The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation, or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage. Barbados accepted the convention on April 9, 2002, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. , Barbados has only one World Heritage Site, Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, which was inscribed in 2011.
World Heritage Sites UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural.
+ Site Image Location (parish) Year listed Description Historic Bridgetown and its GarrisonSaint Michael Parish20111376; ii, iii, iv (cultural)Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, an outstanding example of British colonial architecture consisting of a well-preserved old town built in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which testifies to the spread of Great Britain's Atlantic colonial empire. The property also includes a nearby military garrison which consists of numerous historic buildings. With its serpentine urban lay-out the property testifies to a different approach to colonial town-planning compared to the Spanish and Dutch colonial cities of the region which were built along a grid plan. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO (CC BY 3.0 IGO) license.
Tentative list In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. Barbados lists two properties on its tentative list.
+ Site Image Location (parish) Year listed UNESCO criteria Description The Scotland District of Barbados Saint Andrew Parish, Saint Joseph Parish, Saint John Parish, Saint Thomas Parish2005(natural) The Industrial Heritage of Barbados: The Story of Sugar and RumChrist Church Parish, Saint Andrew Parish, Saint John Parish, Saint Lucy Parish, Saint Peter Parish2014 ii, iii, iv (cultural)
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