The 40-hectare property earned the coveted status in July this year when the organization’s World Heritage Committee met in the Chinese city of Fuzhou.
Source: UNESCO adds Rio botanical garden to World Heritage Site
The 40-hectare property earned the coveted status in July this year when the organization’s World Heritage Committee met in the Chinese city of Fuzhou.
Source: UNESCO adds Rio botanical garden to World Heritage Site
That is an important landmark for Brazil, but it also reflects on Malaysia, as Kuala Lumpur houses the elegant KLCC Park, one of the last projects designed by Brazilian landscaper and artist Roberto Burle Marx.
Source: How Brazil’s newest Unesco World Heritage landmark is linked to KLCC Park
Sítio Roberto Burle Marx has been named the latest UNESCO World Heritage site in Brazil. View on euronews
Known worldwide as one of the main landscaping names in the 20th century, Roberto Burle Marx was also a visual artist, a painter, a sculptor, a jewelry artist, a costume and set designer, a potter, and a tapestry weaver.
Source: Sítio Roberto Burle Marx chosen as Unesco world heritage
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