WHS+-+Hiroshima+Peace+Memorial+(Japan)

a) A world Heritage Site is a place of cultural, spiritual, physical or historical significance and is world heritage listed, meaning it is to be preserved.

b) The Criteria that UNESCO uses to choose World Heritage Sites is consists of "Cultural Critreria" and "Natural Criteria".
 * Cultural criteria **

1. Represents a masterpiece of incredible creativity. 2 Shows an important change of human values in a specific time or place, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design. 3. Bears a unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 4. Is an outstanding example of a structure or landscape which was a big step in archetecture and design for tis time. 5. Is an outstanding example of a traditional human life, land-use, or sea-use which is symbolic to a culture, or human interaction with the environment. 6. Is associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.

7. Cntains superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and importance.
8. Is an example representing historical stages in Earth's history, including evidence of dinosaurs and record of life, as well as other geographical features in history.

9. Is a good example of significant on-going processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems, and communities of plants and animals" 10. Contains important and significant natural habitats for animals particularly endangered.

The reason that this site became heritage listed is it survived the atmoic bomb that destroyed the rest of the city. It is a symbol of hope for the city of Hiroshima and is also a memorial for the people who died in the horrible disaster.

c) The purpose of naming somethng a World Heritage Site is to let others know that it is of signifcant importance, and has a special meaning to people. It might have been standing for a long period of time, or it might have a spiritual or cultural meaning to a group of people.

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e) The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was originally a hall to promote industrial production, and they named it the Hiroshima Commercial Exhbition Hall. The idea occured in 1910, and the building was actually completed in 1914. Almost twenty years later, its name was changed to Hiroshima Prefectual Industrial Promotion Hall. In 1945, during the war, the first atomic bomb exploded early morning, killing 140,00 people, and the Hall was the only thing still standing in the hyocentre of the explosion, although some damage had been done to it. The building was preserved and as the city was being reconstructed, it was renamed the Genbaku Dome (Atomic Bomb Dome). It symbolises hope as the building stood high in the midst of unbelievable destruction. That was the reason for its preservation.

f) 1. What is there?

A memorial park for the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb that devestated the city, including a buliding that stayed standing just after the bomb went off.

2. Where is it?