Bosnian Bridge, Macao Added to Heritage List
The Chinese island of Macao, a Renaissance printing house in Belgium and a war-ravaged Bosnian bridge were among 17 cultural sites added to the U.N.’s World Heritage list last week.
UNESCO, the U.N. educational and cultural body, also added archeological finds in Bahrain dating from 2300 B.C., the Albanian Ottoman town of Gjirokastra, Cuba’s colonial town of Cienfuegos and Greek and Roman era tombs in Italy.
The new sites bring the global list of cultural sites to 628. Bosnia-Herzegovina grabbed a spot on the list for the first time with its historic bridge in the town of Mostar. Old Bridge -- with pre-Ottoman, Ottoman, Mediterranean and west European features -- was destroyed in the 1990s war but recently rebuilt.
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