UNESCO World Heritage for Jordan |
UNESCO World Heritage Sites represent some of the best natural, cultural and historic attractions in world travel. Below are details of the 5 cultural, natural and mixed sites inscribed for Jordan 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 Jordan for descriptions. Also, check out UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage for Jordan below.
1985 - Petra | Cultural site | ||
1985 - Quseir Amra | Cultural site | ||
2004 - Um er-Rasas (Kastrom Mefa'a) | Cultural site | ||
2011 - Wadi Rum Protected Area | Mixed site | ||
2015 - Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” (Al-Maghtas) | Cultural site |
Petra | Wadi Rum Protected Area |
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 Jordan are shown below - click on the links for more details.
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
2008 - Cultural space of the Bedu in Petra and Wadi Rum |