World Heritage Site - Canterbury: Understanding and Importance

This presentation provides an understanding of the world heritage site and discusses the importance of Canterbury, a European pilgrimage site for over 800 years. The presentation highlights the reasons behind its selection as a world heritage site.

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INTRODUCTION
 This presentation will provide the understanding on world heritage
site and discuss about any one of world heritage site.
 The main aspect of conducting this presentation is based on why the site is
chosen and identify the importance of place.

UNDERSTANDING WORLD HERITAGE SITE
 The world heritage site refers to cultural and natural site concerned to be
outstanding universal value that have been inscribed over world heritage listed
by the world heritage committee.
 World heritage sites are attractive monuments which helps in increasing the historical
significance of a particular area or region (Canterbury. 2022). The world heritage sites
play a vital role in defining the overall beauty of particular areas with the help of their
unique architecture.

BACKGROUND OF SELECTED SITE AND
REASONS FOR SELECTING
 Canterbury is the historic place and it is most famous tourist spot in which most
of the tourist visit there due to its outstanding look which drives the most tourist
attention to visit the place again and again.
 It has been European pilgrimage site of huge significant for over 800 years since
the killing of Archbishop Thomas Becket in the year 1170.
 UNESCO has enabled world heritage status to part of city which includes the St
Martin's Church.
 Canterbury as the city have the origins in Roman settlement of Durovernum
cantiacorum, it was established in first century AD after Roman incursion of 43
AD. The name taken from cantiaci tribe which inhabits the arena at time of
Roman invasion. (Melvin, Langdon and Murphy, 2020)

KEY REASONS BEHIND SELECTION OF THE SITE AS
WORLD HERITAGE
 The committee took a range of yards sticks into focus for characterizing this place
as world heritage site.
 The main reason was the mixture it of Romanesque and perpendicular architecture
(Leite, Dhont, and Hodson, 2019)
 These characteristics of this site made it word of mouth and which has been
prominent reason behind its selection as world heritage site.

CONCLUSION
 Form the report above it can be summarized that world
heritage sites are having their great importance.
 In the report Canterbury which is situated in England has been taken
into consideration (Smith, et. al. 2019)

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