The United Nations cultural body UNESCO – yesterday added the Indian “Pink City” of Jaipur, the ruins Liangzhu City in China and the Plain of Jars located in central Laos to its World Heritage list.
The additions followed a vote.
The fortified commercial city of Jaipur was founded in the 18th century by Sawai Jai Singh II.
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It is built according to a grid plan and the Old City is painted uniformly in a distinctive terracotta hue.
UNESCO also agreed in its morning session to add Bahrain’s Dilmun Burial Mounds, the Budj Bim wetlands landscape formed by Australia’s aboriginal Gunditjmara nation, the Mozu-Furuichi mounded tombs of Japan and the Dutch-colonial era Ombilin coal mining heritage of Indonesian Sumatra.