Year: 2012

STF Kolarbyn Eco Lodges

Discover STF Kolarbyn Eco Lodges in Skinnskatteberg, Sweden: Bring your hiking shoes, wool socks, and thermal underwear for a stay in these cozy forest huts.

Treehotel

Discover Treehotel in Boden N, Sweden: A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Poveglia Plague Island

Discover Poveglia Plague Island in Venice, Italy: A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Torri Morandi

Discover Torri Morandi in Messina, Italy: An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

Casa del Petrarca (Petrarch House Museum)

Discover Casa del Petrarca (Petrarch House Museum) in Arquà Petrarca, Italy: A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

The Stele of Mount Musinè

Discover The Stele of Mount Musinè in Val della Torre, Italy: A mysterious stele of unknown origin sits on the peak of this curious mountain.

Peter Mitterhofer Typewriter Museum

Discover Peter Mitterhofer Typewriter Museum in Partschins, Italy: Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

Museo Canova

Discover Museo Canova in Possagno, Italy: The home of a neoclassical master is now a shrine to his chosen art style.

The Fungo Mushroom Rock

Discover The Fungo Mushroom Rock in Lacco Ameno, Italy: A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

Cretto di Gibellina

Discover Cretto di Gibellina in Sicily, Italy: Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a concrete art project.

War obelisk in Milan

Discover War obelisk in Milan in Milan, Italy: Remnants of cone-shaped fascist bomb shelters in Milan.

Massa Marittima Mural

Discover Massa Marittima Mural in Massa Marittima, Italy: Does this strange mural depict witches battling beneath a penis tree?

Byblos Art Hotel

Discover Byblos Art Hotel in Corrubbio, Italy: Sleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern era.

Residenza d’Arte

Discover Residenza d'Arte in Torrita di Siena, Italy: A unique Tuscan hideaway acts as an art mecca as well as a hotel.

Pozzo di San Patrizio

Discover Pozzo di San Patrizio in Orvieto, Italy: Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Il Castello Incantato

Discover Il Castello Incantato in Sciacca, Italy: A madman's personal garden filled with 1,000 sculpted heads.

Museum of Prosciutto di Parma

Discover Museum of Prosciutto di Parma in Langhirano, Italy: Ham is serious business at the Prosciutto Museum-Serious, delicious business.

Towers of San Gimignano

Discover Towers of San Gimignano in San Gimignano, Italy: These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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