The Ommegang is going through Brussels again, which traditioannly ends on the Grand Place.

(In Dutch) Keizer Karel is écht van adel en ook Didier Reynders liep mee: dit is de wereldbekende Ommegang van Brussel

WHS Grand Place, Brussels

Forest fire consumes 700 hectares in Alejandro de Humboldt National Park.

https://www.14ymedio.com/cuba/incendio-arrasa-700-hectareas-parque_1_1128423.html

https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/scienceandhealth/2026/07/dolphin-numbers-in-fernando-de-noronha-nearly-halve-over-ten-years.shtml

WHS: Brazilian Atlantic Islands

Somewhat rare to see an article in English about a WHS in North Korea with current photographs.

Historic Monuments and Sites in Kaesong

The Imperial Capital of Goryeo: Walking through Kaegyong

Vlaanderen trekt 1,1 miljoen euro uit voor restauratie van 4 oorlogskerkhoven in Ieper

WHS Funerary and memory sites of the First World War

Flanders will invest 1.1 million euros in restauring 4 funerary sites in and around Ieper. One of them is Bedford House Cemetery.

The walls surrounding the cemeteries, in particular, are in need of a thorough refresh. The intention is to repair all foundations and the pointing, and to replace damaged bricks and coping stones.

The earthquake of today in western Colombia has surely had disastrous effects in the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia WHS. The 7,4 event had its epicenter in San José del Palmar, at the department of Chocó, a municipality which just sits a few tens of kilometers east from component F of this World Heritage Site. The news coming from the towns of El Cairo https://es-us.noticias.yahoo.com/municipio-colombia-80-destruido-fuerte-181100414.html , and El Águila, within this component F, speak of up to 80% of the buildings having collapsed and multiple victims. In the case of of El Águila, at the department of Valle del Cauca (where the local hospital and 100 houses in the urban core collapsed, according to the mayor, as he said in the broadcast from Colombia's Caracol news I've been hearing).

Due to the effects of the earthquake in the cities of the wider area, like Pereira, Armenia, Manizales and Cali, it may show that the damages will extend to other towns and all components of this WHS, especially considering the extensive presence of earthen architecture in the rural towns within this WHS.

It is time for the flower carpet on the Grand-PLace in Brussels again. The design will feature another WHS, namely Mount Fuji, as it depicts "The Great Wave off Kanagawa". The flower carpet celebrates 160 years of collaboration and friendship between Belgium and Japan.

Ondanks hitte: 750.000 dahlia's toveren Grote Markt van Brussel om tot Japans bloementapijt

WHS Grand Place, Brussels