Iran Yazd becomes world heritage city

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has voted in favor of including Iran Yazd city in coveted list of World Heritage.

Inscription of the city’s historical texture was approved at a Sunday session of the World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland.

The ancient city's dossier was submitted to the UNESCO committee for consideration last year with inscription on the coveted list only coming after Iran redressed a list of shortcomings handed by UNESCO's assessors.

This comes as UNESCO inscribed Persian qanats housed in one of the largest inhabited adobe city across the globe -aka Yazd--on the World Heritage List in 2016.

According to the UNESCO website, the historical structure of Yazd is a collection of public-religious architecture in a very large scope comprising of different Islamic architectural elements of different periods in a harmonious combination with climatic conditions.

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