World Monuments Fund Watch List 2010

06/10/2009 Associated Press

Argentina: Buenos Aires Historic Center, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires

Armenia: Aghjots Monastery, Garni Village

Austria: Wiener Werkbundsiedlung, Vienna

Bahrain: Suq al-Qaysariya, Muharraq

Belgium: Sanatorium Joseph Lemaire, Tombeek

Bhutan: Phajoding, Thimphu

Bolivia: Santa Teresa Convent Museum, Cochabamba

Chile: Churches of Arica Parinacota

Colombia: San Fernando and San Jose Fortresses, Cartagena; Historic Center, Santa Fe de Antioquia.

Comoros: Ujumbe Palace, Mutsamudu

Cyprus: Historic Walled City of Famagusta

Ecuador: Todos Santos Complex, Cuenca

Egypt: New Gourna Village, Luxor, West Bank; Old Mosque of Shali Fortress, Siwa Oasis

France: Hotel de Monnaies, Villemagne l'Argentiere; Parish Church of Saint-Martin-des-Puits

Greece: Churches of Lesvos

Guatemala: Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala City

Haiti: Gingerbread Houses, Port-au-Prince

India: Chiktan Castle, Kargil; Dechen Namgyal Gonpa, Nyoma; Historic Civic Center of Shimla; Kothi, Qila Mahmudabad

Iraq: Al-Hadba' Minaret, Mosul

Ireland: Russborough, Blessington, County Wicklow

Israel: Old City of Lod; Cathedral of St. James, Old City of Jerusalem

Italy: Historic Center of Craco; Ponte Lucano, Tivoli; Villa of San Gilio, Oppido Lucano

Japan: Kyoto machiya townhouses

Jordan: Damiya Dolmen Field, Jordan Valley

Kazakhstan: Vernacular Architecture of the Kazakh Steppe, Sary-Arka

Laos: Hintang Archaeological Landscape, Houameuang District; Tam Ting, Nam Kong River at Ban Pak Ou

Mexico: Aqueduct of Padre Tembleque, Zempoala to Otumba; Las Pozas, Xilitla; Temple of San Bartolo Soyaltepec; Temple of San Felipe Tindaco, Tlaxiaco; Temple and Convent of Los Santos Reyes, Convent of La Communidad, Metztitlan

Moldova: Assumption of Our Lady Church, Causeni

Morocco: Lixus, Larache

Pakistan: Petroglyphs in the Diamer-Basha Dam Area, Northern Areas; Shikarpoor Historic City Center

Panama: Colon Historic Center; Corozal Cemetery, Panama City; Mount Hope Cemetery, Colon

Paraguay: La Santisima Trinidad del Parana, Trinidad

Peru: San Rafael District, Chankillo; Jesuit Churches of San Jose and San Javier, Nazca; Pachacamac Sanctuary, Lurin; Pikillaqta, Cuzco; Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu, Cuzco; Tambo Colorado, Humay; San Francisco de Asis de Marcapata; Santa Cruz de Jerusalen de Juli

Philippines: Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Municipality of Santa Maria; Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras, Ifugao; San Sebastian Basilica, Manila

Romania: Fortified Churches of Southern Transylvania, Sibiu

Russia: Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of the Sign, Podolsk District

Slovakia: Lietava Castle

South Africa: Wonderwerk Cave, Ga-Segonyana/Kuruman

Spain: Historic Landscape of Seville; Historic Landscape of Toledo; Numancia, Soria and Garray; Old Town of Avila; Route of Santiago de Compostela; Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, Barcelona

Sri Lanka:Dutch Fort in Batticaloa

Tanzania: Pangani Historic Town

Uganda: Wamala King's Tombs, Nansana, Wakiso District

United Kingdom: Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church, Belfast; Edinburgh Historic Graveyards; Sheerness Dockyard; St. John the Evangelist Parish Church, Shobdon; Tecton Buildings at Dudley Zoological Gardens

United States: Atlanta-Fulton Central Public Library, Atlanta; Bridges of the Merritt Parkway, Connecticut; Cultural Landscape of Hadley, Mass.; Miami Marine Stadium, Florida; Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, New Orleans; St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, New Orleans; Taliesin, Spring Green, Wis.; Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Taos Pueblo, N.M.

Uzbekistan: Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm, Republic of Karakalpakstan

Venezuela: School of Architecture and Urbanism, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas; East Park, Caracas

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