{"id":3271,"date":"2022-12-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/21-12-2022\/unescos-tentative-list-of-world-heritage-sites\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T00:00:00","slug":"unescos-tentative-list-of-world-heritage-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/21-12-2022\/unescos-tentative-list-of-world-heritage-sites","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO\u2019s tentative list of World Heritage Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>In News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Gujarat\u2019s Vadnagar town, the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and the rock-cut sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">With this, India now has 52 sites on UNESCO Tentative List. The list indicates the rich cultural and natural wealth of India and shows the huge diversity of our heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>About\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>The Sun Temple<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, Modhera dedicated to Surya Dev is the earliest of such temples which set trends in architectural and decorative details, representing the Solanki style at its best.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Vadnagar <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">is a municipality under the Mehsana district of Gujarat.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">A multi-layered historic town, the history of Vadnagar stretches back to nearly the<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong> 8th century BCE<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The town still retains a large number of historic buildings that are primarily religious and residential in nature.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>Unakoti<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, located in the northeastern region of Tripura, is known as an ancient holy place associated with Shiva worship.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:circle\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">The site is a massive gallery set in a forested area displaying a number of towering low-relief images in a unique style, making it a masterpiece of human creative genius.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:13pt\"><strong>About\u00a0 UNESCO tentative list<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">It is an \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>inventory of those properties which each State Party <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">intends to consider for nomination\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>States Parties are encouraged<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"> to submit their Tentative Lists, properties which they consider to be cultural and\/or natural heritage of outstanding universal value and therefore suitable for inscription on the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>World Heritage List.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type:disc\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>States Parties should submit Tentative List<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">s, which should not be considered exhaustive, to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><strong>World Heritage Centre<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">, at least one year prior to the submission of any nomination.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Source:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/vadnagar-town-modhera-sun-temple-unakoti-sculptures-added-to-unescos-tentative-list-of-world-heritage-sites\/article66286396.ece\" style=\"text-decoration-line:none\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">TH<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News Gujarat\u2019s Vadnagar town, the iconic Sun Temple at Modhera, and the rock-cut sculptures of Unakoti in Tripura have been added to the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. With this, India now has 52 sites on UNESCO Tentative List. The list indicates the rich cultural and natural wealth of India and shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[58,25],"class_list":["post-3271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-art-and-culture","tag-gs1"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/15555512962218D1C2BEA-B42D-44CA-AC90-12BFBC61D8CC.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}