A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme...
They are nominated by various countries based on their cultural and natural value, at which point a committe reviews their significance and opts whether to adopt one or not.
Salamanca was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1988. This ancient university town north-west of Madrid was first conquered by the Carthaginians in the 3rd century B.C. It then became a Roman...
World Heritage sites are all over the world and are historically important places that need to be protected. I was at one in Russia and found it very interesting.