Capital	Türkiye	1986	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Historic City of Toledo	Spain	1986	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Ironbridge Gorge	United Kingdom	1986	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Khajuraho Group of Monuments	India	1986	Cultural	i iii
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier UNESCO World Heritage Site	Germany	1986	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Stonehenge	United Kingdom	1986	Cultural	i ii iii
Studenica monastery	Serbia	1986	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Temple of Apollo Epicurius in Bassae	Greece	1986	Cultural	i ii iii
Acropolis of Athens	Greece	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
archaeological Site of Delphi	Greece	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Bath	United Kingdom	1987	Cultural	i ii iv
Brasília	Brazil	1987	Cultural	i iv
Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville	Spain	1987	Cultural	i ii iii vi
Elephanta Caves	India	1987	Cultural	i iii
Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán	Mexico	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Imperial Palaces of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Beijing and Shenyang	China	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor	China	1987	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Mogao Caves	China	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv v vi
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville	United States	1987	Cultural	i iv vi
Mount Nemrut	Türkiye	1987	Cultural	i iii iv
Mount Tai	China	1987	Mixed	i ii iii iv v vi vii
Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including Saint Margaret's Church	United Kingdom	1987	Cultural	i ii iv
Palenque	Mexico	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Piazza del Duomo, Pisa	Italy	1987	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Teotihuacan	Mexico	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
The Great Wall	China	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Venice and its Lagoon	Italy	1987	Cultural	i ii iii iv v vi
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church	United Kingdom	1988	Cultural	i ii vi
Kairouan	Tunisia	1988	Cultural	i ii iii v vi
Meteora	Greece	1988	Mixed	i ii iv v vii
Mount Athos	Greece	1988	Mixed	i ii iv v vi vii
Old City of Salamanca in danger	Spain	1988	Cultural	i ii iv
Paleochristian and Byzantine monuments of Thessaloniki	Greece	1988	Cultural	i ii iv
Sanctuary of Asclepius, Epidaurus	Greece	1988	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Alcobaça Monastery	Portugal	1989	Cultural	i ii iv
Chichen Itza	Mexico	1989	Cultural	i ii iii
Olympia	Greece	1989	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Sanchi	India	1989	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments	Russia Soviet Union	1990	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Historic Centre of San Gimignano	Italy	1990	Cultural	i iii iv
Kizhi Pogost	Russia Soviet Union	1990	Cultural	i iv v
Kremlin and Red Square	Russia	1990	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Kyiv: Saint-Sophia Cathedral and Related Monastic Buildings, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in danger	Ukraine	1990	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios	Greece	1990	Cultural	i iv
Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin	Germany	1990	Cultural	i ii iv
banks of the Seine	France	1991	Cultural	i ii iv
Borobudur Temple Compounds	Indonesia	1991	Cultural	i ii vi
Dambulla cave temple	Sri Lanka	1991	Cultural	i vi
Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns	Thailand	1991	Cultural	i iii
Poblet Monastery	Spain	1991	Cultural	i iv
Prambanan Temple	Indonesia	1991	Cultural	i iv
Royal abbey of Saint-Remi	France	1991	Cultural	i ii vi
Angkor	Cambodia	1992	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Bourges Cathedral	France	1992	Cultural	i iv
Historic Centre of Telč	Czechia	1992	Cultural	i iv
Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic Town of Goslar and Upper Harz Water Management System	Germany	1992	Cultural	i ii iii iv
White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal	Russia	1992	Cultural	i ii iv
Brú na Bóinne	Ireland	1993	Cultural	i iii iv
Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area	Japan	1993	Cultural	i ii iv vi
churches of Moldavia	Romania	1993	Cultural	i iv
