HERITAGE RECORD · 595

Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos

萨莫斯岛的毕达哥利翁及赫拉神殿

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a spectacular tunnel-aqueduct, as well as the Heraion, temple of the Samian Hera, can still be seen.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ16363506 ↗

Administrative areaQ65227148

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

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