Mount Olympus has held UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status since 1981. Greece submitted the mountain and its surrounding region for full World Heritage inscription on 16 January 2014, placing it on UNESCO’s tentative list under a rare mixed nomination covering both natural and cultural criteria. More than twelve years later, the nomination is being examined this [...] The post Mount Olympus has been Greece’s highest peak, the mythological seat of twelve gods, and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1981, and it has spent the last twelve years waiting to find out if that is enough for World Heritage status appeared first on Space Daily .
Mount Olympus has been Greece’s highest peak, the mythological seat of twelve gods, and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve since 1981, and it has spent the last twelve years waiting to find out if that is enough for World Heritage status
