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- France inscribed the five Normandy D-Day beaches and Pointe du Hoc on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on July 26, 2026.
- UNESCO described the sites as an ‘exceptional cultural landscape’ shaped by the 1944 landings.
- Normandy Region president Hervé Morin said the inscription obliges preservation and promotion of the heritage.
- ICOMOS warned that tourism, climate change, sea-level rise and nearby wind farms threaten the newly listed sites.