Himeji Castle	Japan	1993	Cultural	i iv
Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco	Mexico	1993	Cultural	i iii
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains	China	1994	Cultural	i ii vi
City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto	Italy	1994	Cultural	i ii
Nazca Lines	Peru	1994	Cultural	i iii iv
Rock Carvings in Tanum	Sweden	1994	Cultural	i iii iv
Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu	China	1994	Cultural	i iv vi
World Heritage Sites in Tibet	China	1994	Cultural	i iv vi
Historic Centre of Avignon	France	1995	Cultural	i ii iv
Historic Centre of Siena	Italy	1995	Cultural	i ii iv
Rapa Nui National Park	Chile	1995	Cultural	i iii v
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple	South Korea	1995	Cultural	i iv
Aigai	Greece	1996	Cultural	i iii
Canal du Midi	France	1996	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Castel del Monte	Italy	1996	Cultural	i ii iii
Cologne Cathedral	Germany	1996	Cultural	i ii iv
Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna	Italy	1996	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Historic Centre of the City of Pienza	Italy	1996	Cultural	i ii iv
Itsukushima Shrine	Japan	1996	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape	Czechia	1996	Cultural	i ii iv
Lonja de la Seda	Spain	1996	Cultural	i iv
Palace and gardens of Schönbrunn	Austria	1996	Cultural	i iv
Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal	Mexico	1996	Cultural	i ii iii
18th-Century Royal Palace at Caserta with the Park, the Aqueduct of Vanvitelli, and the San Leucio Complex	Italy	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Cathedral, Torre Civica and Piazza Grande, Modena	Italy	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Classical Gardens of Suzhou	China	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv v
Hospicio Cabañas	Mexico	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Las Médulas	Spain	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Maritime Greenwich	United Kingdom	1997	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Palau de la Música Catalana and Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona	Spain	1997	Cultural	i ii iv
Residences of the Royal House of Savoy	Italy	1997	Cultural	i ii iv v
Su Nuraxi di Barumini	Italy	1997	Cultural	i iii iv
Valle dei Templi	Italy	1997	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Vecrīga	Latvia	1997	Cultural	i ii
Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	1997	Cultural	i ii iii
Windmills at Kinderdijk	Netherlands	1997	Cultural	i ii iv
Ir.D.F. Woudagemaal	Netherlands	1998	Cultural	i ii iv
Summer Palace	China	1998	Cultural	i ii iii
Temple of Heaven	China	1998	Cultural	i ii iii
Archaeological Sites of Mycenae and Tiryns	Greece	1999	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Beemster	Netherlands	1999	Cultural	i ii iv
Dazu Rock Carvings	China	1999	Cultural	i ii iii
Hadrian's Villa	Italy	1999	Cultural	i ii iii
Heart of Neolithic Orkney	United Kingdom	1999	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Shrines and Temples of Nikkō	Japan	1999	Cultural	i iv vi
Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites	Italy	2000	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Ferapontov Monastery	Russia Soviet Union	2000	Cultural	i iv
Historic Centre of Arequipa	Peru	2000	Cultural	i iv
Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc	Czechia	2000	Cultural	i iv
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties	China	2000	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Longmen Grottoes	China	2000	Cultural	i ii iii
Major Town Houses of the Architect Victor Horta	Belgium	2000	Cultural	i ii iv
Maloti-Drakensberg Park	Lesotho South Africa	2000	Mixed	i iii vii x
Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes	Belgium	2000	Cultural	i iii iv
Rietveld Schröder House	Netherlands	2000	Cultural	i ii
Šibenik Cathedral	Croatia	2000	Cultural	i ii iv
The Loire Valley between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes	France	2000	Cultural	i ii iv
University City of Caracas	Venezuela	2000	Cultural	i iv
Kasubi Tombs	Uganda	2001	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Samarkand – Crossroad of Cultures	Uzbekistan	2001	Cultural	i ii iv
Tsodilo	Botswana	2001	Cultural	i iii vi
