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worldheritageX UNESCO World Heritage Sites
No. 0018Cultural · Inscribed 1978
0017No. 0018 / 1,2480019

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

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  • a masterpiece of human creative genius
  • an important interchange of human values, in architecture, technology, town-planning or landscape design
  • a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilization

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