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(TRAVPR.COM) IRAN - May 9th, 2016 - IRTouring.com (www.irtouring.com) The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) works with countries around the world to identify and protect cultural and natural places that merit recognition as part of the common heritage of humankind.

UNESCO adopted the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1972.

Since then, 191 countries have ratified the treaty, and at present 1007 properties are inscribed on the list – 779 of which are cultural, 197 natural and 31 mixed (a combination of the two).

At present, Iran has 19 UNESCO World Heritage sites. Some of them belong to pre-Islam Iran and some to post-Islam Iran.

Many Iranian historic monuments deserve to be listed as World Heritage Sites. Iranian delegation to the UNESCO has documented tens of them that are in the waiting list.

Here, you get familiar with all the Iranian sites registered in the UNESCO so far:

1- Tchogha Zanbil, Khuzestan province

2- Persepolis, Fars province

3- Meidan Emam, Isfahan province

4- Takht-e Soleyman, West Azarbaijan province

5-Pasargadae, Fars province

6- Bam and its Cultural Landscape

7-Soltaniyeh, Zanjan province

8-Bisotun, Kermanshah Province

9-Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, West Azerbaijan province

10-Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, Khuzestan province

11-Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble, Ardabil province

12-Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex, East Azerbaijan province

13- The Persian Gardens

14-Gonbad-e Qābus, Golestan province

15-Masjed-e Jāmé, Isfahan province

16-Golestan Palace, Tehran province

17-Shahr-e Sokhte, Sistan and Baluchestan province

18-Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Kerman province

19- Susa, Khuzestan province

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