This document summarizes the top 5 UNESCO World Heritage sites and their significance under criterion II, which recognizes important cultural interchanges. It discusses: 1) Angkor Wat and its profound influence on Southeast Asian art and evolution. 2) The Great Wall of China and how it spread Chinese models of construction and organization. 3) Bordeaux, its exceptional urban development from the Enlightenment era through cultural exchanges. 4) Vienna's role as a leading music center and the cultural interchanges reflected in its architecture. 5) The Forbidden City and architectural influences seen in its palace complexes over centuries.

1. Prepared by:
Garcia, Ralph
Gopez, Paula
Mendoza, Sarah
Musni Jerwin

2. CRITERIA II
to exhibit an important interchange of
human values, over a span of time or within
a cultural area of the world, on
developments in architecture or technology,
monumental arts, town-planning or
landscape design;

3. TOP 5 UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE

4. ANGKOR WAT

5. ANGKOR WAT
Angkor Wat, means "Temple City" or Wat is the Khmer word for "temple grounds",
"City of Temples" derived from the Paliword "vatta"
•It extends over approximately 400 square
kilometres

6. ANGKOR WAT
Criterion (ii): The influence of Khmer
art as developed at Angkor was a
profound one over much of South-
east Asia and played a fundamental
role in its distinctive evolution.

7. GREAT WALL OF CHINA

8. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Known to the Chinese as the 'Long Wall of Ten Thousand Li'

9. GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Criterion (ii):
During the Chunqiu period, the Chinese imposed
their models of construction and organization of
space in building the defence works along the
northern frontier. The spread of Sinicism was
accentuated by the population transfers
necessitated by the Great Wall.

10. Bordeaux, Port of the Moon

11. Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
• The Port of the Moon, port city of Bordeaux in
south-west France, is inscribed as an inhabited
historic city, an outstanding urban and
architectural ensemble.
• Created in the age of the Enlightenment,
whose values continued up to the first half of
the 20th century, with more protected
buildings than any other French city except
Paris.

12. Bordeaux, Port of the Moon
Criterion (ii):
•Bordeaux, Port of the Moon, constitutes an exceptional
testimony to the exchange of human values over more than two
thousand years.
• These exchanges have provided this cosmopolitan town, in the
age of Enlightenment, an unparalleled prosperity that provided
for an exceptional urban and architectural transformation that
continued through 19th century up to present time.
•The different stages of construction and development of the
harbour town are legible in its urban plan, especially the big
transformations carried out from the early 18th century
onwards.

13. Historic Centre of Vienna

14. Historic Centre of Vienna
•Vienna developed from early Celtic and Roman
settlements into a Medieval and Baroque city, the
capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
•It played an essential role as a leading European
music centre, from the great age of Viennese
Classicism through the early part of the 20th
century.
•The historic centre of Vienna is rich in architectural
ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens,
as well as the late-19th-century Ringstrasse lined
with grand buildings, monuments and parks.

15. Historic Centre of Vienna
• Criterion (ii): The urban and architectural
qualities of the Historic Centre of Vienna
bear outstanding witness to a continuing
interchange of values throughout the
second millennium.

16. Forbidden city

17. Forbidden city
• The Imperial Palaces of Beijing and Shenyang
were inscribed on the World Heritage List in
1987 and 2004 respectively.
• The Forbidden City, located in the centre of
Beijing is the supreme model in the
development of ancient Chinese palaces,
• providing insight into the social development
of late dynastic China, especially the ritual and
court culture.

18. Forbidden city
• Criterion (ii): The architecture of the
Imperial Palace complexes, particularly
in Shenyang, exhibits an important
interchange of influences of traditional
architecture and Chinese palace
architecture particularly in the 17th
and 18th centuries.