The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Europe is home to several autonomous regions that govern themselves while still benefiting from being part of a larger nation. Examples include Catalonia in Spain, the Åland Islands in Finland ...

This story appears in the December 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The holy peninsula of Mount Athos reaches 31 miles out into the Aegean Sea like an appendage struggling to dislocate ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A group of 11 Romanian pilgrims visiting Greece's Orthodox all-male monastic community of Mount Athos are in hospital with food poisoning after eating wild mushrooms ...

The Bureau was informed that the vegetation in this mixed site could have adverse impacts on the landscape in the area. The Bureau requested the Secretariat to contact the Greek authorities and obtain ...