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After several years of research and communication with colleagues in the field, a conference was organized in March 2004 to address mounting concerns about the needs of these historic sites to ensure their preservation.

The Convent of San Agustín in Salamanca was built by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century.

Since the sixteenth century, West Sumatra and particularly its capital, Padang, has been a major trade center, serving as hub for the pepper, gold, coffee, salt, and textile industries.

A royal estate near Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, Oranienbaum Wörlitz was built for Princess Henriette Catharina von Nassau-Oranien and her husband, Johann Georg II von Anhalt-Dessau beginning in 1681.

Voehl Synagogue, built in 1827, is a simple two-story, timber-framed building, which served as a community center and school, as well as a synagogue and residence, for the Voehl Jewish congregation.

Pinkas Synagogue, the second oldest site in the Prague ghetto, was originally a private house of prayer for the prominent Horowitz family.

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici.

The Church of Our Lady’s Assumption was founded in the mid-twelfth century within a Norbertine monastery.

Among rock shelters, ceremonial structures, houses, terraces, and funerary chambers is the cemetery of Los Pinchudos, a key feature of the National Park of Río Abiseo.

Set in the landlocked mountains north of Jotunheimen, Vågå Old Church represents a singular case among the renowned stave- or timber-framed churches of Norway.

Tyre, situated approximately 50 miles south of Beirut, was founded by Phoenician settlers in the third millennium BC.

Along a narrow valley in the Picentini Mountains, the flowing water of the Tusiano River gradually excavated a deep natural cavern on the western slopes of Monte Raione.