Apart from Hima Well in Najran, 4 other global sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

Apart from Hima Well in Najran, 4 other global sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

VIENNA "” The World Heritage Committee on Saturday inscribed five cultural sites, including one transnational property, in Saudi Arabia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on UNESCO's World Heritage List during its 44th session held online and chaired from Fuzhou (China). The first site is Ḥima Well in Saudi Arabia which contains a substantial collection of rock art images depicting hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in a cultural continuity of 7,000 years. The property and its buffer zone are also rich in unexcavated archaeological resources in the form of cairns, stone structures, interments, stone tool scatters and ancient wells. The second is the transnational site of The Great Spa Towns of Europe which comprises 11 towns, located in seven European countries: Baden bei Wien (Austria); Spa (Belgium); FrantiÅ¡kovy LáznÄ› (Czechia); Karlovy Vary (Czechia); Mariánské LáznÄ› (Czechia); Vichy (France); Bad Ems (Germany); Baden-Baden (Germany); Bad Kissingen (Germany); Montecatini Terme (Italy); and City of Bath (United Kingdom). All of these towns developed around natural mineral water springs. They bear witness to the international European spa culture that developed from the early 18th century to the 1930s, leading to the emergence of grand international resorts that impacted