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杭州西湖文化景觀

【巴黎消息，6月24日】 - 世界遺產委員會今天做出決定，將中國申報的文化遺產杭州西湖文化景觀（West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou）列入教科文組織《世界遺產名錄》。這一遺址由西湖及三面環繞的山峰組成。

自西元9世紀以來，西湖的湖光山色引得無數文人騷客、藝術大師吟詠興歎、潑墨揮毫。景區內遍佈廟宇、亭台、寶塔、園林，其間點綴著奇花異木、岸堤島嶼，為江南的杭州城增添了無限美景。數百年來，西湖景區對中國其他地區乃至日本和韓國的園林設計都產生了影響，在景觀營造的文化傳統中，西湖是對於「天人合一」此一理想境界的最佳闡釋。

於6月19日至29日在教科文組織巴黎總部舉行的世界遺產委員會第35屆會議，將對今年35項申報列入《世界遺產名錄》的自然、複合（自然與文化雙重）及文化遺產進行審議。

【教科文組織新聞稿2011.06.24】


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Ancient Chinese cultural landscape, the West Lake of Hangzhou, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed the West Lake Cultural Landscape of Hangzhou, comprising the West Lake and the hills surrounding its three sides, on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The inscribed landscape has inspired famous poets, scholars and artists since the 9th century. It comprises numerous temples, pagodas, pavilions, gardens and ornamental trees, as well as causeways and artificial islands.

These additions have been made to improve the landscape west of the city of Hangzhou to the south of the Yangtze river.

The West Lake has influenced garden design in the rest of China as well as Japan and Korea over the centuries and bears an exceptional testimony to the cultural tradition of improving landscapes to create a series of vistas reflecting an idealised fusion between humans and nature.

A total of 35 nominations, including natural, cultural and mixed properties are being reviewed by the Committee, which is holding its 35^th session at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. The session will end on 29 June.

24.06.2011
Source: UNESCOPRESS