Unesco

Do you know what UNESCO stands for?

Nowadays UNESCO recommends that everybody should use three languages: the mother tongue, the language of local communication and the international language.

UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework has established in 2010 six degrees of vitality: safe, vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered and extinct.

A visit to the city centre, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a must.

The Białowieża Forest has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The 10th UNESCO Youth Forum takes place on 25-26 October, at Headquarters in Paris, with a special pilot edition on “Rethinking Youth Engagement with UNESCO”.

"Silent Night" was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011.

Pompeii is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Iraq's marsh Arabs live amid a flat landscape of water and grasses near the border with Iran. The area is thought to be the site of the biblical Garden of Eden and UNESCO named it a world heritage site in 2016.

“The 20th century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright” was recently added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The whole street was part of history, the whole of the hill was a World Heritage Site, protected by none other than UNESCO.

This year’s festival will mark 10 years since Unesco designated Dundee a design city, alongside Berlin, Montreal, Istanbul and others.