AHMEDABAD RANKS IN UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LIST 2017

In its 41st session on July 12, the World Heritage Committee inscribed 21 new sites in its UNESCO world heritage list which features the Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Founded by Sultan Ahmad Shah in the 15th century, the ancient walled city of Ahmadabad has been marked as a UNESCO world heritage spot. The city showcases the rich architecture of the sultanate era that can be perfectly captured by the Bhadra citadel.

Inside the walls of the fort city there are many mosques, tombs, notable Hindu and Jain temples.

The committee, that carried out its meeting in Krakow, Poland, from 2 to 12 July, have added locations ranging from ruins in Turkey and ancient temple cities across europe to picturesque landscapes and mountains in Greenland.

The planet is now home to 1,073 cultural, historic and naturally significant sites.

Apart from Ahmedabad, these are the list of cities ranked by UNESCO:

• City of Yazd, Iran
• Venetian Works of Defence, Croatia, Italy, Montenegro
•  Valongo Wharf, Brazil
•  Tarnowskie Gory Lead-Silver-Zinc Mine, Poland
•  Taputapuatea, France
•  Temple Zone of Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia
•  Qinghai Hoh Xil, China
•  Okinoshima, Japan
•  Mbanza Kongo, Angola
•  Los Alerces national park, Argentina
•  Kulangsu, China
•  Kujataa, Denmark
•  Assumption Cathedral, Russia
•  Aphrodisias, Turkey
•  Swabian Jura, Germany
•  Khomani Cultural Landscape, South Africa
•  Dauria, Mongolia / Russia
•  Hebron/Al-Khalil, Palestine
•  Asmara, Eritrea