Heritage

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• Heritage · c. 1438–1532Inca road systemThe Inca road system, or Qhapaq Ñan, was a network of perhaps 40,000 kilometres of roads, stairways, bridges and way stations that tied together the Andean empire of Tawantinsuyu, from today’s Colombia to Chile and Argentina, in the 15th and early 16th centuries.Map
• Heritage · c. 1500–1900Hội An Ancient TownHội An is an old river port in central Vietnam where Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and European traders met between the 15th and 19th centuries, and whose wooden shop-houses, assembly halls and covered bridge still stand almost as they were.Map
• Heritage · 1568–1575Selimiye Mosque, EdirneThe Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, built for Sultan Selim II by the architect Sinan between 1568 and 1575, crowns a hill with a single vast dome ringed by four slender minarets and is often called the masterpiece of Ottoman architecture.Map
• Heritage · 1632–1653Taj MahalThe Taj Mahal is a shining white marble tomb in Agra, India, that the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built almost 400 years ago in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal, set at the end of a great garden beside the Yamuna River.Map
• Heritage · 1887–1889Eiffel TowerThe Eiffel Tower is a 300-metre iron tower built in Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair; many people first thought it was ugly, but it became the most famous symbol of Paris and a landmark of modern engineering.Map
• Heritage · 1907Great Mosque of DjennéThe Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali, rebuilt in 1906–1907 by the town’s guild of masons on the site of a much older mosque, is the largest mud-brick building in the world and is re-plastered every year by the whole community.Map