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Udaipur
City known as “Venice of the East,” in Rajasthan, India surrounded by the Aravali Mountains and founded in 1559. Udaipur is also called “The Jewel of Mewar,” a kingdom with which legends of bravery are associated. Many of Udaipur’s white marble, imperial palaces are located on the banks of Lake Pichola.

UNESCO World Heritage Site
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encourages the identification, protection, and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity. Heritage is the legacy from the past, what is today, and what passes on to future generations. World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world.

Urn Tomb
Doric-style burial chamber, cut into cliffs of al-Khubtha, Petra, Jordan, one of several chambers with Hellenistic façades that belonged to princes or nobles. The Urn Tomb faces an open terrace fronted by a double row of vaults, its colonnaded cloister runs along the northern side of the terrace. The elaborate façade fronts a single, unadorned room that measures 20 meters on each side. In 447 A.D., the Urn Tomb was converted into a church.

 
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