World Heritage in Lebanon

The world heritage in Lebanon (as of 2017) includes five UNESCO world heritage sites , all five sites of the world cultural heritage. Lebanon ratified the World Heritage Convention in 1983, and the first World Heritage site was added to the World Heritage List in 1984. The last world heritage site in Lebanon to date was registered in 1998.

World heritage sites

The following table lists the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Lebanon in chronological order according to the year of their inclusion in the World Heritage List (K - cultural heritage, N - natural heritage, K / N - mixed, (R) - on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger ).

 Map with all coordinates of World Heritage Sites: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Ruins of the Umayyad city of Anjar ( location )	1984	K	293	Ruins of a city founded by Caliph Al-Walid I at the beginning of the 8th century, but unfinished
	Baalbek ruins ( location )	1984	K	294
	Byblos ruins ( location )	1984	K	295
	Tire Ruins ( Lage )	1984	K	299
	Wadi Qadisha (Sacred Valley) and Forest of the Lord's Cedars (Horsh Arz el-Rab)	1998	K	850	includes the Wadi Qadischa , the river bed of the holy river Qadischa with its monasteries, and the forests of the cedars of the Lord growing on the mountain Makmel to the east of the valley between 1900 and 2050 meters .

Tentative list

The sites that are intended for nomination for inclusion in the World Heritage List are entered in the tentative list .

Current World Heritage candidates

As of 2019, ten sites are entered in the tentative list of Lebanon; the tentative list was revised in 2019. The following table lists the sites in chronological order according to the year they were included in the tentative list.

 Map with all coordinates of current World Heritage candidates: OSM

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
(more pictures)	Historic center of Saidā ( location )	2019	K	6434	Has been on the tentative list since 1996.
	Historic center of Tripoli / Mina	2019	K	6436	Has been on the tentative list since 1996
(more pictures)	Historic center of Batrun ( location )	2019	K	6428	Has been on the tentative list since 1996
	Temple of Eschmun ( location )	2019	K	6429	Has been on the tentative list since 1996
	Ensemble of historical monuments and natural sites in the village of Menjez	2019	K / N	6430
	The international exhibition center Rachid Karameh in Tripoli ( location )	2019	K	6437	Built by Oscar Niemeyer , it was already on the tentative list in 2018
	Archaeological sites of Nahr el-Kelb	2019	K	6433	The entire valley ensemble has been on the tentative list since 1996, now only the archaeological sites
	Ras al-Qalaat headland / Ras Al Natour headland / Ras el-Mlelih headland ( location )	2019	K	6438
	Holy Mount of Hermon and associated cultural sites ( location )	2019	K	6432
	The castles of Jebel Amil: Qalaat Al Chakif (Beaufort Castle), Qalaat Tibnin (Toron Castle), Qalaat Chakra (Dubieh Castle), Qalaat Deir kifa (Maron Castle), Burj Al Naoqoura (Naqoura Tower)	2019	K	6435	Qalaat Al Chakif , Qalaat Tibnin , Qalaat Chakra , Qalaat Deir kifa and Burj Al Naoqoura

Former World Heritage candidates

These sites were previously on the tentative list, but were withdrawn or rejected by UNESCO. Sites that are included in other entries on the tentative list or that are part of world heritage sites are not taken into account here.

image	designation	year	Type	Ref.	description
	Dair al-Qamar and Beit ed-Din	1984-1984	K		the localities of Dair al-Qamar and Beit ed-Din Rejected in 1984
	An ensemble of natural sites of the source and the valley of the Orontes with the monuments located there	1996-2019	K	403	Maroun Cathedral, Hermel Pyramid, aqueduct of Zenobia, mosaics by Ras Baalbeck and Nabha and steles and mosaics by Brissa, removed from the tentative list in 2019
	An ensemble of natural sites in the Nahr Ibrahim valley with the monuments and archaeological sites located there	1996-2019	K	404
	An ensemble of natural sites in the Nahr al-Kalb valley with the monuments and archaeological sites located there	1996-2019	K	405	Archaeological sites are still on the tentative list
	Ensemble of natural sites in the Chouf region with the monuments and archaeological sites located there	1996-2019	K	406
	Palm Island Nature Park ( location )	1996-2019	N	407	includes the palm island in the Mediterranean Sea northwest of the city of El Mina and the neighboring islands of Sanani Island and Ramkeen Island .

Web links

Commons : World Heritage Sites in Lebanon  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Lebanon on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lebanon. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed June 17, 2017 . 
2. ^ Tentative list of Lebanon. In: whc.unesco.org. UNESCO World Heritage Center, accessed December 4, 2019 . 
3. ^ Former Tentative Sites of Lebanon. In: World Heritage Site. Accessed June 17, 2017 . 

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