From the Acropolis of Athens to Mount Athos: Greece's UNESCO World Heritage properties

Background

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre's State Party page for Greece records 20 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List and gives Greece's ratification of the World Heritage Convention as 17 July 1981. Greece has no purely natural World Heritage property; Meteora, Mount Athos and the wider area of Mount Olympus are inscribed under both cultural and natural criteria. The Acropolis, Athens and the Archaeological Site of Delphi were inscribed in 1987. Meteora and Mount Athos were inscribed in 1988, as were the Paleochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessalonika, the Medieval City of Rhodes and the Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus. The Archaeological Site of Olympia and the Archaeological Site of Mystras were inscribed in 1989, and Delos in 1990. The Minoan Palatial Centres were inscribed in 2025 and the wider area of Mount Olympus in 2026.