{"id":1922,"date":"2021-10-21T12:29:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T16:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:32:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T21:32:44","slug":"scotland-launches-unesco-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Scotland Launches UNESCO Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of October 15, Scotland has launched the first ever UNESCO trail to celebrate and highlight the geographical and cultural diversity that can be found in its beautiful country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

UNESCO, or United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, focuses on promoting \u201cpeace, sustainable development, and human rights,\u201d in a variety of efforts – one being the conservation of places with special historic, environmental, or cultural importance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, the city dramatically adapted its lesser developed towns into one of architectural, intellectual, and philosophical prowess.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The trail connects 13 locations with UNESCO association throughout Scotland in an attempt to recognize Scotland as a country dedicated to responsible tourism, sustainable practices while traveling, multi-seasonal travel to Scotland, and longer visits to the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the trail, which can be viewed digitally here: <\/span>http:\/\/www.visitscotland.com\/unesco-trail<\/span><\/a>, visitors can experience Biospheres, Global Geoparks, World Heritage Sites, and Creative Cities, in different locations including Wester Ross, Galloway and Southern Ayrshire, Glasgow – City of Music, Dundee – City of Design, Edinburgh – City of Literature, Shetland, North West Highlands, St Kilda, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, New Lanark, Frontiers of the Roman Empire – The Antonine Wall, and The Fourth Bridge.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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New Lanark, shown above, paved the way for modern day worker’s rights and benefits in the 18th century saw mill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The digital trail provides information for visitors on each of the sites and encourages a wider exploration of Scotland, giving information behind the UNESCO status of the location and general information regarding the site itself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Heart of Neolithic Orkney gives insight into the life and rituals of the Orkney people from 5,000 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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There are eight different distinctions within UNESCO locations – World Heritage Sites, Biosphere Reserves, Global Geoparks, Creative Cities, Memory of the World, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Committees, and Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme – and Scotland\u2019s thirteen sites a part of the trail includes six World Heritage sites, two Biosphere Reserves, two Global Geoparks, and three Creative Cities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nThe project was created in partnership by <\/span>VisitScotland, the Scottish Government, the UK National Commission for UNESCO, Historic Environment Scotland, NatureScot, the National Trust for Scotland<\/span> and Scotland\u2019s 13 UNESCO designations.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of October 15, Scotland has launched the first ever UNESCO trail to celebrate and highlight the geographical and cultural diversity that can be found in its beautiful country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[314,627,252,1],"tags":[79,685,153,825,819,522,823,816,822,821,820,773,824,817,818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}