{"id":47649,"date":"2026-08-14T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47649"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:46:49","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-normandys-d-day-world-war-two-beaches-become-unesco-heritage-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47649","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: Normandy&#8217;s D-Day World War Two beaches become UNESCO heritage site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Omaha_Beach_from_Dog_Red_sector.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-1-768x507.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-854580be96ff0cce557587718d362ad2 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>image for illustration: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Omaha_Beach_from_Dog_Red_sector.jpg\">Omaha Beach, Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reuters writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement on its website, UNESCO said that ?the beaches formed an \u2018exceptional cultural landscape shaped both by the events of 1944 and by their enduring remembrance\u2019, which therefore justified becoming a protected heritage site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/normandys-d-day-world-war-two-beaches-become-unesco-heritage-site-2026-07-26\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration: Omaha Beach, Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons The Normandy D-Day beaches where Allied forces landed on June 6, 1944, have become a UNESCO protected world heritage site, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,955,554,836],"class_list":["post-47649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-unesco","tag-world-heritage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47661,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47649\/revisions\/47661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}