With 6 more cultural heritage sites added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Tentative list, the number has increased to 48. Making this announcement, the Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel went on to further inform that these six sites were Ganga Ghats of Varanasi, Temples of Kancheepuram in Tamil Nadu, Satpura Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra Military Architecture, Hire Benkal Megalithic site, and Bhedaghat Lametaghat of Narmada Valley in Madhya Pradesh.
The World Heritage Centre, the Secretariat to the 1972 Convention, provides a framework for international cooperation in preserving and protecting cultural treasures and natural areas throughout the world.
Varanasi has 88 ghats, the riverfront steps leading to the banks of the River Ganga. Of them, Manikarnika and Harishchandra, are cremation sites, while Dashashwamedh Ghat one of the oldest, it’s where the Ganga aarti takes place every evening.
The World Heritage Centre, the Secretariat to the 1972 Convention, provides a framework for international cooperation in preserving and protecting cultural treasures and natural areas throughout the world.
Kanchipuram houses Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Ekambareswarar Temple, Kamakshi Amman Temple, and Kumarakottam Temple besides 15 of Lord Vishnu.
Leopards, sloth bears and giant squirrels are among the best in Satpura, while tigers are sometimes more elusive, but the population is thought to be of around .
Under the theme of Marathi military architecture, the historical forts belong to the era of Shivaji.
Hire Benakal (or Hirebenakal), a megalithic site dated 800 BCE to 200 BCE, contains roughly 400 megalithic funerary monuments, dated to the transition period between Neolithic and the Iron Age periods.
Bhedaghat, often referred to as the Grand Canyon of India, is a town in the Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. The beauty of marble rocks and glittering forms are visible on either side of the Narmada river which flows through the gorge.