UNESCO inscribes 34 new properties on World Heritage List during extended 44th session
China DailyFrance's Mediterranean city Nice obtains its classification as World Heritage by UNESCO, recognized as "winter resort town of the Riviera." The current session also saw the Committee take the exceptional and rare decision to delete "Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City" from the World Heritage List due to "the irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value of the property," according to UNESCO. The UK's property was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004 and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012 following concerns about the proposed development of Liverpool Waters. The historic site of Rosia Montana in Romania, a gold mining site dating back to the period of the Roman Empire, was inscribed simultaneously on the World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger pending the removal of threats to its integrity posed by possible mining activities. With this year's 34 new inscriptions, the total number of sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List reaches 1154.
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