World Heritage site

Singapore celebrates our Botanic Garden being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, there are places far more historical being destroyed as we speak.

Islamic State militants have destroyed Baalshamin Temple at Palmyra World Heritage site in Syria.

Ancient city of Palmyra

• Unesco World Heritage Site, known as Pearl of the Desert
• Site contains monumental ruins of great city, once one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world from the 1st and 2nd Centuries
• Its art and architecture combines Greco-Roman techniques with local traditions and Persian influences
• More than 150,000 tourists visited Palmyra every year before Syrian conflict
• Site boasts a number of monumental projects, over 1,000 columns, and a formidable necropolis of over 500 tombs