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Mount Olympus inscribed as UNESCO mixed World Heritage site

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 48th session in Busan, South Korea, voted unanimously to add the wider area of Mount Olympus in northern Greece to the World Heritage List. The mountain was listed as a Mixed Site, recognising both its exceptional cultural significance – as the mythic home of the twelve Olympian gods – and its outstanding natural value, including a rich biodiversity with many endemic species.

Greece’s ministries of Culture and of Environment and Energy hailed the decision as a historic national achievement, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis describing it as a “first‑class national success”. The inscription makes Olympus the third mixed World Heritage property in Greece (after Meteora and Mount Athos) and is expected to boost international visibility, tourism and funding for conservation while adding legal protection under the UNESCO convention.

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