New World Heritage Sites

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has just added twenty seven new sites to its list of World Heritage sites. Two of these sites are in Mexico: the colonial city of San Miguel de Allende, which was chosen for its outstanding architecture, with both religious and civic buildings built in the Mexican Baroque style; and the Monarch butterfly reserve of Michoacan, where millions of butterflies migrate every year to spend the winter in the area's rugged forested mountains. Mexico now has twenty nine sites that have received the honor of inclusion on UNESCO's list of places that are considered to have outstanding universal value.

Read more:

• Twenty seven new sites inscribed
• UNESCO adds 27 new sites World Heritage List

_{Photo of San Miguel de Allende's cathedral by Esparta Palma licensed under Creative Commons}