There are as many as 1,092 UNESCO world heritage sites around the world . Wonderful places from a naturalistic or artistic point of view, which must be protected for their uniqueness. Some are very well known and much frequented by mass tourism: from the Taj Mahal in India , to Machu Picchu in Peru up to Leonardo’s Last Supper preserved in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, just to give examples. But there are sites that are much less known because they are difficult to reach or little signposted in tourist guides and perhaps for this reason even more fascinating. We have selected five, scattered around the four corners of the globe, such as ideas for future, memorable holidays of discovery and beauty.
The Spanish site of the Dolmen of Antequera is one of the treasures of UNESCO perhaps even less known in the Old Continent. Listed as soon as 2016, it consists of a complex of evocative megalithic monuments located in the heart of Andalusia. Due to its grandeur and sense of mystery, it can compete with the super-popular Stonehenge.
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Leaving Europe, few will have heard of Bukhara, in Uzbekistan . Its historic center is a fantastic example of Muslim architecture of the tenth and eleventh centuries, a place of a thousand and one nights. The most famous visitor of the city? Marco Polo. The Italian merchant and explorer and his family ran a shop here for three years.
And in order to ideally travel the Silk Road to China, here is another spectacular site inscribed on UNESCO since 1999, much less known than the Great Wall . This is Mount Wuyi, in the southeastern province of Fujian , which brings together the mysticism of Neo-Confucian temples and monasteries with spectacular natural places like the Nove Bend river gorges.
Moving to the American continent, Peru is known throughout the world for the Aztec remains of Machu Picchu. But to the north-west, towards the suggestive landscape of the Cordillera Blanca, there are over 100 glacial lakes in the Huascarán National Park : an incredible habitat where the bear and the Andean condor live
Dulcis in fundo, a paradise surrounded by the waters of the Indian Ocean: the four islands that form the coral atoll of Aldabra , one of the largest in the world. Listed since 1982 on the UNESCO list, this Seychelles atoll is an unparalleled example of biodiversity that houses, among other things, a population of over 150,000 giant tortoises.
