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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Island of Saint-Louis' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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The Tourism industry is in part due to the city being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. | WIKI |
[3] However, the city is also vulnerable to climate change -- where sea level rise is expected to threaten the city center and potential damage historical parts of the city. | WIKI |
The heart of the old colonial city is located on a narrow island a little more than 2xc2xa0km (1.2xc2xa0mi) long but only about 400xc2xa0m (1,300xc2xa0ft) wide. | WIKI |
[7] A 2011 documentary described Saint-Louis as the African city most threatened by rising sea levels. | WIKI |
Rising sea levels, as well as water levels flowing out of the Senegal River now threaten the low-lying islands which make up the city. | WIKI |
In June 2008, Alioune Badiane of the United Nations' UN-Habitat agency designated Saint-Louis as "the city most threatened by rising sea levels in the whole of Africa", citing climate change and a failed 2004 river and tidal canal project as the cause. | WIKI |
The Mxc3xa9tis were important to the economic, social, cultural and political life of the city. | WIKI |
Faidherbe Bridge, the symbol of the city. | WIKI |
The colonial institutions set up in the city in the 19th century, such as the Muslim Tribunal and the School for Chiefs' Sons, were to play important roles in the history of French Africa. | WIKI |
When its most famous political son, the French-educated lawyer Lamine Guxc3xa8ye, died in 1968, the city lost its strongest proponent. | WIKI |
"No one comes without falling in love with the city," proudly say its people who consider Saint-Louis as the birthplace of Senegalese Teranga, the Wolof word for hospitability. | WIKI |
Saint-Louis, however, has remained an important tourist and trading center [19] and the city's economy, though not entirely recovered, is gradually reviving. | WIKI |
The city was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 and cultural tourism has become an engine of growth. | WIKI |
The city preserves much of its 19th-century morphology, reminiscent of other cities of the "Creole Atlantic": Bahia, Cartagena, Havana and New Orleans. | WIKI |
Colonial architecture lines the streets of the old city. | WIKI |
The heritage of the signares lives on in the city's many festivals and its cultivated sense of public display, and it is helping Saint-Louis emerge from decades of neglect. | WIKI |
The Magal of the Niari Rakas, a yearly commemoration of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbackxc3xa9's (the founder of Mouridism) two prayers in the Governor's Palace in 1895, is the city's largest religious gathering. | WIKI |
Criterion iv The Island of Saint-Louis, a former capital of West Africa, is an outstanding example of a colonial city, characterized by its particular natural setting, and it illustrates the development of colonial government in this region. | WIKI |
The little oceanic city was the political capital of the colony and French West Africa (FWA) up until 1902, and capital of Senegal and Mauritania up until 1957, before falling into decline due to the transfer of the capital to Dakar. | UNESCO |
With its military barrack style, the government seat (built on the ancient fort of the city) comprises the orthogonal centre of a perfectly regular urban plan. | UNESCO |
The magnificent xc2xabxc2xa0balconied housesxc2xa0xc2xbb, the xc2xabxc2xa0gallery housesxc2xa0xc2xbb and beautiful Signares as well as the rare xc2xabxc2xa0Portuguese xc2xabxc2xa0maison bassesxc2xa0xc2xbb xc2xbb give the city its aesthetic quality and identity. | UNESCO |
Criterion (iv): The Island of Saint-Louis, a former capital of West Africa, is an outstanding example of a colonial city, characterized by its particular natural setting, and it illustrates the development of colonial government in this region. | UNESCO |
The current face of Saint-Louis carries the mark of the vision of Governor Faidherbe who, more than anyone else, has imprinted his orthogonal urban grid that no other more recent urban development has been able to modify xe2x80x93 not even the building of the majestic Faidherbe Bridge, inaugurated on 19 October 1897 by Andrxc3xa9 Lebon and which has become the emblem of the city. | UNESCO |