Question

Explain why this site is regarded as having outstanding universal value. Use the criteria for selection of sites as world heritage sites

Answer 1

Human creative genius

i. to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius;

Interchange of values

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;

Testimony to cultural tradition

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;

Significance in human history

iv. to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural oror landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history;

Traditional human settlement

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;