unesco world heritage

• Mountain railway: ahead of its time: Switzerland's prime 2008 candidate for UNESCO World Heritage listing, the renowned Albula and gernina lines of the Rhaetian Railways, opened in the early 20th century and were greeted as spectacular engineering feats. Swiss News takes a closer look.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] High in Canton Graubunden's Albula valley, Swiss surveyor Joos Guidon demonstrates an instrument used to measure angles in to...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2007, Avril 2007

• Back to nature in Valais.

... preserved for export to all corners of the world. But they have the right to exist." . As my journa... us, slightly beyond our view, is the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Aletsch glacier. The su...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Arrêt nº 1C 448/2008 de Tribunal Fédéral, 13 mars 2009

... für Erziehung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (UNESCO) betreffend Welterbestätten. Hintergrund dieser A... Auftrag eine Mail-Anfrage an das UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC; zu deutsch "Komitee für ...

• Discover the magic of Christmas in ... Salzburg.

...Its wonderfully preserved, UNESCO World Heritage designated Altstadt (Old Town) is b...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• Itc in Action

The success of ITC's Export-led Poverty Reduction Program (EPRP) project in Mongolia is paving the way for the country's wool producers to capitalize on tourists' demand for felt products and succeed in overseas markets. As Mongolia boasts more than 24 million head of livestock and 10.6 million sheep, the processing and export of wool and felted fashion presented opportunities to generate income and create employment for poor nomadic and urban communities. Weaving and wearing silk are deeply rooted in cultural and social traditions in the Lao People's Democratic Republic. However, the lack of marketing skills and knowledge of international market requirements in terms of designs and product quality, has left producers poor and unable to tap into the potential revenues of silk production...

MONGOLIAN FELT FASHION ACCESSORIES ON THE WORLD MARKET. The success of ITC's Export-led Poverty Re..., in Ban Sapay village and at Vat Phou, a UNESCO World Heritage site, With these developments, inco...

• International Trade Forum
• Num. 3, Juillet - Juillet - Juillet 2010

• Where the magic lies: the wilderness of the Engadin valley and its surroundings is beautiful during the daytime. After darkness falls, it is otherworldly.

... viaducts and tunnels, and protected as a UNESCO world heritage site. It takes me about twenty minu...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2011, Janvier 2011

• UNESCO inscribes Swiss watch-making towns.

... and Le Locle have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, reported the online news source swi...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• UNESCO label aids glacial protection.

...Global warming has become a topic of worldwide concern, even if some Swiss researchers had previo... the recently inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Albula-Bernina rail stretch, the new awareness rev...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• The limit is the sky.

..."The Lauterbrunnen valley is a UNESCO world heritage site," mountain guide Andreas Leibu...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010

• Bern: the Swiss capital once only attracted visitors in the know; now it is on everyone's must-see list.

Distinguished by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage site, Bern's unique i...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2010, Février 2010