’Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations’
UNESCO

WORLD HERITAGE
PATRIMONIO MUNDIAL
PATRIMOINE MONDIAL
[World Heritage Site symbol]

World Heritage
In 1972 the world’s countries agreed to identify, protect and promote the most important historical and natural places on earth for future generations. This process is managed by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), whose World Heritage Committee of experts meets once a year to decide which sites can be inscribed as World Heritage Sites. To be included on the World Heritage List, sites must meet a number of criteria within the overall requirement to be of ’outstanding universal value’. By 2009 the World Heritage List included almost 900 sites: 689 cultural, 176 natural and 25 mixed properties.

The sites featured on the map are World Heritage Sites that meet some of the same inscription criteria as the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage site, and were built at the same time as much of historic Greenwich.

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The map is located at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich Click for sign's details, a site belonging to the World Heritage Site - Maritime Greenwich Click for sign's details

The map shows World Heritage Sites similar in type and period to the current site.

Parts of the sign were photographed at magnification on the same day Click for a larger image Click for a larger image