UNESCO World Heritage Site
Timbuktu
Inscribed for
- an important interchange of human values, in architecture, technology, town-planning or landscape design
- an outstanding example of a building, architectural ensemble or landscape illustrating a significant stage in human history
- an outstanding example of traditional human settlement or land-use representative of human interaction with the environment
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