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National heritage site
A heritage site having a value that has been registered by a governmental unit as being of national importance to the cultural heritage or history of that country. Is a site of cultural heritage of national importance. National heritage sites can be physically found as an intersection of several nations, but in limited space, not covering all the states or ethnic areas. If the national heritage site is recognized as a part of a bigger area or several cultural entities with local characteristics for international importance, it can be included into the international heritage site.
Natural heritage
Natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view. Geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation, natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation of natural beauty.
Neolithic architecture (10,000 - 2,000 BC)
Cannot be really named architecture, though it has some architectural aspects. It included not just shelters, but also tombs, religious buildings, symbolic structures and monuments such as megaliths found in Europe and the Mediterranean. Some of these structures were very elaborate. Building materials included mud brick, skins, textiles, wattle and daub, stone and timber.
Neoclassical architecture (1750 – 1920)
Derived from Palladian architecture and references to classical Greek and Roman architecture. It has a flat, planar quality, emphasising the wall and the separation of elements. Notable examples of neoclassical architecture include the White House in Washington and the Bank of England in London.
Norman architecture (1075 – 1250)
A categorised style of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans. In particular the term is traditionally used for English Romanesque architecture. The Normans introduced large numbers of castles and fortifications including Norman keeps, and at the same time monasteries, abbeys, churches and cathedrals, in a style characterised by the usual Romanesque rounded arches and especially massive proportions compared to other regional variations of the style.