Villa d'Este	Italy	2001	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Yungang Grottoes	China	2001	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Calakmul	Mexico	2002	Mixed	i ii iii iv ix x
Late Baroque Towns of the Val di Noto	Italy	2002	Cultural	i ii iv v
Mahabodhi Temple	India	2002	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Saint Catherine Area	Egypt	2002	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Cultural Landscape and Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley in danger	Afghanistan	2003	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Gebel Barkal and the Sites of the Napatan Region	Sudan	2003	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi	Kazakhstan	2003	Cultural	i iii iv
Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza	Spain	2003	Cultural	i ii iv
Takht-e Soleyman	Iran	2003	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom	China	2004	Cultural	i ii iii iv v
Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia	Italy	2004	Cultural	i iii iv
Goguryeo tombs	North Korea	2004	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Luis Barragán House and Studio	Mexico	2004	Cultural	i ii
Muskau Park	Germany Poland	2004	Cultural	i iv
Novodevichy Convent	Russia Soviet Union	2004	Cultural	i iv vi
Pasargadae	Iran	2004	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Umm ar-Rasas	Jordan	2004	Cultural	i iv vi
Centennial Hall	Poland	2006	Cultural	i ii iv
Stone Circles of Senegambia	Gambia Senegal	2006	Cultural	i iii
Vizcaya Bridge	Spain	2006	Cultural	i ii
Ciudad Universitaria	Mexico	2007	Cultural	i ii iv
Rideau Canal World Heritage Site	Canada	2007	Cultural	i iv
Sydney Opera House	Australia	2007	Cultural	i
Fortifications of Vauban	France	2008	Cultural	i ii iv
Preah Vihear Temple	Cambodia	2008	Cultural	i
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct	United Kingdom	2009	Cultural	i ii iv
Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System	Iran	2009	Cultural	i ii v
Stoclet Palace	Belgium	2009	Cultural	i ii
Grachtengordel	Netherlands	2010	Cultural	i ii iv
Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble	Iran	2010	Cultural	i ii iv
Selimiye Mosque	Türkiye	2011	Cultural	i iv
The Persian Garden	Iran	2011	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Gonbad-e Qabus	Iran	2012	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Margravial Opera House	Germany	2012	Cultural	i iv
Bursa and Cumalıkızık: the Birth of the Ottoman Empire	Türkiye	2014	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Chauvet Cave	France	2014	Cultural	i iii
Grand Canal	China	2014	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape	Türkiye	2014	Cultural	i ii iii iv vi
Rani ki vav	India	2014	Cultural	i iv
Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque	Mexico	2015	Cultural	i ii iv
Forth Bridge	United Kingdom	2015	Cultural	i iv
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia	Saudi Arabia	2015	Cultural	i iii
Susa	Iran	2015	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Antequera Dolmens Site	Spain	2016	Cultural	i iii iv
Nan Madol in danger	Micronesia	2016	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Pampulha Modern Ensemble	Brazil	2016	Cultural	i ii iv
The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier	Argentina Belgium France+4	2016	Cultural	i ii vi
Tarnowskie Góry Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine and its Underground Water Management System	Poland	2017	Cultural	i ii iv
Göbekli Tepe	Türkiye	2018	Cultural	i ii iv
Naumburg Cathedral	Germany	2018	Cultural	i ii
Jodrell Bank Observatory	United Kingdom	2019	Cultural	i ii iv vi
Chankillo Archaeoastronomical Complex	Peru	2021	Cultural	i iv
Cordouan Lighthouse	France	2021	Cultural	i iv
Ramappa Temple	India	2021	Cultural	i iii
Deer Stone Monuments, the Heart of Bronze Age Culture	Mongolia	2023	Cultural	i iii
Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas	India	2023	Cultural	i ii iv
Talayotic Culture of Minorca	Spain	2023	Cultural	i ii iv
Appian Way	Italy	2024	Cultural	i iii iv v vi
Central Axis of Beijing	China	2024	Cultural	i iii iv vi
Ecbatana	Iran	2024	Cultural	i ii iii iv
Sculptural Ensemble of Constantin Brâncuși at Târgu Jiu	Romania	2024	Cultural	i ii
Megaliths of Carnac and of the shores of Morbihan	France	2025	Cultural	i iv
Murujuga National Park	Australia	2025	Cultural	i iii v
Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream	South Korea	2025	Cultural	i iii

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