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UNESCO World Heritage for Cuba |
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 9 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Cuba to date (a red World Heritage symbol denotes a site currently regarded as endangered). For more details of these properties, click on the links to the UNESCO website and the photographic galleries of these sites from OurPlace (where available) or see our highlights of Cuba for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Cuba below.
 | 1982 - Old Havana and its Fortifications | Cultural site |
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| 1988 - Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios | Cultural site |
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| 1997 - San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba | Cultural site |
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| 1999 - Desembarco del Granma National Park | Natural site | |
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| 1999 - Viñales Valley | Cultural site |
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| 2000 - Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba | Cultural site |
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| 2001 - Alejandro de Humboldt National Park | Natural site | |
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| 2005 - Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos | Cultural site | |
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| 2008 - Historic Centre of Camagüey | Cultural site |
 Old Havana and its Fortifications |  Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios |  Viñales Valley |  Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos |
Intangible Cultural Heritage
Recently UNESCO has begun to document the world's Intangible Cultural Heritage which includes "traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts". The current listings for Cuba are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
 | 2008 - La Tumba Francesa |
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