UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 5th Session [2] Quiz

Answer: Fes

Fes el Bali, or the Medina of Fez, represents the marketplace and urban quarter or the Moroccan city of Fez as it was constructed more than twelve hundred years ago. Today, this well-preserved medina is considered the blueprint for souks to follow in the Islamic world.

The Bab Bou Jeloud Gate, seen here, is one of the newer gates into this walled district. Constructed in the 1910s by the French, it complements the Moorish structures within. This landmark is also known for its several mosques, tombs, palaces, and tanneries.

Answer: Australia

In 1981, three different sites from Australia joined the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list including Kakadu National Park, the Willandra Lakes Region, and the Great Barrier Reef, one of the most famous natural sites in the Oceania region. Selected for preservation efforts due to its immense value as a home to thousands of fish, coral types, and marine animals, the reef spans more than two thousand kilometres of coastline off the coast of Queensland in Australia's northeast. Due to environmental issues, it's also long-been one of the sites considered significantly at-risk.

Answer: Roman

Listed as 'Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments' for the sake of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites listing, this particular world site encompasses numerous buildings constructed in the middle of Arles, France as far back as the 1st century BC including an amphitheatre, a Roman forum, and a public bath. Built near the Rhône River in what would become the Provence region, Arles was, at one time, one of the most advanced Roman-occupied cities complete with aqueducts and mill complex; it was so widely-known that even Pliny the Elder wrote about it.

Answer: The Andes

Part of Patagonia, Los Glaciares is a protected area found in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, which sits at the southern tip of South America with Chile to its south and east (and Torres del Paine National Park with it). Home to some of the southernmost forest regions in the world, Los Glaciares also contains one of the planet's larger ice caps, much of which sit atop jagged granite mountains and feed into pristine lakes.

Much of these reaches, across nearly three thousand square miles of land, are quite difficult to access, but they act as the habitats for numerous native species.

Answer: Pakistan

Located in Southeast Pakistan near the city of Thatta, the Makli Necropolis was built to house the deceased across five centuries of regional dynasties. What resulted was an extensive tomb complex in the Indus River Delta designed to hold the highest echelon of society from rulers to historical scholars of note. Throughout only ten square kilometres, the structures and underlying tunnel systems are said to house over half a million bodies, all throughout highly-decorated chambers combining numerous architectural and artistic styles.

Answer: Mammoth Cave National Park

Becoming a National Park in the U.S. in 1941, Mammoth Cave National Park has been known of for thousands of years, but it's believed that, to this day, no one knows exactly how deep the cavern system extends as while hundreds of miles of caverns have been tracked and recorded, more exists in different capacities in the limestone and sandstone formation there.

At one time, the caves were used as a burial site for Native Americans of the region. In the modern era, it's one of Kentucky's most-visited natural sites.

Answer: The Serengeti

A massive expanse of African savannah situated in the north of Tanzania between Lake Victoria and Mount Kilimanjaro, Serengeti National Park also overlaps with the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The whole region serves to facilitate what is known as the Great Migration, the second-longest animal migratory stretch in the world.

Although there are still Maasai people living in the region, the Serengeti is best-known for its animal life, containing the vast majority of Africa's most famous species as well as the largest lion population in the world.

Answer: Germany

Then part of West Germany, the Würzburg Residence is found in what is now Central Germany in the city of Würzburg sitting across the Main River from Marienberg Fortress. Built in the eighteenth century, the building became a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its exemplary Baroque architecture.

Heavily damaged in the Second World War, it has since, mostly, been renovated to restore its facade, its inner chambers, its chapel (Hofkirche) and its court gardens. It is, in modern times, the home of the Martin von Wagner Museum.

Answer: Colombia

The reason that most people are aware of this generally uncrossable expanse of National Park land across the easternmost reach of Panama is because it contains the Darién Gap, which is known for being the only break in the Pan-American Highway due to its landscape and long history with guerrilla insurgents.

But to diminish this region to its negatives would be problematic as this UNESCO-protected forest is home to what are regarded as some of the best birdwatching experiences in the world. Cana, also known as Santa Cruz de Cana, is considered one of the safer starting points for hiking and nature tourism in the area, even if it's quite remote.

Answer: Haida Gwaii

Although formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, these small islands off of British Columbia's northwest coast are commonly regarded by their original name, Haida Gwaii, with regards to the indigenous Haida people who make it their home. SGang Gwaay Llnagaay specifically refers to an island in the southern part of the archipelago which, now, acts as an archaeological site for a former Haida village occupied as far back as seventeen centuries ago. Though most of its population was moved to the First Nations reserve of Skidegate, further north, SGang Gwaay still contains many of its original totem poles, integral to the local culture.