Wat Phu
| Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape | |
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UNESCO world heritage 
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| National territory: | Laos |
| Type: | Culture |
| Criteria : | (iii) (iv) (vi) |
| Surface: | 39,000 ha |
| Reference No .: | 481 |
| UNESCO region : | Asia and Pacific |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 2001 (session 25) |
Wat Phu ( Lao : ວັດ ພູ , "mountain temple") is a former Khmer temple complex in the Champasak province in southern Laos . The ruins that have been preserved date from the 11th to 13th centuries. The "Wat Phou temple district and the associated ancient settlements in the Champasak cultural landscape" have been UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2001 .
location
The Wat Phu temple district and the Champasak cultural landscape are one of three World Heritage Sites in Laos. The city of Champasak is right on the Mekong and Wat Phu in the immediate vicinity at the foot of the Lingamparvata mountain.
Champasak is connected on the right side of the Mekong with an asphalt road to the Mekong Bridge Pakses and thus to Pakse and via a ferry across the Mekong to national road 13 on the left side of the Mekong. Wat Phu can be reached from Champasak via an asphalt road.
Composition and importance
The world heritage site includes the former royal city of Champasak, historical remains of the beginning of the road to Angkor Wat , archaeological sites and several temples. The most important part of the world heritage site is the Wat Phu temple complex.
UNESCO added the site to its World Heritage List in 2001. UNESCO has named as criteria for this: 1) The temple complex Wat Phu is an extraordinary testimony to the cultures of Southeast Asia, especially the Khmer Empire , which dominated the region from the 10th to 14th centuries, 2) Wat Phu Complex is an outstanding example of the integration of a symbolic landscape with great spiritual significance into its natural environment, 3) Conceived to represent the Hindu version of the relationship between nature and man, Wat Phu shows an impressive complex of monuments and other structures, which are distributed over a large area between river and mountain, some with outstanding architecture or art, would intensely illustrate religious beliefs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Heritage List. German UNESCO Commission , accessed on February 13, 2020 .
- ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Vat Phou and Associated Ancient Settlements within the Champasak Cultural Landscape. Accessed August 4, 2017 .
Web links
Coordinates: 14 ° 50 '53.8 " N , 105 ° 49' 3.4" E
Cultural heritage: Luang Prabang with the royal palace and Buddhist monasteries (1995) | Wat Phou Temple District and Champasak Cultural Landscape (2001)